This Costs Less Than $5 And You Should Buy It Now: Hero of the Grey Area, by SGX

Do you enjoy dreamlike, ambient electronica? Did you enjoy BT's seminal album This Binary Universe, or the music of Metroid Prime? Do you need something soothing yet intricate to engage your ears while you work?

Then you should buy Hero of the Grey Area by SGX, a $5 digital album that I bought immediately upon listening to the demo track A Meal Fit For A Whale. It's everything I look for in my electronica - complex, layered melodies, a subtle breakbeat to drive it all forward, and a sense of place that makes me feel like I'm being taken on an adventure while I listen. It's flippin' great.

Also, you can stream the whole thing for free before you purchase, so why the hell not?

Hero of the Grey Area by SGX

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This is the most focused, cohesive album by SGX focusing on instrumental pieces. SGX intersperses electro, breakbeat, and industrial beats between lush orchestrations, growling synth basses, and transporting soundscapes. "Hero" is at the same time electronic and synthetic plus natural and human.

Unlike his previous albums such as Chroma and Synesthetic which feature a mixture of not only genres, but tones, Hero of the Grey Area exudes a more homogeneous tone and feeling while still exploring fusing ideas from many genres. This is music for listening and sometimes takes its time exploring an idea in the vein of BT's "This Binary Universe."

Hero of the Grey Area features A Meal for a Whale - a track made with only a software sequencer/sampler, a piano, and the audio toy/game Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS as sound sources. SGX effects, samples, records, and manipulates his way through this at once lo-fi and lush recording creating tides of relaxed beauty and exuberance.

So, yeah. $5 for a quality album of dreamlike indie electronica. Give it a go.