There is a story to be told in the A.L.P.H.A. Compilation: observations into the same events, told from the various perspectives of these different artists, different feelings, different outlooks, different plots and different conclusions. The question remains whether the story has a positive end, or one of devastation.

There is something spiritual about absorbing electronic music when one listens deeply enough: a discovery, or rediscovery, of a part of our history and future that we are all remotely aware of, but occasionally need to be reminded of, lest we forget and laspe into insensibility for our own humanity. Music has been a part of our history for longer than we might know. But electronic music is a new beast: it fuses our primal nature for aesthetically pleasing rhythmic and harmonious sounds with our driving passion for control of our surrounding world and our creative force for building the artificial into the nature we now have grips on. Technology, the soldier of science and war, now guides our natural inclinations for the production of beautiful noise. And one begins to become aware of the rushing fusion of two worlds of our humanity that were once separated by an ocean of difference: art and science.

Or was that ocean only an illusion?

Science and art represent two methods of approaching man's explosive desire to understand the world and himself. Despite our belief in the objectivity of science as a method of acquiring knowledge about the world, science is a mirror of ourselves, our desires, our importances, our search within the world to discover what we are, and why we are. And art is more than just a garlic press for feelings and emotions stirred through the aesthetic stimulation of our senses. Art is the ceaseless passion for understanding 'the human experience', for that phrase continues to stand unanalyzed before us. Stand the two side by side, a journey into our past, a flight into our future, weave them together: only then will our humanity be revealed.

This compilation is an impeccably crafted message that our humanity is not thoroughly clouded by the mass of darkness that we all notice, the angry and destructive part of our existence, but that we are also purveyors of creative beauty and strength. The music contained here embraces all of the despair and joy, devastation and flourishing that marks our humanity, the fusion of our most visceral nature with our created artificial atmosphere, the discovery of the artistic creations of science, and the science of the most spiritual and primal form of art.

I'm working on a painting inspired by this comp. Will post soon, too.