Ozone Player: Insane Logic (Visual Power - 2000) (8.2)

Multiple personalities manifest themselves in the spiritedly-arranged-though-schizoprenic
electronics of
Insane Logic... From the dark sci-fi-like opening of Whales In Fog we slip into the much
sweeter synth tinkling of Shipping (2:07), then into the unintelligible transmissions of The Reality
Dysfunction (7:32); this track heads in many directions from eerie to bouncy, encountering dozens of
sonic events like ringing phones, old-time pianos, splashing water,wispy shimmers of synth and
cartoony musical outbursts.

The luxuriant (if a little New Agey) piano of Casino Mobile is topped with spunky e-beats and
breezy '60s-style chorus (whose syllabic "bahp-dah-bah"s are quite nicely rendered!). Harder Minibar
warps and weaves with its wiggling melody. Spacey Process wavers in an appeallingly weird
weightlessness. While I detect sincere obsession and definite talent in electro-composer Otso
Pakarinen, many of these tracks were too overtly "musical" and/or "kooky" for my personal tastes;
judge for yourself at www.ozoneplayer.com.

David J. Opdyke
Ambientrance