Ozone Player: Insane Logic (CD, 50:00) VP001
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Light, ethereal, airy… these are things that some folks look for in their
music. To journey “beyond” the music and into the subconscious (mindless?)
realm of white noise is a goal of many fans of the ambient genre.
Unfortunately, chord changes that takes minutes, bird sounds, off-key
samples and discordant chord structures are not usually my cup of tea, so to
say that I didn’t enjoy Ozone Player’s Insane Logic is an
understatement. To fans of the genre, Ozone Player’s “songs” may invoke the
types of emotions that they’re looking for with its intense background
droning and its swirling electronica. But to my mundane ears, Insane
Logic simply sounded like a mish-mash of random synthesized sounds, and
the only emotion it caused me to feel was annoyance.

Ozone Player is actually the brainchild of one man – Otso Pakarinen – who is
very adept at coaxing bizarre sounds out of his vast array of electronic
noisemakers. There are so many different samples bursting forth in
Insane Logic that it’s hard for Ozone Player to hit any sort of real
“groove” in its music – the sounds get in the way more than they contribute
to the compositions. This is extremely apparent on the track “Praise” where
the obnoxious keyboard samples completely destroy any chance this
techo-ambient piece had of ever getting off the ground. The opening track
“Whales in Fog” also suffers from a poor choice of samples, and REALLY gets
mired down in its repetitiveness and its overall lackluster presentation.

There are a couple of spots on Insane Logic that almost achieve
interesting status – “Warezz” and “A Shortcut to Nowhere” are a couple of
decent attempts at techno-style music that with a little aggressive drum
programming could have been more successful. But other than those two
tracks, there’s really nothing all that exciting on Insane Logic.
Buyer Beware!

More information on Ozone Player can be found at http://www.ozoneplayer.com

Michael Askounes (michael@gscyclone.com)
Eclectic Earwig Reviews

EER Editor note: Little true ambience music was happening in this CD as much was techno-upbeat and full of synth-rock.