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Two years have passed since 'Beyond Time' conquered the hearts of all the fellow space cadets from Ibiza to Frankfurt. Regardless of time and space, 'Electronica' is a worthy follow-up album. The album 'Electronica' by the professional chillers of Noom Café is ready to enchant the listener with its Balearic charm. And like the title track 'Electronica (La Droga)' already announces, no limits are known for the heady cosmos of electronic sounds. 12 tracks made their way onto the album, too many to highlight each one of them. Noom Café draw on unlimited resources of their fundus. Ambient tracks ('Polaris', 'Mother Earth') invite the listener to dream oneself to the most remote places of the universe. Reclined Broken Beats of the Viennese School ('On My Way') take on romantic Balearic synth tracks. Cinematic moments evoke reminiscences of foreign countries and undiscovered archipelagos. Here stories are told and associations are being played with. Songs like 'Atoll' and 'La Isla' set the course for an endless journey. But where does this journey lead? For Noom Café it is always a journey to one's self: The living utopia of a consciousness in harmony with the environment. Taken as a whole 'Electronica' represents a retrospective. It replaces genre boundaries with dazzling fusion. Each song participates to develop the foundation of a message that seems to stand above all: We are one. At the end of the album we finally celebrate the return from a long journey together with Noom Café and their friends. The bass drum moves to the fore again when the remixers take over to end the day with a boisterous celebration. And we are already looking forward to the next adventure.
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What exactly has happened to all the Chillout Floors? Once being an indispensable place for cozy hangouts and relief at every good party, they calmly dissipated in the last decade. They were eventually replaced with second and third floors, all with the same standardized ‘four to the floor’ sound without attitude. And now Noom Café come with an album that sounds like being made in the best times of the Chillout Era. Is there a Chillout revival coming upon us? For Noom Café this is not the question. They live for relaxed beats and low key soundscapes ever since. Their new Album ‘Beyond Time, released by the Frankfurt label ‘Elux’, is like a fresh breeze on a Balearic evening in summer. Within the first minutes of the albums opener ‘Baracoa’, the listener gets a very clear impression of the musical quality of Noom Café. Acoustic instruments and swinging beats, like in ‘Blue Sky’,melt into electronic pads and reverberant vocal samples. In this manner Noom Café are creating their very own world, far away from the hectic of everyday life. Anyhow, a day at the beach touches on more than just sunshine. ‘Beyond Time’ takes the listener away from the worn out paths of the genre and sends him on a journey to darker sound realms. Reminiscences of Dubstep and Deephouse (‘The Awakening (Next Day Mix)’) are as well audible as the exuberant and almost progressive moments of ‘Glass’ und ‘Stormy Beach.’ Electric and experimental
beats take control over the second half of the longplayer and guide the listener into the night just to smoothly embrace him again with the jazzy closing track ‘Don't Fall Asleep’.Altogether ‘Beyond Time’ is much more than a typical chillout album. Noom Café takes you to their very own beach and it is a pleasure to share this voyage with them.
Tracklisting:
1. Baracoa
2. Blue Sky
3. Sylt
4. Surfing
5. Raindrops
6. Sand In The Desert
7. Time
8. The Awakening (Next Day Mix)
9. Glass
10. Genetic (Downbeat Mix)
11. Stormy Beach
12. Don’t Fall Asleep
13. Mars Surface (Exclusive Bonustrack)
14. Jupiter (Exclusive Bonustrack)
15. Baracoa (Ambient Cafe Mix) (Exclusive Bonustrack) More

Within the first minutes of reverbed vocalsamples appearing out of ambientish soundscapes, the listener becomes a confederate within Quantec‘s sound universe. Statements that seem to speak to oneself from another space and time set the mood for his new Album ‚1000 Vacuum Tubes’. Its surprisingly melodic an rhythmic opener ‚Ayahuasca’ sets the mood for Quantec’s versatile voyage through his own Dub history. Sven Schienhammer, the man behind this moniker, has a broad view on the sounds an techniques of Dub. Where in other productions coldness and monotony became a standard sound of Dubtechno, the psychedelic warmth of this longplayer let the listener dive constantly deeper into Quantec‘s ‚Vacuum’.
Within the full length of the album, the tracks keep up a certain kind of lightness while still remaining dancable all the time. Vocal cut-ups and fragments of house music like in ‚Truth Maintenance’ and ‚Eternal Soul’ are as well processed as deep basslines and meditative echospheres (for example ‚Unplumbed Depth’ or the title track ‚1000 Vacuum Tubes’).
Reminiscences of the analogue beginnings of the ‚Basic Channel Sound’ like in ‚The Gathering’ sup up with modern digital arrangements (‚Brain Machinery’). Everything ist held together through the pointed use of vocals that create the necessary amount of personality and deepness. Besides all its complexity Quantec‘s album always remains a traditional Dub album. Which is a good thing. The different approaches of the tracks point to a greater understanding of dub as a production method that consits of much more than a typical trademarksound. It’s not the effects that stand in the foreground but a way of fathoming the different forms of expression of Dub in electronic music. ‚1000 Vacuum Tubes’ generates its special qualities from a deep understanding of a long history of Dub in Techno music. Quantec knows how to combine these elements to create a magnificient and timeless longplayer.
Tracklisting:
1. Ayahuasca
2. 1000 Vacuum Tubes (Live Version)
3. Unplumbed Depth
4. The Gathering
5. Truth Maintenance
6. Eternal Soul
7. Multiple Dependency
8. Rank And File
9. Brain Machinery
10. Dare To Start A New Life
11. We Did Survive More