Washington's BT creates an interesting hodgepodge of rock and electronica on "Emotional Technology.
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* To hear a free Sound Bite from BT, call Post-Haste at 20 and press 8111. Having remixed the hit "Pop" for 'N Sync, BT enlists singer JC Chasez on the album's first single, "Somnambulist," a lightly propulsive, peppy techno-pop track whose empowering mantra is "simply being love, love, loved is more than enough." Other guests include Gang Starr's Guru, layering smooth old-school rhymes over edgy club beats on "Knowledge of Self," and longtime collaborator Jan Johnston on the insistent "Communicate." That's something BT does better than most, and while "Emotional Technology" sometimes slips into trancy noodling or predictable buildups and breaks, it manages to reach out to a wider audience at the same time its creator is searching his own soul and finding the courage to share the results.Īppearing Friday at Nation. There's also a delightful, '80s-style Human League vibe to "Superfabulous," a sassy electro-rock duet featuring actress Rose McGowan and Scott McCloud of Girls Against Boys. Classically trained from the age of 13, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for one year before dropping out and moving to Los Angeles, California, and then back to Washington, D.C. BT continues to expand the genre's shorthand slogans into actual songs such as "Animals," where he notes with gentle optimism, "The love we crave that binds, bends but can never change/ Feeds the faith in faith that I search for in everything." There is similar gravitas to the ruminative "Dark Heart Dawning" and "Circles," which explore the cyclical nature of love in a manner somewhat reminiscent of early heroes Depeche Mode. Brian Transeau (born Brian Wayne Transeau on October 4, 1971, in Rockville, Maryland) is an American musician who records under the stage name BT. For proof, listen to last year's career-so-far retrospective "10 Years in the Life," which suggested impressive range and ambitions that stretched well beyond the dance floor.īT's new album, "Emotional Technology," which takes its name from the inner and outer worlds he has long sought to bridge, is a sampler of the immediate future that deftly alternates, and sometimes melds, rock and electronica - anyone for rock trance? - and features BT as the primary vocalist on almost half the tracks, reflecting the increasingly personal nature of the material. Washington-bred Brian Transeau - better known in the international electronica community as BT - has always refused to be constrained by the progressive trance/epic house sounds he helped pioneer in the mid-'90s.
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