Title: Oort Cloud
Artist: Phobium
Release Date: 2013 Sept 7
Genre: Ambient / Downtempo / Deep Trance
License:Â CC BY-NC-SA
Label: Ektoplazm / Omnitropic
This is a real throw back to the early days of electronic music for me. Â Something of a cross between Tangerine Dream, and Transfer Station Blue. Â It’s the ’70s synth vibe all over again, applied with exceptional attention to detail and glorious production and engineering.
Phobium has created a recording that is programmatic in structure: the ascent through the cloud that surrounds our galaxy, the Oort Cloud. And it is a well structured audio journey. We get the view of the cloud from a distance, moving through, and seeing sol.  You could consider this to be a single composition broken into six movements.  I believe the artist intended this piece to be listened to as a single work instead of as a set of individual works.
It’s such a cinematic vision of a journey into space that I want to actually have the visions to go with it. This would make an incredible soundtrack to a short film about the journey into space.
Get a set of headphones and immerse yourself into the sonic visions that Phobium has set out on this recording. Â You will be greatly rewarded. Â There really aren’t any other words needed to describe this release. It’s a wonderful throwback, and just simply a beautiful recording. Â This is a rare instance where I offer a 10 rating, this recording is deserving in every way possible.
[Note:Â Another confusing situation…Â Ektoplazm makes this release available for Free / Donation, while Phobium has it as Name Your Price. Your choice of supporting the artist directly, or through Ektoplazm.]
Phobium: Oort Cloud
Free / Donation / Name Your Price
10
