Visit the Entropics!

About the Artist
Both bandmates make their homes in quiet, rural parts of Connecticut. Dave is a computer animator specializing in Flash-animated series for the Internet, and Randel is a computer consultant and recording studio manager. Both have wives, kids, and dogs.

The listener might be surprised that the noises they make together can be so frenetic while their lives are so ordinary, but certainly no more so than the Parallax members themselves, if you asked them.

Product Description
"Visit the Entropics!" is an all-instrumental progressive-techno/metal soundscape, combining traditional modern progressive rock with occasionally odd-time electric house beats, and mind-altering solo performances on the part of keyboardist David C. Lovelace. His influences range from the guitar gods to the turntable gurus. Dave describes his performance style as very guitar-like rather than organ- or piano-like, and consistently convinces new listeners that a guitarist is indeed playing the dizzyingly fast leads. Indeed, he quotes, "I consider myself a guitar player; I just use a keyboard to do it."

Randel Osborne, a long-time electronica veteran, weaves the fabric of the album's lush parallel universe with mind-blowing production wizardry.

Parallax is looking to create a new way of thinking about the term "Progressive Music."

Tracks:

Entropy
Ryu
Zymurgy
Secret Space
Ties That Bind
Third Rail
Demonosaur
Umlaut
Spiroid
Hapax Legomenon

Album Description

"Visit the Entropics!" is an all-instrumental progressive-techno/metal soundscape, combining traditional modern progressive rock with occasionally odd-time electric house beats, and mind-altering solo performances on the part of keyboardist David C. Lovelace. His influences range from the guitar gods to the turntable gurus. Dave describes his performance style as very guitar-like rather than organ- or piano-like, and consistently convinces new listeners that a guitarist is indeed playing the dizzyingly fast leads. Indeed, he quotes, "I consider myself a guitar player; I just use a keyboard to do it."

Randel Osborne, a long-time electronica veteran, weaves the fabric of the album's lush parallel universe with mind-blowing production wizardry.

Parallax is looking to create a new way of thinking about the term "Progressive Music."

Customer Reviews:

What Music Should Accomplish!.......2000-12-20

More inclined toward what is termed generically as classical music, I accidentally heard "Visit the Entropics" when a friend's son played the CD in his car. This keyboard phenomenon has added a new dimension to the word "classic."

David C. Lovelace's creativity has no parameters. The scope and dynamics of these original compositions combined with his brilliant musicianship transport the listener as dramatically as awakening on the rim of the Grand Canyon or atop the World Trade Center after sleeping in a prehistoric cave for a century.

"Visit the Entropics" creates a spectrum of passionate extremes, hurling the listener to unimaginable levels of awareness, as though a seventh sense blends all the others into one overwhelming sweep of rapture.

For the uninitiated who think "techno" is a cacophony designed by and for the undisciplined and undiscerning David C. Lovelace's genius will provide a stunningly metaphysical experience. I recommend that you listen to it once simply to FEEL it -- and then again and again to discover the enormity of what he has contributed to music. It is thunder and lightning for the soul!

Dream Theater meets the Chemical Bros........2000-12-19

As a guitar player, im not a real big fan of keyboard instrumentals, but parallax changes everything. This CD sounds like it was a guitar based disc, transposed onto the keys. The music is definately more progressive then industrial (which is a bit different from most modern day, single player based keyboard bands), which I find to be refreshing. So, if you're a fan of progressive keys, you'll love the disc, or if you're curious about how "a guy who uses keyboards to play guitar" does it... this disc is for you. Just plain cool....

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