Bubblebaby – The Bubblebaby Experience

Description

The Bubblebaby Experience is the sole album by the American instrumental ambient techno project Bubblebaby (Greg Young and Stefan Nelson of Virus fame), released on N-Soul Records in 1996, distributed in the US by Diamante Music Group and in Europe by Alliance. The album was written and produced by Virus.

The two guys from Virus mutate as the Bubblebaby Experience to present an instrumental album of catchy quirky dance music, yet Bubblebaby’ is not a bubblegum experience. Taking in ambient sounds and strong rhythmic arrangements, there’s plenty of creativity here to hold attention musically and beaucoup dc beats to keep you moving. My favourite is the absolutely marvellous «Slipstream» which has a moody opening which soon builds into a thumping dance-a-thon! Most fun is its chorus motif which uses the same sort of trick as the Human League’s «Keep Feeling Fascination» a few years ago – a slightly off key synth to grab attention! Just brilliant! One of their favourite tricks is to start with a kicking rhythm track and then allow banks of swirling synths to build a frantic theme taking tracks to the max. This is best demonstrated on «Freedom» with its powerful rumbling bass and the opening spacy cut «Inside». «The Big Blue» and «VCO» have a slightly jungly feel, as does the epic title track which closes the album. The ‘Bubblebaby’ sound will wobble your bass bins while sci-fi sequenced sounds hover like ambient UFOs secreted in your speakers. Experience it! [Mike Rimmer, Cross Rhythms, April 1997]

CD tracklist:

01. Inside
02. Slipstream
03. VCO
04. Byte
05. Open
06. Freedom
07. Lift
08. Alright
09. The Big Blue
10. Bubblebaby

A full-page advertisement for various new releases on the N*Soul label, including The Bubblebaby Experience by Bubblebaby, was featured in the November 1996 issue of CCM Magazine.