Exodus Effect

For many their first encounter with classical music will be through its use in films and this collection makes a fantastic entry point to this rich and diverse world. Helpfully all tracks list the films alongside the music, so there will be no doubt as to where the music is familiar from. Classical music has been used to memorable effect in films many times from Ride of the Valkyries in Apocalypse Now to Barber s Adagio in Platoon and from Also sprach Zarathustra in 2001: A Space Odyssey to Beethoven s Ninth in A Clockwork Orange. Occasionally, as in the case of Mozart s Piano Concerto No.21 used in Elvira Madigan, the film title has provided a lasting nickname for the music. All these favourites are included here.

Following the history lesson of volume 1, The Perfect Beats, Volume 2 reaches a little wider in its selection of electro-boogie, hip-hop, and freestyle oldies. This seems to be the set's unofficial "happy" disc–some of the fastest cuts are on this volume, as well as the lightest and most playful.

The Infinite Divide” is Sequential Dream’s ninth album. Whereas Sequential Dreams’ previous album “The Exodus Wave” had a markedly more rock orientation, this album dials more into the earlier influences of the Berlin School electronic music genre. Although guitars are still a part of the compositions, synthesizers and sequences were intended as the main instruments for this album. This said, as with the theme of philosophical and metaphysical “Duality” hinted at by the album title, the music gradually transitions from the more synthesizer-centric sound to eventually incorporate some of the more electronic rock vibes for which Sequential Dreams albums is known for…