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[ home | music | journalism | biography | music samples | orders | news | press | email | links - German ]      Living Tunes LT 125.602 - 2003   Aural Innovations, USA - April 2002: „The varied and exciting synth patterns will keep you wide eyed and on edge, clutching your seat as your spacecraft twists and turns at warp speed. Overall, fans of the German school of space electronica are pretty much guaranteed to enjoy Megalopolis, as Frank draws heavily on that genre while managing to keep his interpretation of the music fresh and exciting.“ - full article Encyclopedia of Electronic Music, Russia - April 2003 (artist entry): „Megalopolis explores the possibilities of synth technology, as each track is a rhythmic (except the last one) onslaught of experimental sounds and atmospheres. We get pretty repetitive structure here and (sometimes) a VERY intense sound. For instance, check out ‚Adjust Your Clock’ - it will probably meltdown your speakers!“ - full article Zoopa Loop, France - April 2003: „Based upon the desire to innovate, to explore and to make experiments, ‚Megalopolis’ is an astonishing record owing to it's contemporary musical research and avant garde ambience which establish his father Frank Gingeleit as one of the leading artists of the German electro scene.“ - full article (link doesn't work as the Zoopa Loop webzine isn't online any more) Modern Dance, UK - July 2003: „The opening track, Planets' Spring Dance, (...) is a classic. The title track has some of the most funkiest synth bass lines I've ever heard, hellishly hypnotic. The whole album is crammed with superb throbbing synths and magic washes of sound and color.“ - full article Syngate, Germany - August 2003: „Industrial Metropolis: Megalopolis - the 2nd CD of the trilogy by Frank Gingeleit from Mannheim, Germany. Megalopolis is completely played on a virtual analog synthesizer. Between the pure german metropolis style tracks 1 and 7 Frank Gingeleit played on the other tracks industrial leads over analog synths carpets.“ - full article Chain D.L.K., USA - September 2003: „...sounds (...) like a Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Can record with lots of spacey synth sounds (...) and seven tracks of pure cosmic electronika.“ - full article Sonic Curiosity, USA - December 2003: „While looped sequences define a cloudy atmosphere, auxilliary tones introduce a sense of expectancy that combines serenity with anticipation. A sense of faint urgency sweeps through the music, as riffs twirl and intermingle, merging into greater riffs of delicate structure.“ - full article Encyclopedia of Electronic Music, Russia - March 2004 (review): „The second Frank Gingeleit album sees a complete change of instrumentation from guitar synthesizer and effects to pure virtual analog synthesis. All pieces on this album were created using just the Yamaha AN1x synthesizer. The music is highly repetitious and at times approaches the territory of the so-called classic Electronic Music, i.e. Berlin School. “ - full article    Go to sound samples  Go to album information Back to the "Megalopolis" start page Back to music