Gaelactica

All the detail you need is in the title. Hyper[BOREA] have been doing their dysfunctional punctuation and futuristic Celtic fusion for a while now, taking a clutch of Dead Can Dance records down to the local Ceili and establishing a new Gaeltacht for electronica .

David Bickley is the creative engine room and programming whizz, pressing several divergent indigenous musical styles into the same time capsule. Lan Gaelach best exemplifies this mixed marriage of trad violins, Eastern strings, Arabian touches and things tht go bleep in the night.

The extremely swish and sonically streamlined production will put off those who like their electronic music a little more rough and ready, but those who prefer their grooves to be as smoothly atmospheric as possible cannot fail be impressed.

Gaelactica is an interesting place for new Irish music, and Hyper[BOREA} come highly commended for daring to interrogate and invigorate wildly divergent stylings in the multi-cultural light of a new century.