SULA BASSANA Sulatronics Self released CD-R
This is a release by Sula Bassana (Dave Schmidt, Ex-Liquid Visions, Zone Six...) featuring high quality electronic music. There are five tracks on the album and it's about 45 minutes long. Sula is known from his work in the field of psychedelic rock, so it's very interesting to notice, that he also masters electronic machine music. He has used almost only synthesizers (Roland, Moog, Korg, EMU), computer and machine drums on the album, but there are also some treated guitar, voices and flute on one track ("Paranoid?). The fellow himself compares this album to Tangerine Dream, Philip Glass and Kraftwerk, but to me this is a bit more modern stuff. The overall mood of the album is very ambient in nature. The first track "Wo Bin Ich...?" is airy and melodic and rather rhythmic. An extremely nice piece, and the piano thing in the middle gives a bit jazzy feel to it. "Space Taxi" is hypnotic sequence jingling, "Gefühlsknoten" is over eleven minutes long ambient trip without any rhythm. "Paranoid?" is a long, psychedelic track with only some light rhythm. "Wegbeam" is a very nice ending to this great album that was recorded during the 90's. If you like psychedelic electro that gets you in a trance, contact Dave at sula@sulabassana.de. You won't get this album from anywhere else!
By Astro at Psychotropic Zone

Sula Bassana - Sulatronics
Ja, da haben wir auch schon das nächste Werk von Herrn Schmidt. Diesmal 5 Songs auf einer CD und so wie es sich anhört mit Synthi-Musik, Electronica und Ambient: eben Sulatronics. Songs wie "Wo bin ich" oder "Gefühlsknoten" lassen erahnen, dass Dave Schmidt auch ein Ohr für Künstler wie Kraftwerk oder Bruce Haak haben könnte, denn hier zirpt, piepst, wummert es an allen Ecken. Auf "Wegbeam" scheint der Meister das Klangbild sogar mit einer Gitarre abzurunden. Alles zum größten Teil mit elektronischen Beats unterlegt und für mehr als zum Chillen in Stereo geeignet. Nicht nur die Menge, sondern auch die Vielfalt des Outputs dieses deutschen Ausnahmekünstlers könnte man meinen, hier die europäiscche Antwort auf AMT (Acid Mothers Temple) gefunden zu haben.
Doc für Moonhead Magazin Nr. 15 (2006)

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