Architect is one of the many projects of Daniel Myer, whose name should not be unknown to you. Gaining most fame with Haujobb, there are not many who have so many different projects with such variety and yet a surprisingly high quality. Architect is one of the projects which explores electronic landscapes, which was also shown on this years Maschinenfest. It is this place where the visitor had the opportunity to pick up this album. A month after, "The Analysis Of Noise Trading" was made public.

A piece of history, first. "The Galactic Supermarket" is Architect's first album and was released in 1998 through Hymen Records. It set the sphere for Architect's second album entitled "I Went Out Shopping To Get Some Noise". Even though there were six years inbetween these two albums (2004, also Hymen), it did became clear that Architect succeeded in combining electronic sounds with ambient and experimental sounds. Fans of Haujobb's ambient-side should have no problem finding their way here, as well as fanatics of the so-called clicks'n'-cut genre.

"The Analysis Of Noise Trading" is the third album and is, like the two other albums, not exactly an easy record. Eleven songs take more than 74 minutes, which leads the average track length to about 7 minutes. It's not the easiest of records, and a record that is made to play once and than cool down. The experimental sounds remain, but the songs are more accessible and show a certain face that was still missing. Opener "St. Vodka (Mother Russia)" for example, has more rhythm and more melody, and features the slow opening towards follow-up "If Jim Would Jam With Richie". Starting here, Architect uses vocals to express themselves and that's what makes this album even more interesting. It does sound like Haujobb here and then, due Myer's preachable, quoting voice, but it does seperate Architect from the large part of the most instrumental IDM-scene, so are the words of Myer himself.

I have to agree with the man: this is orginal, danceable, energic, but always exploring for other sounds and patterns in combining sounds. They're not concrete songs, but the experimenting is a very good thing and might remember you from the approach Hecq uses a lot. Memorable moments: Hecq's remix of "St. Vodka (Mother Russia)", "Radio Einheit", "Ulverized Sickness" and the included, original version of "Vectorize".