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2016 reissue, 2×12″ LP, Biophon Records.
Originally released in 1994, Biosphere’s second album Patashnik, as we would later find out, was only the beginning. Geir Jenssen’s Biosphere project has since become a name that rolls off the tongue alongside Brian Eno when talk of ambient comes to the table. And the use of vocals in tracks like “Phantasm” and “Startoucher” are as memory jogging as Marshall Jefferson’s “Mushrooms”. The music here provides a snapshot of Biosphere’s sound before he committed a decade’s worth of albums to UK label Touch. For a ’90s take on things, you could say “SETI Project” has aged better than “Mestigoth”, while the nebulous to deep classical tones and bluey-hues of productions like “Decryption”, “Patashnik” and “Mir” remain timeless. – Juno
