Ben Jacques Millennium Dolphin (Self Released) Vancouver, BC ::web/sounds::

From the Sega™ collection of Ecco-fanatic Jesse Locke:
While he might be better known for his eerily childlike acid brain doodle art, Ben Jacques has also been exploring outerspace electronic noise-scapes as of late with his musical projects Alf and the only slightly less brain-scrambling Haunted Beard. Now, he’s given birth to Millennium Dolphin, the first in a four-part series of self-described ‘New Age’ releases under his own moniker. In our e-mail correspondence leading up to this review, Ben explained that, “this is seriously something I do when I’m lying hung over in bed and want to hear something hypnotic and easy.” Hypnotic sure, but this 18-minute instrumental ain’t no elevator music, with its Motorik propulsion, Star Trek synth FX and what sounds like cyborg mosquitos with their circuits overloading from too much candy kid raver blood. It’s Mutek on the Holodeck. It’s the mutated love child of The Field and James Ferarro. It’s yet another offspring of Vancouver’s endlessly fertile weirdo music underground.

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Ben Jacques – Millennium Dolphin (excerpt)