Q (7/95, p.113) - 3 Stars - Good - "...blends electronic dance with the musical and cultural images of another people. Rather than just being a crude cut-and-paste raid on an invaded people....it's skillfully and attractively worked, generally managing to avoid sounding patronising or pretentious..." Q (May 2002, p.126) - 3 out of 5 stars - "...'global techno' and 'eco-ambient'..." Option (9-10/95, p.94) - "...cleverly integrates sequencer-driven German space rock with ethnic percussion workouts..."

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This is the sound of the techno-tribe, banging a drum with one hand and a mouse with the other. Toby Marks, aka Banco de Gaia, wants to bang on the drum all day, and he thankfully makes a pretty joyous noise -- a full-bodied amalgam of the Orb, Loop Guru, and Transglobal Underground. Using an army of ethnic and indigenous samples (from Indian drums and chants to woodblocks, rainsticks, and shakers) and zapping them through the technological prism, Banco de Gaia creates a modern-day techno-folk music that calls up the shaman buried deep in our ancestral memory. ~ TiVo Staff

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