Fuck yeah, I've been looking forward to a new BT album since This Binary Universe dropped a few years back. While not the electro-classical masterpiece that TBU was, These Hopeful Machines seems pretty damn epic for poppy dance music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ASdybUV7bg I'm highly recommending you acquire this one if you like any kind of dance music, pop music, electronic anything.
Here's an interview with the man, he's as wierd as ever but just as genius http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/bt-these-hopeful-machines/
BT was the man. Has he been producing anything recently? I always enjoyed his comp Emotional Technology.
Yeah, he was making his own software to produce the sounds that he wanted to music. He took a few years off to compose This Binary Universe, which is hands down the first electronic classical composition in music history. It's not dance music, its just a 7 movement symphony using mostly electric beats and some samples of an actual orchestra, all using very complex overlapping time signatures. On top of the music each song had its own music video tied in with the music. Here's the poppiest song on the record, dont watch it if you're drunk or you'll get really dizzy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-0vYZIbPv4 I was kinda curious how he'd top the last record but I guess this is what he needed to do, something just as intense but easier to listen to and dance to for your average listener. So far I've listened through the new album a few times and I think it's going to stay in my car for a while.