MIDNIGHT IN SPACE

On the same label that gave us the wonderful Electronic Mind Waves by Elektriktus (the label being PDU) comes Hydrus with Midnight in Space, apparently their sole release. I just love it when I run across such obscure but amazing electronic music like this! This album tends to have a rather calm relaxed, spacy vibe throughout. Occasionally strings, guitars, ethereal wordless female voices or piano shows up, but by large it's synths and organ. There's even a section where they try to quote the five notes to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but it was just the first three (and apparently hiding the other two in synth chords). I'm sure they only played the first three notes as not to get in trouble with John Williams. It's hard telling who was involved in Hydrus, although these ethereal female voices sounded exactly like what I've heard on the incidental music to the 1971 movie Devil's Nightmare (which was an Italian and Belgian film), I almost wondered if that was the same lady. Don't know. Musically, nothing on Midnight in Space is aggressive or in your face, just relaxed and spacy electronic music. Well worth having and worthy of your attention.