This binary universe

You wouldn't believe how hard it was to pick the first album to write about. In the end I decided to go with the one that inspired the title of my blog. This Binary Universe by BT is in my opinion the first true electronic symphony. A digital opus of sublime soaring strings and gorgeous glitchy noise, wrapped around some truly magnificent warped beats, played by an orchestra of robots. It's the kind of thing I imagine a Terminator might have on his internal mp3 player to listen to while exterminating the human race.

Especially the track above, the fabulously mental Antikythera Mechanism.

It was a bit of a departure for the only superstar DJ called Brian, the majority of his work up to this point being in the key of trance. He'd worked on a few soundtracks in the build up to this album, which probably helped inspire this change of direction, but nothing in BT's back catalogue prepared me for the joy of hearing - and seeing - this. The album came with a DVD of short films shot specially for each composition. They're as wonderfully eclectic as the music that inspired them.

Music that became such a labour of love that BT actually went to the lengths of inventing pieces of software to create some of the sounds and time signatures. Now that's dedication even a Terminator would be proud of.

Look, even the album cover features robots!