In Brief

Former Angeleno Mike Kandel, a.k.a. Tranquility Bass, produces a long-awaited album that is the electronic progeny of acid rock. Like other critically acclaimed artists such as Beck and DJ Shadow, Tranquility Bass taps the past as well as the future to come up with a mesmerizing hybrid somewhere between Carlos Santana and the Aphex Twin--West Coast psychedelia for the future.

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