Carl Stone Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties ★ ★ ★★ A release from this year; I really underestimate the quality of releases that come out every year that goes by and in return I seem to be missing out on a lot of exciting listens. To be fair this isn't really new music, although most of it is hitting the audience's ears for the first time. And not to really get ahead of myself, but all of the music here could've easily been created in this day and age without seeming out of place. Comparing this to the previous archival release, I think the music presented here goes beyond most of which Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties could provide. While some elements are homologous and constants in both releases, I think the experience and work that went into these two periods of Stone's creative output led to great improvements in the latter. The invariable themes throughout these two releases are regarding the use of Baroque orchestral...