Romay has 23 releases to his credit made between 2000-2007 and his production duties include a stint working with Asian Dub Foundation.
Playing With Sound is his first album on his own Acoustic Science label.
He comes from an Asian background but was born and raised in London and pitches his electronic music at a broad-based UK dance-orientated audience.
Tabla and sitar samples feature on the opening track (Heritage) but on the other eleven tracks programmed beats take precedence.
He does use Hindi singers but accessibility is his chief objective in keeping with the label's mission statement of breaking down barriers of musical genres.
The risk of aiming for a wide-ranging appeal is that you neutralise unfamiliar elements which are, as often as not, the very thing that gives the music its individuality. This is exactly the trap he falls into on this album.
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The press release describes the sound as "spacious dubstep" and "spikey drum'n'bass" but, personally, I find it simply predictable and soulless.
Rita Morar sings "let the music take you high" on the closing track (Realisation) - chance would be a fine thing!
Acoustic Science label website
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