OK, it's not the latest thing, but our daughter just got me The Social Network soundtrack album, and my dendrites are staging a major rave right now.
This album of dark ambient music, by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, won an Oscar for best soundtrack, and deservedly so. It may be the first music I've come across since discovering the Bach Brandenburg Concertos in high school that enhances my ability to do computer work (a quality that other people have also discovered). I am hearing so much in the music that is new and yet reminds me of familiar things: texturally both seductive and crunchy, sinister with odd moments of hopefulness, long repeated phrases. I'm hearing Eno big-time, video games, old Moog synthesizers, Kraftwerk (of course) and several other bits I haven't identified yet. Absolute brain candy.
It's not for everybody, but maybe it's for you. Available as a free five-song EP download from The Null Company, who produced it, and as always from Amazon. If anyone's heard it, I'd love to hear your take on it.
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