I had never heard of this project before. The note attached to the disc identifies it as the artist’s first "ambient – deep electronica album." When I put it in, I was expecting something more along the lines of Orb, based on the cover art. think of ambient, this is not really what I think of. This disc is pretty hard to classify. It has some decent ambient tracks, but also has some standard four on the floor drum machine driven tracks, and then there are those tracks that are more noisy and experimental.

Overall, this disc relies heavily on repetition - too much so. I would have preferred a lot more subtlety. In fact, most of what is interesting about this disc lies beneath the heavy use of analogue bass synth lines and samples. Under what amounts to musical clutter, lies some nice atmospheres. Even without the fat bass lines and samples, there are times where there are nice atmospheres but then the atmosphere is wrecked by bleeps and bloops that sound as if they were generated by an old analogue synth or sampled from 1980’s Erasure albums. While Erasure can pull off the analogue bleeps, in Floating Mind, they just seem forced in to make the tracks more interesting. Unfortunately, the tracks were already good and, like badly airbrushing the Smurfs on a restored 64 Impala, sometimes an improvement is not an improvement. Some examples of this are "Voices" and "Transformer." However, all is not lost on this album. "Stellar" is a nice bit of floating ambience which moves into the more spacey track "The Saturnday."

Overall, it seems that Floating Mind just kept adding things to the track to the point where it was overdone. For the next attempt, I would recommend a more stripped down approach if he wants to take it more into the ambient realm, or if he is trying more for the electronica / techno approach to lighten up on the repetition. He has a good start. Now it needs some refining.