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| | Cokemachineglow.com : FM3 & Dou Wei: Hou Guan Yin |
 | | Let’s start here: if you don’t already have a Buddha Machine (the object) get one, because Buddha Machine (the album) is phenomenal, even despite the fact that the relative success of the machine is probably, at least in part, based on the novel concept. |
 | | Like those bands, FM3 understand that vibrant tremors exist in all sorts of contexts, groupings, and tempos, and that an album doesn’t have to be a collection of ideas, but rather it can be the idea, and that its parts can simply explain the narrative through moods. |
 | | And when all three connect, when the group is done foraging for ambient textures and new overlaps in avant-garde music, they let out the steam in grand style (on tracks 6 and 10, for example), and the result is beautiful. |
| www.cokemachineglow.com /reviews/fm3douwei_houguanyin2006.html (641 words) |
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