Genes and Machines February 14, 2011

As its name implies, Genes & Machines is part man and part mechanism, "channeling a warm-blooded brand of moody psychedelia through a bewildering array of electronic props and prostheses. Noise plucked from the ambient atmosphere ornaments earnest melodies and analog beats, all catalyzed by a hurricane of sounds generated by Leon Gruenbaum's homespun instrument, the "Samchillian.""