When it comes to dreamy, minimal trance my list of fav's is pretty short. It's due more to non-exposure to the genre than lack of quality artists. One of my all-time favorites is called "Las Vegas" by duece collaborative Burger/Ink. It's got a flowing, playful ambience you put on repeat and listen to for hours, quietly nodding your head in time to the beat, fingers tapping away at the computer, barely realizing so much time's gone by. Tinkertoy's "Electric Wilderness" reminds me a lot of that album.

1. Electric Wilderness
2. Fifty-Two Incorporated
3. Bassalin
4. The Outdoor Silence
5. Editing Our Connection
6. 1999
7. The River Carries Us Away
8. Here & There
9. Pinpin's Flower Shop

Perhaps you think of sweaty, darkened dance floors whenever the word "trance" is invoked. Something similar may happen to those who take the name idm (Intelligent Dance Music) too literally. As with idm, the dreamy style of trance employed by Tinkertoy isn't dance music at all, which isn't to say you couldn't dance to it, it's just not expressly made for that. This is the kind of music you listen to in private times, when you're working, kicking back with headphones on, or taking a long drive. You're not going to walk away humming a tune and aren't likely to have the slightest recollection whatsoever of any particular song once the music stops playing, but that's part of its beauty: Beauty through unobtrusiveness.

So what's the verdict: Tinkertoy's "Electric Wilderness" is a thoroughly pleasurable, dreamy-minimal-trance listening experience that I highly recommended to anyone with an interest in the softer side of trance.

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