Circuits humming and landscapes shifting: SourceCodeX's Distant Murmurings, Nearby Whispers sprawls across two CDs of extreme synthesizer music — by turns relaxing, psychedelic, trippy, and disturbing, with progressive rock, heavy guitar, and even an a cappella vocal thrown in. Alimba's Resonance resurrects 90s Trance energy with that beloved synthesizer resonance knob as its muse. Sean Clute dreams through vast terrain with a spirit-guided sonic journey built from chimes, soil contact mics, and ocean waves. John Reidar Holmes bridges life and death, magic and the empirical, dreaming and waking.