FUTURE WORLD ORCHESTRA
The Hidden Files
(p) (c) 2000 Groove Unlimited
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The Dutch company Groove Unlimited again pleases its funs by its new project of qualitative electronic music. That's melogically precise «Future World Orchestra» and its album «The Hidden Files».

Author of the idea and implementation of this project is Robert Pot. In fact «Future World Orchestra» was born more than 20 years ago, when Robert Pot together with Gerto Heupink started to record the electronic music which quickly become easily recognizable and popular in Europe. The heyday of «Future World Orchestra» creativity is the period of 1982 - 1985 years, when the duet had created several European hits, working at the board of electronic music and symphonic pop. And it isn't occasional, because the art of Tony Banks from the legendary «Genesis» was the greatest source of inspiration of Robert Pot. By the way, at middle 80-s «Future World Orchestra» often took part in various TV shows.

In the 90-s Robert Pot had left the active work with «Future World Orchestra» and concentrated on composing music for radio and TV, and also creating various multimedia products.

His instrumental compositions were included in the collection «Darwin, The Evolution», where also participated such great stars as Ian Gillan, Colin Blunstone from «Alan Parsons Project», Fal?o, Suzi Quattro and «Barclay James Harvest». Four Robert's compositions from that album are also present in «The Hidden Files».

With this new project Pot comes back to his fans after a long break. The music of «The Hidden Files» is strong-willed and assertive. And in addition to it, the music is very melodic. It reminds me the best themes of Christopher Franke. Full of nostalgia for 80-s, the music of Robert Pot is adopted to contemporary standards. And there is dramaturgy and feeling of flight in it. That's for sure related to Robert's passion to piloting. It's written at the album cover that he's studying to get the pilot license (probably he has got it already!) And his hobby adds space to the music, flaring the measures. As if you can see earth from above and feel fluent planing in air stream over your habitual world, and that world seems to be so toy and calm!

Some of compositions I like more than others. I'd like to select the sweeping «Running Water» and deeply melodic «The Eagle» and «The Galaxy». No doubt that every listener will find the favorite themes for himself in «The Hidden Files».

I would like to wish with all my heart Robert Pot to continue successfully his work and to create new masterpieces. And now we can take a dip in the optimistic air dreams of «The Hidden Files». It turns not to be dark at all - that beginning future world!

Serge Kozlovsky