Read the Reviews about Cybertron's "Remembering Tomorrow" CD

(From the Synthesizers.com User's Group)

"I have had the CD for over a week now and listened to it numerous
times. Here is my subjective review.

The CD opens appropriately with the 4 piece Robotix Suite. The
movements are all steeped in 'old school' analog sensibility and tie
together very well. I believe these opening works will have the
broadest appeal to those liking this genre of music. Influences from
ELP, Tomita, Grapelli, Copland for heaven sakes and even some 'mid
years' Tangerine Dream among others are on display here to one degree
or another. Together this is my favorite music in the release.

Next comes my least liked 'A Circuit for Summer.' A relaxing
sit-on-the-beach- with-a-longneck 'mainstream' style background affair.
Well executed, just not my cup of tea and a bit incongruous with most
of the rest of what is here.

Next up is Chronoton Cascade, one of three sequential improvs. Now we
are getting to the real meat & potatoes! (At least as far as I am
concerned.) This is one of the main reasons I got into real modular
analog gear. The methodical and artistic skills needed to put together
pieces like this are on high display in all three. It is my experience
you either love stuff like this or you hate it; and I love it. Simply
superb.

The second mainstream and also somewhat out of place Flight Over Piano
River follows. Again, a wonderful backing soundtrack for a Grand
Canyon or Arches video. Again, not the bare knuckle 70s prog analog
that makes up the rest of the CD.

Now we come to Dreamstate. What happens when you take a sequencer
improv and keep developting it? I will be honest in stating I would
LOVE to here Morbius take the three improvs here and turn them into
'full pieces' like this. Once again simply superb. If anything I
wanted it to go on 3 times as long and maybe have another theme or two
introduced and then juxtaposed with those presented. The bass
background towards the end would have been great to here playing
against the early elements.

The next sequential improv, Dangling Participles, is next. You have
already read what I think of all three of these so what more can I
state than again two thumbs up.

If shades of ELP are present in the opening 4 movements then The Clan
is a full on channeling of the boys at their peak. I felt the
development stalled a bit through the middle and the piece could have
been 60 to 90 seconds shorter OR the lead work towards the end could
have been brought in earlier and moved in a few more directions.
Still, very satisfying."

For me the best of the improvs, Tweaking Inertia, is next up. A couple
of maneuvers we did not see in the first two make a showing here. This
more than any other work here left me at least with a tough decision:
Do I get discouraged because something like this may never be within
my abilities or do I let it inspire me? Only time will answer that
question.

We close with Ursa Minor Improv. I wanted to like this more and
believe I would have had it been a regular studio recording like the
rest and had taken a more 'bare bones' approach. Lose the percussion
entirely and present a slow jazzy bass line with 3 different leads
each being developed and then playing against each other. We get this
in the last half, but with the needless percussion and overly complex
synth rhythm backing that, for me distracted from the leads.

There you have it. Far better on the whole than most of what is in my
stacks of music. As with almost all efforts a few pieces I will
routinely skip. However, unlike most efforts there are a number of
gems here I will listen to and be inspired by for years to come. And
isn't that what great music is all about? The ability to move you. In
the end what matters is that several tracks here do just that.
Outstanding.

-Kevin Stay
4/19/08

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