History Music / BT

!! Tropes used in BT's music:

* SingleStanzaSong / LoopedLyrics - "Smartbomb" features a line taken from the next track ("Love on Haight Street": "Back on the set and coverin' all bets, ha") looping over and over with a short chorus carrying the title.

*** "The Light of Things" and "A Million Stars" - Vocal Trance

His albums have run the gamut from straight progressive trance, to vocal-heavy dance, to phenomenally stirring ambient music. As a producer, he's collaborated with many other artists ([[Music/SoulCoughing Mike Doughty]], Music/ToriAmos, Music/BritneySpears, and [[Music/ThePolice Stewart Copeland]] to name a few) and remixed songs by... pretty much anyone he hasn't collaborated with ({{Music/Madonna}}, TheDoors, DianaRoss).

* ''Film/{{Stealth}}'' (Complete score, and collaborated with DavidBowie)

His albums have run the gamut from straight progressive trance, to vocal-heavy dance, to phenomenally stirring ambient music. As a producer, he's collaborated with many other artists ([[SoulCoughing Mike Doughty]], Music/ToriAmos, BritneySpears, and [[ThePolice Stewart Copeland]] to name a few) and remixed songs by... pretty much anyone he hasn't collaborated with ({{Music/Madonna}}, TheDoors, DianaRoss).

* ''NeedForSpeed: Underground'' (Licensed his song "Kimosabe")

His albums have run the gamut from straight progressive trance, to vocal-heavy dance, to phenomenally stirring ambient music. As a producer, he's collaborated with many other artists ([[SoulCoughing Mike Doughty]], Music/ToriAmos, BritneySpears, and [[ThePolice Stewart Copeland]] to name a few) and remixed songs by... pretty much anyone he hasn't collaborated with ({{Madonna}}, TheDoors, DianaRoss).

* SingleStanzaSong / LoopedLyrics - "Smartbomb" features a line taken from the next track ("Love on Haight Street": "Back on the set and covering all bets") looping over and over with a short chorus carrying the title.

*** "Dark Heart Dawning" – Acoustic Alternative Rock with a twinge of Country

* ''Alpha Protocol'' (complete score)
* ''Need For Speed: Underground'' (Licensed his song "Kimosabe")

* ''Stealth'' (Complete score, and collaborated with DavidBowie)

His 2010 album ''These Hopeful Machines'' was nominated for a GrammyAward in the "Best Dance/Electronica" category, losing to [[Music/LaRoux La Roux's]] self-titled album.

* GenreRoulette: So often, it [[{{GenreRoulette/BT}} requires its own page]].

* TechnologyMarchesOn: As BT is a full-fledged technologist who writes his own software and builds his own hardware, this is bound to happen. Most of his music has held up over the years, but there are definitely sections of ''Emotional Technology'' – like the time-corrected but heavily artifacting horse clops in "P A R I S" and the ...interestingly {{AutoTune}}d vocals in "Animals" – that have not stood the test of time.

* ''Morceau Subrosa'' (2012)
* ''If the Stars Are Eternal, So Are You and I'' (2012)

* AuthorAppeal: Mathematical concepts, which prominently show up in song titles and samples, and occasionally lyrics.

* EpicRocking: BT's debut album ''Ima'' has "Sasha's Voyage of Ima", a 42-minute medley of the album's songs mixed by well-known British DJ Sasha. Most of the standalone songs are also quite long, for example the two-part "Loving You More" is a total of 13 minutes; "Blue Skies", another two-parter, is 17 minutes; and "Divinity" is 11 minutes. They don't call it "epic house" for nothing.

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Best exemplified on ''This Binary Universe'', where the sounds of his daughter's infant giggles get used to great effect.
** One press release for ''This Binary Universe'' mentioned that BT had used circuit bending (re-wiring instruments, or in this case, even household appliances and Furbys) to create unique sounds.
** The credits for the song "Le nocturne de Lumière" list "who knows what else" after all of the conventional (and non-conventional) instruments, and all of the software BT wrote himself.

* NewSoundAlbum: BT has changed sounds several times. His first album ''Ima'' was deep/progressive house, then he changed to drum&bass/trance/ambient/trip-hop for ''ESCM'' and ''Movement in Still Life'', then to dark techno on the ''Film/DieHard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas'' soundtrack, then ''Emotional Technology'' was pop-trance, electro, and rock ballads. ''This Binary Universe'' was a complete GenreShift to experimental ambient and new age material (influenced by CreatorBreakdown due to his equipment being stolen and his daughter's kidnapping), then ''These Hopeful Machines'' ventured back down the ''Emotional Technology'' route, as well as incorporating elements of [=IDM=] and glitch-hop. Then ''If the Stars Are Eternal, So Are You and I'' is a cross between the trance and ambient music of ''ESCM'' and the minimalist experimental orchestral sounds of ''This Binary Universe'' (with a hint of Dubstep).

* SweetDreamsFuel: And how! Whenever her daughter Kaia is involved with any of BT's songs, you know he takes this trope UpToEleven.

* AuthorAppeal: Mathematical concepts and

* GenreRoulette: So often, it [[GenreRoulette/BT requires its own page]].

* GenreRoulette: Virtually every album following ''Ima''.
** ''ESCM'' contains the following:
*** "Firewater" – Trip Hop
*** "Orbitus Teranium" – Electro
*** "Flaming June" – Trance
*** "The Road to Lostwithiel" - Drum and Bass
*** "Lullaby for Gaia" - A tribute to Music/NewOrder.
*** "Memories in a Sea of Forgetfulness" – Drum and Bass
*** "Solar Plexus" – [[ClusterFBomb Cuss-filled]] Industrial, leading into a soft piano ballad.
*** "Nectar" - Trance
*** "Remember" – Orchestral Vocal Trance
*** "Love, Peace, and Grease" – Old Skool Electro
*** "Content" – Trance, ending with an orchestral version of Flaming June
** The US release of ''Movement In Still Life'' goes even further...
*** "Madskillz-Mic Chekka" – Electro Rap
*** "Never Gonna Come Back Down" – Electronic Rock
*** "Dreaming" – Vocal Trance
*** "Shame" - Alternative Rock
*** "Movement in Still Life" – Big Beat/Turntablism
*** "Satellite" – Downtempo/Acoustic Rock
*** "Godspeed" – Trance
*** "Running Down the Way Up" – J-Pop-esque Vocal Dance Pop
*** "Mercury and Solace" – Vocal Trance
*** "Smartbomb" – Big Beat
*** "Love on Haight Street" – Smooth Rap
** Emotional Technology continues where ''Movement In Still Life'' left off...
*** "Knowledge of Self" – Electro Rap
*** "Superfabulous" – Pop Rock
*** "Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)" – Pop
*** "The Force of Gravity" – Vocal Trance
*** "Dark Heart Dawning" – Acoustic Alternative Rock with a twinge of Country
*** "The Great Escape" – Vocal Electro
*** "P A R I S" – Electronic Rock/Dance
*** "Circles" – Alternative Rock
*** "The Last Moment of Clarity" – Dance Pop
*** "Communicate" – Vocal Dance
*** "Animals" and "The Only Constant Is Change" – Acoustic Rock

*** "Dark Heart Dawning" – Acoustic Alternative Rock

*** "P A R I S" – Electronic Rock

* NewSoundAlbum: BT has changed sounds several times. His first album ''Ima'' was deep/progressive house, then he changed to drum&bass/trance/ambient/trip-hop for ''ESCM'' and ''Movement in Still Life'', then to dark techno on the ''Film/DieHard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas'' soundtrack, then ''Emotional Technology'' was pop-trance, electro, and rock ballads. ''This Binary Universe'' was a complete GenreShift to experimental ambient and new age material (influenced by CreatorBreakdown due to his equipment being stolen and his daughter's kidnapping), then ''These Hopeful Machines'' ventured back down the ''Emotional Technology'' route, as well as incorporating elements of [=IDM=] and glitch-hop. Then ''If the Stars Are Eternal, So Are You and I'' is a cross between ''ESCM'''s trance and ambient music with ''This Binary Universe'''s minimalist experimental orchestral sounds.

: Apparently he does not like Borgore and Diplo very much.

* NewSoundAlbum: BT has changed sounds several times. His first album ''Ima'' was deep/progressive house, then he changed to drum&bass/trance/ambient/trip-hop for ''ESCM'' and ''Movement in Still Life'', then to dark techno on the ''Film/DieHard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas'' soundtrack, then ''Emotional Technology'' was pop-trance, electro, and rock ballads. ''This Binary Universe'' was a complete GenreShift to experimental ambient and new age material (influenced by CreatorBreakdown due to his equipment being stolen and his daughter's kidnapping), then ''These Hopeful Machines'' ventured back down the ''Emotional Technology'' route, as well as incorporating elements of [=IDM=] and glitch-hop.

* SitcomArchNemesis: He apparently does not like Borgore very much.

* NonAppearingTitle: :"Superfabulous", "Somnambulist"("somnambulating" appears, but not "somnambulist"), "Paris"(although "Parisians" appears), and "The Last Moment of Clarity" from ''Emotional Technology''; "Movement in Still Life" and "Love on Haight Street" from ''Movement in Still Life''; and "Firewater", "Lullaby for Gaia", and "Solar Plexus" from ''ESCM''.

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