Human Patterns

Beanfield: Jan Krause, Tobias Meggle, Michael Reinboth.
Additional personnel: Boris Geiger, Bajka (vocals); Till Sahm (Fender Rhodes piano); Thomas Simmerl, Max Weissenfeldt (drums).
Beanfield's second is a dandy slice of left-of-center technojazz that trips the light fantastic and just dares you not to get up and shake your booty. Well, not quite. This isn't just mindless dance-floor fodder but beat-crazy groove tastiness created for interactive home listening. "Corso" simply falls over itself in a jumble of perky bass, funky electric piano licks, and an attitude that says that '70s fusion wasn't so bad after all-provided you give it a jolt of '90s digital cred.
"Abstractions" lays on Beanfield's rich electronic heritage a bit thicker, earmarked by Tangerine Dream-ish atmospheres and gauzy electronics traveling down numerous pockmarked Rhodes. Ambient jazz, perhaps? Out in the Beanfield, it's "Great Outside," the stop-start rhythm majesty of which just begs you to come out and play. Have fun picking the cream of this crop.