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Ron Boots
Different Stories and Twisted Tales

Ron Boots has been one of e-music’s foremost talents and progenitors for quite some 
time. Different Stories and Twisted Tales hit the streets in 1993 on Cue 
Records. Groove has re-issued it in 2004, perhaps as a reminder that great music is 
timeless or that the “Golden Age” of e-music is not a single era or event. It is a 
process of evolution and can span several years and/or decades.
(This is an excellent CD. The following review is verbatim from my book - Tracks 
Across the Universe: A Chronology of Ambient and Electronic Music. I wrote the 
review in 1999. My impressions, like the CD, remain unchanged.)
Different Stories and Twisted Tales is a documentary, of sorts, by Ron Boots.  
He has spun a yarn of about how tales become legends and how individual lives are, in and of 
themselves, tales and legends.  Ron creates the story-telling mood by mixing Berlin school 
sequences with dense atmospheres.  Track 3, “The Call,” features a smoking electric 
guitar by Klaus Hoffman Hoock.  The guitar is a dynamic compliment to the 
atmosphere.  Ron’s overall diversity allows for dark AND pastoral atmospheres.  The 
darkness is heavy and overt.  The pastorales are dense without relying on new age or 
symphonic textures.  They rely on Ron’s innovative use of sequences to create lightness.  
That unique texture is awesome and essential! - Jim Brenholts





Ron Boots

Area Movement

Ron Boots is one of the leading practitioners of 
the new style of European e-music. Indeed, he is one of 
its pioneers. The style involves a combination of Berlin 
school sequences and deep atmospheric ambience. 
Area Movement is a set of six pieces devoted to 
important landscapes across the globe. Ron 
conceptualized these compositions over the last 15 
years. He uses more acoustics than usual and different 
experimental sounds. He also sings on one track. As a 
synthesist, Ron is one of the world's greatest 
electronicians. As a vocalist, Ron is one of the world's 
greatest electronicians. This album is full of great e-
music.  ~ Jim Brenholts




Ron Boots, Close but not Touching
Groove Unlimited, GR046, 2000
www.groove.nl
sales@groove.nl

Ron Boots is the owner of Groove Unlimited, an e-music recording label in the 
Netherlands.  He is also their major recording artist.  He released "Close but not
Touching in 2000.

For years Ron has been developing and perfecting a hybrid style of e-music.  
It involves combining dense Berlin schools sequences with expansive 
atmospheric minimalism.  This disc is the pinnacle of those efforts.
And Ron, as usual, displays his sense of humor.  His liner notes have some 
tongue-in-cheek remarks about his equipment and "gear nerds."  And the music 
sounds like Ron had fun recording it.  That always makes the music sound 
better.  It sounds best when listeners hear the fun!

So, listeners looking for Berlin school sequencing will enjoy this disc.  
Listeners looking for atmospheric resonance will go for it as well.  
Typically, Ron appeals to multiple markets.

Reviewed by Jim Brenholts





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