"Nihilophobia" by Neuronium was recorded in 2008 but released in 2009 and it finishes the trilogy (started with "Mystikatea" and "Synapsia") devoted to the problems of life and death. So this is cosmic ambient music but with serious touch.

Music is quite relaxing and calm. Michel creates pictures of distant worlds or just backgound to his meditations about problems of humane existence - anyway it's impressive soundworld.
The center of the album concept are two epic spacey compostions - "Touching The Void" (10:49) [more dark] and "Universalia" (20:12) [light meditative track with voices of virtual singers].

"Nihilophobia" could remind you the music by Jonn Serrie. If you like this cosmic ambient style of music - try also the album "Sensorial" from Michel Huygen's solo work.

Highly recommended.

"Synapsia" by Neuronium, the 33rd album by Michel Huygen, is also the second album of a trilogy with the previously released "Mystykatea" and the future new album entitled "Nihilophobia".

Inspired by the tragedy of terminal illness, "Synapsia" is an album supporting the euthanasia. With his usual style, cosmic and romantic, Michel Huygen has composed for this CD five wonderful pieces that invite to meditation. All of them are very melodic, full of crystalline textures. The music tends to be soft, with slow rhythms.

Feelings play an important role in Huygen's music, so in this album he shapes in the form of music his personal impressions about terminal illness and euthanasia. He shows his mastery with the synthesizers at creating a work full of emotion and sonic magic, with a melancholy touch that reaches the heart.

"Synapsia" is an album that transpires sensitivity from all its pores and will not leave us indifferent to it.

The sentence that best describes "Mystykatea" is "We do not need the 'Truth' in order to manage our life", as Huygen writes in the booklet. The compositions have in several instances a strong charge of social criticism, as is obvious in such titles as "Religion Means War" (the first track), a shocking piece inspired by the dark link between war and religion.

The second track, "Mystykatea (The Ademian Line)" is inspired by the science fiction novel "The Ademian Line" by the late writer Erna Olinger. This theme is dedicated to the memory of Erna. She was a good friend of Huygen. Using synthesizers to create a heavenly, magical world, Huygen makes in this album a kind of electronic music of a clearly Cosmic style. Ethereal sounds and vaporous melodies envelop one by one all the themes of the work. The music flows in a consistent, uninterrupted stream, communicating a wide range of feelings and emotions.
"In Aliens I trust" is a cosmic-symphonic theme of an unusual strength.
"Believe In Yourself" is a a beautiful composition that will no doubt appeal to a wide audience.

Recommended.

Michel Huygen (Neuronium) shows again as a true synthesizer master. His music is, as always, attractive, cutting edge, with room for experimentation, full of ethereal environments, and true to his artistic roots, reflecting his personal style in each piece.

This album is, in many respects, a manifestation of personal experiences of his life, a self-portrait. For example, the piece "Audrey In Africa" was composed by Michel in memory of his friend Audrey Hepburn, the famous actress. A wide range of facets of Michel Huygen's style appear on this disc: from cosmic winds, Synth-Pop, New Instrumental Music and even the more sidereal face of progressive rock. This is a very intense album, where it is obvious that Huygen has put his five senses. The nine pieces have a symphonic melodic character, sometimes romantic and sometimes mysterious.

"Azizi" is an album that highlights the ability of Electronic Music to reach deeply into the human soul, with more intensity than many acoustic forms of music considered a sound art paradigm. The forces of nature, the domestic feelings, and the spiritual matters, lead us to a journey through landscapes as varied as life itself. The author reflects his own experiences, providing each theme with an intimate air, and tracing passages that are relaxing, passionate, nostalgic or even mysterious.

Recommended.

"Neuromance" is not included in Michel Huygen / Neuronium's discography.

The album is a compilation CD-R including remastered tracks from both Michel Huygen and Neuronium's albums.

It is a very rare limited edition of 100 copies with no cover artwork. Michel Huygen itself wrote "This is my most romantic music" and signed directly on each CD-R.

It's truly a nice selection of his 'most romantic music'. Recommended.

The 29th album composed, arranged, produced and performed by Michel Huygen
Full digital recording and digital mastering by Michel Huygen at Neuronium Studio, Barcelona.

Neuronium is the pseudonym of Spanish (Belgian born) Michel Huygen, who has already released more than 25 albums of so called 'psychotronic' music. For a long time, analogue synths formed the main part of his equipment, then it became a hybrid of both analogue and digital, and since a few years the sound has been completely digital.

"Hydro" is a genuinely superb electronic music album characterised, among other things, by an unusual and deep use of sound. The water in its many manifestations (oceans, rivers, lakes, and springs) and what it means to our planet is his inspirational theme and the basis for his artistic impressions.

"Elementum", the first and second longest track, is very relaxing music with a melody line that makes it a perfect way of starting this amazing aquatic journey.
"Regina Maris" is short but sweet, this piece begins with a refrain played on some kind of bells which then give way to female wordless and operatic sounding vocals which take one's imagination on a heavenward journey.
The aquatic theme is never too far away and so the next piece "Pax" contains some water sounds; the synth effects and bird sounds in this piece created for me the atmosphere of a peaceful tropical paradise near the sound of running water.
The longest track "Profundus" is particularly calming, glistening and gentle synths along with various effects and watery sounds make it seem like one is in an ocean letting the power of the water keep one steady while sea life is observed getting on with its strange and sometimes colourful existence.
Further on the album is brought to a close in "Matrix Maris" which is essentially a reprise of "Regina Maris", apart from the closing minute or so where the sound of draining water gently fades to nothing.

There's no doubt that "Hydro" is a good album to put on when you just want to sit back and chill out for a while, and is perhaps even better when you're lying in a bath with some real water gently sloshing about.

Neuronium is a skilled musician who can blend synths and vocals to produce relaxing yet also stimulating music.
"Hydro" fits this bill and is recommended without reservation.

This album is not credited on the Neuronium/Michel Huygen site, yet it is an actual Neuronium album.

"Caldea Music" was a commissioned album, the music was composed for the Caldea Thermo-Ludique Center in Andorra. This was the first set of music commissioned by the centre ("Caldea Music II", the second, was commissioned to Tim Blake and is also available at Quiet Melodies).

Built like a Crystal City by French architect Jean-Michel Ruols in the center of Valdez, Andorra's capitale, Caldea's clients enjoy thermale bathing, relaxation and steaming, in the naturally hot waters that are one of Andorra's riches. Built in a "New Age" fashion, the Caldea center bathes it's guests in "New Age Music" too!

The music is very relaxing and will appeal to fans of New Age, ambient, melodic down-tempo EM.

Recommended.

"Alienikon" is no doubt a fascinating album from Neuronium, accompanied by a magnificient cover, which has reached a big succes among the fans of Electronic Cosmic Music.

Like the title suggests, the topic that has inspired Michel Huygen to compose this music is the extraterrestrial life. Therefore, the whole release shows an obvious unearthly character. Although the basic style is the same as that in previous albums such as "Astralia" (Michel Huygen) or "Psykya" (Neuronium), now strong sequencers appear in some themes, as for example "Cybernia".

The artist offers us his mastery at creating a work full of beauty and mystery, with melodies that in some occasions tend to be of a melodic romanticism, while in other instances they have an enigmatic, or even a dark air.

All in all, 64 minutes that show us a less quiet, more rhythmic, Neuronium yet as extraordinary as usual.

The 25th album in Michel Huygen's career is called "Psykya" and appears signed as Neuronium. Although the works that the artist releases under this signature respond to the musical concept of Neuronium, whereas those he releases with his own name reflect his more personal ideas, in this new work both aspects are fused into one. The style is Neuronium's, yet at the same time, as Huygen himself admits, this is the most personal album he has recorded up to date. It can be defined as some sort of personal diary in a musical format corresponding to the period from June 1996 to February 1997, the time when the artist composed and recorded the album.

The weaving of etheric voices and the gentle transitions between sonic spaces will give any listener a voyage par excellence of the imagination. Michel Huygen is undisputedly the master of representing cosmic spaces with sound. "Psykya" has been called a psychotronic album. Rightly so, for in this masterful culmination of his 25th album the listener is transported into psychic realms where there are haunting voices speaking trough beautiful melodies and mysterious etheric whispers of electronic arrangements.

The main nucleus of "Psykya" is formed by two long suites of half an hour each: "Geomagnética" and "Neuromagnética". Their titles hint at the questions that have inspired Huygen to compose them, and also the character each one has.

"Geomagnética" re-creates the magnetic processes of the Earth; It is terrestrial electronic music, that seems to evoke the most spectacular physic natural phenomena of our world, but with an important romantic charge as if emphasizing the beauty and fragility of the Earth. A part of this piece incorporates a sequencer of powerful, rocky timbres. "Neuromagnética" takes us to the mysteries of the interior of the brain, a question that no doubt must have once inspired the creation of the name Neuronium. The music of this second suite is more disquieting, oneiric. It seems to re-create the functioning of the neuron spiderweb, as well as approach the inscrutable enigmas of the origin of the Psyche.
The album is complemented with "Internauta", a symphonic piece lasting seven minutes devoted to another universe of electromagnetic processes: the one of communications in Internet.

"Psykya" is the album where Michel Huygen combines all his orchestrations to provide the richest textures of sounds the ear could possibly hear.

Well Recommended.

The music of "A Separate Affair" was originally a live session with Vangelis using analogue equipment that was recorded in 1981 at the studio of Vangelis in London. In 1992 Michel released a version of it in a CD Single and in 1996 he decided to release an album with 3 new versions of the same piece.

Through extensive digital processings with new resampling and mastering, you can now listen to something unique: Neuronium cosmic music played by Michel Huygen with Vangelis!

There are 2 long instrumental pieces "In London (Psychotronic Mix)" (20.03), "In London (The After Hours Mix)" (12.59) and a short radio edit of the first piece. The music is a kind of dark meditative ambient. Well, dark but not depressive!!!

So if you are devoted fan of Vangelis (and the philosophic part of his music: "El Greco" as example) this is CD for you. Enjoy In London in it's different moods...