'Centipede Frightened by a Magic Mirror' is the debut long player from Australian producer Kriece, under his new production alias 'Shamatha'. Kriece, who was previously signed to the world's premier house label 20:20 Vision, is still perhaps best known for his massive remix of Aphex Twin's Windowlicker, which was championed by James Zabiela, who featured it on his Renaissance:Utilities mix cd. Lesser known, is that The Flying Doctors, who released 'We Make Contact' back in 2005, was a collaboration between James Zabiela, Jeff Bennett and Kriece. Kriece's tracks have been remixed by a 'who's who' of modern dance music including - Robert Babicz, Tiger Stripes, Martin Eyerer, The Timewriter, Hernan Cattaneo, Style of Eye, Eelke Kleijn and Carlo Lio. Kriece's most mainstream project to date was the chillout collaboration Cosmix with legendary US spiritual guru Ram Dass in 2008. As a remixer himself, Kriece has remixed some of the world's biggest producers and djs, with his remix of James Zabiela's 'Weird Science' on Renaissance probably the biggest. As a DJ, Kriece has played across the world, including a memorable performance at Creamfields Buenos Aires and countless Australian events such as Future Music Festival. Kriece explains his new Shamatha project - 'More and more I have been feeling that the grooviest and funkiest tempo is a bit slower than the typical house music tempo around 120-130pm. This is an album of material at a more laid-back tempo than my usual 'Kriece' productions. It is designed to be listened to on headphones'. Kriece wanted a specific sound for this album and added key pieces of gear to his studio to achieve the sound he wanted - 'I wanted this album to sound 'warm' and 'hi-fi' so everything is run through different bits of analogue gear like a Manley Vari-Mu and Thermionic Phoenix compressor. The majority of the fx and reverbs used are from my Eventide H8000, which gives everything a nice spacey, cosmic vibe. To get a nice creamy analogue vibe going, many of the basslines and melodies are from a Studio Electronics Code analogue synth.' Kriece wanted this album to reflect his diverse influences - 'I wouldn't want to be presumptuous and claim that this album is in the same league, however I was heavily influenced by producers like Carl Craig, Leftfield and Ulrich Schnauss and I hope this is evident when people listen to it' http://www.facebook.com/Kriece http://soundcloud.com/kriece http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kindred-Sounds-Label-Group/132863680123999