-----This is the second release on my own WonderSound record label, which I created after my split with Counterflow. The first release, a limited edition 10" vinyl of a song from the Cycle album, "Color Clouds Blue" was sold almost exclusively to Japan and sold out in less than 2 weeks. By the way, all the photos from Cycle were taken by my friend Sara Padgett, who co-founded and co-operates the Hometapes label, home to bands such as Paul Duncan, Feathers and The Carribean. 
 
Also, here are some reviews of the record so far: 
 
 ----- "Induce gives the impression that he feels more comfortable amidst notes and beats than any cruder tools of language. Cycle swells with tremendous feeling: from lonely flute notes on the syncopated jazz-drum exercise ""Call"" to the late '80s hip-hop MC valentine ""Rebirth's Reprise"" (featuring excerpts from Good Will Hunting) to ""A Wave of Calm Before the Warm,"" where sweeping chords of electronic noise pound against 4/4 beats as inexorably as the ocean surf. As a result, Cycle is a vibrant listen, gleaming with clear moments of quiet beauty and breezing through divergent genres seamlessly. Some throwaway tracks, like ""System Mechanic,"" make more promises than they actually deliver; it's a small gripe however, especially as Induce's emotional articulation is otherwise so enthralling. Easily one of 2005's more sophisticated finds." Janet Tzou - XLR8R 
 
 ----- Whatever happened to the breakbeat? Hip-hop used to have it for a backbone, but ditched it for drum machines. Drum & bass used to chop it into pieces, but discarded it for programmed beats. Even the dance genre called "breaks" has largely abandoned breakbeats in favor of thumping that sounds suspiciously like house. Sure, there are strains of d&b ("drumfunk", "choppage") that carry on the frenetic edits of yore, and the genre called "broken beat" occasionally uses actual breakbeats. But whatever happened to the funky drummer, the sound of human timing? 
 
 If Miami, Florida's Induce has any say in the matter, the funky drummer isn't going anywhere. The drums on Induce's debut album, Cycle, aren't the most mind-blowing (for that, try Fanu or Amon Tobin). Some of his drums are programmed or even simply looped. But what unifies the drums on this mostly instrumental hip-hop album is a realistic, human feeling that recalls sticks hitting skins, not fingers pushing buttons. Sampling a breakbeat captures not only the sound of drums, but also the ambience of the room containing them. Even if the drums are then chopped up, they retain this sonic shadow; if you cut up an old newspaper and rearrange the clippings, you still see the paper's age. It's this faint recollection of the past that helped make the sample-happy early '90s the golden era for hip-hop. Some might call it tapping into the collective unconscious; others might call it "soul". 
 
 But this album is no ancient history book. It has real live humans playing on it -- synths, flutes, handclaps, snaps, percussion, Fender Rhodes. Induce has taken these elements and combined them with samples for an organic, relaxing listen. Are you ever intimidated or fatigued by hip-hop albums with 20 tracks, 10 skits, and millions of guest appearances? There's none of that here. The album proper is 10 tracks, beginning and ending with lovely ambient bits that reference each other. Tracks two and nine -- the inside covers, if you will -- are a theme and reprise. Tracks six and eight are short ambient pieces. Thus, the album really only has five separate song ideas. The brevity of presentation and depth of production make this a digestible, yet very replayable listen. 
 
 The first two proper songs, "Coltrane's Brain (The Rebirth)" and "Call", are the most conventional. The former has didactic samples about Miles Davis and playing jazz, and the latter has tasty flute playing. But the hits start coming with "Resuscitation", a dreamy, yet funky number with haunting sax and disco strings. "Systematic Mechanic" follows with dark ambience over hints of breakbeats. After a minute of teasing, deep bass drops, along with neck-snapping boom-bap beats; the Large Professor would be proud. "Color Clouds Blue" is the album's epic, with an eight-minute shoegazer hip-hop journey through lush, abstract textures. It's a rare album that can evoke both "My Funny Valentine" and My Bloody Valentine. 
 
 The only blemish on this album is the three bonus tracks tacked on at the end. In and of themselves, they are fine (an uptempo broken beat tune, a quirky interlude, a minimal hip-hop number), but they add nothing to the album and disturb its flow. Leave us wanting more, Induce -- or save those tracks for the reissue you might need later on, like a certain other hip-hop producer with likewise shadowy beginnings. Cycle is no Endtroducing..., but it's a fine introduction. - 19 October 2005 - by Cosmo Lee - www.popmatters.com 
 
 ----- With Antennae's 'Water' being their final outing together it's now we see what the future holds. Producer Induce has set up his own label WonderSound, after a seriously limited 10" here is the first full lengther 'Cycle'. A thirteen track CD that dips its toes into the fruitful world of downtempo music, not ignoring completely hip hop's rhythmic demands but definetely appealing to those moments when you want to fall down into your favourite chair and forget the world. 'Coltrane's Brain' is a nice tribute, a sturdy jazz hop piece with historical dialogue ala Gangstarr's 'Jazz Thang'. 'Call' continues the jazzy vibrations, snappin snare drum rockin drums fuse with minimal rhodes keys and deep bass throbs, nice tune. 'Resuscitation' sound so far like the most potent to be a hip hop instrumental, Botanica Del Jibaro vocals flood your mind when this drops. Ten tracks with three bonus remixes hidden at the end. A very nice album. -http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=19261 
 
 ----- "Mood-tweaker, soul-relaxer, visionary designer of astral planes and soundscapes -- Induce fears nothing as he tackles big ideas and succeeds." "And his work on Cycle is just like his live [DJ] sets: full of lofty aspirations and cross-genre pollination that do not disappoint." - Abel Folgar - Miami New Times 
 
 ----- "If you're at all with Miami's underground music scene, you've at least heard of Induce. The more fortunate among you have had the chance to hear him spin. On Cycle, Induce's freshman compositional effort, he captures the landscape of the Miami sound- a little hip-hop, a little jazz, a little broken beat, a little latin, a little experimental, a little ephemeral and a lot atmospheric. Miami's simultaneously exuberant and laid back energy leaps off every track, particularly on the track "Life (Cycle Sessions Remix)", where Induce runs the gamut from dance-y to subdued. You can practically feel the balmy breeze." - Jessica Lopez - Beautiful/Decay 
 
 ----- Instrumental hip-hop albums have become far more common an occurrence than they were during hip-hop's golden age, so it's somewhat ironic that one of the prevailing influences on cats like Induce is golden age hip-hop (in Induce's case A Tribe Called Quest and Public Enemy are name dropped.) But the man should not be judged by only one of the worlds that informs his instrumental productions, and Induce's tracks owe an equal amount in sound (and samples) to the Coltrane era in Jazz, as well as a musical eclecticism that varies from electronic noise to mellow ambient jams (some lacking any boom bap at all, as in the completely drum-less tracks "A Wave of Calm Before the Warm" and "As it Mutates and Begins to Grow"). 
 
 The sum of the parts adds up to a record that is fresh sounding, despite it's required inclusion into the instrumental hip-hop subgenre, a classification that has become all too broad to denote to potential listeners whether a record is worth checking out or is just more back-beat fodder for the collective freestyle Emcee masses. Fear not this time, buying public, as the mythic Gods of open-minded hip-hop have transmitted through me a thumbs up for Miami-based Induce's first full-length foray. 
 
 With the exception of a handful of spoken-word samples, Induce keeps Cycle vocal-free, (save for the surprisingly dope "Rebirth's Reprise," which showcases the rhyming side of Induce introducing his vision for a positive, united musical atmosphere,) so MC's without beats out there can take heart in the fact that there is plenty of space to drop in on throughout Cycle. Some of you might even consider putting out a hit single with one of Induce's beats behind you, getting rich while talking some bullshit about drugs you've never tried, money you've never seen, women you could never be with, or guns you've never touched; but when you get a cease and desist in the mailbox, don't sell me out with some, "Oh, this review I read suggested to me in plain terms that I should jack that beat and claim it as my own and make a bunch of money rapping over it and so I did, and look at me now, I'm being sued, and just find that guy who wrote that review and you'll know who put me up to this.", because I'm gonna deny the charges all the way to the (soon to be) abortion-outlawing, Christian Right-line toeing Supreme Court of these divided states. - - J Com | 2005-10-24 http://indieworkshop.com/music/2061/ 
 
 ----- "For hiphop heads tired of hollow bling and rote misogyny, these three new-ish releases offer love vibes and spirituality galore, along with tranquilly psychedelic productions inspired by astral-jazz legends Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, and Alice Coltrane. Although these artists, as far as I know, haven't been shot, you may like them anyway. In order of quality? 
 
Ammon Contact's New Birth (Ninja Tune) 
Induce's Cycle (Wonder Sound) 
Dwight Trible & the Life Force Trio's Love Is the Answer (Ninja Tune)" 
 
- Dave Segal - The Stranger.com - 
 
 ----- "INDUCE, Cycle (WonderSound; www.myspace.com/induce1). Astral-jazz has been subliminally infiltrating hiphop for years as sample fodder, but Miami's Induce foregrounds that style on Cycle. Drawing on the gentlest, most spiritual traits of John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, and Alice Coltrane's music, Induce has crafted one of the most blissed-out hiphop joints ever. Become one with it." - Dave Segal - http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=23484 
 
 ----- "Instrumental, downtempo trip hop beats with a whole lot of groove." - readmag 
 
 ----- "Induce has a powerful knack for piecing together complementary sonic palettes." - splendidezine 
 
Thanks, 
Induce