Sensitive Chaos is Atlanta Creative Loafing's Best of 2007 Readers Poll Winner for "Best Local Electronic Act", one of the KKUP (91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA) "Best Visionary Music of 2007" selections, and one of New Age Reporter's "Top 12 Best Ambient/Spacemusic/Electronica Recordings of 2006". As heard on Echoes, Space Station Soma FM, Cliqhop IDM, StillStream, WFIT, CoolStreams, Spain's Radio Despi, WREK, KKUP, WDBX, WXDU, WWSP, WUSM, WTUL, WETX, and WVKR.

The new Sensitive Chaos CD is Emerging Transparency, released February 2009. This second solo effort from Atlanta-based producer and performer Jim Combs contains six new tracks expanding upon the eclectic, electronic palette he established on Leak, the first Sensitive Chaos album released in August of 2006.

#34 album on New Age Reporter Spin List for May, #65 on New Age Reporter's Top 100 for May, #52 on New Age Reporter's Top 100 for April, #50 on New Age Reporter's Top 100 for March, Emerging Transparency CD selected #1 on WWSP 90 FM Ambient Aether / Space Continuum show for April and March 2009, #2 on WDBX's Music from Beyond the Lakes show for May 2009, #3 on WXDU's New Frontier show for March 2009, #7 on WWSP 90 FM Ambient Aether / Space Continuum show for May 2009, #8 on WVKR FM's Secret Music Top 20 for April, #11 on KRSC 91.3 FM's Spectral Voyages Top 20 for April, #11 on KKUP 91.5 FM's Mystic Music Top 20 for March 2009, and WDIY 88.1 FM's Galactic Travels Top 20 for March and February 2009.

"Full of lengthy, dense, eerie instrumental bliss and a few selections that sound like happy-robot dance music." - Jeff Clark, Stomp And Stammer Magazine

"Another interesting and engaging ride on Jim Combs' blend of New Age, jazz and electronica." - John Shanahan, Hypnagogue

"A really stunning release, VERY well executed." - Darrell Burgan, StillStream.com

The CD is in current rotation on WRSU FM in New Brunswick, NJ, and WBGU 88.1FM in Bowling Green, OH.

"Emerging Transparency" played on Echoes, the daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California, WDBX 91.1 FM in Carbondale, IL, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, WRSU FM in New Brunswick, NJ, WXDU 88.7 FM in Durham, NC, KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA,, and Radio Despi 107.1 FM in Barcelona, Spain, and WDIY 88.1 FM, in Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, 93.9 FM in Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ, 93.7 FM in Fogelsville and Trexlertown.

"Fifty Light Years From Home" played on WDBX 91.1 FM in Carbondale, IL, WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, WRAS 88.5 FM in Atlanta, GA, Radio Despi 107.1 FM in Barcelona, Spain, KRSC 91.3 FM in Tulsa, OK, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, YLE Radio 1 in Helsinki, Finland, KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA, WXDU 88.7 FM in Durham, NC, and WDIY 88.1 FM.

"Bazaar Behavior" played on WRAS 88.5 FM in Atlanta, GA, WDIY 88.1 FM n Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, and WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI.

"Erase Yourself" played on WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, and WVKR FM in Poughkeepsie, NY.

"Luck Of The Draw" played on WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, and WVKR FM in Poughkeepsie, NY.

"Tanzen Filter" on WMUH 91.7 FM, Allentown, PA and WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI and KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA. All tracks played on Stillstream.com.

Combs re-enlisted Leak soprano saxophonist Brian Good for the songs “Fifty Light Years From Home” and “Bazaar Behavior” (which also features Finnish multi-instrumentalist Otso Pakarinen on synthesizers, synth guitar, and synthesized percussion work).

"There are a few songs on the new CD that date from the Leak sessions, and a few that were created and refined over the past year," says Combs. "This CD is kind of an homage a broader range of my electronic music influences, and brings in elements of electropop, Berlin-school space rock, and even a bit of avant jazz/reggae/dub. The beats are a bit heavier and the arrangements are a bit thicker."

U.K. photographer Andrew Lee supplied evocative photographs for the album cover art. Andrew’s impressionistic image processing and subject matter conveys a message of resource conservation that resonates with Combs’ political outlook.

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The Sensitive Chaos CD Leak is available at iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon.com, and other online stores. Six songs spanning 53 minutes of music created by Jim Combs. The tunes fall squarely in the rpm, ambient drums'n'bass camp and shares affinities with Ulrich Schnauss, William Orbit, Christopher Willits, Solvent, and James Figurine.

"I highly recommend Leak for its inventiveness, its beat-happy effervescence, and its thorough lack of pretension, not to mention it’s just a flat out fun album from start to finish." - Bill Binkelman, New Age Reporter, December 2006

Echoes, Space Station Soma FM, Cliqhop IDM, StillStream, WFIT, CoolStreams, Spain's Radio Despi, WREK, KKUP, WDBX, WXDU, WWSP, WUSM, WTUL, WETX, and WVKR are some of the radio stations keeping the CD on the air recently. All radio/internet airplay and press reviews/info from U.S., Canada, U.K., Spain, and Finland is in Media.

The album has charted at #28 in July 2007, #32 in August 2007, and #67 in February 2008 on the New Age Reporter Spin list.

Performance dates and venues are in Info.