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    Reviews of Hello World >>>
                                                       
   
                                                       
    XLR8R:  
    "Mimicking the loop-based strategies of pop but giving them her own unique twist, Dowe trade her former ambient experiments for something that’s at the same time accessible and mind boggling, and always enjoyable to hear." (online)
"Some of the strangest music you may ever hear. The forms and customs of popular music are systematically turned inside-out, dissected, and scattered into the mix like drops of paint off a brush. There is structure here, but it is jarring and somewhat nerve-wracking, as particular melodies and rhythmic patterns are hinted at..." (issue #88)		    
                                                       
    DE:BUG:  
    "Builds out of this small sound buildings they are so friendly, delicious, inviting so we cannot go any other way, as drunken with colorful hope to step in." (rough translation from German)
    
                                                       
    VENUS:  
    "The six songs on this EP flow like adrenaline to the frontal lobe, from the hip-twisting whip of ‘Everything Is Go!’ to the ADD sweat of ‘All My Favorite’ to the alien paranoia of ‘Circuits Gleam.’"    
                                                       
    STATIC MULTIMEDIA :  
    "Hello World is the sound of Oh Astro blinking rapidly, constantly, and electronically. 'Everything Is Go!' stutters rhythmically through what sounds like an already rejiggered, IDM'd hip-hop song with a New Wave hook, all lyrics save 'we must' virtually [un]intelligible. 'Mizel' bobs and weaves past a warped soul choir, their massed exultations skipped here, daubed there, unrecognizable as human most of the time. Dowe chops up more unidentified hip-hop bravado for 'All My Favorite,' bouncing somebody's tough-talking syllables on a trampoline of tuneless synths and punctuating with finger snaps until you could care less what or who might being repped or pimped or whatever behind the evil sonic kalideoscope. DJ scratches get fucked with royally on 'Lame Arm Qwert,' and the rest of the time Dowe contents herself with tweaking what sounds like weak IDM to a mind-bending extent. More, please, and keep it coming...mysterious stranger."    
                                                       
    GROOVES:  
    " While it doesn’t hurt that the Oh Astro project starts off with solid source material, it succeeds on its own merits.   Highly recommended. "    
                                                       
    ALTAR:  
    "I will then forward the edited slabs of marble to Oh Astro along with her CD, Hello World and tell her that the decision to use a pen name (Jane Dowe) was the smartest thing she's ever done."    
                                                       
    CMJ NEW MUSIC MONTHLY:  
    "Jane Dowe jerry-rigged her own software to create music that mirrored the ghostly clicks, piercing pops and quark-sized samples of experimental electronica, but loops all the little blurbs as if she were making pop songs. Funky and pretty, Hello World’s bite-sized samples concoct a weird pop universe that uses ectoplasm from the ghosts of hooks as printer ink for digital pointillism."    
                                                       
    EXCLAIM!:  
    "'Circuits Gleam' sounds exactly like its title — shimmering truncated melodies flirting jaggedly like two butterflies dancing until it winds down and tips off."    
                                                       
    EXPLODING PLASTIC :  
    "This could be the soundtrack to your computer’s disc defragmenter cycle. Like John Coltrane’s Ascension or Cephalic Carnage’s Anomalies, this is music for people who have freed their minds — and, or, lost their minds."    
                                                       
    SPLENDID:  
    "Dowe's programming obliterates the original works, forming melodies, make-shift vocals and new instruments from the ashes. An interesting aspect of Dowe's work on Hello World is her ability, despite all of the insistent digital buggery, to make a unique emotional connection on each track. Although she pushes every track and artist into deconstructed anonymity, you can still hear, feel, perhaps sense the artist's attitude and personality in each sampled bit. Nicely done."    
                                                       
    VITAL WEEKLY :  
    " Entertaining and witty … I enjoyed it from start till end."    
                                                       
    INDIEWORKSHOP:  
    "It’s time for me to take that very same book of which I just spoke and chuck it really fucking hard at the head of Jane Dowe."    
                                                       
    IGLOO:  
    "Jane Dowe (a.k.a. Oh Astro) takes a bold-faced turn to blurted hip-hop washes and sheer colorific robotica on Hello World. Jane’s gone wild in this blurification of assumed crappy 80’s faux soul..."    
                                                       
    NEURAL:  
    "Averse POP ... an originality outside of argument" (rough translation from Italian)