All India Radio 'Lo Fi Frequencies 1996-2001' features unreleased early recordings from All India Radio including proto-All India Radio demo recordings and early mixes of album tracks spanning the years 1996 to 2001. Mastered from cassette tapes with unavoidable tape hiss and drop outs, these song represent the very beginning of Martin Kennedy's All India Radio, and although often incomplete and imperfect, hard core fans will have fun picking out early references of future songs.WIRED magazine says about All India Radio: Since the turn of the 21st century, All India Radio has mashed the ambient-hop signatures of DJ Shadow, Tortoise and Thievery Corporation with the instantly recognizable guitar soundtracking of Ennio Morricone and Angelo Badalamenti. The resulting narcotic musical textures are capable of floating listeners to galaxies far, far away.All India Radio have long been compared with Boards of Canada and Spiritualized, but the spacey qualities of songs like “Owlpacas in Flight” have more in common with Tortoise than Eno this time around. And just like their other releases, Red Shadow Landing has cyclical lines that will get lodged in your brain.- Popmattersthere are an incredible number of moments of transcendence sprinkled throughout the 11 songs that make up the disc. This is music designed to take the listener anywhere they wish to go, and is a truly gorgeous record.- BlogcriticsEpic. Momentous. Breathtaking. Magnum opus. While every All India Radio release is quite good, even excellent, this one is the most fully realized musical journey.- KFAI, USAyou will soon realize, just as I did, Red Shadow Landing is indeed the score to our outer space voyage. Red Shadow Landing is an extraordinary piece of work.- earmilk.com