Like many of the reviewers I was prepared to dismiss this as an unfortunate experiment and simply refused to buy something that mixed electronica with Satriani. This all changed when I purchased the Live in San Franciso DVD which featured Devil's Slide, the fantastic Borg Sex and the beautiful Until We Say Goodbye and I was left thinking what album are these songs are off.

Imagine my surprise when I find out it's Engines of Creation so I took the plunge and bought it and it's great. There are some misses but on the whole this is an awesome album. It's chock full of that unique Satriani mix of melody, technique and songcraft and simply packaged in a new format.

All of the songs on this album could be played in a live context "sans electronica" and perhaps that's what detractors of this album need first in order to tame their automatic cynicism (such as I had) towards electronica and be able to appreciated some of the magic moments strewn throughout the album.

Some off these magic moments apart from the songs mentioned above include the two parts to The Power Cosmic 2000, Attack and Engines of Creation. All have great melodies, instrument interplay and song parts as we've come to expect from Satch.