As haujobb.'s third major album release, Solutions for a Small Planet marks a departure from their previous definitive style. The intricate electronic soundscapes and detailed attention to samples and voices are all still present, but a new progressive techno feel permeates this release. Some elements of this album seem reminiscent of the remixing they have done between this album and the second for electro-industrial bands such as Front Line Assembly, Download and Wumpscut. Within this new style, haujobb. have again shown that their complex intensity functions for both their danceable upbeat tracks (such as "Rising Sun" and "Deviation") and the slower attention-to-sounds tracks in the vein of "Nature's Interface." Throughout all these changes, however, haujobb. have retained both their intricacy and clinical approach to sound that they defined for themselves with their previous release, Freeze Frame Reality. ~ Theo Kavadias, All Music Guide
Solutions for a Small Planet is the name of an album released by Haujobb on Off Beat records in 1996. It was released in the United States by the distributor Metropolis Records. It has been widely acclaimed[by whom?] because of its tendencies to transcend different electronic music genres.
Keeping with the album's cyber theme, the track "Nature's Interface" features a sample, "Whatever is out here we're gonna be the first humans to see," from the second season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Q-Who?," which featured the cybernetic Borg race as adversaries.
"Solutions for a small planet" was an advertising slogan used by IBM in the mid-1990s.[1]
