← more from
Random Noize Musick

OvalDNA (strike134)

by Oval

/
1.
Quiro 02:36
buy track
2.
Kasino 02:46
buy track
3.
Tweakk 03:32
buy track
4.
Australasia 03:20
buy track
5.
Credit Line 02:29
buy track
6.
Mare Fax 02:56
buy track
7.
Heroic 02:33
buy track
8.
Octaeder 0.2 04:19
buy track
9.
70 Kino 01:59
buy track
10.
Alpen 03:28
buy track
11.
Mersey 01:22
buy track
12.
In + Love 03:19
buy track
13.
Stealth 03:02
buy track
14.
Gegenlesen 01:03
buy track
15.
Savvy 03:09
buy track
16.
Eigentlichen 2.0 02:00
buy track
17.
Doku_Drama 03:18
buy track
18.
Breemo 01:23
buy track
19.
I 02:39
buy track
20.
Flageo 01:35
buy track
21.
Whypunkt 02:32
buy track
22.
Instantan 1+2 02:20
buy track
23.
Pockyrocky 03:38
buy track
24.
IV 02:58
buy track
25.
Op 04:04
buy track

about

In many ways, “O”, released on Thrill Jockey after a nine-year break, was a second debut album for Markus Popp aka Oval. A radical break with old concepts and methods, a new beginning. While Popp’s artistic approach in the 1990s and early 2000s was more of a structural, theoretical nature, “O” was just about the music itself. Themes such as the means of production, limitations, dogma and concept took back seat to a musical sensibility. Instead of writing new software to synthesize and process sounds, for “O”, Popp dove into the heart of our preset-culture. He acquired a standard PC and only used the pre-installed sounds and plug-ins. With this ready-to-play machine and conventional musical instruments like the guitar and drums, a new chapter in the story of Oval was written. The musician Markus Popp takes center stage: the developer, theoretician and media artist remains in the background - special knowledge, which makes it easier to understand Oval’s music. Just have a listen.



DNA is a mountain of an album: an audio CD with 25 tracks, each about three minutes long. Some are no longer than a minute. Here you’ll find a collection of rare Oval pieces and 12 previously unreleased tracks. DNA is a mixture of music from Markus Popp’s various creative phases. It’s surprising how old and new meld seamlessly together, and how, for Oval, formalism and musicality have produced similar results. Markus Popp has found an unmistakable musical language and declined it from A to Z. DNA, so to say, is the accompanying dictionary. Originally, this album was supposed to appear before “O” and conclude the “electronic” phase of Oval. A farewell of sorts.

Disc 2 of DNA is almost something like an Open Source Manifesto: It contains the SoundBrowser/Sequenzer-Software OvalDNA and more than 2,000 Oval Sounds from various phases of Popp’s work as individual AIFF files. The software and sound files are intended for music producers and are available to all without restrictions. Also included is a video documentation of PlayGroundTV/Madrid, the “Glass UFO” music video by AmberleyProductions/Berlin and 10 bonus tracks for the OvalDNA album as WAV files.

credits

released November 25, 2011

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Shitkatapult image

Shitkatapult Berlin, Germany

contact / help

Contact Shitkatapult

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like OvalDNA (strike134), you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Eclectic South African Sounds and Essential Reissues Highlighted.

 listen now