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- Artist(s): Markus Popp
- Summary: The German electronic trio is now just a solo project of remaining member Markus Popp.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Electronic, Techno, Avant-Garde, Indie Electronic, Experimental Techno, Experimental Electronic, Ambient Techno, IDM, Glitch
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Dec 16, 2010The music has a thoughtful, reflective quality in spite of its brevity. Popp claims he is not an "anti-musician", and given the lush, enveloping atmosphere of much of O, his claim seems fair. He is, however, very much anti-convention.
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Dec 16, 2010So even though Popp's new sound palette seems like a step back, the way he uses it is as au courant as an oil-soaked pelican. O is not a retro move, but the work of an artist dealing with the now.
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Dec 16, 2010With O, Markus Pop has reinvented Oval using new techniques to produce a challenging sound world that's simultaneously exhausting and fascinating.
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Dec 16, 2010Popp has once again authored a unique and compelling work. How you decide to sort through it and work it into your own life is up to you.
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Dec 16, 2010It's lovely, it's pleasantly unsettling, and there's a hell of a lot of it.
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Jan 31, 2011Once again, the limits of music and musicianship are foregrounded in Popp's relentless pursuit of the horizon afforded by a particular disposition of limits: the limits of imagination, of technology, of process, the organic and the inorganic.
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Dec 16, 2010Popp sounds as if he's having a ten-year-old argument with himself, and though he's certainly earned the right to make the point that this argument still holds currency, O is less than convincing.