From marmoset Sent Thu, Aug 5th 1999, 17:40
The funny thing is that I _really_ like Oval. _Systemisch_ was probably my most-listened-to disc the year it came out. I don't know if there's a technical explanation for it (cooler software? some top secret vaccuum tube device?), but Markus Popp seems to get some extra iota of emotion out of the glitches and skips and stuff that a lot of these other guys just can't touch. I like Pole, too, but that's an entirely different school of "glitch." What I can't seem to get into is all this crunch/clang/skip by numbers stuff. Bores me shitless, actually. -d.w. who'll be called out as an official "out of touch oldfart from Detroit" soon, I can just feel it coming... William VanLoo wrote: > Systemisch is just killing me. I've listened to it so much lately, and every > time it keeps rewarding me. It was superb listening on a train ride from > Detroit to Montreal, it's great going-to-bed music, and equally good for > at-work music. > > I find it to be so warm and organic that it's odd to see people not "get it". > This is not to say that those of you who dislike Oval are less-educated > listeners or any crap like that, just that it's stricken me so dramatically > from the moment I got it.