Arovane

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:39 PM 5/19/00 +0200, Øivind Idsø <ezueled@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > np - Arovane "Atol Scrap"
> Any chance of a shortish review of this one? I´m kinda curious...

"Atol Scrap" offers 64 minutes and 11 tracks of quite delicious atmospheric 
armchair digital electro.  Early Autechre is the most obvious reference 
point (with Markant and The Remote Viewer available for comparison and 
Kraftwerk visible beyond), and the focus is on mood and melody rather than 
on DSP tweakery, although the odd crackle does let one know that at least 
one hard drive has groaned in the production process.  Blurred across the 
expected lulling funk of the rhythms are distantly hovering clouds of 
synthetic strings, reminiscent most of all of the grey panoramas of old 
Factory bands like The Names and The Wake (or even early Fra Lippo Lippi 
and Sad Lovers & Giants), and it is here that the music takes on its 
unusual emotional depth.  In other words, nothing shockingly new - or 
stimulating of post-materialist justificatory logorrhea (no deceased French 
philosphers were harmed in the making of this record) - will be found in 
the scrapings from this atol, but a quite enjoyable and subtle variation on 
an established style is here with its own rich travelogue.  I expect this 
one will be in frequent play in my various CD players, and the latest by 
Arovane has gone instantly onto the shopping list.

np - same on its third play

ps - As for DSP pop, why not Funkstorung's treatments of Bjork, or 
Autechre's of Nav Katze?  And then there is Piano Magic...

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