Now cut as a double LP.

Limited to 1500 copies worldwide.

On Orange Wax worldwide.

Second disc features remixes from Jim O’Rourke, Scanner, Mouse on Mars, and Christian Vogel.

With digital download card.

Record Store Day 2013 release.

 

Album Notes:

For Record Store Day 2013 we are bringing back to vinyl two landmark albums from Oval : 1994’s Systemisch and 1995’s 94diskont. These albums took the world of electronic music and turned it on its head and caused Oval’s Markus Popp to be credited as the creator of what was later dubbed the “glitch” or “clicks & cuts” style.

 

The extremely influential 1995 classic album from Oval is finally re-issued on vinyl. Freshly cut to vinyl by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering the two LPs are pressed on orange vinyl and packaged in a jacket replicating the original. LP1 is the album, LP2 is a 12” featuring remixes from Jim O’Rourke, Scanner, Mouse on Mars, and Christian Vogel. Included for the first time is a free download coupon. Limited to 1,500 units worldwide.

 

Oval is an electronic music group founded in Germany in 1991 by Markus Popp, Sebiastian Oschatz and Frank Metzger. The group is regarded as pioneering glitch music, writing on CDs to damage them and produce music with the resulting fragments.

 

94 Diskont is an album by the experimental electronic music group Oval. The vinyl version of the album comes with a remix LP that contains remixes by Mouse on Mars, Scanner, Cristian Vogel, and Jim O'Rourke.[2] It was released in 1995 (see 1995 in music) by Mille Plateaux in Europe and in 1996 by Thrill Jockey in the United States.

 

Oval received both praise and controversy for its styling methods, such as literally deconstructing music and digital audio by using exacto knives, paint, and tape to damage the surfaces of compact discs, only to stitch the sound back together in loops of melody punctuated by the disc’s physical skips.

 

94diskont was released as a companion piece with Oval’s previous album, Systemisch. The album centers around “Do While”, a 24-minute track originally composed for the group’s 8-channel, 128-speaker modular sound installation named Wohnton (translates into home tone) in a stereo mixdown. The installation was shown throughout Europe between 1994 and 1996 on various occasions, ranging from art exhibitions to techno raves.

 

At the time of 94Diskont’s release, The Wire placed the album at No. 5 on its 1995 of top albums of the year.

 

Allmusic awarded the album five stars and stated, “94Diskont is undoubtedly a standout in the field of electronically advanced, glitch-heavy music.”

 

In a 2003 feature, the webzine Pitchfork Media placed 94Diskont at No. 47 on its top-100 albums of the 1990s list. Mark Richardson of Pitchfork declared, “Sounds appear as multi-layer holograms, with both sources and ghosted copies simultaneously vying for attention, a piece of sonic trickery used to create some of the most serene and aquatic music of the ’90s.”

 

 

“A triumphant return for Oval, both musically and intellectually. This is meta music for the soul.” - FACT Magazine

 

“Where there used to be glitches and electronic noise there are now guitars and drums. But that is the least important thing on “O”. What is truly relevant, his distinguished past aside, is that Oval has done it. Again. He has given birth to a record that could and should change the route of modern music.” - Playgroundmag.net

 

"It’s one mark of genius that the more you try to be different, the more you sound like yourself. It’s wrong to overstate the continuities over the immediately obvious difference, but this music could only have been made by one man.” - Wire

 

“Incredibly, through a ten-year gap, complete shift in approach, software and even ideology, Popp has still managed to make what still sounds like an Oval album – possibly the best one of his career.” - Exclaim.ca

 

“The floating, lively and energetic music on these two formats simply cannot be passed over this year. Reinventing yourself can hardly be done any better.” - De:Bug

 

“To call Oval an electronic music pioneer is like saying James Joyce ‘kinda did things with novels.’” - The Stool Pigeon

 

“That Popp is able to work all these elements into anything remotely rhythmic is testament to his programming skills; that the end result is so endlessly listenable, is miraculous. “New start” or not, O is a work of vibrant and often brutal beauty that proves good things really do come to those who wait.” - The Quietus

 

“The new Oval sounds clean and quick, with each pluck, quiver, and beat standing out in stark relief... O is not a retro move, but the work of an artist dealing with the now.” - Dusted

 

“A guitar dangling over his shoulder and equipped with a remarkably unconventional approach to harmony, Popp is doing things his own way, walking hand in hand with his laptop and finding the perfect medium between personal expression and computer-aided composition.” - Tokafi.com

 

“Listened to closely, each track reveals a precise and jewel-like structure, while in it totality, O refuses any intimation of form that might restrict the experience of listening to it. With its constant changes in tempo, O appears to stretch time elastically, becoming seemingly endless.” - BBC Music Review

 

“It's lovely, it's pleasantly unsettling... It takes a very different route from his earlier work. If it ends up in a very similar place that just suggests his musical sensibilities have been asserting themselves all along.” - Pitchfork

 

“Popp is smart enough to achieve the unheard, deft enough to have a signature sound without doing the same thing over and over again. Like Eno 20-plus years ago, his work is not only superlative, fascinating and totally listenable, it’s a template for future research.” - Mike McGonigal

 

Track List:

A2. Do While   [4:50]

B1. Store Check   [3:58]

B2. Line Extension   [3:02]

B3. Cross Selling   [6:06]

B4. Commerce Server   [4:56]

B5. Shop in Store   [4:00]

C1. Do While (Remix: Jim O'Rourke)   [5:36]

C2. Do While (Remix: Scanner)   [6:53]

D1. Do While (Remix: Mouse On Mars)   [8:55]

D2. Do While (Remix: Christian Vogel)   [6:27]

 

The 2xLP] by Oval is factory-sealed new. It has never been played and has always been kept in its original packaging. The LP is not a promo or cutout. There are no marks or punches of any kind. All our CDs and vinyl are new! If you have any questions or want to see additional photos, just email us.

 

Same day shipping for payments received by 4:00 PM EST.

 

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