OVAL

Ever since his first groundbreaking album releases, Markus Popp aka ‘oval’ continues to be one of the most prolific and influential forces in contemporary electronic music – a laptop legend and true visionary of digital audio.

Popp’s now legendary early album releases sent shockwaves though the electronic music landscape and laid the foundations for an entire new class of digital sound & production aesthetics. With an undeniable instinct for the pleasantly irritating, the drastic and the dreamy, Popp pioneered “glitch”, “clicks & cuts” and “microsound” – inspiring and provoking a new generation of music producers worldwide.

With two new 2010 releases (the Oh EP and the double CD “o”), oval opens up a new chapter with a surprise move: a striking, 101-track extravaganza that represents a radical departure and sets out to once again to rewrite the book – and to challenge music on its’ own turf. Out of nowhere, Popp debuts as a producer of unexpected versatility far beyond the electronic music arena.

This performance is Markus’ first London live show since the release of “O”.

4/5 The Observer

“O is a work of vibrant and often brutal beauty that proves good things really do come to those who wait.” The Quietus

“O is both thrilling and rewarding” BBC

IMBOGODOM

Alexander Tucker presents IMBOGODOM is Tucker’s live representation of the reel to reel tape loop album he and New Zealander Daniel Beban produced for Thrill Jockey in 2010. Making illicit use of the BBC’s antiquated machines at their Bush House studios (where Beban worked briefly before returning to NZ), their The Metallic Year album betrays a love of Delia Derbyshire, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Alastair Galbraith.

Recently signed to Thrill Jockey Records, this tour sees Tucker in solo guise, capturing the eerie analog magic of the album and, who knows, maybe even wearing his yeti suit!

“a warm, beautifully realised LP that’s been recorded and pieced together with great care, and whose sound is at least partly indebted to the spirit of that other great BBC institution: the Radiophonic Workshop. A piece like ‘The Endless Body’, with its strange piano manipulations is like some old soundtrack to a 1960s TV ghost story, while the multi-layered loops of ‘Indosoap’ continue to send shivers down the spine. Further ghoulish goings on are to be heard in the queasy dronescape of ‘Calibos’ but it’s through the grinding magnetic reels of the bookending two-parter ‘The Metallic Year’ that Imbogodom’s alluring, occultist tendencies become most readily apparent.” Boomkat

16 Jan 2011      UK        London – Café Oto (with Alexander Tucker)