94diskont. cover

94diskont.

Released

What exactly is this? Markus Popp, who is Oval, called it “file management,” and who am I to argue? At the heart of this is the sound of CDs skipping but there is an awful lot of manipulation in play, which could have been done in several different ways (almost thirty years ago now). This is too unpredictable to be ambient (as some call it) and too easy and consistent to be really song-like. It’s digital reflections with no figure, a long rainbow refraction with no lens. It feels like “ribbon storage” to me, but I don’t even know what the ribbon is made of.

Sasha Frere-Jones

Recommended by

Suggestions
Con-Struct cover

Con-Struct

Schneider TM, Conrad Schnitzler
Dense Band cover

Dense Band

David Moss
Nordheim Transformed cover

Nordheim Transformed

Biosphere, Deathprod, Arne Nordheim
Consciousness cover

Consciousness

Windy & Carl
Simultonality cover

Simultonality

Joshua Abrams, Natural Information Society
Open cover

Open

The Necks
Twoism cover

Twoism

Boards of Canada