Artist: Oval
Genre(s):
Rock
Electronic
Experimental
Other
Discography:
Ovalcommerse
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Ovalprocess
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
SzenarioDisc
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Dok
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
Systemisch
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
94 Diskont
Year: 1995
Tracks: 7
Wohnton
Year: 1993
Tracks: 17
Although Oval ar perhaps more well-known for how they make their music than for the music they actually make believe, the German experimental electronic trio have provided an intriguing update of some elements of van report in combination with techniques of digital sound plan, resulting in some of the to the highest degree original, if pretty thought-provoking electronic music of the contemporary scene. Originally composed of Markus Popp, Sebastian Oschatz, and Frank Metzger, Oval gradually became the work of just Popp, with Metzger providing most of the ocular and design work. The bulk of Popp's work, released through the Force Inc.-related Mille Plateaux label, incorporates elements of what could be described as "prepared wad saucer" -- manually marred and scarified CDs played and sampled for the resultant, slightly willy-nilly patterned rhythmical clicking. Layered together with subtle, sparse melodies and offbeat electronics, the results ar often as queerly musical as they are just plain left. Popp brought this overture to plain on the first gear uncut Oval releases -- Wohnton, Systemische and 94 Diskont -- as well as a figure of compilation tracks. Although a round below marginal in their home nation and fifty-fifty more unknown in the States, Oval's remixes of Chicago post-rock group Tortoise brought them in liaison with American audiences; both Systemische and 94 Diskont, as well as Markus Popp's lick as Microstoria (with Mouse on Mars' Jan St. Werner) were reissued domestically by Thrill Jockey in 1996. One year later, the Dok LP featured Oval's collaboration with Christophe Charles. After 1999's Szenario EP, Popp and co. returned in 2000 with Ovalprocess.
