94diskont: Oval: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Do While

2. Store Check

3. Line Extension

4. Cross Selling

5. Commerce Server

6. Shop In Store

7. Do While

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Oval are a unique techno group who are sponsored by the Gothe Institute, and use their own digital programs, as well as physical manipulations of disc to expose the process, and the equipment. Their previous record Systemisch was featured in Spin as

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5.0 out of 5 stars Blew me away!, Dec 11 2003

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Rinchen Choesang "Empty Seeker" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 94diskont (Audio CD)

How can something so fractured and disjointed be so darned mesmerising? This is music to really listen to and immerse yourself in. Sounds wonderful with headphones - real sound painting experience for the head!

"Do While" just keeps on at you, for 24 minutes, seemingly monotonous, but sneakily interlacing irregular beats with insinuatingly jangly bits and pieces of distorted sound-world-spaces. Almost teasing, with its determination to suck you into its warped world view. Gimme more!

A month on, this CD is still getting a lot of airtime. It never ceases to amaze me how "Do While" does not waste one second of its 24-odd minutes and the follow-up tracks are strong enough to hold interest through the other 27 minutes of this fabulous glitch-journey.

The other stand-out track, and by far the edgiest is "Shop In Store" and it is a great lead-in to the 4m 50s of the "Do While" reprise that brings this amazing album to a close, which elicits a sense of diappointment the journey is over!

If you like quirky electronica, this is a CD for your collection.

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5.0 out of 5 stars mellow atmospherics, Oct 19 2002

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Justin Davis (Troutdale, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 94diskont (Audio CD)

This is a good Oval album. For those that are new to Oval it is a good introduction and preview to his later works. The main track and A side on the record is a very long, very repetitive track with clicks and atmospheric synth sounds entitled "do while". Its enjoyable. This music calls to mind post modern nights in some international club. As the track suggests, you should do something while listening to this, as it is heavy on atmospherics, the perfect background for a mellow Saturday evening or music to listen to while surfing the web. Though I am not sure about the cd, the record version contains 4 remixes by excellent artists: Scanner, Christian Vogel, Jim O'Rourke, Mouse on Mars. Buy this record if you are looking to get into Oval, or, if you have already, buy it to round out your collection.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Music for the children of the future., Jun 7 2000

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I Smith (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 94diskont (Audio CD)

While I must admit that the most recent Oval albums, "Dok" and "Szenariodisk" have failed to inspire me, 94Diskont is an album I never get tired of. Half of the CD is taken up by 'Do While,' the first track, and it reprises at the end of the CD as well. If 'Do While,' a repeating and slightly changing loops of tinkling bells and other sounds, is at all indicitive of the future of music, then I can sleep well from now on. It is, quite honestly, one of the most soothing pieces of music I own: 20 minutes of bliss.

Though the album is worth it for that track alone, many of the shorter tracks on the latter half of the album are excellent examples of Oval's computer-manipulated music, particularly "Shop in Store," which sounds as if constructed from an orchestral work, and "Commerce Server." Though I've heard people complain that Oval sounds like someone holding down the fast-forward button on the CD player, regardless it still sounds quite unique and very interesting.

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