OvalDNA, by Oval

OvalDNA

by Oval

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OvalDNA CD + Bonus DVD Edition
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

Disc 2 (DVR-R) contains...

- 10 bonus tracks for the OvalDNA album (WAV format)
- more than 2,000 sounds from various phases of Popp’s work (AIFF format)
- video documentary by PlayGroundTV / Madrid
- “Glass UFO” music video by Amberley Productions / Berlin

Includes unlimited streaming of OvalDNA via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Quiro 02:36	buy track
2.	Kasino 02:46	buy track
3.	Tweakk 03:32	buy track
4.	Australasia 03:20	buy track
5.	Credit Line 02:29	buy track
6.	Mare Fax 02:56	buy track
7.	Heroic 02:33	buy track
8.	Octaeder 0.2 04:19	buy track
9.	70 Kino 01:59	buy track
10.	Alpen 03:28	buy track
11.	Mersey 01:22	buy track
12.	In + Love 03:19	buy track
13.	Stealth 03:02	buy track
14.	Gegenlesen 01:03	buy track
15.	Savvy 03:09	buy track
16.	Eigentlichen 2.0 02:00	buy track
17.	Doku_Drama 03:18	buy track
18.	Breemo 01:23	buy track
19.	I 02:39	buy track
20.	Flageo 01:35	buy track
21.	Whypunkt 02:32	buy track
22.	Instantan 1+2 02:20	buy track
23.	Pockyrocky 03:38	buy track
24.	IV 02:58	buy track
25.	Op 04:04	buy track

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This digital edition = Disc 1 of the original OvalDNA CD+DVD retail release.You're getting all original 25 tracks + the "GlassUFO" music video as a bonus.

DNA is a mountain of an album: an audio CD with 25 tracks, each about three minutes long. Some are no longer than a minute. Here you’ll find a collection of rare Oval pieces and 12 previously unreleased tracks. DNA is a mixture of music from Markus Popp’s various creative phases. It’s surprising how old and new meld seamlessly together, and how, for Oval, formalism and musicality have produced similar results. Markus Popp has found an unmistakable musical language and declined it from A to Z. DNA, so to say, is the accompanying dictionary. Originally, this album was supposed to appear before “O” and conclude the “electronic” phase of Oval. A farewell of sorts.

In you try to define Oval’s music in words, sooner or later you’ll end up describing organizational processes. Terms such as “tissue” or “weaving” seem suitable. In fact, here everything seems to undulate, pulsate and breathe. DNA is intoxicating and wonderful. There is the intensive guitar work of the new pieces, an eruptive bundle of sounds, the sparkle and shimmer of high tones. The concurrency of countless events, unbelievably dense and at the same time secretly light. Then comes a maelstrom of surfaces, warm, warped drones that penetrate into the depths. An expressive, open playfulness with rhythm. Great harmonic, melodic richness. Euphoric, breathless and uplifting.

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released November 25, 2011

Written and produced by Markus Popp
Published by Random Noize Musick / Budde Music
Cover design: Frieda Luczak

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Oval Berlin, Germany

Trailblazing glitch masterpieces (1990s), hyperreal, futuristic post-rock (after 2010), club bangers with a twist (2016) - Oval is a celebration of innovation, skill & sensibility. With an undeniable instinct for the pleasantly irritating, the drastic & the dreamy, M. Popp keeps on pushing the envelope. No one out there plays the computer quite like him.

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