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Szenario

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Szenario is perhaps Oval's most realized recording to date. If anything, it serves as a summary of the best elements of their previous releases, with the haunting digital coldness of "Systemich," the labrynith-structured surrealism of "Diskont" and the sensory-overloading tones of "Dok." It's also their most overwheling work, in terms of volume and "digital terrorism." On track#8, you can actually hear the digits of the sound crunching into fine ash!

As for the complaint that the tracks are too short, I believe their 1-3 minute lengths are just about right for the accessiblity of Oval's music, which cuts out the frequent avant-excess out of their work.

Overall, Szernario is perhaps the best,(and cheapest) place for neophytes to explore what is argubaly the psychedelica for the early 21st century.

This is sort of a digital version of Brian Eno style ambience. Pseudo-organic ambience that fills the background, hard to ignore, but not really at the forefront of your attention. Hard to grasp, even for the most non-mainstream listener, but very interesting, fascinating, at the very least in concept. Not at all like the spacey Pink Floyd type stuff often called "ambient", and not really like acid house. Aphex Twin's "Ambient Vol. 2" is probably the closest thing to compare to Oval. This CD would be a good starting point to this artist.

Markus Popp has certainly found his niche. Szenariodisk will do little to win over new fans but is likely to appeal to his already-devoted audience. It compiles the Aero Deck 12" and the Szenario 12" along with several short interludes of fuzzy warmth. It's entirely too short but makes available material previously only available on vinyl, and for that it's worth it.