Komp "Vena" (Komplott; info@komplott.com)
Rating - 4
- Original and boundary-free beat collages -
Even the electronic music underground, for all it's posturing, is
subject to cliques and fads. For the past few years, Autechre-style
harsh beats and glitch minimalism have been the blueprints many artists
have felt the need to live up to for a little press. Andreas Tillander,
who records his genre-bounding beatscapes as Komp, has bucked the trends
with his debut album, "Vena." With scissors, paste, and an effects unit
in hand, Tillander hacks and reforms the styles we all love, such as dub
and hip-hop, into refractive sound that owes less to Nobukazu Takemura
than to Tillander's own unique vision.
A droning organ and head-nodding beat lay down a funky foundation
for
rhymes that have been chewed up like a dog's toy on "Whest Side", the
bastard child of hip-hop and ambient. "Mastermind" also runs rampant
with the vocal abuse, this time layering soft metallic beats on top of a
Bjork imitator, letting her spend very little time from out behind a
shifting keyboard melody that threatens to bury her. Tillander exploits
his startlingly creative muse well, and "Vena" is the album most
electronic artists could only wish to produce.
reviewed by Jason Olariu, Alternative Press
-----Original Message-----
From: Soel Griffin [mailto:xnoybis@priest.com]
Sent: den 11 december 2000 17:54
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: [idm] Reviews, please?
Can anyone review any of the following?
Rauschen 15 comp.
American Breakbeat comp.
While - Even
Mokira - Cliphop
Bip_hop Generation comp.
Komp - Vena
Radboud Mens - Sine
Thanx and ya-ya's
Soel.
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