Oval charts his DNA

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  • The new record features rare cuts and 12 previously unreleased tracks, plus music videos and more than 2,000 individual Oval sounds.
  • Oval charts his DNA image
  • Oval will release a multimedia album next month on Shitkatapult called OvalDNA. After a nine-year break, Markus Popp returned as Oval last summer with O, an album that signaled a new direction for the German avant-garde producer: instead of the glitchy electronic sounds that were once Oval's trademark, the records used organic sounds and acoustic instruments as source material. "After years of dissection and denial, I wanted to try making 'real' music for a change," Popp said at the time. According to a press release, OvalDNA was meant to come before O, thereby capping off the earlier era of Oval's career. The release consists of two parts. The first is a collection of past Oval productions, plus 12 previously unreleased tracks. The second is a DVD packed with all sorts of content, including two videos—a documentary by PlaygroundTV and the music video for "Glass UFO"—ten bonus tracks, something called "OvalDNA SoundBrowser/Sequenzer software" and .AIFF files of more than 2,000 individual sounds from past Oval productions. The package also includes a 20-page booklet with text by Popp and the artist David Toop. Tracklist 01. Quito 02. Kasino 03. Tweakk 04. Australasia 05. Credit Line 06. Mare Fax 07. Heroci 08. Octaeder 0.2 09. 70 kino 10. Alpen 11. Mersey 12. In + Love 13. Stealth 14. Gegenlese] 15. Savvy 16. Eigentlichen 2.0 17. Doku_Drama 18. Breeno 19. I 20. Flageo 21. Whypunkt 22. Instantan 1+2 23. Pockyrocky 24. IV 25. Op Shitkatapult will release DNA on November 25th, 2011.
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