electrocd

Review

Say Vegin, Freestyle Grooves, 1 juin 2002

This is the new release from No Type, following The Freest of Radicals compilation, and it comes in the same awkward packaging. Oeuf Korreckt is one of the last survivors in the so-called “tracking scene,” a lot of electronica artists started with mod-tracking and evolved by using newer technologies to create music. But that doesn’t mean it’s no longer possible to create good tracks, as being proven here. This album is somewhat of an overview of his music spanning from 1995 till 2001. At first it comes off as a bunch of rather simple compositions, sometimes funny, sometimes silly, but in the end most of them are enjoyable thanks to, for instance, the lush synthwork in Four Channels or the slowly emerging melancholic melody in We Have Arrived. Altough this electro-breakbeat sound can get very mechanical at times, things like the blistering in your face funkyness of Byte the Funk or the amusing voices in Alright Well Okay put enough diversity in there to keep things interesting. There even are two lo-fi hardcore tracks on there, as a sort of hommage to the early rave-sound that influenced many during the early nineties. Let’s say this is a nice example of what the forging of old-skool electro and quirky IDM could sound like…

… sometimes funny, sometimes silly, but in the end most of them are enjoyable…