After a 10-year hiatus from releasing new music, Markus Popp returned with his expansive double album O (TMT Review) in 2010; 2011 appears to be no less prolific for Popp’s Oval. FACT reports that Popp will release a CD/DVD combo called OvalDNA on November 25 on Shitkatapult that will make glitch fetishists cream their pants with excitement.
The CD will feature 13 rare Oval tracks spanning his 20-plus-year career as well as 12 previously unreleased tracks. The DVD will include an additional 10 songs, a music video for the track “Glass UFO,” and an Oval documentary. If that wasn’t enough, the whole package will also include a 20-page booklet assembled by Popp and Wire contributor David Toop, plus 2,000 AIFF sound files from the Oval vaults. Listeners are encouraged to use the source material as they choose.
Popp is calling the massive release an “open source manifesto.” Hopefully fans will take Popp’s “DNA” and create new songs from the genetic material used to produce Oval’s catalog thus far. Then maybe Oval will take those songs and remix them until a mutant race of unstoppable glitch monsters emerges. It could happen! Who does Popp think he is, God? Call your senators today and demand that these bizarre practices be outlawed before it’s too late! Or just support Oval’s ballsy move by snatching up a copy of the package next month and start making some music!
OvalDNA 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
DVD Bonus Tracks:
01. Esigh
02. Excel M
03. II
04. I
05. Glass UFO
06. II(2)
07. Story Mode
08. Latvia
09. III
10. Inwending
• Oval: http://oval.bandcamp.com
• Shitkatapult: http://www.shitkatapult.com
