After several years, hamarplazt is finally back, this time with a 7" EP from the new and rather bizarre odense-based projekt Oktronium.
Oktronium is a self-generating music system, evolved from old hardware and renegade software. Mutated algorithms continously exchange and incorporate unstable electro-organic machines and human components given the task of carrying out the visions of the system. The result doesn't sound like anything ever heard before - elastic beats, angular 8-bit structures and absurd scraps of melody twist and turn in unexpected constellations, as cartoony colourful as they are insidiously alien.
Pseudo Pop is a 7" EP containing almost 15 minutes of music, its four tracks spanning unruly rubber funk on Yum Yum Eurypticon, plastic scrapheap-grooves on Data Leech and Faceborg, and wobbling soda-pop for twisted computer game characters on Zuckerrausch. As such, the EP is a welcome demonstration that electronic music can still be fully futuristic and strange, while completely rejecting all dull notions of "good taste".
The EP can be heard in full on Oktroniums soundcloud site, and should be available from Rillbar soon.
