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<name>No Type</name>
  <shortname>No Type</shortname>
  <recording id="imnt_0201" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0201/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <artistdetail>No Type</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0201_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>The Freest of Radicals</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0201/02</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
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    <description>Founded in October 1998, No Type is one of the oldest and most established MP3 labels. As 2002 begins, No Type is now releasing CDs, with the noted complicity of DIFFUSION i MéDIA. This compilation, entitled The Freest of Radicals gives a broad overview of the “No Type sound,” or absence thereof. [2 CD for the price of 1]</description>
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  <recording id="imnt_0715" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0715/">
    <artist>A_dontigny</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0715_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Geisteswissenschaften</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0715</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
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    <distinctions>• Prix Opus 2006-07: Disque de l’année — Finaliste</distinctions>
    <description>“Today, when we can eat Tex-Mex with chopsticks while listening to reggae and watching a YouTube rebroadcast of the Berlin Wall’s fall - i.e., when damn near everything presents itself as familiar — it’s not a surprise that some of today’s most ambitious art is going about trying to make the familiar strange. [...] Whatever charge of tastelessness or trademark violation may be attached to the artistic appropriation of the media environment in which we swim, the alternative — to flinch, or tiptoe away into some ivory tower of irrelevance — is far worse.” (Foster Wallace, as “plagiarized” by Jonathan Lethem in The Ecstasy of Influence, Harper’s Magazine, February 2007) This first solo CD by composer A_dontigny (morceaux_de_machines, Napalm Jazz, Ensemble Camp…) has been deliberately conceived to be in the margins of electroacoustic music, electronica and audio art. Thought up as a series of short sarcastic vignettes, Geisteswissenschaften skilfully manipulates common aesthetic postures in order to create a sound mosaic where one can find hints at modern art history and philosophy. To an arsenal of cut-and-paste and cut-ups, to which we may include encoding glitches and all matter of samples and quotes, A_dontigny adds the sonic interventions of three of his usual collaborators: Paul Dolden (electric cello, guitar and bass), Diane Labrosse (sampler) et Jon Vaughn (remix). An ode to freedom? A manifest against all dogmas? That’ll depend on the mood of the listener. In the end, Geisteswissenschaften wishes to be a celebration of independance of spirit and human intelligence, one of those rare works that continue to be nourished by great hopes.</description>
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  <recording id="imnt_081" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_081/">
    <artist>A_dontigny, Diane Labrosse</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/081_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Télépathie</title>
    <catno>IMNT 081</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>13.60 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>Recorded live on April 20, 2002 under the original title “Fragments, segments, séquences,” here is a surprising new collaboration between A_dontigny (Napalm Jazz, morceaux_de_machines) and Diane Labrosse (known for her previous projects with Ikue Mori, Martin Tétreault, Zeena Parkins, Les Poules, etc.) Both have brought in unheard tones yielding an uncommon ground even for these musicians known for their extreme versatility. Between them, a formidable, diabolically telepathic understanding. A rare and exceptional meeting between two all-terrain improvisers who here treat sonic matter with much tact, overflowing with inventivity.</description>
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  <recording id="imnt_0203" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0203/">
    <artist>Magali Babin</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0203_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Chemin de fer</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0203</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
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    <description>Chemin de fer is Magali Babin’s debut CD, though she is already well-known as one of the key players of improvised music and sound art in Montréal. A prominent live artist, Magali has performed in Montréal (Casa del Popolo, Silophone, SuperMicMac…), Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia,. She is a favorite of the respected Radio-Canada radioshow Le navire Night where her performances are regularly broadcast. Magali has played alongside Michel F Côté, Martin Tétreault, Alexandre St-Onge, Ian Nagoski (US), Jon Rose (UK), to name a few. The 9 pieces on this CD were recorded in the studios of Radio-Canada with Mario Gauthier, executive producer and host of L’espace du son. Citing financial constraints, Radio-Canada cancelled the programme before the music could be heard on radio, but the recording was thankfully salvaged. It is now finally available on CD for everyone to hear.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0816" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0816/" recent="yes">
    <artist>Nicolas Bernier</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0816_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Les arbres</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0816</catno>
    <year>2008</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
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    <distinctions>• 
    <span class="w">Les arbres</span>: Prix Ars Electronica 2009 — Mention • Prix Opus 2008-09: Disque de l’année</distinctions>
    <description>Nicolas Bernier makes music to get close to. His first official CD is called Les arbres (arbres meaning «The Trees») and it’s one of the most exquisitely composed pieces of electroacoustic music we’ve ever released. Bernier has a sound world of his own at his disposal (we’ve heard a glimpse of that with his delicious Ail et l’eau faille EP) &amp; we feel more than lucky to be able to share it with you starting right now. Sonic landscapes and slow textures meet with precise articulations, all this resting on a minimal orchestration made of guitars, brass instruments, vibes, accordions and strings. In short: a stimulating record, a remarkable attention to detail and excellent production quality, making for an unfailingly rewarding listening experience. Les arbres is also a remarkable visual project. The CD comes packaged in a lovingly assembled sleeve containing six exclusive postcard-format illustrations by Urban9. Let’s put it another way, you don’t have any excuses not to get this disc.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_079" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_079/">
    <artist>Claudia Bonarelli</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/079_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>May ’68</title>
    <catno>IMNT 079</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>10"</code>
      <detail>120 gram clear vinyl</detail>
      <price>17.00 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>20.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>Following a web release called Boredom is Counterrevolutionary (No Type), &amp; a CD called Everything Happens Only a Certain Number of Times (Mitek, Sweden), both of which have received unanimous kudos from magazines &amp; mailing lists, Claudia Bonarelli continues to astound us all with this new gem of a release. Claudia Bonarelli is interested in the social evolution of our societies, &amp; this is reflected in her choice of themes &amp; song titles. But rather than illustrating the violence of change litterally, these four songs have a melancholy to them which says more about the lost illusions of a young society deprived of a voice. Of course, that’s not saying anything about the irresistible, desperate funkiness to be found on these four exceptional tracks. But after all, funk (be it minimal) was never about anything but conflict… This release comes on 120 gram clear 10" vinyl, what else… Vinyl edition limited to 500 copies.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_078" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_078/">
    <artist>Books on Tape</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/078_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Hey Typical!</title>
    <catno>IMNT 078</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>10"</code>
      <detail>120 gram blue vinyl</detail>
      <price>17.00 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>20.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>Hey Typical!, as featured on this special 10" release, is the original “laptop” version of a track from his new Deathbomb Arc CD entitled Throw Down Your Laptops. Books on Tape fans will find their surefooted hero in prime shape here! Two more songs are included for your enjoyment: Oceania (a live favourite) and the oven-fresh Track and Field Song. Attention: new musical forms are being explored in here! And it’s groovy! And it’s on 120 gram blue vinyl, no less! Vinyl edition limited to 500 copies.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_088" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_088/">
    <artist>Books on Tape</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/088_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Sings the Blues</title>
    <catno>IMNT 088</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
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    <description>Abusive fastball rhythms. Gratuitous electroid synth lines. Z-movie backdrops. Tape hiss. Chopped vocal samples. Soundtracks to the high-scores table. One-finger sampler tapping. Lush downtempo breaks. Power pop plunges. You name it, Sings the blues has it. Except there’s not really any blues. This is Books on Tape’s sophomore CD, &amp; what a treat it is! First, this is 100% Todd Drootin: no collaborators were harmed during the making of this CD. And secondly &amp; most importantly, this CD is the first to effectively capture the feeling &amp; essence of Books on Tape’s notorious live shows. Whether or not you’ve had the chance to witness the boy wonder of the sampler in your hometown yet, open your ears &amp; there is little doubt that you will enjoy this new CD. It’s new, it’s exciting, it’s intense, &amp; it’s got flair &amp; it’s got bite. In short, this is Books on Tape at its absolute finest. Todd Drootin is in the house, &amp; he’s not about to leave! Mastered by Louis Dufort. Licensed to Greyday [GDP 009] for the USA.</description>
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  <recording id="imnt_0310" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0310/">
    <artist>Coin Gutter</artist>
    <artistdetail>Emma Hendrix, Graeme Scott</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0310_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>All your dreams are meaningless</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0310</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
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    <description>Holzkopf, Jon Vaughn, Max Haiven, and now Coin Gutter… A new strain of musique concrète is currently taking off in Western Canada and the Prairies. Much like their fellow landscape painters from the last century, these composers, improcomposers, recomposers answer reverently to the call of rock and soil. This respect of elements echoes that of Vancouver-based composer Kevin M Krebs (833-45), and the sound ecologists before him. But this West-Canadian “new wave” (or “new land” as we may more appropriately term it) is fertile of a veritable collective conscience, which deploys itself, respective to each artist, in the form of varied themes and concepts. We know Coin Gutter thanks to their self-produced CDR, Truth Lifting Up Its Head Above Scandals. The 36 eventful minutes of this disc’s only track, “Lift With Your Knees,” open up their first CD, All Your Dreams Are Meaningless, released on Montréal-based label No Type. You are moreover set to discover 8 new pieces from the duo, which form the second half of this disc. Bear witness to a powerful, poignant music, which slowly articulates around drones, voices and concrete noises which act as threads and punctuation. Something very much for today…</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0312" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0312/">
    <artist>Max Haiven, Jon Vaughn</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0312_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Front</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0312</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
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    <description>A 73-minute work separated in 33 tracks of arbitrary length, Front is not to be easily explained. At the frontier of conceptual art &amp; listening music, obnoxious candy pop &amp; extreme experimentalism, Front introduces a compositional approach which, according to the composers, may be dubbed “domestic.” The work unfolds as a string of events, whereby conceptual relationships between sounds &amp; ideas paradoxically gives birth to musical content. The composers have integrated in thie work their own feelings &amp; experiences towards the ambient cultural narrative &amp; pop music in particular. Unlike many similarly ambitious works which assume a linear, almost meditative attention from the listener, Front prefers to toy with the idea that the listener’s attention is a kind of data to be played with, much like tone or rhythm. Finally, Front seeks to explore the dangers of musical identity, &amp; the concept of structure as a victim of interrogation. Without attempting to criticise one particular aesthetic or another, the work is nonetheless highly suspicious (almost antagonistic) towards the attitudes leading to an aesthetic choice. To shrug off Front as too “intellectual” misses the point of the real listening pleasure to be found throughout. Thanks to its highly peculiar form &amp; its total integration of the CD medium, I wouldn’t hesitate to qualify Front as a completely unique gem in the world of electroacoustic &amp; electronic musics.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_080" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_080/">
    <artist>Headphone Science</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/080_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>We Remain Faded</title>
    <catno>IMNT 080</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>13.60 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>Following up a number of web &amp; CDR releases (more recently Number 65 on No Type and I Can Only Remember Tomorrow on Subverseco), you can say it was about time Dustin Craig (known to lovers of fine electronica as Headphone Science and Elasticlego, alternately) has his music featured on a CD! The six previously unreleased songs found on the We Remain Faded EP are probably his strongest and boldest material to date. No monotony to be found in this bristling display of Craig’s trademark chopped-up hip-hop style. Even if we wanted to make comparisons, we’d have a hard time, so why don’t you just listen to the audio clips? Oh, &amp; one more thing: this guy calls himself Headphone Science for a reason!</description>
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  <recording id="imnt_0311" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0311/">
    <artist>Tomas Jirku</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0311_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Bleak 1999</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0311</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
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    <description>A 16-track, 73-minute mixture of minimal broken beats, radio receptions &amp; deep melodic lines long held a secret by its author, it is only now that this fairly unique item finally surfaces onto CD format. Closer in style to Tomas’ material under the name The Viceroy (previously released on the No Type web site), Bleak is yet another example of the composer’s seemingly innate ability to balance all of his sounds into an atmosphere that is at once quirky and comfy. If the ’Jirku touch’ is instantly recognizable on this album, it will be obvious to the listener that Bleak is fairly different from the rest of the composer’s published work on labels such as Alien8, Force Inc, Klang Elektronik and Intr_version. A rawer production, simpler means, no needless processing, but above all, a singular melancholic velocity that is genuinely affecting and never too heavy for its own good. Bleakness is conveyed indeed, but in no way is the music itself bleak! Add to it a certain unity of purpose which brings it closer to a ’concept album’ than a simple collection of songs, and you’ve got yourself a very appealing oddity in Tomas Jirku’s already eclectic discography. This album is definitely NOT just for completists! Stop watching the news, put on Bleak from start to finish, and repeat as needed… [Mastering by Louis Dufort]</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_089" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_089/">
    <artist>Metaxu</artist>
    <artistdetail>Maurizio Martusciello, Filippo Paolini</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/089_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Rumors of War</title>
    <catno>IMNT 089</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <detail>+ vidéoclip</detail>
      <price>13.60 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>When the thin line between war &amp; peace gets as blurry as it is nowadays, a good old unfashionable labour of memory might just be in order. For Rumors of War, Italian duo Metaxu concerned itself with pivotal moments of recent World History (particularly Occidental), times when History itself seemed to end at once, giving way to an orgy of chaos, violence, blood, rape &amp; death (not to forget shock &amp; awe…) But let’s not be fooled: History is going on still &amp; watching silently, whether we are aware of it or not. How to describe Rumors of War? I like to think of it as a romantic poem on a particularly dangerous subject. For one, it might not make you feel good about your own convictions. Surely it is bound with compassion for the true victims of war. But listening to it, you could think Metaxu are flirting with their subject, giving it some reverence. It’s a matter of fact that the duo has not clearly specified their own stance on the matter, though I would suspect them to be, ultimately, pacifists. Well, who isn’t? Art as a battleground? Maybe we’re getting to it. A place where blood is drawn with ink, where violence is but a musical simulation of itself? After all, Wagner is not the inventor of fascism. And neither is Goya responsible for the horrors of war he illustrated. Perhaps the problem is in the listener… Mastered by Louis Dufort. Includes a bonus Quicktime video (8 min) by Mattia Casalegno.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0204" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0204/">
    <artist>morceaux_de_machines</artist>
    <artistdetail>A_dontigny, Érick d’Orion</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0204_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>liberum arbitrium</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0204</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
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    <description>So here’s the latest happenstances of our favourite miscreants of improvised music. If you thought “speed jazz” &amp; “death ambient” musics were never really what they claim, if you think computers don’t make nearly the amount of noise their CPU should allow them to, then you need morceaux_de_machines. Very little silence, for sure. But very much of noise accumulations in an increasingly dynamic fashion. With liberum arbitrium the duo reinvents improvised computer music with so much brio, we’ve got to wonder what could stop them now…</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0413" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0413/">
    <artist>morceaux_de_machines</artist>
    <artistdetail>A_dontigny, Érick d’Orion</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0413_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Estrapade</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0413</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
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    <distinctions>• Prix Opus 2004-05: Disque de l’année — Finaliste</distinctions>
    <description>Beware, electronic music fundamentalists: morceaux_de_machines are back! Yeppers, like that, with no warning… And they are quite ready to spoil your party. Hey, what did you expect? That they would leave you alone with your tranquil ventilator music and your little cuddly rhythms of sorry regularity? That your music would cease asking you questions, that it would finally stay quiet? What a bore! An advice to those who don’t subscribe to any musical chapel, to those for whom music is not a method of mass endoctrination, to those whose blood rate increases with pleasure when sonic tension rises, to those who take comfort in the noise of free machines, you have every reason to be happy! And for a fact… As with every self-respecting improviser does, Érick d’Orion and A_dontigny do not only play on their own: sometimes, they invite colleagues on stage. This is partly the result of these impromptu meetings which will be heard on this new CD with four collaborations featuring well known (and well loved) noisicians: Martin Tétreault, Otomo Yoshihide and Diane Labrosse. The five other pieces featured are monuments of bruitism which bring to mind a word from Vanier (here translated freely): “We will accept culture the day a work of art will make us come.” Well, that’s it, we’ve said it. This is going to scare the masses away; what can we do about it? But what is an “estrapade”, you ask? The question should be: do you really want to know? Well, if you insist: it’s a French word for a rather cruel form of torture used in medieval times. As far as we know, the music of morceaux_de_machines is not, however, used as an instrument of torture but who knows… If No Type ever receives a royalty check from the US Army, we’ll know why.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0205" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0205/">
    <artist>Oeuf Korreckt</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0205_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Podweek</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0205</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
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    <description>Years and fashions might come and go, interest for Oeuf Korreckt’s music does not seem to ever fade. Violently catchy and falsely simple, it brings a blissful smile to everyone who listens, and it even induces dancing! Podweek is a delicious plate of music which is also a little bit historic, as it was (almost) entirely composed on a software tool most people think of as outdated, the tracker. Hopefully this shall confound all the skeptics out there! Definitely music to listen to again and again (and again…).</description>
  </recording>
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