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Systemisch

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Systemisch
Studio album by
ReleasedEurope 1994
United States 1996
GenreElectronica, glitch, microsound
Length59:05
LabelThrill Jockey United States
THRILL032
Mille Plateaux European Union
MP 9
Oval chronology
Wohnton
(1993)
Systemisch
(1994)
94 Diskont
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Systemisch is a 1994 album by the German glitch group Oval. It was released in 1994 by Mille Plateaux.

Breaking away from the instrumental format of previous work, the album used sound taken from deliberately damaged CDs to combine an experimental glitch aesthetic with an accessible pop sensibility.[2] This new approach gave Oval their first major critical attention.[3] In its development of the glitch aesthetic in electronic music, Systemisch influenced the sound of artists such as Autechre and Björk, who sampled the track Aero Deck in the song "Unison", from the album Vespertine.[4]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Textuell"7:53
2."Aero Deck"4:33
3."The Politics of Digital Audio"5:21
4."Schöner Wissen"5:19
5."Catchy Daad"6:14
6."Mediation"4:22
7."Tonregie"5:05
8."Oval Office"5:08
9."Compact Disc"6:35
10."Post-Post"4:51
11."Gabba Nation"5:04

Notes and references

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  1. ^ Cooper, Sean. "Oval - Systemische". Allmusic. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  2. ^ Kelly, Caleb (2009). Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 264–5. ISBN 978-0-262-01314-7.
  3. ^ Kelly, Caleb (2009). Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 264–5. ISBN 978-0-262-01314-7.
  4. ^ Pattison, Louis (14 July 2010). "Some people are on the glitch, they think it's all Oval …". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 May 2013.