Systemisch Explained

Systemisch
Type:Album
Artist:Oval
Cover:File:OvalSystemisch.png
Released: 1994
1996
Genre:Electronica, glitch, microsound
Length:59:05
Label:Thrill Jockey
THRILL032
Mille Plateaux
MP 9
Prev Title:Wohnton
Prev Year:1993
Next Title:94 Diskont
Next Year:1995

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.[1] This new approach gave Oval their first major critical attention.[2] 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.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kelly, Caleb. Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction. 2009. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. 978-0-262-01314-7. 264–5.
  2. Book: Kelly, Caleb. Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction. 2009. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. 978-0-262-01314-7. 264–5.
  3. News: Pattison. Louis. Some people are on the glitch, they think it's all Oval …. 14 May 2013. The Guardian. 14 July 2010.