Systemisch

Systemisch
Studio album by Oval
Released	1994 1996
Genre	Electronica, glitch, microsound
Length	59:05
Label	Thrill Jockey THRILL032 Mille Plateaux MP 9
Oval chronology
Wohnton (1993) Systemisch (1994) 94 Diskont (1995)

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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] The song "Textuell" was used in a perfume commercial by Giorgio Armani.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
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

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.

External links

• Systemisch at Discogs (list of releases)