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The album feels like a computer finally achieving sentience whilst dying underwater and slowly short-circuiting.

Within this short life, the computer can only try to save itself but fail as it continues to sink further down into the abyss. In a way, it reminds me of the game 'Water Womb World' a lot, with the distortion of reality occurring underwater as more time passes. There is life here, but what is life here? In a vast, empty, unexplored ocean floor, what hope is there for the survival ... read more

Do While from Oval's 94diskont might be my favourite piece that had anything to do with Markus Popp, but this is no doubt the best album he's been a part of. Popp really managed to weave his own tapestry of ambient music in an endless sea of ambient music sounding very much like imitations of eachother, focussing more on the glitchy, computerised soundscapes that no doubt would have been so evocative with the sudden rise of the internet in that decade. A period piece in a lot of ways ... read more