Markus Popp will be back in Brooklyn on October 25 at Public Assembly
Public Assembly
70 North Sixth St.
Tuesday, October 25, $10-$12, 8:30
718-384-4586
www.myspace.com/markuspopp
www.publicassemblynyc.com
Berlin-based electronic music pioneer Markus Popp is back recording as Oval, the seminal noise band he formed in 1991 with Sebastian Oschatz and Frank Metzger, who have both long gone on to other projects. But Popp has returned to reinvent the electronic music genre yet again, first releasing a limited-edition EP, Oh (Thrill Jockey, June 2010), consisting of fifteen tracks totaling twenty-five minutes that reveal Popp to be just as much a musician as a technician, incorporating guitars and drums into the sonic language he creates using a four-year-old stock PC with standard software and plug-ins. The glitch master has followed Oh with a double CD, simply titled O (Thrill Jockey, September 7, 2010), comprising another seventy songs, with twenty on disc one, fifty on disc two, ranging from thirty-two seconds (“Lonely”) to 4:42 (“Dolo”), mostly with one-word titles, such as “Ah!” “Shhh,” “Sky,” “Cry,” “Cinematic,” “Dyamo,” “Pomp,” “Blinky,” “Emocor,” “Voilà,” and “Goodbye.” Popp works inside and out of structure and melody, emitting engaging sounds that are as experimental as they are intoxicating. While O’s second disc has more going on sonically, both offer respite for music fans with ADD as well as those who are tired of the same old thing. Popp, who made a rare local appearance last year at ISSUE Project Room, will be playing the back room at Public Assembly in Williamsburg on October 25 with Oneohtrix Point Never and Burning Star Core, giving adventurous audiophiles another rare opportunity to see a legendary figure in the world of electronic music.