Bleep

Originally released in 2010 by the wonderful Thrill Jockey, O was Markus Popp’s first oval release in a decade. The cut-and-paste-pioneer of the mid-90s had been suspiciously absent in the 2000s, so the release of O constituted something of a homecoming for an artist whose techniques bore influence on everyone from Flying Lotus to Brandt Brauer Frick. Eschewing his traditional working methods and instead creating via PC plugins, O is a sprawling release that numbers 50 tracks on the second vinyl alone. While the twinkling vignettes of the latter disc blend into a composite whole akin something by Karlheinz Stockhausen, the first half of O contains some of Popp’s most expansive and visceral production.