Bleep

Serial Buchla-botherer Kai Niggemann drops a full album made with the legendary 200e Music Box. It’s hard to believe that Heart Murmur was dubbed live, so rich and varied are its textures. A huge range of sounds are coaxed from the machine, from multi-layered screes of noise to dinky percussive tones reminiscent of a xylophone. Though Niggemann uses no drum machines or live drums on the record, tracks like ‘Talk Light’ still have a nice propulsive feel to them. The overall feel of the LP is not too dissimilar to what you’d get if you stripped all the beats out of a Pantha Du Prince record - indeed, there is a degree of crossover with PDP’s ambient version of The Triad.