Ovaldna

cd (including 20-page booklet with liner notes by david toop. markus popp and dvd-rom / digital). 'dna' is a mountain of an album: an audio cd with 25 tracks, each about three minutes long. some are no longer than a minute. here you'll find a collection of rare oval pieces and 12 previously unreleased tracks. 'dna' is a mixture of music from markus popp's various creative phases. it's surprising how old and new meld seamlessly together, and how, for oval, formalism and musicality have produced similar results. markus popp has found an unmistakable musical language and declined it from a to z. 'dna', so to say, is the accompanying dictionary. originally, this album was supposed to appear before 'o' and conclude the electronic phase of oval. a farewell of sorts. disc 2 of 'dna' is almost something like an open source manifesto: it contains the sound browser / sequenzer-software ovaldna and more than 2,000 oval sounds from various phases of popp's work as individual aiff files. the software and sound files are intended for music producers and are available to all without restrictions. also included is a video documentation of playground tv / madrid, the 'glass ufo' music video by amberley productions / berlin and 10 bonus tracks for the 'ovaldna' album as wav files.