Track Listing

1. Into Bios (Intro)
2. Plastic Star [Session]
3. Straight
4. Rocky (Soft)
5. Black Is Black
6. Capture This, Pt. I
7. Capture This, Pt. II
8. Grand Style
9. Heart

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128303 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .13 pounds

Album Description
Olaf Bender (Byetone) is co-founder of the Raster-Noton label, and this is his third release for the label. Death of a Typographer is meant to be a snapshot, recorded in a wintery week in Berlin. Only the pre-released single Plastic Star was created in sunny Athens, which is included in its original session version here. The music on Death of a Typographer carries the special sound of Raster-Noton, but with an important difference: the tracks act as focal points, as elegies to a latently-flowing stream, a stream that still moves on, even when the music has long faded away. The tracks do not necessarily move forward, they rather open up a dark abyss which seems deepest in "Capture This" parts I and II. Byetone manages to achieve a remarkable metamorphosis of the organic, with tracks that don't reveal any of the elements of conventional composition techniques, but which somehow seem to emerge from a static sound body. Weirdly danceable yet remote, and a big step for Raster. Death of a Typographer poses riddles. In fact, for the vigilant spectator, the ambiguous artwork will reveal the Death of a Typographer.

Customer Reviews

Mood,beats&snap

Of course electronic music like this can be a little dry & cold but the snapping energy is so good to feel & listen too.No doubts about the German
roots of this stuff,Raster-Norton is without hesitations one with Tectonic
the most interesting lebels to produce really good music in this end of the first decade of 2000!The punchy baseline in it is a real pleasure over all the pieces but no dub!Of interest to know the collaboration of Alva Noto in this.