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10/29/2019

Jankenpopp – Candy Marx (2006)




  • Electro pop 
  • Breakcore 
  • Experimental electro 
  • Drill and bass 
  • Electronic music 
  • Breakbeat 
  • Abstract electro 
  • Chiptune 
  • Bitpop 
  • Crossover

Comment: it is one of the first issues by a French musician/activist and hacker, Jankenpopp being released in 2006, however, the artist's sound is thoroughly timeless because all the three temporal dimensions invented by us – the past, the present and the future – used to reflect on each other and through one another. Firstly, it is playful and puckish based on unstable yet mapped rhythmic structures full of galvanized electro, primitive video game-alike and rough breakbeat-induced paces. A best moment on it happens relatively in the beginning when these angular and loose cadences are backed up by a lofty deep house synth layer. Later on, cut-up vowel samples are added to the mix to make up a more personal experience. All those predispositions the artist does have taken from the club scene are transmitted through a tongue-in-cheek attitude (of course, there is an exquisite veiled criticism/and irony behind it). One compartment within the set of 9 notches consists of more buried endeavours as if searching for a silent corner to take a rest for a while. Just for a while for to keep going over the ragged mountains and seas of a tumultuous sonic universe. Given that is a short-running issue and on the other side it embraces a lot of information and reflections it can be admitted as an accelerated musical course. Very nice.