Atom™ - HD

thx for the link, can't wait to get this.

Sounds fantastic.

Haha this awesome. Nice 'Rock With You' drum fill sample at the start of 'I Love U'. I wish the end of 'Strom' was the whole song.

can't wait for this. uwe is a master and his output for the last few years has been especially excellent.

"I love U" is so Jamie Lidell. First track sounds exactly like Alva-Noto.

oh by the way, if any of you has the chance of seeing Atom live, go for it, you won't be disapointed.

i actually had tickets to see him with tobias last summer. the night before i fell off my bike and broke my collar bone and fractured three ribs. what kind of shit is that?

Like someone on RA page mentioned, it's kind of continuation of his The Stereonerds' HD Endless 2003 LP (as one may suggest by titles, there was even a track named Harddisc Rock - initial name of the new album)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xifC4XEGlNE

  On 3/11/2013 at 4:50 PM, Alcofribas said:

what kind of shit is that?

Tremendous shit.

and the stereonerds album is awesome so that's excellent news

I love Strom and Ich Bin Eine Maschine. Pop and The Sound of Decay are good. Otherwise the rest is bobbins, especially I Love U, which is dire. Shame really, they put up the best bits in the samples. Now I've heard the stream I don't want it.

hmm... gotta concur :/

lol this is so kraftwerk by numbers it's almost offensive

  On 3/11/2013 at 5:23 PM, Obel said:

I love Strom and Ich Bin Eine Maschine. Pop and The Sound of Decay are good. Otherwise the rest is bobbins, especially I Love U, which is dire. Shame really, they put up the best bits in the samples. Now I've heard the stream I don't want it.

i love u made me want to die initially but something bout it made me think i'd warm to it? hmm maybe not. ok never mind.

this is shit and i am disappoint.

  On 3/12/2013 at 5:35 PM, dr lopez said:

lol this is so kraftwerk by numbers it's almost offensive

There's one track on there that is, but that's all. Other than that I think this is a fine release.

title track is, couple other elements. I wasn't really complaining... that formula obviously works, and I think at this point it's understood uwe is absolutely obsessed with the kw totale ästhetisch Qualität

  On 3/11/2013 at 5:23 PM, Obel said:

I love Strom and Ich Bin Eine Maschine. Pop and The Sound of Decay are good. Otherwise the rest is bobbins, especially I Love U, which is dire. Shame really, they put up the best bits in the samples. Now I've heard the stream I don't want it.

What stream do you speak of?

Bottom of first page. The RA stream may not be up anymore though.

i'm still holding out for the cd...watmm reviews are not promising.

to those who did not like this, were you guys into the last two raster noton releases by him?

I liked Liedgut but wasn't particularly enamored with Winterreise.

Personally I'm loving Pop HD. Uwe has started to release everything under the name Atom™ now, rather than one of the fifty-five thousand other pseudonyms he has used in the past.

Pop HD is basically a step from his Pop Artificielle release as LB, but with new tracks rather than cover versions (except for the cover of The Who's 'My Generation').

Every track is a sort of Kraftwerkien take on a particular style of rock or pop.

that sounds cool. as mentioned earlier the POP HD sample had a very stereonerds vibe which is cool; stereonerds definitely has the kraftwerk take you're talking about but it seems like HD might be more "songy" or something.

anyway, still looking forward to this...

  On 3/16/2013 at 9:18 PM, Jamesqdot said:

I liked Liedgut but wasn't particularly enamored with Winterreise.

 

Personally I'm loving Pop HD. Uwe has started to release everything under the name Atom™ now, rather than one of the fifty-five thousand other pseudonyms he has used in the past.

 

Pop HD is basically a step from his Pop Artificielle release as LB, but with new tracks rather than cover versions (except for the cover of The Who's 'My Generation').

 

Every track is a sort of Kraftwerkien take on a particular style of rock or pop.

didn't you just tell me it's KW on only one track?

  On 3/16/2013 at 9:46 PM, dr lopez said:

 

  On 3/16/2013 at 9:18 PM, Jamesqdot said:

I liked Liedgut but wasn't particularly enamored with Winterreise.

 

Personally I'm loving Pop HD. Uwe has started to release everything under the name Atom™ now, rather than one of the fifty-five thousand other pseudonyms he has used in the past.

 

Pop HD is basically a step from his Pop Artificielle release as LB, but with new tracks rather than cover versions (except for the cover of The Who's 'My Generation').

 

Every track is a sort of Kraftwerkien take on a particular style of rock or pop.

didn't you just tell me it's KW on only one track?

Yup, and I stand by that.

I said "sort of Kraftwerkien". How else do you want me to quickly summarise the sound on this thing without posting my entire review (which I haven't finished writing)? No-one else bothered to reply yet. I suppose you could just say it's a minimal, Raster-Noton style take on the different genres.

There's only one song that sounds almost exactly like Kraftwerk and in my opinion that's "Pop". And it's great.

Strom is everything I wanted out of this album based on the samples and it delivers in that realm very nicely. Having not listened to much else by Uwe other than "Wellen und Felder," I'm not sure I had any preconceptions as to what I was expecting. It does have a lot more pop and rock sound to it than any of the samples hinted at whatsoever. I think my only complaint is that it doesn't seem consistent in how the tracks sound, but maybe that's kind of the point. There's probably something for almost anyone on this album in some way. The tracks that pander to my tastes are Strom, Riding the Void, The Sound of Decay, and Ich Bin Meine Maschine.

This is the first Pop record I've heard from this guy.....f**king unbelievably good.