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MH-076 pOnk - Remaking The Past  Remaking The Past is the Mush debut for Berlin based musician Frederik Knop, better known as pOnk. His band, the post-rock trio mOck, worked with John McEntire (Tortoise, Sea and Cake) to mix and perfect the sound of their 2012 self-titled debut released on I Love To Hate Records. It soon became clear that the wealth of pristinely recorded individual tracks were the perfect source material for a pOnk project. The sounds were taken apart and then twisted and recombined in unconventional and imaginative ways to create the aptly titled EP, Remaking The Past. The result is not a remix, but a true original work that does not keep to any structure or grouping of sounds defined by the mOck album. Instead the music over twelve continuous minutes slowly morphs as it ebbs and flows much like a time-lapsed view from a car window on a long-trip. With a multitude of ideas and projects in the works, Remaking The Past is a perfect introduction to an artist who is equal parts electronic musician, composer and sound-designer. |
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| Simply one of the best headphone albums of the year. - Slug Magazine / Like test-tube babies playing acoustic, Remaking the Past, puts electro-orchestral in a beaker and lets the compounds dissolve. - Gozamos / I dare the casual fan to create something just as exciting. Exactly - This Is Book's Music |
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| pOnk = Tortoise + Ghosts and Vodka + Cul de Sac The word pOnk, used here as a moniker, must be some kind of onomatopoeia describing the way Frederik Knop adds percussion into his sprawling electro-acoustic tracks—a sturdy and satisfying ponk, like a ping-pong ball into a cup of warm beer, right into the heart of an arpeggio. Remaking the Past is a deconstructed take on mOck’s (Knop’s other band) self-titled 2012 debut. Knop takes fragments of this album—a guitar riff here, a bass line there, a snare tap or tom hit—and strips them down to their naked elements and then builds them back up, woven in with electronic beats, witty percussion from objects found lying around his apartment and other domestic, found-sound samples. The result is a twelve-minute composition that floats independent musical ideas into each other like sets of waves. Remaking the Past is simply one of the best headphone albums of the year. - Slug Magazine |
