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Title:  Bobble Artist:  Spore    special offer Format:  CD Price:  € 3.60   Mp3 samples:   1   2

Title Description:
In 1993 Staalplaat's side label Korm Plastics started with a low budget series of compact discs under the banner of Korm Plastics Introductionary Paperbacks. The idea was borrowed from book publishing: a uniform design, low priced, introducing many new artists. The first one was Maeror Tri - and then everybody jumped on the bandwagon. After the last release, M'Lumbo, the whole series was critically viewed and it was decided it was time for a change. Staalplaat hired the well-known designers of CYAN (berlin) and with a new fresh look (sparkling colours, imagery dealing with food) the new series get a kick start with two new releases.

The first is by London group Spore, which is basically a one man operation. Using both analogue and digital means for music that is both rhythmic (without falling into obvious techno realms) and atmospheric. Spore was directed to us with the help of zoviet*france, and Spore uses some of that group's elements to create their own music.

Vital Review:
SPORE - BOBBLE CD(KIP 013/STAALPLAAT)

This is the first release in the Korm Plastics Introductionary
Paperback series since it's re-appearance with a different design.
The hand stamp and the old typewriter font have been replaced by a
colorful silly design with old pictures of food and snack
decorations, for what reason I can't understand. I really can't see
the connection between old food pictures and the releasing of new
unheard music, but I guess the designer saw it. But like many people
excuse their drinking behavior: "...it seemed reasonable at that
moment". Perhaps that is the case?

The music on this CD is one big mixture of all kinds of different
sounds, sampled, recorded and generated, combined into flowing
tracks, sometimes a bit hypno trancy like Muslimgauze and Rapoon. We
get hi-fi combined with lo-fi in an interesting way. Though all the
variety of sounds are here the whole CD is very much in the same
structure through every track, lots of backwards, delays etc. etc...
like there is the same formula for putting together every track, very
nice at moments but it gets too much the same. English bloke Tim
Rabjohns is the mastermind behind the project Spore, and on the
sleeve notes he describes his high leveled ideas and reasons for why
he is doing what he is doing. Quoting: "...we can seep insidiously
into the semi-conscious", and "all together to create hypnotic sounds
capes of immense beauty". Well oh well, I really think he overdoes it
a bit, just a bit too far up in the clouds. I mean there is nothing
new about this CD, it is not badly done at all but you get his
pretentious idea about it immediately after reading the sleeve's
text. Maybe that is the whole idea, at least I hope so.(HB)

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