Komputer

The North London group Komputer began its career in the later ’90s as an electro-pop act modeled largely after Kraftwerk but changed its design considerably in subsequent years, moving toward a far more original sound. Made up of Simon Leonard and David Baker, Komputer in fact began being a trio, also offering Jane Brereton, and debuted on Mute Information in 1996 using a self-titled, four-song EP led by “Valentina Tereshkova,” another one for the group. A season later, in Oct 1997, Mute released The Globe of Tomorrow, Komputer’s 1st full-length album. Apparently a literal homage to Kraftwerk, characterized mainly by analog synths and vocoderized performing, the recording spawned three singles — “Searching Down on London,” “Valentina,” and “Terminus” — that Mute released separately with associated remixes during the period of 1997 and 1998. Pursuing these singles, Komputer continued to be mainly silent in following years, not really resurfacing until past due 2002 like a streamlined duo using the launch of the marketplace Led album, a significant departure from your group’s previous function. Influenced from the cutting-edge dance music of brands like Kompakt and Klang along with the laptop-crafted techno of performers like Sutekh and Farben, Leonard and Baker started dealing with a portable studio room comprised of just a sampler and two dark boxes. For his or her source material, both collected abandoned vinyl fabric bought at the Spitalfields Marketplace in East London. Then they processed and modified their samples in to the songs ultimately put together on Marketplace Led, a relatively experimental and wholeheartedly exclusive album of assorted and relatively extended soundscapes.