FrequencyLib / Sad Mac Studies
Stephan Mathieu
FrequencyLib / Sad Mac Studies
Boomkat Product Review:
Stephan Mathieu's 2001 album of pop deconstructions "FrequencyLib" gets a long overdue reissue, bundled with the rare as hens teeth "Sad Mac Studies" EP. Essential listening for anyone on the Fennesz, Oval, Jelinek axis.
Stephan Mathieu's third album is an under-sung classic that represents the late 1990s/early 2000s glitch sound by decomposing pop music into shadowy vignettes and whimsical, bite-sized sketches. The album initially emerged on cultish Mille Plateaux sublabel Ritornell, the influential imprint responsible for issuing early releases from Akira Rabelais, Taylor Deupree, Stilluppsteypa and Asmus Tietchens. Mathieu's album stood out at the time and still sounds singular now; not only was he attempting to make a comment on pop music and how the new wave of laptop processes could be use to chip away at the cultural canon, but he was able to inject his music with a sense of humor - something usually missing from so much experimental music, not least music to emerge from the glitch canon.
Unlike many of the other albums of the era, "FrequencyLib" hasn't dated. It sounded unique at the time and still sounds absurd, abstract and brilliant, a plunderphonic journey into the mind of an artist who's been ubiquitous in the experimental world ever since its release. From the gritty guitar string reductions of 'Monkey' and the quaint xylophone sounds on 'Vivement Dimanche!' to the album's crushing closer 'Gut Nacht', a hazy cinematic dream led by some of the most heart-melting strings we've heard dubbed to laptop, "FrequencyLib" is a journey into a mind and era that's now locked in amber.
"Sad Mac Studies" was released in the same year on the En/Of label in an edition of 100, and took the same radical sonic approach, using "Sesame Street" as the source material. Similarly comedic but struck through with Mathieu's sober, politicized melancholy, the brief EP peaks on its closing track 'Orange', driving hazy flutes into psychedelic thickets of stuttering glitches. It's basically like Boards of Canada if they were motivated by Oval instead of RZA. Fantastic stuff.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Stephan Mathieu's 2001 album of pop deconstructions "FrequencyLib" gets a long overdue reissue, bundled with the rare as hens teeth "Sad Mac Studies" EP. Essential listening for anyone on the Fennesz, Oval, Jelinek axis.
Stephan Mathieu's third album is an under-sung classic that represents the late 1990s/early 2000s glitch sound by decomposing pop music into shadowy vignettes and whimsical, bite-sized sketches. The album initially emerged on cultish Mille Plateaux sublabel Ritornell, the influential imprint responsible for issuing early releases from Akira Rabelais, Taylor Deupree, Stilluppsteypa and Asmus Tietchens. Mathieu's album stood out at the time and still sounds singular now; not only was he attempting to make a comment on pop music and how the new wave of laptop processes could be use to chip away at the cultural canon, but he was able to inject his music with a sense of humor - something usually missing from so much experimental music, not least music to emerge from the glitch canon.
Unlike many of the other albums of the era, "FrequencyLib" hasn't dated. It sounded unique at the time and still sounds absurd, abstract and brilliant, a plunderphonic journey into the mind of an artist who's been ubiquitous in the experimental world ever since its release. From the gritty guitar string reductions of 'Monkey' and the quaint xylophone sounds on 'Vivement Dimanche!' to the album's crushing closer 'Gut Nacht', a hazy cinematic dream led by some of the most heart-melting strings we've heard dubbed to laptop, "FrequencyLib" is a journey into a mind and era that's now locked in amber.
"Sad Mac Studies" was released in the same year on the En/Of label in an edition of 100, and took the same radical sonic approach, using "Sesame Street" as the source material. Similarly comedic but struck through with Mathieu's sober, politicized melancholy, the brief EP peaks on its closing track 'Orange', driving hazy flutes into psychedelic thickets of stuttering glitches. It's basically like Boards of Canada if they were motivated by Oval instead of RZA. Fantastic stuff.
Boomkat Product Review:
Stephan Mathieu's 2001 album of pop deconstructions "FrequencyLib" gets a long overdue reissue, bundled with the rare as hens teeth "Sad Mac Studies" EP. Essential listening for anyone on the Fennesz, Oval, Jelinek axis.
Stephan Mathieu's third album is an under-sung classic that represents the late 1990s/early 2000s glitch sound by decomposing pop music into shadowy vignettes and whimsical, bite-sized sketches. The album initially emerged on cultish Mille Plateaux sublabel Ritornell, the influential imprint responsible for issuing early releases from Akira Rabelais, Taylor Deupree, Stilluppsteypa and Asmus Tietchens. Mathieu's album stood out at the time and still sounds singular now; not only was he attempting to make a comment on pop music and how the new wave of laptop processes could be use to chip away at the cultural canon, but he was able to inject his music with a sense of humor - something usually missing from so much experimental music, not least music to emerge from the glitch canon.
Unlike many of the other albums of the era, "FrequencyLib" hasn't dated. It sounded unique at the time and still sounds absurd, abstract and brilliant, a plunderphonic journey into the mind of an artist who's been ubiquitous in the experimental world ever since its release. From the gritty guitar string reductions of 'Monkey' and the quaint xylophone sounds on 'Vivement Dimanche!' to the album's crushing closer 'Gut Nacht', a hazy cinematic dream led by some of the most heart-melting strings we've heard dubbed to laptop, "FrequencyLib" is a journey into a mind and era that's now locked in amber.
"Sad Mac Studies" was released in the same year on the En/Of label in an edition of 100, and took the same radical sonic approach, using "Sesame Street" as the source material. Similarly comedic but struck through with Mathieu's sober, politicized melancholy, the brief EP peaks on its closing track 'Orange', driving hazy flutes into psychedelic thickets of stuttering glitches. It's basically like Boards of Canada if they were motivated by Oval instead of RZA. Fantastic stuff.
Boomkat Product Review:
Stephan Mathieu's 2001 album of pop deconstructions "FrequencyLib" gets a long overdue reissue, bundled with the rare as hens teeth "Sad Mac Studies" EP. Essential listening for anyone on the Fennesz, Oval, Jelinek axis.
Stephan Mathieu's third album is an under-sung classic that represents the late 1990s/early 2000s glitch sound by decomposing pop music into shadowy vignettes and whimsical, bite-sized sketches. The album initially emerged on cultish Mille Plateaux sublabel Ritornell, the influential imprint responsible for issuing early releases from Akira Rabelais, Taylor Deupree, Stilluppsteypa and Asmus Tietchens. Mathieu's album stood out at the time and still sounds singular now; not only was he attempting to make a comment on pop music and how the new wave of laptop processes could be use to chip away at the cultural canon, but he was able to inject his music with a sense of humor - something usually missing from so much experimental music, not least music to emerge from the glitch canon.
Unlike many of the other albums of the era, "FrequencyLib" hasn't dated. It sounded unique at the time and still sounds absurd, abstract and brilliant, a plunderphonic journey into the mind of an artist who's been ubiquitous in the experimental world ever since its release. From the gritty guitar string reductions of 'Monkey' and the quaint xylophone sounds on 'Vivement Dimanche!' to the album's crushing closer 'Gut Nacht', a hazy cinematic dream led by some of the most heart-melting strings we've heard dubbed to laptop, "FrequencyLib" is a journey into a mind and era that's now locked in amber.
"Sad Mac Studies" was released in the same year on the En/Of label in an edition of 100, and took the same radical sonic approach, using "Sesame Street" as the source material. Similarly comedic but struck through with Mathieu's sober, politicized melancholy, the brief EP peaks on its closing track 'Orange', driving hazy flutes into psychedelic thickets of stuttering glitches. It's basically like Boards of Canada if they were motivated by Oval instead of RZA. Fantastic stuff.
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