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Hi everyone, this is the last part of my Crónica review series (for now). Today I’m putting the focus on this 2008 album by Pure called Ification. The album is again presented in the same 16-bit/44.1kHz sound quality as the physical CD release and includes the album cover in good resolution and PDF file with […]

One for the dissolution and/or enhancement of the intellect, featuring a couple of somewhat involving episodes and a number of scarcely significant ingredients as far as artistic validity is concerned. Pure works with samples, which he transforms and extends endlessly, at times even beyond the limit of what’s aurally tolerable. When the guidelines of telluric […]

On Ification Pure works with samples gathered from real musicians including the guitarist Christoph de Babalon, the drummer Martin Brandlmayr, and bassist Anke Eckardt; plus the memorable screams of Alexandra von Bolzn. Said samples are captured into Pure’s hard drive where he can perform his experimental transformations. His strategies vary, from making a simple loop […]

Peter Votava (aka Pure) is een Oostenrijkse, in Berlijn residerende oude rot in de elektronische muziek. Hoewel hij begin jaren ’90 zijn sporen verdiende in de opkomende hardcore- en technoscene en later heel wat succes oogstte als de helft van het raveduo Ilsa Gold, houdt Votava zich de laatste tien jaar vooral bezig met minder […]

Pure est le projet musical de Peter Votava, artiste autrichien que l’on suit depuis quelques années maintenant et dont Ification est le quatrième album après des collaborations avec Martin Siewert et Dieb13 notamment. Si l’on est moins adepte du hardcore noisy de ses premières heures, on est particulièrement fan de ses expérimentations ambient-noise qu’il mène […]

La sonica “Fire” – un sample di chitarra compattato in scarica digi-punk – apre questo disco dell’austriaco (residente a Berlino) Peter Votava violentando i timpani dell’ascoltatore, ma già “After the bomb” smaterializza tale potenza fisica in tensione tutta mentale, con le percussioni del batterista dei Radian Martin Brandlmayr chiamate a solcare un fondale ambient come […]

Zuiverheid is een betrachting van velen en de oorzaak van onnoembaar en talloos leed in deze wereld. In een ijdele poging de wereld te redden en te zuiveren van al wat onrein is, heeft menig ideoloog diezelfde wereld in een stinkende hel getrokken. De weg erheen is immers geplaveid met goede voornemens. Onder het pseudoniem […]

Peter Votava aka Pure Austrian native and based in Berlin has been active since 15 years releasing over 30 releases on CD and vinyl under different monikers and collaborations in labels such as such Mego, Staalplaat, Praxis, and his own labels dOc, Atmosfear, Loop and Sub/Version. Portuguese base Cronica Electronica label released in November 2008 […]

Pure’s Ification is an oft-unsettling stylistic travelogue whose range extends far beyond the backyard. Uncompromising experimental electronic workouts sit side-by-side with modern classical and cinematic soundscaping in the Berlin-based artist’s collection. Since 1992, Peter Votava has issued more than thirty CDs and vinyl releases of solo and collaborative works under different aliases, with Ification arriving […]

Ification est le plus récent des travaux de Peter Votava / Pure (actif, précisons-le, depuis presque vingt ans et qui a réalisé des albums sur des labels aussi prestigieux que Mego et Staalplaat (et pour mon plaisir, un split avec Ultra Milkmaids)). Globalement, cet album apparaît comme moins aquatique que Noonbugs, sorti sur Mego, plus […]