Description:	CD on Type Recordings
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Electronica / IDM
	Label:	Type
	Price:	£10.29
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...according to our Ant on 24 April 2009.

For his latest album under the name Mokira apparently Andreas Tillander has scrapped his laptop and is now using analogue synthesizers. The word on the street is that he smashed up the laptop with a giant sledgehammer then set it on fire then urinated on it to put the flames out. The remains were then sealed in a lead box and then sent into space on what was a top secret soviet space mission. So how does the new analogue set up impact on the sound. We'll it's very warm as you'd expect with lots of liquidy fluid tones with some dubby atmospherics. It's good to hear some bubbling TB303 basslines on a few of the tracks. There's definitely hints of Berlin dub techno mixed up with hissing Basinski style tape sounds. Some fine moments on this album although one track I had to skip because it was really beginning to do my head in for some unexplainable reason. Had I not turned it off I would have tried to decapitate myself with a bread knife. although the logistics of doing that could be interesting. Smart album though, out on Type on vinyl and CD.

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Sound clips for Persona by Mokira: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Type, TYPE047CD, £10.29.

What their label says...

It's hard to believe that five years have passed since the release of 'Album', Andreas Tilliander's first outing on the Type label. 'Album' marked the final
stage in Andreas's development as a 'laptop' artist and since then he has collected synthesizer upon synthesizer and enough tape to make the boys in
Berlin jealous. Ditching the zeroes and ones, Andreas set about piecing together a follow-up to 'Album' and constructing it entirely in the analogue
realm; the warming hiss of tape, the decomposing buzz of a monosynth and the nostalgic twitch of the Roland TB303.
There might be a love of all things 'Kosmiche' once more, but it would be facile to label 'Persona' as such. Sure Andreas has heard his fair share of
Cluster and Harmonia records, but his sound is just as rooted in psychedelic rock and even Basic Channel-era dub techno as Germanic ambience.
Just listen to the thick, pulsating ode to Spacemen 3 'Oscillations and Tremolo' and you quickly realise that you are not merely listening to 'another'
synthesizer album. Half-heard rhythms and familiar TB303 bass pulses drag us in and out of a hinted-at Basic Channel-axis production on 'Valla Torg
Kraut' while a fairground jangle drives us through 'Ode to the Ode to the Street Hassle'. Something in there is blissful, almost beautiful, but it is hidden
below thick layers of tape hiss and crumbling circuit boards.
'Persona' is a mature, confident and engaging experience - the product of a veteran electronic musician producing music that comes naturally to him.
As the Ingmar Bergman film of the same name suggests, it might be Andreas Tilliander's most revealing record to date. A stunning collection of
modern electronic music.
Tracklisting: 1. About Last Step and Scale 2. Lord, Am I Going Down? 3. Contour
4. Valla Torg Kraut 5. Oscillations and Tremolo 6. Ode to the Ode to the Street Hassle 7. Your Loser Has Gone