Komputer - Headphones And Ringtones

KOMPUTER release a limited edition 7 inch containing 2 mixes of the song Headphones and Ringtones, part of the  brand new album, Synthetik, the follow up to 2002’s Market Led.

Komputer's music gradually evolved over a long period of time, tracks were tried out in live sets then discarded or reworked in the studio, maturing into a return to the more traditional electro sound of the first album, The World Of Tomorrow, with the incorporation of a more experimental and contemporary electronica approach.

Komputer’s sound is rigorously electronic, their subject matter is varied: from Russian cosmonauts to rubbish compactors and mobile phone ringtones – as on new track Headphones and Ringtones their paean to a time you could listen to songs on the radio, bird song and the wind in the trees, rather than today’s ubiquitous headphones and ringtones.

Komputer is the project of two London-based synth-meisters: Simon Leonard and David Baker who, described as an electronic evocation of Syd Barrett’s madcap laughter, originally signed to Mute in 1984 as I Start Counting and continued with releases under the moniker Fortran 5 until the release of Komputer’s debut album, The World of Tomorrow (1998), a reaction against Oasis’ glorification of The Beatles, a rewriting of pop music with Kraftwerk as heroes.

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