Microstoria is an

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ensemble from

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. Microstoria was founded in 1994 by

Markus Popp Oval is an electronic music group founded in Germany in 1991 by Markus Popp, Sebastian Oschatz, Frank Metzger and Holger Lindmüller. The group pioneered glitch music, writing on CDs to damage them and produce music with the resulting fragments ...

(of

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) and Jan St. Werner (of

Mouse on Mars Mouse on Mars is a German electronic music duo formed in 1993 by Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma. Their music is a blend of electronic genres including IDM, dub, krautrock, breakbeat and ambient, featuring heavy use of organic analog synth and ...

). Their first full-length arrived in 1995, released in Europe on the

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label and reissued in America on

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. Three further efforts followed on both labels, and the pair continued working together through 2002. According to Popp, as compared to

, "Microstoria does focus much more on the playfulness of the overall approach," incorporating warmer sounds.

Discography

*''Init Ding'' (

, 1995) *''snd'' (Mille Plateaux/Thrill Jockey, 1996) *''Reprovisers'' (Mille Plateaux/Thrill Jockey, 1997) *''Model 3, Step 2'' (Mille Plateaux/Thrill Jockey, 2000) *''Invisible Architecture 3'' ( Audiosphere Records, 2002) *''Improvisers'' ( Sonig Records, 2002)

References

*Sean Cooper, Microstoriaat

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