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after having misspent his youth fronting several indie guitar bands, arne van petegem (antwerp, belgium) finally made the right decision and swapped his guitar for a sampler and sequencer.

styrofoam quickly started a relationship with morr music and started recording his debut album in the isolated confinements of his home studio. in the meantime styrofoam also started doing his first live outings, supporting mira calix amongst others.

'the point_misser' (lp/cd, mm010), the styrofoam debut album on morr music, was released early june 2000 to general acclaim. the album being a collection of eight wonderful and melancholy-drenched tracks of moody electronica, keeping a delicate balance between sparse melodies and distorted beats.

rather than being a fully fledged follow up, this new collection of seven thematically linked styrofoam tracks is more of an interlude, a little something to keep you warm until spring arrives. Śa short album about murderą contains a mixture of instrumental moodiness and, surprisingly, some full on vocal tracks. drawing inspiration from a multitude of books and movies, styrofoamąs new release once again features a very strong narrative content, reaching its high point on the outright cinematic "if you tell me the truth i will kill you"

no matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. there's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. (chuck palahniuk, invisible monsters).

Elektroniczna melancholia? Tak! Na tym drugim albumie Styrofoama pojawił się nawet szczątkowy wokal.

Styrofoam, czyli pochodzący z Belgii Arne van Petegem, z fragmentów melodii, uratowanych jakby z zapomnianego świata, buduje niezwykle klimatyczne dźwiękowe miniaturki. Niezwykle osobisty i nieco melancholijny ton piosenek nie przeszkadza w konstruowaniu rytmicznego labiryntu jakiego nie powstydziliby się Mouse On Mars czy Squarepusher (Styrofoam grał jako support przed inną warpową gwiazdą Mirą Calix). Choć Styrofoam, zainspirowani literaturą i czarnymi kryminałami tworzą muzykę do wyimaginowanego filmu, ich zachmurzona groovy melodyka i zadymione beaty idealnie pasowałyby by do równie wyśmienitej kinowej Hong Kong - story: "Chunking Express" Wonga.




Luke (Kaktus 7/8/2001):
"(...) Scenariusz albumu jest niemal perfekcyjny - z początku fabuła konstruowana jest na rytmicznym fundamencie, którego wzór zdefiniowali niegdyś swymi pierwszymi albumami Plaid czy Autechre. Styrofoam (Belg Arne vand Petegem) snuje chłodne, melancholijne melodie momentami przypominające melancholijne pejzaże Portishead, częściej jednak nawiązuje do poetyki emo-rockowej. Szczególny nastrój budują też wokale, dystkretne, nieco ospałe czy może zrezygnowane, przypominające o liryzmie Mogwai, Yo La Tengo Czy My Bloody Valentine (...)"

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after having misspent his youth fronting several indie guitar bands, arne van petegem (antwerp, belgium) finally made the right decision and swapped his guitar for a sampler and sequencer.

styrofoam quickly started a relationship with morr music and started recording his debut album in the isolated confinements of his home studio. in the meantime styrofoam also started doing his first live outings, supporting mira calix amongst others.

'the point_misser' (lp/cd, mm010), the styrofoam debut album on morr music, was released early june 2000 to g.......
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