...Highlights of the box set include Cadenza, a 14-minute recording of Poppy's breakthrough composition; The Impossible Net, which places him squarely at the recent convergence between classical and electronics; Kink Kong Adagio - industrial downtempo from before the genre was so named; Inside The Wolf, Poppy's theme for Channel 4's The Tube; The Passage, a completely unreleased and mesmerising suite from Poppy's very last session for ZTT.
Some pieces are for full orchestra conducted by the composer, others just use ship-yard samples. Guest musicians include Ashley Slater (Norman Cook), Joceyln Pook (Real World), and Annette Peacock (Salvador Dali) and certain tracks have been notably sampled - in one way or another - by the likes of Ninja Tune's DJ Food, Boards of Canada and Warp Records' Max Tundra.
This is the definitive view of Andrew Poppy as a progenitor of avant-garde composition, minimalism and early electronica.
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Andrew Poppy on Zang Tumb Tuum
ZTT 186CD: three discs of music, 15 pages of text and pictures
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