track one is a masterpiece. if you like modern glitchy ambience like mitchell akiyama, jan jelinek, opiate etc, this record is essential, and lightyears ahead of its time.

This album is so completely perfect! Absoulutley beautiful! I cannot believe I haven't stumbled upon Oval until now... However it feels right that I found him when I did. That is the kind of feeling he gives you. That metaphysical, everything has it's place feel. Then everything seems interesting and akward and kind of a bustle, while you sit back and watch it go by, relaxed and eternally at ease. That is what this album sounds like to me.

I found this CD randomly in the used bin at a record shop that I frequented a couple of years back. I was stricken by the beauty of "do while" and bought it. I'm glad I did, as I've never seen the release anywhere since.

The record is universally quite good... Oval clearly has mastered the art of creating ambient scenes with a variety of moods. Tracks such as "do while" usher you through a soft, flowing, pastoral world, while others (the rest of the disc, basically) gleam with slightly harder digital precision. As a bonus, if the listener lacks the intoxicants (sorry) or patience to handle the full 24-minute journey that is "do while", the last track on the disc is an excellent remix that works with a fraction of the original song.

Definitely worth picking up for any lover of ambience that might stumble across it.

The music of Markus Popp is highly abstract electronic future music. This is a completely different sound aesthetic from our contemporary standards... More inspired by chinese gong music or zen meditations than by any other influences. Maybe that´s why Oval and Mouse on Mars are very popular in China. Though the track "Do while" was copmosed for a i-dont-know-how-much-speakers environment this track is amazing... About 24 minutes of hypnotic sound of the year 3000 taking your breath away... Wondering what music could sound like one day ? Listen to Oval´s vision...