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Komputer

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Simon Leonard, David Baker
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Discography

Releases:
Komputer EP (EP, Maxi) (2 versions)   Mute Records Ltd. 1996
Looking Down On London (Maxi) (2 versions)   Mute Records Ltd. 1996
The World Of Tomorrow (Album) (5 versions)   Mute Records Ltd. ... 1997
Valentina (Maxi) (4 versions)   Mute Records Ltd. ... 1997
Valentina EP (CD, EP, Promo)   Mute, Mute Corporation 1997
Terminus (Maxi) (2 versions)   Mute Records Ltd. 1998
VTK-1 (12", S/Sided, W/Lbl)   Mute Records Ltd. 1998
Chirpy (12", Promo)   Mute Records Ltd. 2002
Market Led (Album) (3 versions)   Mute Records Ltd. ... 2002
Headphones And Ringtones (7")   Mute Records Ltd. 2007
Like A Bird (7")   Mute Records Ltd. 2007
Synthetik (Album) (2 versions)   Mute Records Ltd. ... 2007
Remixes:
Lucifer (Maxi) (2 versions) Lucifer (Komputer-Remix) Intercord Tonträger GmbH 1998
Down There For Dancing (File, MP3) Live Life To The Min (... Ninthwave Records 2004
Pop! Remixed (EP, Comp) (2 versions) Victim Of Love (Komput... Mute Records Ltd. 2009
Production:
Pop! Remixed (CD, EP, Comp) Victim Of Love (Komput... Mute Records Ltd., Mute Records Ltd. 2009
Appears On:
Musikexpress 15 - Mute Records (CD, Promo) Looking Down On London Musikexpress 1998
Disbehave (CD, Maxi, Ltd) Disbekomputer, Disbeha... Major Records 2007
Mojo Presents The Man Machine (CD, Comp) Like A Bird Mojo Magazine 2009
Tracks Appear On:
Enjoy Ray Cokes (2xCD) Valentina Tereshkova Sony Music Entertainment (UK) 1996
Musikexpress 15 - Mute Records (CD, Promo) Looking Down On London Musikexpress 1998
The Mute Song Sampler (3xCD, Smplr, Promo) Komputer Crash, Lookin... Mute Song 1998
14 Irregular Files - A Mute Accumulation (CD) Intercom 2 Mute Records Ltd. 1999
Electrocity Vol.11 (CD, Comp) Komputer Pop Ausfahrt 1999
Zmutowana EkspressJA Czyli Technologiczna Róża (CD, Promo) Valentina Machina 1999
Sampler (4xCD, Smplr, Promo + Box) Intercom 2 Mute Song 2000
Friend Of Mute "EVIDENCE" Fall 2002 (CD, Comp, Promo) Mum Mute, Mute Corporation 2002
Robopop Volume I (CD, Album, Comp) My Private Train Lucky Pierre Recordings 2003
Textures And Tones (CD, Comp) Frequency, Frequency 6... Music House (3) 2004
Fractured Beauty (CD, Album) Broken, Flaxen, Broken... Music House (3) 2006
Now Hear This! 54 (CD, Comp, Promo) Like A Bird Word Magazine 2007
Auto-Reverse - Auto-Tribute Compilation (CD, Comp) Incommunication BOREDOMproduct 2009
Mojo Presents The Man Machine (CD, Comp) Like A Bird Mojo Magazine 2009
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Review by Crijevo Jan 12, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
Komputer have a long history in electronic music which sometimes leaned toward the avantgarde and sometimes towards the finest example in their respect to Kraftwerk, Telex and YMO as the most obvious leanings... Of course there's danger of plagiarism with every electronic act as we know it but Komputer albeit so obviously rearranging, somehow maintained the innovation and difference to the original blueprints, in their own right producing unique and often humouristic music...

Originally formed as avant-electronic pop duo I Start Counting releasing plenty of singles and couple of excellent state-of-technology albums, then resurrecting as equally thrilling Fortran 5 on the verge of the nineties rave-culture. Komputer finally settled in 1996. with their self-titled debut EP which launched The Model-esque hit 'Valentina Tereshkova' (also known as 'Valentina')... One more single followed that same year, 'Looking Down on London', before 'The World of Tomorrow', in 1998. Their first proper long-player is also worth noting tracks like 'Bill Gates', 'Terminus Interminus' and 'More Automation' furtherly streching Kraftwerk into Komputer's subversive form of recycling... In 2002 Komputer released their second, long awaited album, but unlike the soothing synth-pop of 'Tomorrow', 'Market Led' is rather abbrasive take on vynil noise sampled into obscure ambience... By recognising themselves in the underground's recent fashions, Komputer slowly drifted apart from their earlier infatuations...

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