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In the hectic year 2001, Goem played around the world: at Mutek,
in Japan, England, Austria, the UK, Spain, France and in between on various locations they worked on their 'Abri' CD,
which was released later in 2001.
Also they organised the 'Gast' CD, with various people
(Matmos, Taylor Deupree, Richard Chartier etc) at the controls of Goem equipment.
For the constant changing minds of Goem all of this activity was also the end of an area.
It was thought that the working methods of Goem had been well-explored and nothing needed to be added.
In the 2002 they produced a three minute sound piece for an installation and after that: silence.
With Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop in Rotterdam and Frans de Waard in Nijmegen it was also not very easy to meet up, also due to their personal busy schedules.
Early 2004 Frans de Waard got access to the sound studio connected to local arts initiative Extrapool, notorius for the recordings of the Brombron project.
In the studio a wide array of vintage synthesizers can be found and new Goem recordings were made.
Roel Meelkop and Frans de Waard recorded a remix of Esplendor Geometrico and Peter Duimelinks and Frans de Waard a soon appear 10" record for Auf Abwegen. With all machinary at hand, Frans de Waard also recorded eleven new tracks as Goem.
Expanding on the known concept, he now incorporated breaks in the music, and some tracks do not rely on samples but on pure synthesizer tones; others were solely recorded using software.
This record breaks away from the old Goem and walks new paths.
Goem as a trio will continue to exist and record new material in the future.

The Goem CD on Atak was made using: G4 computer using Pro-tools, Peak, Ixi and Ableton Live. Analogue synthesizer include: Arp, Juno, Korg and Roland synths.

comments:

Standard-bearers for the Dutch Noise Experimental scene Kapotte Muziek and THU20 took the invasion of techno embodied by electronic dance music and turned it on its head, creating goems monotone-groove electronic sound.
This album is the latest installment of their click-cut-rocknroll.

atsushi sasaki (HEADZ/FADER)

There are few greater pleasures than being able to release an album by goem, one of my favorite bands.
How much do I like them? I own nearly all of their CDs and the audio.nl label they run is one of the few that I trust enough to buy a CD just because they released it.
Somehow it seems we have the same musical sensibility.
But their sound is unlike any other, and this album is no exception.
The way their music focuses on the totally controlled texture and rhythm of computer-generated sounds is truly revolutionary.
And their look makes it even cooler.

keiichiro shibuya(ATAK)

かつてダッチ・ノイズ・エクスペリメンタルを牽引していた両雄、カポテ・ムジークとTHU20は、テクノに代表されるエレクトロニックなダンス・ミュージックからの侵襲を逆手に取り、モノトナスでグルーヴィーな電子信号ユニットGOEMへと変成した。このアルバムは、彼らから届いた最新のクリック＆カッツ＆ロッケンロールである！！！

佐々木敦（HEADZ/FADER）

僕が大好きなgoemのCDをリリース出来る！
こんなに嬉しいことは滅多にない。
どのくらい好きかって、CDはほぼ全部持ってるし、彼らがやっているaudio.nlはレーベル買いする数少ないレーベルだし、偶然同じようなシンセも使っているしとにかくgoemの音は他の誰にも似ていない。このアルバムもそうだ。
そしてすごくカッコイイ。
彼らの音楽は徹底的な音の質感のコントロールと"ありそうで無かったリズム"の探究に思いっきりフォーカスされている。
これはATAK的だと思う。だから嬉しい。

渋谷慶一郎(ATAK)