to rococo rot traces its origins to a multimedia art exhibition of the same name that the band’s founding members, brothers ronald and robert lippok, held in berlin in 1995. the music is instrumental post-rock of the tortoise school, a hybrid sound that draws from rock, techno, ambient, and jazz. but, refreshingly, it lacks the kinds of artistic pretensions that lead musicians to apply labels like post-rock to their records. the music has an aimlessness that actually comes as a kind of a relief, as if there’s nowhere to be, no grand statement to make. to rococo rot is only interested in the journey — which winds through a warm landscape of shifting patterns, dynamic textures, and weird samples and is powered by smooth, confident electro beats and rhythms.

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the classic german electronica/postrock/ record. the album just rides along through pleasant, sometimes oddly jarring musical landscapes with a minimum of self-consciousness and a maximum of groove.

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