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freneticism coiled tightly around endlessly twisted ambience and hectic experimental sound sculpture", to "a gaseous contrail of solar noise and ice particles where ambient breaths of watery melodies get heat-flashed into steam, and software-driven drum programming is savaged by extended processor
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on Hive Records. Many have found the album's fusing and traversing of disparate styles difficult to categorize, with one reviewer calling it "so innovative it sounds almost entirely novel, almost totally devoid of obvious influences, to the point of being a new form without a ready frame of
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summarized the album's sound as "Somatic Responses mangled and speeded up to create a teeth-grinding industrial monster, ultra processed and with thousands of razor sharp beats packed together. .... This is the perfect music if you like
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sound art. The aim of Erratic is to "unify sound with thoughts and imaginary visual landscapes". For most of Erratic's output, Robbe eschews computer-generated beats and rhythms in favour of "exotic instruments" and
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Entity in 2003 with friend Nico de Gols (aka Kaebin Yield). Jan Robbe is known for expressing various musical styles under different pseudonyms.
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artist Kotra provided remixes of "Auditory Arms" and "Parallel Grounds", respectively. Duncan Avoid also lent tracks to Enough Records'
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Atomhead was founded in 2004 as a means to evolve the sounds already explored with the UndaCova moniker. Often compared with the
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Duncan Avoid was a collaboration between Entity-founders Jan Robbe and Nico de Gols. The project's goal was to defy
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is a genius but he's gone too melodic." UndaCova has remixed tracks by Danny Kreutzfeldt, White Nois Stasis and
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on Entity, in an attempt to capture a fitting sonic environment for the event. The same year, Erratic released
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on Reconfiguration Records. Atomhead has remixed tracks by Sedarka, Ronny Ragtroll, Xanopticon, and
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2003 saw the inception of Erratic, a side-project for abstract, "highly immersive soundscapes" and
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is noted for its hyper-intensity, sonic density and high production values. It contains remixes by
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genres. In 2004 Erratic and ambient artist Hackeronte joined to form Pandemia. On the day of the
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reference." Similar sentiments were expressed by others, with descriptions ranging from "punchy
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synthesis. Robbe has released music on distinguished labels such as Dyslexic Response and
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but you think he should stick to the smashing stuff he performs live, or maybe you think
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compilation released on Hive. The project has since been put on an indefinite hiatus.
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on Mystery Sea (2006), and contributed to compilations on Con-v, AntmanuvMicro and
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Jan Robbe performing as Atomhead at the 2008 "Only the Hard Survive" festival in
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/397690/Hyperspace_Invaders_II_Pixel_Edition/
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and assaulting beat constructions, culminating in 2006 with the release of
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Besides his activities as music producer, Robbe is also known for creating
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series released on PuZZling Rec. The project went undercover in 2007.
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A dramatic shift in sound occurred in 2003 with the self-released
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in 2004, they released the self-described "spacetexture journey"
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Undacova :: Intrusion (Dyslexic Response / Isolate, CD)
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label, the main stable behind flashcore and experimental
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In 1999 Jan Robbe adopted the name "UndaCova" to release
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as well as technical limitations. Their first album
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Jan Robbe performing as Atomhead at the 2008 "Only the Hard Survive" festival in Waregem, Belgium.
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Electronic music
record label runner
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sound engineer
graphic designer
game designer
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Autoplate
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