The man behind All Spec Kit is one Andreas Kurtsson from Sweden and active in 'experimental electronica since the mid 90s', playing many concerts and sound installations in Sweden. I never heard of him, but that might be just my ignorance. From the sketchy drawings on the front cover I understand that Andreas uses two mini discs, two CD players and two turntables plus a whole bunch of sound effects to create his music. Whatever is on all of these pre-recorded material, it is not entirely clear. In Kurtsson's own words he likes sounds 'to play together, but remain deaf to each other'. These sounds collide together in a rather ungroovy yet rhythmic manner. It's a kind of ungroovyness that makes the whole thing quite groovy. By using short samples, both on the turntable and the minidisc, this baby becomes a rhythmic affair. Kurtsson calls it popmusic, but that seems to me a bridge too far. But I must agree there is a captivating element in this music. Distorted and processed hou se-hold appliances, static hiss and environmental sounds, they are all used in these skecthes of music. I was reminded a bit of Paul Wirkus' 'Inteletto D'Amore' or Freiband's 'Microbes', though both made from a slightly different angle, the same (uneasy) groovy being present. Quite nice stuff here indeed.
