Quipo

looking for an artist moniker the tiny adjective populous grabs andrea's attention, not because of its actual meaning but rather its onomatopoeic qualities. 'i loved that word immediately. it just sounded nice: two p's, two u's, two o's, including the word 'pop'!' at the beginning of 2000, populous dispatches exactly two demo cds. one slips into a pile of demos on thomas morr's desk. the music strikes a familiar chord with mr. morr, reminding him of early opiate and boards of canada. but what impresses him even more is the distinct and positively simple musical expression, which populous' compositions exude. over the course of two years, a constant exchange between the italian province and the german capital helps shaping what eventually becomes andrea's debut album, he named after the ancient numerical system quipo with which the inca kept track of taxes and goods in storage. populous personal quipo now consists of the 'ones and twos' a hip hop dj uses to rearrange the popcultural 'goods in storage'. it also consists of the 'zeros and ones' used by a computer to synthesize new compounds from those elements. thus, populous' abstract soundscapes, his fragile melodies contrasted by quite physical beats add up to a new flavour to the morr music pie, which cannot be summed up by a convenient and bloated category like 'indietronics' anymore, anyway.