Split

VINYL FORMAT. Last summer Important released some highly praised records with Kouhei Matsunaga including a collaborative CD with Sean Booth (Autechre) and Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic), a split LP with Mika Vainio, and a full-length CD of his own solo work. The breadth and quality of Kouhei's work was apparent across these three releases, and his compositions for this split LP serve to create connections between his beat-based work and his more abstract soundscapes. Asmus Tietchen's contribution to contemporary electronic music is immense. The two pieces making up his side of the record have been sculpted from stochastic sequences of pure sine waves as well as guitar samples given to him by Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning), not for the purpose of collaboration but for processing purposes.