Oreiko - The Art of Nothing

The Berlin-based Oreiko, long regarded for their undying devotion to music appreciation, has steadily directed their energies into forging plunderphonics of their own design. An unabashed disciple of christtt, their work often pulls from a creative schematic of deceptively straightforward sample manipulation, looping minimalist chops, evocative in quality, and embellishing upon this foundation with lush layers of sampling until a wall of sound staggers under the snowballing of its disparate elements.

'The Art of Nothing' may purport to be a sparse iteration of this approach if one were to read into its title alone, but the result is far from a nihilistic examination of emptiness. The euphoria found in the unabashed indulgence of plunderphonic minimalism holds an appeal so fundamental as to appear a foregone reward. Looping is simply as satisfying and engrossing a technique as the artist makes it, and here, the cultivation of sourced voices, mingling across one great ethereal plane, compounding into total heavenly miasma, well, the powerful effect Oreiko achieves is just self-evident.

VR_163 | Released July 5, 2024

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