Ookpikk

Total Home-Job

So Called

Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack)

11/17/2008 11:27am

Ookpikk, a.k.a. B.C.'s Daniel Godlovitch, has a one-up on most electronic bedroom producers creeping into the scene these days. Sure, his music is scattered in blips and bleeps, strange beats and messed up metronomes that you could almost call experimental. But while he tweaks, flanges and filters his many synthesizers, he also manages to keep melody in mind. There are grooves here, not just noises, and this is what makes Ookpikk’s music something the listener is able to digest a little more than a bunch of noise attacks worthy of musical seizures. There are scary moments of drum 'n' bass influence where Total Home-Job feels dated and there's very little to dance to, but, for the most part, the album is packed with noises and ideas from the future and is worthy of exploration.