• pop structures but with synthetic instrumentation
  • especially synthesised vocals

01 Superbad (Soul Substitute) – Pop Artificielle (1999) – LB

  1. replace guitar lick with electronic blips
  2. extend vocal words/notes with internal looping

02 ‘Be Near Me’ – Pop Artificielle (1999) – LB

  1. unnaturally truncated – stuttering jump cut effect
  2. bursts of tuned static for chord stabs

03 ‘Sunshine Superman’ – Pop Artificielle (1999) – LB

  1. mimic stereo spread of classic 60s (beatles?) track

04 ‘The Future (Spiritual Surface Noise) – Pop Artificielle (1999) – LB

  1. mix of recognisable instruments and electronics
  2. spoken word samples also processed, though not used musically at least stylistically integrated

05 ‘Jealous Guy (Poeme Syncope)’ – Pop Artificielle (1999) – LB

  1. delay/phasing effects – droplet percussion, swirling sustained chords

06 ‘You Are In My System (Funky Linear)’ – Pop Artificielle (1999) – LB

  1. contrast between long sustained musically rich backing with busy, tonally minimal, electronic rhythm.
  2. actual notes made by internal vocal loops

07 ‘Ashes To Ashes (Digital Space Replicant)’ – Pop Artificielle (1999) -LB

  1. lyric prosody

09 ‘Angie (Miniature Numerique)’ – Pop Artificielle (1999) – LB

  1. piano melodic phrases ending in electronic ‘punctuation’

10 ‘Silence Is Golden (Moral Morph)’ – Pop Artificielle (1999) – LB

  1. taking only a fragment of an existing song and building a new track
  2. long build of noise and texture leading into melodic section