OB1- Anubismatist
When I bought this CD on a whim in 1995 it was my first experience of an album composed of a single track. It has a dubby, trippy, ambient, trancy feel to it, and I still come back to it on occasion 20 years later. A review at all music has this to say about it:
Ob1 by Anubismatist. It is definitely the highlight of the set. The disc is one long-form -- almost an hour -- composition of some very unique and original e-music. It covers breakbeats, minimalism, and experimental music. There are some very cryptic samples throughout the disc. It is like a mixture of some extremely diverse and bizarre influences. Ob1 sounds like the Grateful Dead meets Pink Floyd meets Mathias Grassow, with them all jamming together on the Beatles' "Revolution 9." It is a strange jumble of seemingly unrelated influences -- and it works. This is an excellent CD.
Note, I don't necessarily agree with that review. Perhaps that review is a reflection of a rock journalist having a hard time writing about electronic music. I think the album has more similarities with Future Sounds of London (or maybe Banco de Gaia) than classic rock. The music changes quite a bit over the course of an hour and spoken word samples, and environmental samples, share time with synth music. Those with fond memories of Sasha & Digweed’s Northern Exposure mixes ought to appreciate this.
As I said before, I bought the album on a whim (the CD art stood out to me) and I don't really know much about the artist. Discogs thinks the artist has several aliases: Anthony Koppenaal, APM Koppenaal, Cool T. , Matter-Energy-Space-Time, & Ton Koppenaal.
However, I am not familiar with any of those aliases. Part of the reason I am nominating this is because I don't know anything about the artist or project. I am kinda hoping someone on this sub will know some more about it.
The label it was released on seems to be Hypnotic (a division of the very dodgy Cleopatra Records). According to the liner notes the album was licensed from Hyperium, which seems like a more respectable label.
[Soundcloud link]( uploaded the album)