Late May 2001, Goem (Frans de Waard, Roel Meelkop and Peter Duimelinks) landed in Montreal for their debut concert as Goem in Northern America at the prestigious Mutek festival. They stayed for a week in Montreal. In the hotelroom they worked on their 'Abri' CD for 12K. While working Mutek connected artists dropped in the hotel room and asked 'what are you guys doing there'... Goem explained their ways of working and all the artists in question asked wether they could try their hands on a mix or two. Some artists (Matmos, Mikael Stavostrand) dragged out their laptops, but the others used whatever was available in the Goem line up. This strictly analogue set up is easy to handle, even by those who just work on computers. This is not a pure Goem CD, neither a remix CD... it's something that is inbetween all of these. It has the traditional minimal Goem sound, but with fresh minds at the controls.
These are: Matmos, Richard Chartier, Mitchell Akiyama, Taylor Deupree, Richard Di Santo, I8U, Mikael Stavostrand, Ælab and of course Goem.
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