Ignaz Schick: turntables, electronics
Oli Steidle: drums, percussion, midi controller
Bandcamp: https://oliversteidle.bandcamp.com/album/ilog-2
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The excellent and stunning drumming throughout is thanks to Oliver Steidle. You get the impression that Steidle is really having a blast working with Schick again.
Vital Weekly (ILOG 2)
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“So I just got off the phones with this and I’m blown away. Free improv turntables/samplers/loopers/pads/drums but it’s closer to the oddest tendencies of Madlib, FlyLo, Shadow, and Krush than anything associated with jazz or classical. Outsider party music. Hip hop montages. Electric fibrillations; palpitating drums; cocaine pulses. Don’t wanna sample snitch, but guaranteed to crack a smile when you hear Lil Jon yell “sweat drop down my balls” in the middle of a blistering drum solo.”
http://besteveralbums.com (ILOG 2)
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Steidle’s drumming is out in front, as he deftly throws himself around the kit with the enthusiasm of Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale.
Bryon Haze (Dusted Magazine)
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A lot of the music covered here is self-serious and any humor a little high-brow or attached to a punk aesthetic. ILOG2 refreshingly marries the spheres of noise and improv with dance and pop in a way that maintains both the intellectualism and fun of each.
Freejazzblog (ILOG 2)
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They are building things anew from fractalized bits of beats and sound…the brain tries to find patterns in this deliberate chaos, listening for parts, trying to making ‘sense’, and it can get a bit tired. The musicians know this, hell, they’re professionals, both based in Berlin …
There a method to these manipulations and Steidle is reflecting them, just as much as his playing is influencing Schick’s next move. it is becoming clearer how important it is that the organizer takes such chances on masters like ILOG2, who are a far cry from traditional jazz and even from free-jazz.
Paul Aquarero (ILOG bei Jazz em Agosto / Lissabon)
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Ilog2 is a decidedly manic and darting record that blends together elements improv, turntabling, layered/dense percussive work-outs and slurred-yet-
glichted-electroacoustic texturing
Roger musique-machine (ILOG2 – pick of the month)