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Voks is a one-man band, creating a chaotic collage of hysterical symphonies, imaginairy folklore, childish trance and shrill pop songs. Voks has been making music since his early teenage years and started performing on the Copenhagen techno scene and releasing music on local labels in the early nineties. Voks has been released on labels such as V/VM, Datamusik, Edward Davenport and since 2003 on the Hamburg label Dekorder.

Press Quotes:

..."Darkvaks" is Voks' second album, and it's released as a very cute iccle three-inch compact disc. The Surrealist cover artwork may point the listener in the right direction, for the music on "Darkvaks" is likewise irrational and inexplicable. Sudden tempo changes, absurd anti-song structures, polyrhythmical patterns, melodies from the children's songbook, and random bleep sequences reminiscent of a robot gone mad, form a fascinating alliance. At any given point, the sound clusters remain suggestive, yet utterly indefinite. Sometimes, Voks' sonic frolics even put a smile on your face - it's just so weird you can't help it. This is truly mind-expanding music, and therefore highly recommended!

Eo Ipso

....Darkvaks is a bizarre toybox of misshapen concoctions and replications. Its opening, untitled track, set amid a quiet tempest of organs and xylophones, features what sounds like a doll that spouts Gregorian chant when you yank the string in its back. Another features similar plastic belchings of player piano, another feels like an attempt to mass-market a plastic toy version of Konono No.1. The ninth and final track might be the imagined soundtrack to a Japanese ceremony. All perfectly useless, in the useful sense of the word.

The Wire

When „Vaks Vanskab Ak“ was released on Dekorder two years ago, I wrote “there is nothing you can be sure about with Voks”, and that is still very much true. It is a shuffled and mixed up kids book of parts funny folk music and parts digital electronic disruption, parts light as medieval dances and parts broodingly dark as the industrial mindset of the late Eighties, it is parts using toyinstruments in a weird way and parts using the computer in even weirder ways. From Peter and the Wolf to Blade Runner and back to the Hobbits and then off to the neverending story. The result is a pleasing invitation into a completely different world, a place that jumps and bubbles with sounds and is drenched in little melodies. A fascinating little epic piece of music...

Cracked

Website:

http://www.vokskabinet.com/

Releases:

Tre Sma Spogelseshistorier (12") Edward Davenport 1996

Demonbag #9XU (12") V/Vm Test Records 2000

Datamusik 01 (File, MP3) Datamusik 2001

Vaks Vanskab Ak (CD, Mini) Dekorder 2003

Maket (File, MP3) Tu M'P3 2005

Darkvaks (CD, Mini) Dekorder 2005

Appears on:

Goodiebag #1DX (12") Hospital Time (Voks Remix) V/Vm Test Records 1998