donnacha costello lives and works in dublin. beside his own label minimise, he also releases on mille plateaux and force inc. at raster-noton he uses the pseudonym modul.
»isol« keeps a deep inside structure. wide loops go beyond the borders of the first three tracks, so that they seem to grow together to a united piece. nevertheless, breaking up the rhythm makes the boundaries perceptible. in »shift I«, the oscillating loop universe is kept down at the bottom by a syncopated rhythm: a futuristic bossa-version! »shift II« gets a different, more agile rhythm figure. a tiny melody-phrase which becomes more and more intensive emerges in front of that figure. in this way, an idea formulated by einstürzende neubauten becomes acoustic reality: "das lied schläft in der maschine" (the song is sleeping in the machine). »clear« seems to divide the record in two segments and figures as a caesura. the rhythm includes a static noise, giving the track a virulent character. »kkun I« opens the second part of »isol« and is, aside from »shift II« another great track, refering to the abundant creation and especially the atmosphere. it is a digitized deep-sea-landscape! the idea to put the voice of a woman in this digital world is very efficient. the rhythm rears up to a pulse beat, and on the climax appears a voice of mikroscopic size. »kkun II« refers to this sphere and grows together with »kkun I« to an organic-living unit. the mathematical-digital process, presented at the beginning of »isol«, is woven into a biomorphic - emotional experience.
