311/Amnesia is Norwegian electronic artist Øystein Kapperud’s debut album, currently out on handmade records. 311/Amnesia is a dense, well-textured electronic album. Throughout the album, Kapperud flirts with particular genre stereotypes, including post-rock atmospherics and micro-house glitch beats, yet he never indulges in them, preferring instead to shift into new sonic terrain each time. Tracks such as ‘Exit Music (For Cinema)’ and ‘Intermission #1’ are built from warm, elongated tones which Kapperud has orchestrated into concise, lush pieces. ‘Drums’, on the other hand, holds a one bar drum loop laden with an assortment of juxtaposing rhythmic ideas that stutter and glitch around the stereo-field.
