Sack und Blumm, kind kind (side A)

Sack und Blumm were a duo of German musicians who worked on the remote periphery of minimal techno.  Their music involves looped patterns that create a sense of rhythm.  On kind kind, the patterns never create a sense of a beat, so much as a feeling of constant movement.  Many of the component sounds are recognizably organic, like fret buzz or an mbira melody.  They're recorded in a dry, rigidly-compressed manner that almost makes them sound electronic.  The frequency distribution is a bit bright and modern sounding, but the low-end is not at all pronounced.  Some tracks feature deeper sounds like bass notes on the mbira, while others are fully missing low-end.  This sonic spectrum removes any hint of techno from kind kind.  The sparse, hand-drawn design on the packaging reflects the handmade sounds, not the processes used to assemble them into repeating structures.