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Excursions – Plastiksickness.com
DJ IZFollowing up their 2004 release “A Million Different Moments”, Null Device answers back with yet another great album. As the name “Excursions” would hint, the familiar synthpop sound of Null Device is accented with Middle Eastern influences (most prominently on the first track “Triangular”). One thing I really enjoyed about this album is that [...]
Excursions – The Isthmus
Rich AlbertoniSome recently released local electronic albums have abandoned their sequenced, mechanical ways in exchange for raw emotion. Caustic's powernoise and Stochastic Theory's melodrama are a far cry from the cool, robotic detachment often associated with the genre. Enter Null Device. The third CD by Eric Oehler's project may not be an adrenaline rush, but [...]
The London EP -A Different Drum
This unique band from the US synthpop scene continues to perfect their blend of traditional electronic pop with a smooth, hypnotic blend of ethnic instrumental additions. The first track is a wonderful song that focuses on the middle-eastern [sic] drum rhythms and ethnic instrument loops, while the next song jumps right onto the dance floor [...]
The London EP -Rick's Cafe
Sean BunnyNull Device had a website way back in 1994 and your band didn't. So it would seem natural that, having solidified their geekier-than-thou status, they would experiment with the Internet as a distribution outlet, which they're doing with The London EP. All songs and the CD artwork are completely free to download from nulldevice.com, [...]
The London EP – The Isthmus
Al RitchieAn addendum to the Madison elctronauts' impressive sophmore CD, A Million Different Moments, this burn-your-own EP offers smart reconstructions of three album originals, including an expertly textured swoon-dance mix by Texas synthpop maves Iris. Null Device's obsessive love of bhangra rhythms is emphasized – alongside some lovely synth patches – on two disparate mixes [...]
A Million Different Moments – Rick's Cafe
Sean BunnyThere is a growing underground music scene called “synthpop” which is informed by electronica and similar in style to the Pet Shop Boys and the Smiths. Madison's very own Null Device is one of the better bands of that genre, although the numerous influences evident in their music make it difficult to classify them. [...]
Listen to the Future – www.connexionbizarre.net
T.D.The American Synthpop label A Different Drum has been for some years now one of the main labels keeping the Synthpop genre alive. One of ADD's interesting features as a label if its series of compilations. In addition to more “standard” bargain-priced “club-hits” and “ballad” compilations there have been a few rather off-beat thematic compilations. [...]
Interview – Regen Magazine
An interview with Eric Oehler and Eric Goedken of Null Device By Ilker Yucel Assistant Editor Since 1997, Null Device have been introducing listeners to a new type of international music. Taking influences from a variety of world music, the band is doing well to stand out among the trends of the modern electro scene. [...]
A Million Different Moments – Gothic Beauty
CaroleeFuture Pop defines Null Device beatter than most bands which fall into that subgenre of electronic music. A Million Different Moments is a smarter and more world-conscious electronic-dance album that mixes Indian Bhangra beats, Middle Eastern percussion and ululations, and Far Easter phrases with programmed fractals of sythetic pop. It can really get you moving, [...]
A Million Different Moments – Industrial Nation
Ryan HillI must admit, Null Device caught me a little off guard with this review. Unfamiliar with their previous work, the name Null Device sounds to me like some sort of crunchy, guitar-fused industrial project, or perhaps a thrashing, club-stomping German electro band. Much to my surprise, Null Device sounds like they stepped off a [...]
Halo: Best of Madtown Electro and Synth
Jason Baker Stochastic Theory “Shared Lies” Ensku “All Is Fair” Brian Schuh “The One Who Dismissed Me Again” m00ntz! “I Don't Want Her (And Neither Do You)” Echo Virus “Stranded (8 Hours)” Signal 12 “Anesthetized” Null Device “Electrified” The Gothsicles “English License (The How-did-we-get-on-this-comp? mix)” ctrlshft “Half-Life” Oneiroid Psychosis “First The Head, Then The Body” [...]
Interview – Grave Concerns
Julie Johnson What the name of your band and who are the current members? Null Device: Eric Oehler – Vocals, synths, various and sundry weird world instruments. Dr. Eric Goedken – Lyrics, addl vocals, video, production and to a smaller extent Dan Clark – Guitars Chuck McKenzie – Bass Heather O'Brien – Gutiar, backing vocals [...]
A Million Different Moments – Side-Line
Bernard van Isacker Whereas their debut album ?Sublimation? did not exactly do what I had expected, especially after hearing a very promising demo, this release makes up for it all. Middle eastern instrumentation gets mixed with synthpop, classical music and d?n b. It made me realize this: If a major band like Depeche Mode needs [...]
A Million Different Moments – Luna Cafe
Anna Maria StjärnellNull Device play an intriguing mix of synth pop and Middle Eastern influences. The appealing vocals of Eric Oehler sound as forlorn as singers in the genre usually do. “Destines and Symmetries” is replete with swirling synths and mock-Arabic chants. It sounds like an odd mix but it works well. The Depeche Mode [...]
HaLO – Side-Line
Pedro F.This is incredible, the first issue of this new American label, Dead Beat is focusing on Madison, Wisconsin?s capital, underground electro scene with 12 unreleased tracks (of 13 presents on the compilation). Some bands present on this compilation are already confirmed and internationally recognised artists, the most famous is certainly Stromkern (present with the [...]
A Million Different Moments – Regeneration Magazine
PitchforkSince I am not an avid synthpop listener, I am not exactly a connoisseur of the sound, but I do know what sounds good when I hear it. Null Device has a decent sound that is musically interesting and vocally not so whiny-squealy-sugary-sweet like so many bands that do not even fall into the category [...]
A Million Different Moments – Wetworks eZine
Gunhed Null Device is a band not afraid to add new elements and influences to the synthpop formula. Just look at the opening track “Destinies & Symmetries” or “Travelogue” which introduces the bands new fondness for middle-eastern influences. These new sounds influence everything from the violins to the drums to create a sort of Gothic [...]
Sublime Moments of Matrurity With Null Device – Side-line magazine
Dan Koven Hailing from Madison, WI, the duo of Eric Oehler and Eric Goedken have unleashed their sophomore effort with a vengeance. Friends for over 13 years, the formidable duo creates atmospheric electrinic pop music spiced with ethnic diveristy. Their debut album “Sublimation” was critically lauded as a mid-tempo groove oriented record. “A Million Different [...]
Interview with Legends Magazine
Interview with Null Device by Kim Mercil Introduction by Mike Ventarola (www.hiddensanctuary.com ) It seems like just yesterday when Null Device was signed to Nilaihah Records and the release crossed my desk for a review. Then, as now, there are many electronic bands, each sounding rather similar in their style of work. Null Device stood [...]
A Million Different Moments – Altercation Magazine
Daryl Litts While only a sophomore album, A Million Different Moments is more mature than some bands can hope for in a lifetime. Null Device run the gamut on this disc, with worldly styles that are diverse and yet intertwined by a sensitive cohesion that propels the band past your everyday synthpop group. They aren't [...]
A Million Different Moments – Synthpop.net
Jason BakerThis is the second Null Device album, following 2002's “Sublimation”. In the band's own words, they set out to really diversify their sound in this album, seeing the previous album as their “pure” synthpop album, and wanting to stretch themselves for this second album. I think the band was highly successful in this goal, [...]
A Million Different Moments – Hard-wired Electronica
Carl JenkisonAmongst the current batch of US bands, Null Device, comprising of Erics Oehler & Goedken are certainly one of a kind as their sound takes on board a wide range of styles & influences which are incorporating into an easily accessable pop sound. Although usually labelled as synthpop this only begins to scratch the [...]
A Million Different Moments – synthpop.ru (russian)
Olek Gurkin href=”http://www.synthpop.ru/Reviews/Review_NullDevice_AMDM.htm “>http://www.synthpop.ru/Reviews/Review_NullDevice_AMDM.htm Для любого проекта Х удовлетворительно приятно, когда сущность X достигает выражения относительности ссылками класса “музыка группы Y очень напоминает X?” Но вот Вам фига от всего непохожего в лице Null Device, для которого указанные предрасположенности, скорее, лихо, нежели стимул к оптовой закупке лавров победителя. В борьбе за искренность независимости жанра и [...]
A Million Different Moments – The Isthmus
Al RitchieWhat is it about boys with synthesizers and broken hearts? Ever since the mid-80's darkening of Depeche Mode, the two have gone toegther like feta and Beaujolias. Enter Eric Oehler's Null Device, who, over the last few years, have solidified their rep as a band-to-know for those in the mood to brood. The Madison [...]