ANDERS TILLIANDER LJUD ALBUM MILLE PLATEAUX RELEASE: MARCH 20, 2001 REVIEW: MARCH 1, 2002

Praised for defining the sound of new, imaginative musical genres such as "click-hop" or "click-electronics", Andreas Tilliander in fact works in a long tradition of funky industrial music, incorporating static noise and digital crackling into his minimal beat structures.
Tilliander has a couple of albums under his belt, but this prestigious Mille Plateaux release is the first one using his own name. "Ljud" was nominated for a Swedish Grammy award for best club/dance album, but was hardly winning material in a category premiering sales figures and easy listening. Besides, this is hardly dance music. I hear intricately crafted beats and structures, and a bleak and hollow place, an absence, in their midst.

MATTIAS HUSS