June 2006
FURT’s music has never been for the faint-hearted... This shapeshifting assemblage creates its own inner logic...presenting very few reference points with the other laptop projects populating the experimental faction of electronica. Usually, when such a point of saturation is reached, artists opt for harsh noise, systematical deconstruction or glitchy textures. With FURT, speed and density never devolve into such options. Barrett and Obermayer are able to sustain the pace, ideas flying so quickly it feels like listening to fast-forwarded, acousmatic music... Exhausting, but highly rewarding and unique.