Don't Abandon All Hope

About “Flickerstorm (Album Version)”
This track was inspired by the sounds of New Order and Echo & the Bunnymen that kept playing in my head under the moonlight.
I blended those influences with the dub and electronic elements I deeply admire, and it became the very first track I completed as Olttaoff.

Under my previous artist name, my works leaned more toward electronic downtempo. Over time, however, I realized that post-rock is an essential part of my identity, which led me to create this piece. In many ways, it feels like a return to my roots while moving forward.

It also marks a turning point in my process — shifting from hardware-based production to working fully in DAWs. The TR-909 featured on the artwork represents that transition, as well as a tribute to Roland, the iconic maker from my hometown in Japan.

Flickerstorm(Album Ver.)

The Sandman Calls

‘plaudite, cives!’
Breaking News.
2025 two layers of live performance.

Chaotic social engineering franchise.

First layer tools :
Pam’s, Varigate.
- Basimilus.
- Mother-32 > DSP (stereo delay).
- Morphagene (voice sample) > Zagrzeb (hp out) > Desmodus Versio.
- Drum2 (space snare) > FX Aid (#24 reverb plate classic).
- Plaits (analog high-hat model).
- DFAM > Data Bender > Monsoon (oliverb mode).
Ochd, Tetrapad, Sinc Defero, Mutes.
StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.

Second layer tools :
Marbles.
- E352 > Beads.
Batumi, Ochd, Sinc Defero, Tetrapad.
Quad Vca, A-138s, StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.

Recorded, mixed and mastered with Logic Pro.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Rule by Fear [breaking news]

‘simius urbem salutat’
Modular Hedonism.
2025 live performance.

Un Singe en Hiver (A Monkey in Winter / Ein Affe im Winter) is a French film directed by Henri Verneuil (1962) and based on a novel by Antoine Blondin.

The title refers to the story of Chinese monkeys who get lost in big cities during winter. Some residents, convinced that they have souls, take them back to the jungle by train.

This is the only time Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo appear together on screen.
‘Le Picon-bière, ça pardonne pas’.

Tools :
Pam’s, SIG.
- Chainsaw > Beads.
- Telharmonic (noise out) > Sisters > Data Bender.
- Rings > Monsoon (oliverb mode).
- Plaits (pair of classic waveforms) > FX Aid (#26 reverb hall chorus).
- Pluck > DSP (granular delay).
Tetrapad, Diode Chaos, Batumi, Ochd, 3x MIA, Sinc Defero.
A-138s, Quad Vca, StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Un Singe en Hiver [modular hedonism]

Autumn watches things big and small wither and die, with a loving smile.
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Go check out LPDJ's music, you'll be in for a treat: https://soundcloud.com/user-351808401
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LPDJ: original guitar track and composition
FoF: drums, bass, synth, interesting (ahem) mix

Autumn's compassionate indifference

Olttaoff – “Usual Error”
A post-rock piece that drifts between calm introspection and quiet unrest.
Delicate layers of guitars repeat like fragments of memory, while restrained rhythms trace the patterns of thought we can’t quite escape.
The title “Usual Error” reflects the small, recurring mistakes we make—the familiar loops of human nature that shape our days.
Rather than seeking resolution, Olttaoff embraces ambiguity itself, turning uncertainty into sound.

Usual Error

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Ogro

Remus

Romulus

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“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

Banner: The Hearing Trumpet_Leonora Carrington (detail)

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Mesmo

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