Tapage is Tijs Ham, a "glitch guru" from The Netherlands.
With two solo Tympanik albums and one collaboration with Meander under his belt, the label are happy to refer to him as part of their family.
Overgrown is fourteen tracks of digital data management dedicated to his father and, though the tracks blend smoothly into one another, there's no obvious theme to the album.
There are only so many times you can refer to the clicks, beats, pops and waves of these IDM releases before the words become meaningless and overly literal descriptions of the sounds.
As usual, the titles - twelve of which are single words - give nothing away.
Mortuary Beef is nowhere near as ugly as its name and is actually quite a subdued, even pretty tune.
It is tempting to say that Pink Mist swirls prettily or that Loss growls mournfully but this would just be semantics.
For Ethyl, the track that gets the most hits on You Tube, I wrote down 'gleaming metallic clunks' which probably makes more sense to me (having heard it) than to you (having to imagine it). The best I can offer is that you listen to Ethyl (in the video link below) and if this intrigues you then you'll certainly like the whole thing.
The press release describe the 'songs' as playful which is not too helpful.
They do, however, add that Overgrown is "a serendipitous and unique journey perfect for headphone excursions" which is very flowery but closer to the mark.
