Russian laptop artist Coh (which means "sleep" in Ivan Pavlov's native language) became a name know to the scenes with his 1998 release on Carsten Nicolai's Raster Noton records. Throughout the years he did pretty much stick to Raster, to Austrian Mego records and to Idea records, plus a couple of detours, among which a collaboration with two Coil members that came out on Coil's label Eskaton. Sleepy is one thing Ivan and his electronic-noise music is not and makes you not. His laptop drives out warm, textured, wrapping and atmospheric electronics. Noise is pumping throughout the entire and only track of this almost fourty minutes long CD but it is not fiercely scratching your insides, like some noise records do, or unconsciously and caninely caressing the top shelf of your hearing capabilities, like other glitch music records do. In this "Mort Aux Vaches" (recorded in 1999 for his Paradiso, Amsterdam, live set and issued with a wood-looking plastic wrap-around cover) Ivan sets noise in motion and keeps it rolling under the surface serving as a floor of wilderness, above the surface as a reminder of the power that lies beneath or in the middle of it all as the natural origin of all sonic creations and of all throbbing rhythmics. Overall murky but raw and Sevenish I highly recommend this record for those who enjoy creative laptop artists and can appreciate the departure from the usual improvised buzzing, hissing, glitching material and the approach of rather well thought out and designed musical structures where electronics teams up with all of the above to reach for a higher level...