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Review by Frans de Waard (Vital Weekly 623) At my age one might jealous at the young people, like the 23 year old Porzellan. When I had his age all I had was a couple of cassette players, a disco mixer (not as fancy as the ones you find in the discotheque these days) and the possible to borrow a synthesizer. Porzellan can do with a computer and produce a sound that is at least sound wise so much better, richer and more refined. It could drive me crazy, but such is the 'progress' of technology I guess. Porzellan confesses to like all this minimal, and that is certainly shown in his music. Microsound is a very appropriate description of his music. His pieces consist of usually one, two or three set of tones, sine waves, processed hiss or such like which he mixes over the course of a few minutes. Ikeda like for sure, but it's the brief character of the pieces which makes this all quite enjoyable. There is nothing new under the sun of Porzellan, just as much there was nothing new under my cassette sun back then, but I must admit this is much more a pleasure to hear than my old experiments. This is a most promising start and no doubt with some extra shaping and it will certainly grow in the near future. (FdW)