Kotva is Parisian Hypo’s first album; a falsely heterogeneous collection of tracks recorded between 2000 and 2001. You can easily recognize what is still caracteristic in Hypo's music, playful-electro peregrinations and twisted and strangled pop music. Hypo's songs are a blend of bubble-gum pop bits, messy glicks'n'cuts, noisy pop overtones, synthetic new wave waste, plunderphonic hijacking in the great tradition of John Oswald and VV/M and fainting woman singer melodies. The whole is telescoped amidst minute and inventive arrangements into a playful chaos. No need to scratch Karaoke A Cappella's slacker varnish for too long, however, to realise that, behind these potential hits, hides an authentic songwriter of touching gravity: when HYPO masters self-derision, he can also overcome it with it.