I don't recall exactly when or where I first came across Kraus' music. It's been a few years now. His vintage sounding electronic songs generally take the form of a standard pop tune, but that's usually where the expected ends. “Golden Treasury” is a lot like his earlier material in that it takes the above and warps, either by glitching up beats or using broken and/or homemade instruments and effects, what is otherwise mundane, or even top-40ish music. It's a marriage of free noise aesthetics and methods with slightly off-kilter popular music. As was pointed out in the FD feature, the songs have an undeniable golden-era, sci-fi film OST influence, all blending together in a naive and primitive melodic racket. On this record, the nods toward komische atmospherics which adorn many of the base structures are intuitive and seem to be native to these distorted and twisted ditties; that said, nothing here quite qualifies as brut material, as the music is often too gentle at heart, and the sources and influences too recognizable. One never quite escapes the utter accessibility of these songs, which lends a pop-art sensibility to the work. However, there isn't an overwhelming will to subvert happening either. The artist is genuinely more interested in the results of a 'what if' method rather than lobbing lawn darts at easy targets. This also suggests the truth that he is a purist, doing his work for its own sake. When I first discovered him, all he asked for was my address. A couple of weeks later two CD-R's arrived from New Zealand, adorned with a heavy cardboard cut-out of Optimus Prime and other cultural shlock—not to much, but the kind of material which makes each release special. 6/10 -- P. Somniferum (10 November, 2009)