In Lisa & Kroffe’s fourth full-length album ‘Roslagens Famn’, the breath of sound machine history are mixed with the vibrant energy of traditional instruments, born out of the strong presence of the Roslagen nature. The result is instrumental music in the borderland between folk, psychedelic and the rhythmic progress of the Berlin School. The album …
Bland stad och säl is the second album by Brugd and the first on the label Lamour Records. It’s a positive twisted journey through dreamlike soundscapes with rough edges and rumbles. Somewhere between ambient and poetic art music, it tells a story of dreams, confusion, lost loves and places with a shimmer of hope.
“I was listening to the “Berliner Philharmoniker” playing a requiem while my smartphone was getting a message every minute about our dead production systems. Later that night, I started writing the first piece of the lament”.
In Jord (Feed me Rework) – Singular & Loljud’s first ever collaboration – Loljud’s emotive and beautifully subdued ‘Feed me’ is transformed into a dirty punch of raw, pounding energy. An ephemeral piano figure leads to an expanding space where Loljud’s distinctive voice – distant, then close – is layered with Singular’s distorted beats and …
The title track from Ulf Ivarsson’s album from 2020 gets a real minimization by DJ Slim Vic. Lower Zone In an ultradub remix, most things are peeled off and dubbed, retaining sparse rhythms and bass frequencies, but adding atmosphere and the magical magnetic sounds of the tapedelay.
Avra and Ida Long teams up for the third time and deliver another deep indie house banger. Avras delicate production and Idas unique nordic voice make a perfect match, again! Looking for anything to take the edge off Chasing You Wasted is a hazy pop jam with crisp and sultry vocals, funky and danceable grooves, …
Northern Swedens DJ-circuits softest maximalist Maneten (David Holm) is on with the next action packed feature ”Too Love For Fast”. Coming in hot from this summers double album release on Lamour Rec. The latest tracks is in the traditional collage/stack Maneten-style but with some extra thump. ”Too Love For Fast” covers topics of passion, the …
Riposte Erik Satie, a newly written piece by Mikael Strömberg, is a reinterpretation of the idea behind Erik Saties Vexations (“harassment”). “Riposte” means response, in response, attack – as a response to Satie and as a silent attack over time. Saties Vexations is considered one of the longest pieces of music in history. A performance …
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From Italy via Gävle / Sandviken back to the world! Weaknot’s EP Flowers of Melancholy gets three new versions that both straighten and rebuild the songs into eclectic dance music for fearless and longing ears. Alpha Mount version of Haunted Pinewood is an epic show in sound worlds and tempo changes. Nocturne (Jimmy Koskinen) transforms …
The album ‘Transformation’ challenges the boundaries of human and machine, the physical and the artificial, the feasible and the impossible. The result is a thoughtful and true emotional storm where the piano forms the basis for an opposite pole between sound and playing technique. When the sound is real, it is played with inhuman technology. …
