Following up from 2014's debut-EP Begone, Amphior is now back with a similar touch on his new EP entitled Unlocked. The allusive and melancholic music still consists of the same noisy, distorted and, distant sounds that melts together with 2-steppy shuffle-rhythms and eerie pitched vocal-samples, however, Unlocked EP is generally darker and more into-the-core than the debut.

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Unlocked EP

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Unlocked

UNLOCKED EP - OUT NOW
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Amphior is the pseudonym behind Danish electronic and ambient producer Mathias Hammerstrøm, who creates immersive soundscapes fluctuating between melancholia and ethereal vibrations. Obsessed with the authentic warmth of tape machines, and vintage amplifiers, his atmospheric instruments, enigmatic voices, and lo-fi textures are often fused in a nostalgic haze of enchanting sound. Mathias’ music paints introspective pictures of disquiet rumination, the longing for tranquility - and somewhere in between - offering a sense of calming catharsis. 

Amphior debuted in March 2014 on Estonia-based Loodma Recordings with his “Begone EP”, venturing deep into the territory of “Future Garage” with skipping 2-step-rhythms, rumbling basses, pitched vocals, and the sounds of rain from the city. He re-emerged in a similar stylistic vein in 2016 with his “Unlocked EP” and followed up a year later with his debut album “Shadowland”; a collection of IDM-inspired and claustrophobically noisy tracks, released on the Dutch Shipwrec. Mathias has explored the fields of ambient music ever since. In 2019 he released his phantasmagorical analog synthwork “We Used to Dance” which included a remix from the prolific Sangam. In 2023 Amphiors’ third full-length album, the somberly meditative and spiritually pulsating “Another Presence” was released on the Italian Glacial Movements, and mastered by Slowdives’ Simon Scott.

Mathias has a new record “Disappearing” on the horizon to be released in 2024.  

contact: amphior (a) gmail . com