twentytwelve (Original Music)

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Space dancing

playone

learning

Recent Work (2013)

The first in a series of etudes focussing on a more cinematic and dramatic compositional approach.

.one

Made using:

-Broken Piano
-Cello
-Roland Jupiter 6
-Mbira
-Violin
-Ice
-Trains
-Voice 
-Microkorg 
-UAD
-Found Sounds

Clockwork (2nd draft)

Here is a reel showcasing some of the Mastering and Production work I've done for Ninja Jamm, the live remix app for iOS, from Ninja Tune and Seeper. 

(Note: Mastered primarily for headphones.)

www.ninjajamm.com

Including original releases by:

'Jah Warriors' - Congo Natty feat. YT & Nanci Correia
'North, South, East, West' - DJ Kentaro feat. Matrix and Futurebound
'Lion' - Shuttle
'Eyesdown' - Bonobo feat. Andreya Triana  

Remix material from:
Coldcut
Aneek Thapar
Silver Tortoise
Aer 
Cellardore
Tech Def


Full credits available within the App. 

Ninja Tune - Ninja Jamm Showreel - Sr. Sound Designer / Producer

...             29.09.13___Mix

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/03/laid-out

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Magical Mistakes - Laid Out

Taken from the album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

EU order link: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP055
US order link: www.midheaven.com/item/spaces-by-frahm-nils-cd
iTunes Worldwide order link: snip.ftpromo.net/spaces

After releasing his critically acclaimed album Spaces in late 2013, and a completely sold out North American Tour in spring, Nils Frahm will return for the autumn run of his Spaces Tour with a special gift to his fans: an exclusive stream of album track 'Said And Done'.

'Touring the US again? I hope my folks at home wont get jelous but it is just starting to become some serious fun! Expect me to return with more crazy ideas about how to wreck an old New York Steinway and more tips: how to manage travelling UNITED AIRLINES. There will be more half broken tape delays, overclocked synths and hopefully I can score another silly drum computer. I am very much looking forward! Plus, if you want me back, I am coming. See you soon!' – Nils Frahm

His feverish playing is so stimulating that it's slightly nerve-wracking' – Pitchfork

'If you've ever caught Nils Frahm live, you can attest to what a powerful experience it can be' – Exclaim!

'It’s a powerfully moving experience watching him create all manner of sounds with his fingertips' – KEXP

'He had the audience laughing, at the point of tears and ultimately on their feet with a standing ovation' – Resident Advisor

www.nilsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Spaces

Said and Done

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Synthesizers (DSI Tetra, Ensoniq TS-10, VSTi), acoustic piano (Petrof), bass guitar, field recordings, samples, effects: Stanislav Vdovin
Electric guitar (track 1): Evgeniy Martynov

Music by: Stanislav Vdovin
Mastered by: Andreas Nordenstam | http://nordenmaster.no

Photo: Sonia Skobeleva | http://flickr.com/photos/aersoni/

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Leather Mitt

Tomas Barfod - "Busy Baby" (feat. Nina K) BEACON REMIX [@beaconmusicnyc]

Original taken from the album 'Love Me' Out June 2014.

Tomas Barfod, 'Love Me' out June 10 on Secretly Canadian
SCD: http://smarturl.it/tomasbarfod_loveme
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/tomasbarfod_itunes
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/tomasbarfod_amazon
Indies: http://smarturl.it/tomasbarfod_indies

Tomas Barfod
Artist page: http://secretlycanadian.com/artist.ph...
Official Site: http://tomasbarfod.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/tomas.barfod
Twitter: http://twitter.com/tomasbarfod
Instagram: http://instagram.com/tomasbarfod

Tomas Barfod Live Dates 
[see all live dates/ticket links: <a href="http://bit.ly/tbarfod_tour" target="_blank">secretlycanadian.com/tour</a>]

June 7 - NatBar / Copenhagen / Denmark
June 8 - Field Day Festival / London / UK
June 21 - Best Kept Secret Festival / Netherlands
August 14 - Store Vega, Strøm Festival / Copenhagen / Denmark ('very special guest' for SOHN)
August 23 - Razzamatazz / Barcelona / Spain
Nov 7 - Iceland Airwaves  / Reykjavik / Iceland

Tomas Barfod - "Busy Baby (feat. Nina K)" from 'Love Me' out June 10 on Secretly Canadian

Busy Baby (feat. Nina K) [Beacon Remix]

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Tomas Barfod - "Busy Baby (feat. Nina K) [Beacon Remix]

"In the Shade" is a collaboration between Best Youth and Moullinex, to be be released in the Album "T(h)ree vol 3" - From Portugal to Japan and South Korea".

Best Youth & Moullinex - In The Shade

Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

Pre-order the CD/2LP/DL: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP062
Pre-order the DL via iTunes and receive the album version of 'Thrown' instantly: http://snip.ftpromo.net/kiasmos

After dropping several tracks and performing at select festivals throughout the years, Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen dedicated the year 2014 to explore the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop, with their collaborative electronic project Kiasmos.

By focusing solely on their self-titled debut album, Ólafur and Janus have been able to combine and further develop their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music. Made in Ólafur’s newly build studio in Reykjavík, Iceland, a majority of the album was recorded using acoustic instruments next to a variety of synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. It features a live drummer, string quartet and Ólafur performing on the grand piano, producing an ambient, textured sound, which makes it a perfect home listen and equally danceable record. If you listen closely, you can spot them record the thumb piano, finger snapping and even the sound of the metal grinder of a lighter slowly to replace the usual electronic hi-hat sounds, giving the album a far more intimate and unique atmosphere.

“We decided to start almost completely over with this record, so most of the material is written this year with the idea of making a record that can stand as one piece rather than a collection of songs. I am very excited to get a proper record out exploring a different territory than I am used to. I touch a lot on electronic genres in my own music but never have the opportunity to go full out electronic like we do here.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“The Kiasmos project has been around since 2009, but because of all our other projects we never really got the time to sit down and write all the tracks we always wanted to. So when we early this year finally found the time to sit down and make a full length album there was so much we wanted to try out. The result surprised us a bit, it's deeper and more emotional than we imagined it to be, but that's the beauty of being able to make an album.” – Janus Rasmussen

Kiasmos – s/t will be released on Double-Vinyl, CD and Download via Erased Tapes on October 27th, 2014.

TRACK LISTING: 

1. Lit  2. Held  3. Looped  4. Swayed  5. Thrown  6. Dragged  7. Bent  8. Burnt 

LIVE DATES:	

17.08. HAMBURG (DE) - Dockville Festival			
26.09. BRUSSELS (BE) – Bozar Electronic Arts Festival
27.09. DEN HAAG (NL) – Todays Art Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:  	facebook.com/kiasmos · erasedtapes.com

Kiasmos

Burnt

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Kiasmos - Burnt

Bodi Bill - Brand New Carpet

Hercules and Love Affair-Painted Eyes

Experimentation with iPhone recording -  '14-02-2011 19:42'

Girl Drowning In Slow Motion (14-02-2011 19:42 Remix)

Purchase:
http://minimaljames.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/the-healing-ft-ola-szmidt-remix-ep/

James Kelly -  'The Healing' feat. Ola Szmidt - Aneek Thapar Remix

A little idea that started with my own recordings of power on/off pops, clicks and bursts of noise from expensive hardware compressors (API 2500, Manley ELOP and Vari Mu, Smart Research C2, EMI TG1243, Thermionic Cultures Phoenix etc). The clicks, pops and bursts of noise at the start of the piece are unique to each hardware unit. I combined them with RIchard Devine's field recordings of Snow and some chords to make the stabs at the start.


A note on the title:

Blue Sky Paralysis is when we have ideas that are so wild, so huge that they are impossible to execute. So, we keep dreaming, fuelled by the joy that we can create such incredible ideas, but as we think more and more about the logistics of how to bring them to fruition we are paralysed by the sheer awesomeness of them - when the amount of experience, education, equipment, help and money needed to bring the ideas to realisation seems far beyond our reach and thus paralyses us from taking further action towards our goal… We just sit back and procrastinate.
Its something all artists face but should not be halted by. It should be a challenge, not an excuse.
On the other hand, Dark Sky Paralysis is when we are halted by a lack of ideas. We feel creatively empty and this halts us from even trying to create anything new. We are paralysed by our lack of ideas, rather than their un-achievability.


Blue Sky Paralysis (demo)

Written and produced by Ruede Hagelstein. Lyrics &amp; Vocals by Ruede Hagelstein.

Ruede Hagelstein and The Noblettes - Emergency (Album Version)

Buy "Hum Score":
http://ardbit.bandcamp.com/track/hum-score

Buy the whole cd "The Silence was warm vol.5":
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/148224-various-the-silence-was-warm-vol

I wrote this track for the compilation album The Silence Was Warm vol. 5
released on Symbolic Interaction in Japan, june 2014

compiled by Kentaro Togawa
mastered by Rudi Arapahoe (purgatory mastering)
photos by (k/t) & (u/o)

Hum Score

DJ support from Fake Blood, Gigamesh, RAC, The C90s, Leri Ahel (Mutant Disco) and Cassian

facebook.com/cyclistmusic

The Informations - Lion's Hand (Cyclist Remix)

Freedom Fighter (clip)

...one track-excerpt from the forthcoming album on Dirk Geigers Raumklang Music Label ; )

Glow

Aneek Thapar