Analog Symbionts

Yamaha SY77 + PitchLoop89 &  ProphetVS + H3000.  Prophet 12. Long held notes and lot of envelopes and LFOs.

21apr15

During summer lockdown 2021, it was forbidden to have dancing at parties. And so when exemplary north-east London record shop Hidden Sounds asked me to DJ at a sitting-down event, it seemed like the perfect workaround, and a wonderful excuse to explore some deep corners of my record collection. 
Think blankets, incense, rugs, chess, cushions, fungi, tea and 50 people laying around in a cosy space for a psychedelic, horizontal, evening listening session - pure bliss!
Here is the whole thing.
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Shroom Sessions at Hidden Sounds August 6 2021

Track from NE94 Varg2™ — 10 år av skog, natt & stjärnor

Out on cassette and digital May 26th.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

Varg2™ — I en oändlig sorg / Jörn

Sheltering Skies

Sky Crash Over Me

Just to Feel Anything

Illusion Self

Episode 42: outlier

This hybrid DJ / Live Set was recorded in a yurt structure at the Freerotation Festival in Wales. This time my idea for the set was to take us all much further out, much deeper inside than the set from last year. A more disembodied experience. 

As I had done last year, I sat on the floor in front of the speakers to perform instead of behind them as a DJ normally does. This greatly enhanced my feeling of experiencing the set with the audience, dissolving the usual performer / audience divide. 
Below is the list of tracks that I played in addition to live improvisation using a eurorack modular system.

Many thanks to Steevio, the whole Freerotation crew and everyone who experienced it there with me.


Lars Von Trier - Intro from Europa
Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings - Crossing the Line - Tibetan Bells III
Delia Derbyshire - Running - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Compound Eye - Hydraulic Regime Vibrates Within - Journey from Anywhere
Coil - Copal - Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Such Is Life - Time To Tell
Coil - Die Wölfe Kommen Zurück - Black Light District
William S. Burroughs - The Cat Inside: Excerpts - The Best Of William Burroughs
Jo Johnson - Words Came After Music - Weaving
Coil - Bism - Worship The Glitch
Delia Derbyshire - Colour - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Long Distance Poison - Signal I (Drew McDowall Remix) - Gleise Translations
Coil - Caged Birds - Worship The Glitch
Coil - Magnetic North - Winter Solstice
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb - Selected Ambient Works, Volume II
Coil - We Have Always Been Here - Worship The Glitch
Jo Johnson - Long Shadow (Anthony Child remix)
Rapoon - We Danced Like Sticks - The Kirghiz Light
Alessandro Cortini - Resta - Forse 1
Delia Derbyshire - Falling - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Compound Eye - Open Interval 1 - Journey from Anywhere
Rapoon - Dala - The Kirghiz Light
Coil - Ended - Worship The Glitch

Surgeon (ambient set) at Freerotation 2014

Track from NE96 Ulwhednar - Area 08

Out on 2xLP and digital December 8th.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

“The collaborative project of Northern Electronics' founders, Anthony Linell and Jonas Rönnberg, has never ceased to confront with their coupling of industrious delirium and pensive austerity. By now we know that only adrenaline can make sense of the toxic ensemble of purposes at the heart of Ulwhednar. Meditating on higher flights of thrill and disorder than their previous record, and with an acknowledgement of their Stockholm roots, 'Area 08' induces fever and anticipation with every gesture.
The opening tracks make a raucous yet resolute introduction to proceedings, eventually issuing one of the album's most exquisite moments of reprieve with 'Akalla/Broken Swords'. However, it is the second half of 'Area 08' that formally admits their latest work has crossed a threshold yet unexplored by the pair. A suite of villainously propulsive tracks spit embers of caustic balms as they careen out of reach with the engorged march of 'Commuter Madness'."

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Area 08

Ulwhednar - Terra Nova/C20 Drive

Premiere of the track "The Night Has Passed Already" by Vanity Productions, taken from his upcoming album on Northern Electronics.

"...Recorded during the weeks after Christian's sister’s passing, it resonates internally as the maelstrom of melancholy, transforming grief into distorted tunes. Minimalistic and bleak at the core, yet possessing vague and undeniable romanticism, morbid intensity and density, a tangible memo filled with love unexpressed, a ride through a tunnel drowning in light."
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Artist: Vanity Productions
Track: : "The Night Has Passed Already"
Album: "The Night Has Passed Already"
Label: @northernelectronics
Format: CD + DL
Release date: January 26, 2024
Pre-order: https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com/

Music by Christian Stadsgaard
Mixed By Malthe Fischer and Christian Stadsgaard
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab Rome
Artwork's photo by Christian Stadsgaard

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Premiere: Vanity Productions - The Night Has Passed Already [NE99]

This was the last two hours of my opening set for @kicks-hugs-berlin at Renate back in December, unfortunately the recorder didn't catch the beginning of the set so we just jump straight in to the groove.

Anthony Linell @ Kicks & Hugs x Renate Dec 2nd '23

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Fragments from the opening hours of our annual NE night which took place at our much beloved Tresor in May.

Many thanks to all the Tresor personell and appreciation to everyone in attendance for making this happen.

Trailcam's debut album 'Drumlin Loop' is out on CD June 27th

northernelectronics.bandcamp.com


Trailcam aka E-Saggila at Tresor, Berlin May 30th 2025

Here's the recording of my live techno set from Friday night at Freerotation Festival 2017. Thanks to Steevio & Suzybee, the whole crew and everyone who was there. I hope you enjoy the recording as much as I did performing it!

Freerotation 2017

Surgeon live at Freerotation, Wales 7th July 2017

JJ █ TSTЖ █ RVMTNO°

Joliejulien 001intro

Northern Electronics 45
Anthony Linell – Consolidate CS

Visual by A.L.

http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Anthony Linell – Seeking Immortality

The future:

25/07 TBA, USA
26/07 The Great Beyond, MN (US)
01/08 Technoferia, Medellín (CO)
02/08 Tunnel, Pereira, (CO)
09/08 Eden, Stockholm
 30/08 Berlin Atonal w/ Neel & DJ Red (DE) 
31/08 Berlin Atonal LIVE (DE)
06/09 Sejong Theater, Seoul (KR)
06/09 Vurt, Seoul (KR)
12/09 Trädgården closing, Stockholm (SE)
13/09 Magick Bar, Rome (IT)
18/09 Solace, Melbourne (AU)
 19/09 TBA, Sydney (AU)
 20/09 TBA, Melbourne (AU)
21/09 TBA, Adelaide (AU)
11/10 Inkonst, Malmö (AU)
01/11 Under Bron, Stockholm (SE)

Bookings:
booking@northernelectronics.se

The cohesive array of depth charged devices that Anthony Linell has produced is formidable. From his opening statements as Abdulla Rashim on his early label of the same name, right through to his recent work that puts his aliases aside, there is a robust and rigorous intent that compounds the elemental strategies of techno's models to apprehend his singular vision.

Presiding over Stockholm's Northern Electronics label with Varg (Jonas Rönnberg), Linell dispenses with mechanisms of attention on all fronts. Marked by an indefatigable self-reliance, the label presents exactly what it means to display, and no more. Carving an idiosyncratic platform for his music is as great of a warning as there could be that Linell's leveraging little toward the benefit of the audience. By his measure, the familiarity and comfort of contemporary techno is stripped back to its rushing heart, the senses left tailgating the strobe in a fit of intuition over decision. The greater this is exposed the colder it gets, and its in these extremes that Linell's caustic rhythmic precision hits. Live, it comes off as a galvanizing strike from the outside; analysing the room as a DJ, it's a case of being pursued through the dark.

Just as the brevity of Linell's output in the eyes of techno is exalted as it is brought into focus, the background to this blurs as you start to decipher his other projects. Lundin Oil skirts the fringes of noise and experimental music, and in collaboration with Varg as Ulwhednar, this is perhaps even more pronounced.

Purposively ricocheting between the techno world and experimental electronic music, Linell forges a distinct passage that gathers the aesthetically uncompromising motifs and missions from across this spectrum. It's this combination and resolve that's brought Linell to the world's attention, however little that attention has been solicited.

Anthony Linell – Seeking Immortality

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