Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

Get the limited edition 12" exclusively on Record Store Day 2015.
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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 2007, 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

Looped

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Kiasmos – Looped

01. Love My Eyes - Breakaway (taken from the album 'Breakaway' out now via Bbe)
02. Forgive and Forget - You Me At Six (taken from the album 'Cavalier Youth' out now via BMG)
03. Requiem - Tenwalls (taken from the album 'bpm001 mixed by Art Department' out now via No. 19 Music)
04. Therapy - Moderat (taken from the album 'Moderat II' out now via Monkeytown Records)
05. The End - Change (taken from the album 'Elaste vol. 4 Meta Disco and Proto House' out now via Compost)

04. Therapy - Moderat

Kiasmos (Ólafur Arnalds + Janus Rasmussen) - Looped

This is an edit we did of Portishead's trip-hop classic "Roads" taken from their debut album "Dummy" released in 1994 and as one of the milestones of our artistic background we thought it might be funny to retouch this amazing song with a brand new attitude but keeping the melancholy of the original track. We hope you'll like it as much as we do.

Free download so get it, play it, love it.

DOWNLOAD: https://kk.rs/oClcz

Love,
Nico & Kaled.

Portishead - Roads (Cosmic Cowboys Edit)

‘Mare’ is Christian Löffler’s second studio album and follows in a similar vein to his self-released debut, 2011’s ‘A Forest’. However a key difference is that while his first album was heavily sample-based, ‘Mare’ is much more organic, in which nearly every sound and every instrument is self-recorded.  Many of the album’s ideas are based on field-recordings taken from the surroundings. 

Mare is out 7th October via Ki Records

iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/mareitunes
Spotify: http://snip.ftpromo.net/marespotify

Heart As A River

Robot Koch "Heart As A River feat. Delhia de France (Dapayk Remix)" FREE DOWNLOAD

A very new aspect in Christian’s work on this album is the use of vocals. While he used vocal samples for the first time in his collaboration with Ki-colleague and friend Steffen Kirchhoff on their Split EP for Ki Records, more complex vocal structures find their way into his music on „A Forest“. In the track „Eleven“ Christian works with Mohna, singer of Hamburg based band Me Succeeds, and uses her fragile voice throughout a whole track.

http://www.ki-records.com/artist/christian-loeffler

WWW.CHRISTIANLOEFFLER.NET

Lyrics written and sung by Mona Steinwidder

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A Forest

Eleven (feat. Mohna)

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Christian Löffler - Eleven (feat. Mohna)

My first song of my upcoming Album 'Faith'

Spotify / AppleMusic: https://fanlink.to/BLOOMFaith

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BLOOM - Faith

DJ T. - Leavin Me ft. Khan (David August Remix)

Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto remix) VS SBTRKT - Hide or seek

The Veils - Vicious Traditions -Daniel Bortz.(edit)

Electronic music duo based in Venice, Italy. 

Contact: info.cosmiccowboys@gmail.com