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

Taken from PAMPACD005 - Ada - "Meine zarten Pfoten".

Ada - Faith

Released as a beautiful 7" Record. Buy it here: http://the-ki-store.goodsie.com/christian-loffler-all-comes-notes

Full EP will be released April 21.

All Comes feat. Gry

Digital only track taken from Autumn Bells - Out 23 September 2014. Orders are available now over at iTunes: http://geni.us/GidgeAutumnBells

Autumn Bells

Growth

Gidge - Growth

Jesse Somfay & Henry Saiz - Honey Wine

iTunes - http://smarturl.it/MCKindred
A few years ago I did a remix of a track by Dominik Eulberg called Sansula, which featured an instrument of the same name. After the release a builder of sansula instruments in the Netherlands was kind enough to give me one as a present in case I wanted to use one again in a live recording, which I have finally got around to doing now with this track!

My process consisted of me sitting in my studio (badly) playing the thumb plucked sansula for quite a while, so that I could go back to the recording and pull out some useable loops as a starting point. I wanted a nice warm analogue chord progression to complement, but more in the high bass and low mids than my usual chord progression that's down really low, to fill the mix with the warmth as much as possible.

The track still needed something though, so I turned to some spare recordings of my favourite vocalist - Kathrin deBoer, from some of our previous recording sessions. I didn't want to go for the usual full lyrical approach of a vocal collab track, I just wanted to add some small snippets of human feeling to round off the track properly.

The release is coming out on Fields on the 1st of December along with an intense synth experiment with a Prophet 08, and beautiful remixes from David August and Throwing Snow.

If you're not into buying music there is also a new website I have just launched which will be providing exclusive new free downloads for all in return for signing up to the website - http://www.maxcooper.net/downloads

Origins

This is a original mix made with a incredible Brazilian singer and Dub Recycle and will be release by american King Street Sounds. 
Release 13th June 2016.

VEVO video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsezUd8lQFI

Dub Recycle Feat Mari-Anna - Only you Know (Original Mix)

Here's a rework i did for my brother @VanHai few years ago for his first album called "Intimacy"... this out on vinyl for the first time as the opener for the Future sounds of jazz 13!
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Van Hai "Dernier amour" Ripperton's No Love Lost Reshape

Exclusive Odd Beholder 'Lighting (Fejká Remix)'

Black Forest breed Fejka just remixed Swiss pop duo Odd Beholder turning the original song into an melancholically yet beautifully sounding piece of electronic music. Shortly before the release of his en’Lighting’ remix release on Sinnbus Torture the Artist spoke to Brian, how close friends call Fejka, about his preference for melancholic soundscapes and female vocals, the elements that inspired him to remix Odd Beholder and – since the new Star Wars movie just hit cinemas around the globe – his perception of the dark side of music and people.

Read the interview with Fejka here:
https://torturetheartist.net/2017/12/13/track-premiere-interview-odd-beholder-lighting-fejka-remix-sinnbus

Fejka's remix for Odd Beholder's track 'Lighting' was released December 13th, 2017 on Sinnbus.

Buy the single here:
http://smarturl.it/OddBeholder-Fejka

Artist & label information:
Odd Beholder: www.facebook.com/oddbeholder/ // @oddbeholderofficial
Fefka: www.facebook.com/fejkamusic // @fejka
Sinnbus: www.facebook.com/sinnbus // @sinnbus

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Remixes

Lighting (Fejka Remix)

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EXCLUSIVE: Odd Beholder - Lighting (Fejká Remix) [Sinnbus]

Like Water (feat. Mohna)
Originally the song was an improvised, acoustic piano piece I used to play at the live shows. It was born out of a happy accident while we were soundchecking for a concert and Mohna was improvising vocals to the piano. After we had played it a few times live I decided to record it. The song has changed completely from its initial acoustic version.

Graal (Prologue)

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Like Water (feat. Mohna)

The title track and first single off of Gidge's upcoming album New Light, coming November 6th through Atomnation.
https://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/new-light

New Light

Gidge - New Light

São Paulo native Carlos Poppi a.k.a Dub Recycle has become one of the best Melodic Techno producers in Brazil, releasing songs on international record labels, Steyoyoke (ALE), DNC Limited (ITA), Us & Them Records (GRE), Qilla Records (INDIA) and Awen Records (ESP).

In 2018 he released two of his biggest EPs “The Benign” and “Under your Skin feat Kieran Fowkes”. The first proposal was his first international tour in India (Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad). The second was selected by one of the biggest playlists of the Spotify genre “Electronic Rising” alongside Adriatique (AFTERLIFE) with the original version.

In 2019 he went on his second consecutive tour of India in Hyderabad at “Block 22” and in Bangalore at Afterworx’s “Lucent” party. In 2020 he released the "EP Stairs to Heaven" with two tracks "33 and White Magic" received great support from the Mexican "Øostil" (AFTERLIFE) playing the song "33" in the opening of "Mathame" (AFTERLIFE) in the live show of broadcast by the “CERCLE” group.

After the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, he sheltered with his family in his hometown (FRANCA-SP), staying away from the stage. DUB RECYCLE was in a process of reflection for almost two years, both professional and personal, and with that, there was an absurd passion for AFRO-HOUSE, based on some events it was present in the south of the country, in December 2023. Since is already in full swing, finishing his FIRST EP of the strand that will be released soon.

Dub Recycle Feat Mari-Anna - Only you Know (Original Mix)

Dub Recycle

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