Olof Dreijer at Gop Tun Festival 2025

Iris

Blood Lily

Peter Van Hoesen performed on the second day of #Mostra25 at Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació.

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Clubs, festivals, theaters, football stadiums, museums, beaches, mountains and beyond - Peter Van Hoesen's take on visceral techno has been presented worldwide in many different settings for nearly two decades.

One central element always remains: a deep love and understanding of sound and all its influential effects. Peter Van Hoesen runs Time To Express and Center 91. Together with AtomTM he is SYNC. - a live techno project focused on improvisation and collaboration. Together with Yves De Mey he is Sendai, a forward looking experimental outfit with releases on Editions Mego, Archives Intérieures, Konstrukt and Stroboscopic Artefacts.

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Peter Van Hoesen @ Mostra 2025

Cinderella

Cinderella (Olof Dreijer Remix)

Sweden's Olof Dreijer is one of electronic music's most beloved outsiders. His work as half of The Knife alongside his sibling Karin is the stuff of experimental pop legend, while his solo output is just as wonderfully weird. He showed that again in September with Iris, his second EP on Dekmantel, which featured two originals that twist textured beats and smudged chords, intricate sound designs and hyper-real melodies.

Across his 75-minute mix for us this week, Dreijer works quickly through everything from carnival house to zippy club music, mutant bass and thumping techno. Plenty of his own music features, including his recent remix of Björk, Rosalia, plus cuts from DJ Hyperactive, Jeff Mills, DJ Rush and many more. It's a full throttle selection for the peak time.

Dekmantel Mix 501 - Olof Dreijer

Fifteen years ago,  my Entropic City album was released on Time To Express. It was received very positively. Resident Advisor  described it as “amongst techno’s most compelling stories to date”, while Germany’s *Groove* magazine called it a “modern classic of the genre”. The album also appeared in several end-of-year best-of lists. Fun times.

At the beginning of 2025, I started looking for a meaningful way to mark the album’s 15th anniversary. Over the course of the year, I began developing stripped-down edits of the original tracks. Two rules guided the process: I was allowed to use only one additional sound source alongside the original track, and every version had to be recorded as a live take. It took some time to bring the project together, but I’m happy to say it was completed before the end of 2025.

This album will be made available exclusively to members of the paid tiers on Patreon. There will be no further online release or promotional mailout.

Head over to https://www.patreon.com/posts/entropic-city-146435375 for detailed info on how to receive this album.

Track listing:

01 Into Entropy Dub
02 Republic Reconstruction
03 Closing The Distance/Toy Universe - Corridor Mix
04 Dystopian Romance - Drifting Memory Dub
05 Terminal - Phase Shift Version
06 Testing A Simulacrum - Hologram Edit
07 Quartz #1 - Redefined
08 Strip It, Boost It - Memory Station Dub
09 Colony / Return Of The Object - SMC Dub
10 Defense Against The Self - Reconstructed Dub

Out now via https://www.patreon.com/posts/entropic-city-146435375

Entropic City Variants

Entropic City Variants - Preview

Reached # 3 on Beatport's Electronica/Chill Out Chart <3

written and produced by hermetics.
additional engineering by peter van hoesen.
mixing by martin eyerer.


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