Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/synchronicity_cd

“We have always been very fortunate to meet and know many talented producers. In recent years, we have been exploring those relationships with different remixes and collaborations, and every time something exciting came out. That’s why we started our Synchronicity project. To challenge ourselves making inspiring, fun and beautiful music.‘Synchronicity’ means "the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. This very well describes how our path led to the place we are now – somewhere between the club and indie scenes.” – WhoMadeWho

KOMPAKT welcomes back Copenhagen’s WhoMadeWho. Tomas Barfod’s penchant for electronic music poetically juxtaposed with Tomas Høffding and Jeppe Kjellberg’s respective backgrounds in rock and jazz, gives their music an electrifying combination of sounds, merging a variety of influences to produce a unique sonic fingerprint that is emotive, irresistible and immensely satisfying. 

Though we both have yet to strike a note together since the release of their 2012 full length “Brighter” (KOM 254), WhoMadeWho have been remarkably productive. With two full lengths, a DJ mix for Watergate’s series and releasing two of 2019’s most played out club tracks together with Rampa (Innervisions) and Artbat (Watergate Records), the trio have found themselves diving more and more into the world of electronic music, tapping into their goldmine of connections within the scene to spearhead an array of collaborations. 

Synchronicity is all about ‘meaningful coincidences’ – bringing interpretation to bear on connections that have no actual causal relationship. It’s a canny concept to pin onto Copenhagen trio WhoMadeWho’s latest album, which sees them return to Kompakt for the first time since 2012’s Brighter.

This re-established connection helps us to understand the synchronicity at play, the way that the WhoMadeWho core ave built an album around collaboration with friends and peers, much as Kompakt is all about cross-connections and family. On Synchronicity, WhoMadeWho call on friends old and new – Michael Mayer, Echonomist, Adana Twins, Alex Boman, Robag Wruhme, Frank Wiedemann, Sainte Vie, Mano Le Tough, Marc Piñol, Rebolledo, and Perel is the cast list; WhoMadeWho direct the material, shaping it into one lovingly flowing gem of dance-pop glory.

There’s something particularly generous about hearing an album as all-inclusive and open-hearted as Synchronicity in the midst of the profound social and cultural shifts we’re currently experiencing. While some songs on Synchronicity were recorded together, in real time, such as the collaborations with Adana Twins and Rebolledo, most of them have taken place via long distance, thanks to the pandemic lockdown. But you don’t need to know who was where to understand either the magnesium-flare melancholy of “Sooner”, recorded with Piñol, which has you holding your breath with the gentle thrill of the song’s lush melody, or the stomping strut of the following Adana Twins collaboration, “Shadow Of Doubt”.

Elsewhere, there’s the stentorian robot voice at the heart of “Hamstring”, where they’re joined by Michael Mayer; the lustrous headsoak of “Twenty Tears”, a tender intervention by Rebolledo; the strip-light, slow-motion disco strut of “Cecil”, produced alongside Echonomist; or the glittering, arpeggio dreamwork that Perel helps sculpt into shape on “Der Abend birgt keine Ruh.”… Really, there’s so much to celebrate here, a panoply of pleasures. From pop revelations to dancefloor delirium to slow-burning brooders, Synchronicity is just that; a space for the joys of the unexpected to collide, and to be given meaning by their coincidental co-existence in WhoMadeWho’s beautiful world.

WhoMadeWho / Frank Wiedemann - Dream Hoarding

Cosmic Pat:
-Disco Demon
-Breaks Baron
-Resident DJ @ Friki Tiki West Cork
-Native of the Burren
-Bookings: patrickholden2@icloud.com

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Playing variety of different electronic music genres from Down-Tempo, Deep-House to Melodic Techno. As long as it is groovy, deep and melodic. Behind the decks since 2016.

part of @bouwmarct
co-founder of @nachtigall-label
booking requests: marc.wickli@gmail.com

Played at Clubs/Bars:
Hive ZH, Klaus ZH, Kornhaus ZH, Ostklang SG, Klub Klain SG, Kraftfeld ZH, Kegelbahn LU, Südpol LU, Rok LU, Gare de Lion SG, Affekt Bar SG, Tankstell Bar SG, Kult SG, OYA Klub SG 

Upcoming:
25.12.13 I Klaus, ZH

Past:
25.10.10 I Kult, SG
25.10.04 I Au Revoir Daydance, SG (cancelled)
25.09.19 I Tankstell, SG
25.08.23 I Private Event, SG
25.07.18 I Affekt, SG
25.06.14 I Private Event, ZH
25.05.17 I Feine Musik Daydance, Wil
25.05.10 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
25.04.05 I Kult, St.Gallen
25.03.28 I Picante, St.Gallen
25.03.07 I Klub Klain, St.Gallen
25.03.01 I Klaus, Zürich
25.01.25 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
20.08.01 I Kopflos Terassentanz, Luzern
20.07.18 I Affekt-Deep, St.Gallen
20.04.11 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
20.03.13 I Hide and Seek w/ Ae:ther, Rok, Luzern
20.02.28 I Affekt-Deep, St.Gallen
20.02.22 I Rauschen w/ Paji, Ostklang, St.Gallen
19.12.20 I Affekt-Deep, St.Gallen
19.11.22 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
19.11.09 I Hide and Seek, Luzern
19.09.20 I Affekt-Tech @ Affekt, St.Gallen
19.08.16 I Saint Gall Electrise @ Ostklang, St.Gallen
19.07.31 I Affekt Locals @ Affekt, St.Gallen
19.07.20 I Kopflos Daydance @ Südpol, Luzern
19.06.07 I Affekt Locals @ Affekt, St.Gallen
19.05.31 I Hide and Seek w/ Colyn @ Rok, Luzern
19.04.06 I Rauschen w/ Moonwalk @ Ostklang, St.Gallen
19.03.22 I Hide and Seek w/ Denis Horvat @ Rok, Luzern
19.02.09 I Electronic Melodic @ Tankstell, St.Gallen
18.12.29 I Affekt Local @ Affekt, St.Gallen
18.12.20 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
18.09.22 I Affekt Newcomer @ Affekt, St.Gallen
18.08.25 I Nervös Daydance @ Chilbi, Zuzwil
18.06.22 I Affekt House @ Affekt, St.Gallen
18.01.20 I SYSTEM OCHSNER @ Tankstell, St.Gallen
17.12.31 I Schattenspiel New Years Eve @ Orsinis, Winterthur
17.05.19 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
16.12.17 I NEO, Zürich

Bouwmarct past:
24.12.21 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
24.12.06 I Affekt, St.Gallen
24.10.12 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
24.09.27 I Affekt, St.Gallen
24.04.19 I Kult, St.Gallen
24.03.28 I Feine Musik, Gare de Lion, Wil
24.03.27 I Private Party
24.02.09 I Kult, St.Gallen
23.12.09 I OYA Klub, St.Gallen
23.11.30 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Nachtigall November)
23.11.23 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Nachtigall November)
23.11.18 I Kornhaus, Winterthur
23.11.09 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Nachtigall November)
23.09.16 I Ostklang, St.Gallen (Marc only)
23.09.09 I Gustav Gleis, St.Gallen (Tim only)
23.09.02 I Private Party 
23.08.26 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
23.08.26 I Gustav Gleis, St.Gallen
23.08.24 I Hive, Zürich
23.08.19 I OYA Klub, St.Gallen (Tim only)
23.08.11 I Kult, St.Gallen
23.07.29 I Affekt, St.Gallen
23.06.22 I Kraftfeld, Winterthur
23.05.06 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Nachtigall)
23.04.01 I Kult, St.Gallen
23.03.25 I Ostklang, St.Gallen
23.03.04 I Tankstell, St.Gallen (Nachtigall)
23.02.11 I Ostklang, St.Gallen (Nachtigall)
23.02.04 I Kegelbahn, Luzern (Rawls)
22.12.22 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Nachtigall Dezember)
22.12.15 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Nachtigall Dezember)
22.09.30 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Affekt Deep)
22.09.16 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
22.09.09 I OYA Klub, St.Gallen (Nachtigall)
22.07.23 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Affekt Deep)
22.05.31 I Kraftfeld, Winterthur (ZHAW)
22.04.09 I OYA, St.Gallen (Nachtigall)
22.04.02 I Südpol, Luzern (Kopflos)
22.02.19 I Tankstell, St.Gallen
22.02.05 I OYA Klub, St.Gallen (Nachtigall)
21.12.23 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Nachtigall Dezember)
21.12.09 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Nachtigall Dezember)
21.12.02 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Nachtigall Dezember)
21.11.04 I Tankstell, St.Gallen (Wohnzimmer Set)
21.10.30 I Ostklang, St.Gallen (Rave am Bohl)
21.10.15 I Affekt, St.Gallen (5 Jahre Affekt)
21.07.17 I Südpol, Luzern (Kopflos)
21.07.06 I Affekt, St.Gallen (Affekt Deep)

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