Taken from "37° and Falling" (Certificate 18), released in 1999. || www.facebook.com/kpolarofficial

Certificate 18 promo notes:

Polar (aka K) began recording 3 years ago for the Hopa + Bones Imprint A-Level Records and has gone on to record for Moving Shadow, R&S and Rugged Vinyl.

Brought up and residing in Bergen, Norway alongside close friend and now stablemate DJ TeeBee (aka Black Science Labs), he has managed to equal the dexterity of a UK-based producer, while keeping a very strong identity and coming up with a very individual sound, attracting in the process woldwide respect. 

Currently with DJ residencies in Bergen and Oslo was as trip to the USA, big things look set for this man whose music does the talking… 

‘Mind Of A Killer’, his track on the recent ‘Hidden Rooms 2’ compilation was the most futuristic and adventurous of the album, and was heavily aired by the likes of Gilles Peterson, Fabio and Amon Tobin to name a few, seduced by the track’s intense atmospherics and dynamics, powerful and haunting programming. 

This album expends those intringuing sonic headscapes. 37 degrees Celsius being average body temperature, it illustrates the irrevocable, irreversible slide back from the thaw, into numbing yet taut K-hole serenity. Polar does not forgo his dancefloor roots and sensibilities, using drum patterns which floe from head to toe, melodies and B-lines which grip like an ice cold vice.

One Of A Kind [Certificate 18 - 1999]

I am a digital photographer, sound artist, producer, and installation artist. I have been addicted to knowledge and understanding my entire life so naturally my work stems from my life confusions and the process' that I've gone through in order to gain understanding. When I begun recording and manipulating sound I fell in love because I found a way to manipulate the minds and emotions of other people, in good or bad ways. At the same time I was hitting punch lines with my installation art and decided to make the installations more intense with ambient sound pieces or beats that I've made playing out of speakers that are strategically placed for optimal sound and aesthetic pleasure within the installation space. I have been a photographer the longest but I left it alone for 4 years so I could master other arts that helped make my artistic and sometimes life issues easier for me to understand. I have brought everything together now, taking my digital photographs and projecting them onto alternative surfaces in emotional and thought provoking sound installations. These tracks are fragments of a bigger picture in my continuous effort to blur the line between photographer and videographer. 
OH YEAH.... I'm a woman


Height: 193 cm. Weight: 79kg. Shoe size: 42 / 11 (US). From Dalstø, Norway. - xkpolar@gmail.com - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kpolarofficial

	
:: tecsumo:
> at the early age of 21, Marc Brueneke was fascinated by d-jaying „Drum and Bass“ aka „Jungle“, that must have been in 1997. A few years later he started to transform his infatuation in producing his beloved music by himself. His preferences definately lie in the deep-pushing and atmospheric aspects of the sound. He realized his ideas of d n b in several D.j. gigs.

:: satellite sounds:
> …this was a presentation-format, established in 1998. On the musical-style side, a more spheric and mellow direction was chosen, which did not neglect experimentation all the while. This must have been due to the broadening of the „jamming-crew“, which consisted of 2 DJ…s, one guitarist and female vocalist. Hamburgian clubs were staging performances, most of the times highlighted by a matching light-show.

:: access:
> …this was a neat little series of underground-parties, taking off in 2004. The performance-location was found in the hamburgian „Audimax basement“. Now the style was again closer related to a deep-pushing or break-beat formalism. Hamburgian Djs were booked for those acts most of the time.

:: grinding echo:
> …this is the actual performance-format, which is on since 2006 in collaboration with „Bassrk“ and the hamburgian Vj-Team „Spule“. The hamburgian club „uebel und Gefaehrlich“ is mainly providing the residential stage for this project. The style still is mainly deep-pushing. Until now following domestic and international acts have been booked: bassrk, beeside, chook - full force, dmnk, dj hektik and bad boy kaiza - tilt rec., davidp, goodfella, homebass aka euphoria, iaka, kool k., nocturnal, phono, sahara aka euphoria, sharpness of feelings, skywalka - breakbeatz.de, sport, the upbeats, tecsumo… 