Eclectique Podcast series introduces: Röskva @user-8664795


Passionate for classical piano since she was 7 and raised surrounded by the influences of Punk, gravitating towards concerts and band rehearsals thanks to her father and uncle, Tanya Pollock a.k.a Röskva is an electronic musician and a Völva from Iceland, who was always taught to go her own way.

During the early 90's, at the age of 12, Tanya together with her cousin Marlon Pollock, started developing great interest for hardware drum machines, synthesizers, Drum N' Bass music and soon after, by the time she was living in the US with her parents, Old Skool Hardcore took over her mind. During that period of time, Tanya and Marlon would send tapes to each other with groundbreaking music, one of them being "ICERAVE", a compilation full of rave breaks made by some of the hottest Icelandic electronic musicians from 1992. That tape, led her to start experimenting with the genre, cutting beats from artists like Biogen and Thor from the collaborative project "Ajax", making her own versions of the tracks that inspired her to keep making electronic music.

Marlon has been her main music partner from the very beginning. At 14, they were already collaborating using the name Anonymous, alias under which at 16 they debuted as the supporting act for Sigur Rós, subsequently being invited several times to form part of the line up from the renowned festival Iceland Airwaves since 1999. A few years later they evolved to "PLX" a.k.a Tanya & Marlon, a moniker under which they released their colorful IDM and Ambient debut EP called "Quillock" on Möller Records in 2012. Today they keep creating new music as Röskva & Svartikaldur.

Tanya has been hosting electronic music ceremonies since over 20 years, including the Iconic Weirdcore nights in Reykjavik, founded in 2006 by herself and the legend Sigurbjörn Þorgrímsson a.k.a Biogen, to bring back together the Icelandic electronic music scene after a quiet period in the beginning of the new millenium. Eventually Weirdcore ended up hosting the first Airwaves event dedicated to Icelandic electronic music in 2010.


In more recent years, Pollock spent time writing a personal (musical) journal, making music she initially had no intention to release, but to use as a way to channel and translate ineffable feelings into sound and process past experiences in her life. That diary would later become her debut album "Laug", released on December 1st of 2020 under her alias, Röskva. 

You can stream Laug now on Bandcamp, Spotify and iTunes.

Röskva's media links:

Facebook: https://bit.ly/3fYWip4
Instagram: https://bit.ly/3mCJki4
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/3dY9bgw
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sbnrHN

Concept, artwork and design by @Tasfet

Tracklist:

Röskva & Svartikaldur - Reynifell
Röskva - Aralía
Röskva & Svartikaldur - Ró
Röskva & Svartikaldur - Lífsins ljós
Röskva & Svartikaldur - Endurkoma
Röskva - Laug
Röskva - Kveðja
Röskva & Svartikaldur - Aldan
Röskva - Ægishjálmur
Röskva - Haven
Röskva & Svartikaldur - Vogs
Röskva & Svartikaldur - Likuaded
Röskva - Sprettur
Röskva & Svartikaldur - DH

ECLECTIQUE Podcast | Hosted by Röskva | April 12th 2021

Original track released by Glawiio Records onParallel Series 1  (Double EP album) feat. Bistro Boy and Daveeth. Remix by Alvin Frost.

Dreamland (Remix)

Dreamland |  Remix

Immense Chill

From the album 'Eða eitthvað allt annað'
https://g-poz.bandcamp.com/album/e-a-eitthva-allt-anna

Mastered by Sindri Freyr Steinsson
(c), 2021, Möller Records

Eða Eitthvað Allt Annað

Óm Segull

Album Credits
released 1 May 2013

Written and produced by  Bjarnar Jonsson, Lone Krogh & Sigþór Ægir Frímannsson.
Artwork by Elena Pecci (www.elenapecci.dk/elenart)
Mastered by Jóhann Ómarsson
(c) Möller Records 2013.

Sonord - You Are Xtrordinairy

A Morning Song of a Cloudspotter
X.U.L feat.Manca Kozlovič
Original track written by Gasper Selko
From the album "A Guide for Lost Travellers" (2021)
Remix by Bistro Boy

A Morning Song of a Cloudspotter - Bistro Boy Remix

Laug

Autumn of Communion - Letters To Theosebeia
Norken & Dokun vs. Futuregrapher - Interface Heart
Andartak - Dimensional Coil
Norken & Dokun vs. Futuregrapher - Túngata 29
Árni² - 606_DX7
Biogen - Lag 5
Autumn of Communion - Divine Water
Dimitar Dodovski - Lontano
Röskva - Kveðja
Ruxpin - Roadmap

Subminimal - Moatun Mini Mix

A selection of tracks that have been in my playlist rotation lately along with some of my own productions. 
1. Books - Roark
2. Kop-Z - Ways Of Relief
3. Subminimal - Konl 
4. Shiken Hanzo - Khans Of Takir
5. Subminimal - Restricted
6. Homemade Weapons - Echoes
7. Necrotype - Vespidae
8. Homemade Weapons - Ironhead
9. Artilect - Something Else 
10. Paranoid Society - Olga Royk2
11. Out Of Fuel - Number Six
12. Subminimal - Sync
13. The Untouchables - Cloak Of Levitation.
14. Homemade Weapons & Last Life - Lahar
15. Subminimal - Unreleased
16. War - Come Cross
17. Subminimal & Tranquil - Amsterdam

Subminimal selection #1

Lemons (2020 mix)

Oranges

2 Stunden_Demo

Möller Records is an Icelandic label focusing on electronic music. Run by musicians for musicians. Founded in 2011.

Sonord - You Are Xtrordinairy

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