Music For Dreams returns with the first volume of this year’s Copenhagen compilation, presenting the best material released in 2023 so far.

'Copenhagen 2023, Vol. 1' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

We’ve got 19 tracks for you orbiting our label’s signature Balearic sounds: the jazzy chillout, the sundrenched boogie, the melodic midtempo, all lined up to salute the summer rolling in.

From newcomer Wille we have what the irresistible ‘Frangipani’, a shimmering nu- disco track from his debut EP is sure to animate the blood flow. Ken Fan is on here with the brilliant ‘Under The Moon’, a nocturnal trip-hop-inspired track with ghostly vocals by Vicky Kroon. From Mike Salta and Mortale we have the recent single ‘Yaeyama’, a sumptuous piece of chillout adorned with silky organs and a breezy hand-pan lead.

Also featured is new work from Jacob Gurevitsch, Troels Hammer, Pepe Link, Willie Graff & Darren Eboli, Sauco, Ambala, a couple of islandman and Rheinzand remixes, Voice of Art, Subnesia and more.

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MUSIC FOR DREAMS welcome you to the sundrenched soul-funk palace of SANTINO SURFERS.

'Santino Surfers' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

This much awaited debut album masterminded by Danish Jonas Krag delivers nine tracks of lusciously wrought guitar sweetness traversing soul, jazz, funk and rock territory. Packed with sundrenched atmosphere and top-notch craft.

For Jonas Krag, the guitar has become something of a prosthetic limb. Spanning a twenty-year career, he has produced, written and played music with a wealth of artists on the Danish pop and rock-scene. Along the way, sketches of something more personal began to collect in his mind and with Santino Surfers these ideas have now crystallized into a fully-fledged artistic language.

What smolders beneath this music is an unabashed aural indulgence. The sound is luscious, warm and melodically rich from end to end. Nimble riffs and squirming solos arranged effortlessly around the rippling drums.

Take the gorgeously flowing structures of ‘Sunrise Swell’, the gentle psychedelia of ‘Who Ordered Fish’, the waxy 80’s-infused coolness of ‘Late Night Neon’ or the sprawling solo pageantry of ‘Three Corners One View’.

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We’re happy to present the latest installment of the infamous Sunset Sessions compiled by our very own Kenneth Bager. This eleventh volume in the series is packed with new and sparkling material to greet the summer twilight and send you spinning into the night.

'The Sunset Sessions Vol. 11' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

Kicking it off we have Be.Lanuit’s warm breeze of soul-infused Balearica by the title of ‘El Picador Telepathico’, featuring Danish guitarist Santino Surfers. Following up is the spiritually lounging ‘Eko Maina’ by chillout veteran Phil Mison aka Ambala feauturing beautiful Afro-Cuban vocals by Iyami Aje. And Ken Fan follows up with ‘Under The Moon’, a nocturnal trip-hop-inspired sound with gorgeous ghostly vocals by Vicky Kroon. Next up Colleen Murphy's Cosmodelica Remix of Jacob Gurevitsch 'Elevation In Minor, a true sunset gem.

We have some lovely sundrenched boogie from Willie Graff & Darren Eboli’s Tribeca Tapes-series, a luscious piece of jazzy chillout by Mike Salta & Mortale, a shuffling percussion dance from Subnesia, a twinkly 80’s inspired disco-thriller by newcomer Wille and much much more from the garden fresh catalogs of Music For Dreams.

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The Belgian artist and multi-instrumentalist is ready with another album. Circle Back comes as part of Vanbergen’s inspired-by-series: a run of albums written in inspiration by—and sometimes in cross-disciplinary collaboration with—special friends of the artist.

Circle Back (Inspired By Kadir Ferati Balci) →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

For this project Vanbergen turns to the Belgian filmmaker Kadir Ferati Balci as muse. Balci selected short fragments of his work, forming them into a kind of visual summaries of his oeuvre, ranging from films to docu. He added an extra dimension to these fragments, reversing parts and rendering everything in a circle.

The music is still a world unto itself. Eight jazz tracks each with a music video by Kadir Ferati Balci, accompanied by a hidden sequence, psychedelic sounds and alienating, contemplative, philosophical lyrics sung by Charlotte Caluwaerts.

The collaboration between Caluwaerts, Vanbergen and Balci is not new. On several projects Balci directed, the music was provided by the Vanbergen-Caluwaerts duo. This time, however, the music did not have to be functional, as was more the case with previous collaborations (docu about Stefan Hertmans, the series "Een Goed Jaar," the series "Storm Lara").

Vanbergen once graduated as a Jazz violinist at the Conservatory of Ghent. On this record he shows that. He enlists the help of Belgium's finest, Dre Pallemaerts and Lara Rosseel, on drums and double bass, and Charlotte Caluwaerts doesn't fail to show how broad her pallet has become over the years.

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A wide-ranging chilled journey with Dub, Afrobeats, BossaNova, 90's Trip-Hop, Jazz, Soul, Lo-Fi beats, Hip-Hop, Afro-Pop, Folk, and more.

Thank you Stevie Keys and the whole Bamboo hut team for having me.

Played live at Bamboo Hut, Haad Yuan, Koh PhaNgan, Thailand, on  17.08.23.

Featuring:

Willie Williams
VHOOR
Vânia Bastos
Tuca & Barata ft. Ely Camargo
Tipsy
Thoma cher
The Reflex ft .The Kooks
The Loneliest Hunk
Tekno Miles
Tekno Miles
Studio Rio
Snoop Dog x Magic Drum Orchestra 
Smoke City 
saib.
Sade
Rocky Marsiano
Rocker's Hi Fi
Rafael Aragon
Radio Tarifa
Prince Fatty
Nightmares On Wax
Ngozi Family
Mr. PC
Mop Mop
Moderator
Marvin Gaye
Marcos Valle
LLF ft. Bola Johnson
Lego Edit
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Kokoroko
King Most
King Most
Juls
John Barry Seven
Joe Cruz & The Cruzette
Jarreau Vandal
Isanyone readingthis ?
Ibu selva
Guaraci
Groove Armada
Gilberto Gil
Fat Freddy's Drop
Ernest Ranglin
El Gadzé
El Extravagante & Bob Marious 
Diana Ross
Dele Sosimi, Lokkhi Terra, Francesco Chiocci
Davido
Cutso
Culture
Cody Chesnutt
Carmen McRae
Burna Boy
Bomb The Bass
Bernardo Pinheiro
Be Svendsen
Barrio Latino
A Tribe Called Quest


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Tropical Chillout @ Bamboo Hut, Koh PhaNgan

Music For Dreams are proud to present Frecuencia, the next album by electronic artist Ken Fan, to be released on September 5th.

'Frecuencia' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

Since coming up as a DJ in the late nineties, The British-Chinese producer and DJ has founded an impressive career on his love for Balearic music. His ability to re-imagine the genre and advance its warm ethos into new sounds has made him a central presence on
the Balearic scene, figuring appropriately as Café Del Mar’s only inhouse resident DJ.

As a producer and artist, Fan proceeds from the same eclectic and imaginative spirit that earned his sets their special reputation. Through dubby downtempo, sweeping ambient and spectral trip-hop beats, Fan sustains a distinctive Balearic thread—a melodic and textural fullness that typifies his musical identity.

Frecuencia comprises nine tracks sketched out by Fan in his Ibiza home, on tour, in airports and hotels, and then finalized in the Music For Dreams studio in Copenhagen. The tracks range from the thrumming nocturnal air of ‘Under The Moon’ to the blissed
 out expanse of ‘Mariwo’ to the swirling gothic-electro of the title track. The album features collaborations and vocalists on several tracks, including Vicky Kroon, George Solar and vocal trio Iyami Aje who sing in both Spanish and Bantú.

Frecuencia follows Ken Fan’s debut LP of last year, Momentum of Love (Music For Dreams).

Supported by Koda’s Cultural Funds and Musik Forlæggerne.

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Over the past decade, Be.lanuit has made a name for himself in Ibiza, both as a DJ, artist and fashion designer. Across disciplines he radiates a deep-rooted bohemian spirit harkening back to the philosophy on which the Ibiza-scene was originally founded. This creative hearth of soulful hedonism has now borne a full-length album, one that reveals a sprawling composing talent and complete mastery of the melodic downtempo terrain.

Be.lanuit says:

“Hippie Picasso is an album inspired by the life of a hypothetical Pablo Picasso with a hippie soul. I have a deep interest in Picasso that sparked when a work by him caught my eye at the Louisiana in Denmark, incidentally on a trip with Kenneth Bager who runs Music For Dreams. Since then, reading his biographies and visiting Malaga where he was born, where the Mediterranean culture, especially through music, spreads out to the world.
  
The tracks revolve around Picasso’s artworks and moments in his life, all from the point of view of a dream of an imagined life on the island of Ibiza. The melodies are all reminiscent of the Mediterranean with flamenco airs, sometimes melancholic. Jazz has a subtle presence alongside the electronics. The Spanish classical guitar as well, one of his favorite instruments.”

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The album features a range of artists from around the world such as the legendary multi-instrumentalist Tupac Peralta, DJ Pippi, Melón Jimenez, Lara Wong, The Swan and The Lake, Jonas Krag, WALTHER and OliO.

Supported by Koda’s Cultural Funds and Musik Forlæggerne.

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Danish producer Dalholt reveals his first solo LP La Vie, a soul-nurturing batch of downtempo delights. The album will be released November 10th on Music For Dreams.

'La Vie' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

Mads Dalholt is previously known for his work as part of the duo Dalholt & Langkilde, whose 2015 album Sur Plus has been heralded as a modern classic in the downtempo genre. More recently, Dalholt has released an EP in collaboration with Bjarno (of Djuma Soundsystem).

This new LP, titled La Vie, continues Dalholt exploration of the melodic, soulful and dreamy terrain of electronic music. The music is produced in a hybrid setup of electronic and acoustic elements. Dalholt’s mixing of hardware synths and analog guitars, pianos and drums generates a warm and textured sound, which chugs along in deep rhythms and swelling melodics arranged around a well-travelled suite of vocal samples.

Like Dalholt’s previous material, La Vie, is a record that orients itself towards the Ibiza-scene and its surrounding realm. The artist is a notorious provider of sunset soundtracks on the while isle and has featured on notable Balearic and chill-out compilations such as Jockey Club, Milchbar and Buddha-bar.

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Music For Dreams are proud to announce the release of Jacob Gurevitsch’ new album 

'El Terreno' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

It is the fourth LP from the Danish guitarist with the Spanish guitar, whose world of misty, Mediterranean romance is charming listeners all over the world.

El Terreno is named after the neighborhood in Palma, Mallorca, in which Gurevitsch wrote it over the past couple of years. The tranquility and beauty of this setting is reflected in the music: eight songs of Gurevitsch’ Spanish guitar meandering through the cobblestone streets, idling on town squares frozen in the afternoon sun, drifting on the perfumed evening air.

Two special guests feature on the album. On ‘For Your Love’ the legendary Cuban jazz trumpetist Arturo Sandoval is invited to play along. And on ‘Santa Teresa’ the esteemed Danish rock singer Annisette lends her characteristic smoky phrases to the drama. Throughout the album, Gurevitsch’ Spanish guitar is accompanied by a band of drums, percussion, bass and keyboards.

The release of El Terreno comes after Jacob Gurevitsch’ national tour, which sees him play two sold out nights at DR Koncerthuset on November 1 and 2.

Supported by Koda’s Cultural Funds and Musik Forlæggerne.

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Back of house v.45

Label chief Kenneth Bager rounds up the very best tracks released this year on Music For Dreams. The compilation will be released digitally on December 29.

'Music For Dreams, Best Of 2023' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

The Copenhagen-based indie label has entered the third decade of its existence as a stronghold in the outer regions of pop and electronic music. The label’s ever eclectic output reflects the taste of its founder and man-in-charge, DJ and producer Kenneth Bager: a man as comfortable with campy sunbathed pop as he is with finespun minimalism and experimental electronic adventures. What is sought here at the Copenhagen offices is music with a personality.

As a showcase of the label’s current operations, Kenneth Bager here compiles the highlights from this year’s releases. “I think the selection of tracks reflects the consistent quality of output we’ve been able to produce. Our music is very eclectic and often outside the codes of conventional taste. But I think that is what sets us apart and why people keep listening to us,” Bager says.

The compilation comprises 25 tracks which run the full spectrum of MFD’s
offerings: from full-bodied Balearic anthems and funk-heavy house pop to
sweeping ambient landscapes and nebulous electronic experiments.

Check out such gems as the warm, cornucopian downtempo of ‘El Malagueño’ from Spanish Be.lanuit’s debut LP; the exquisite repose of Ambala’s ‘Quiet Yellow Purple’; the ethereal melancholia of Hess Is More’s ‘You And Me And Them’, the vulcanic funk of Julie Pavon’s house pop hit ‘Don’t Call Me or the ghostly electro-acoustic echoes of Prins Emanuel’s ‘Västan Vind’.

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The label Music for Dreams, initially released in 2001, is a sonic kaleidoscope of musical tones and colours. It is an exciting aural journey from label boss and founder Kenneth Bagers feeling for all things good as manifested in the diverse offsprings of the Music for Dreams label. The label has since its day of birth sold over 2 million albums and its artists have featured on more than 1000 different compilations worldwide. 

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