Track from NE86 Anthony Linell – Dissolution Process EP
Out on digital and 12" June 27th

Throttling his focus into a number of studious and reflective releases in the last years, Anthony Linell's new EP breaks for a chaotic descent into a sinuous and muscular syntax to reveal some of his most refined yet ravenous works. Seamlessly arranged, each track finds a unique way of balancing syncopation to kindle unease at the peaks.

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Dissolution Process

Anthony Linell – Dissolution Process

Track from NE88 Evigt Mörker – Två portar EP.
Out on 12" and digital October 7th

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome
http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Restless with giddy excitement and fidgeting through candescent swells, Evigt Morker's latest EP deploys a familiar, playful edge to degrees that were only hinted at in previous excursions. Ecstatic polyrhythms compound the wealth of fizzy details into prudent club missions with a bright yet rugged edge.

Evigt Mörker – Två portar

Track from NE87 Rune Bagge – Grab a Star

Out on LP and digital December 2nd

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome
northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Marking his third for Northern Electronics, Rune Bagge's new album, Grab a Star, narrates a melancholic thread through a brilliantly luminous astral-electro scene. Carving an achingly delicate relief through six tracks, there's a neon hinge to the emotive mechanisms at work, offsetting the meditative armature with sheer torque and a blustered spirit.

Rune Bagge - Allima

Rune Bagge – Fade Away (Touch The Sky)

Track from NE93 Anthony Linell  — Sheltering Skies EP

Out on 12" and digital May 26th.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

Anthony Linell – Illusion Self

Track from NE93 Anthony Linell — Sheltering Skies EP

Out on 12" and digital May 19th.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

Sheltering Skies

Anthony Linell — Just to Feel Anything

Track from NE94 Varg2™ — 10 år av skog, natt & stjärnor

Out on cassette and digital May 26th.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

Varg2™ — I en oändlig sorg / Jörn

All tracks written and recorded by Melina Åkerman Kvie.
Mastered by Nori Kin
NE90

Vallmo - Bisho

Track from NE90 Vallmo – Othem LP
Out on LP and digital September 8th

For her second release on Northern Electronics, Vallmo (appellation of Melina Åkerman Kvie) strengthens her proficiency towards an electronic elevation with each and every track being a crevice offering kaleidoscopic gleams into a poetic narrative extracted from the slightly auto tuned yet softly metallic voice. What Virgil is to Dante, the piano is to the listener: a fragmented leitmotif and a guiding cicerone into the nimbus that is 'Othem'.
Dual in nature, the album comprises seamless transitions between divergent idioms, figuratively as well as literally. A false dichotomy conveying the opposing pairs tender and bold, distinct but evading and with a direction every so often forward as inward. 'Othem' is an opus in equal parts melancholy, magic and mimesis.

Mixed by Nori Kin
Artwork by John Gustafsson, Graphics by Jonas Rönnberg
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

Vallmo – Othem

Track from NE98 Anthony Linell – Advanced Transcendent Evolution. 

Out on cassette and digital September 8th.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

Advanced Transcendent Evolution

Anthony Linell — Quds (Ramallah Version)

Track from NE92 Matti Bye – Between Darkness and White Snow LP. Out on vinyl and digital December 8th.

Matti Bye is a renowned film music composer and experimentalist, known for some of the most beautiful and melancholic scores in Swedish (and beyond) cinema the past two decades.

The prolific Swedish pianist and composer has long been associated with Northern Electronics, appearing on well-enumerated compilations and collaboration-rich works. This is the first time he presents his own full-length recording with the label.

‘Between Darkness and White Snow’ captures Bye’s elemental radiance in four vignettes. Recorded on a 1926 Steinway Grand Piano through an EMS Synthi A, ‘Between Darkness and White Snow’ renders the perplexity of polarity with a grave assembly of textural phenomena and lyrical figures. As ephemeral harmonic mazes wilt into subdued distortion, we are left with a tentative invitation to gaze into the pooling material of Bye’s compositions.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab
Photo by AL
Static visual by AL
Moving visuals by Matti Bye
Words by Patrick Quick

Between Darkness and White Snow

Matti Bye – Between Darkness and White Snow IV

Track from NE103 E-Saggila Gamma Tag
Out on CD and digital January 26th.

Visual by Dominique Saiegh
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

”The euphonic tics of E-Saggila's music are typically found in symbiosis with the exacting intensity of her rhythmic arrangements, as meticulously deranged as they are. 'Gamma Tag' refreshes expectations by making more space for melodic conditioning and inculcation, whipping ultraviolet harmonics into uncanny plains for a wide range of tempos and cadences.
While breaks remain staccato hammers, and kicks are cast to negate cardiac systems, E-Saggila's modulation of rhythmic dynamics is more pronounced, affording a resonance and balance that had previously been mentioned but not yet entirely explored. On more measured pieces, such as 'Amnesiac' and 'Tick', the searing digital signal envelops the horizon line, twisting the mechanics of the tracks until they burst with electromagnetic nectar.”

E-Saggila – Gamma Tag

Track from NE96 Ulwhednar - Area 08

Out on 2xLP and digital December 8th.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

“The collaborative project of Northern Electronics' founders, Anthony Linell and Jonas Rönnberg, has never ceased to confront with their coupling of industrious delirium and pensive austerity. By now we know that only adrenaline can make sense of the toxic ensemble of purposes at the heart of Ulwhednar. Meditating on higher flights of thrill and disorder than their previous record, and with an acknowledgement of their Stockholm roots, 'Area 08' induces fever and anticipation with every gesture.
The opening tracks make a raucous yet resolute introduction to proceedings, eventually issuing one of the album's most exquisite moments of reprieve with 'Akalla/Broken Swords'. However, it is the second half of 'Area 08' that formally admits their latest work has crossed a threshold yet unexplored by the pair. A suite of villainously propulsive tracks spit embers of caustic balms as they careen out of reach with the engorged march of 'Commuter Madness'."

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Area 08

Ulwhednar - Terra Nova/C20 Drive

Aired on Swedish Radio in 2023 for the 10th anniversary of the label. Produced by Andreas Tilliander and Mats Almegård.

Elektroniskt I P2 w/ Northern Electronics 10 Years

Track from NE97 Sonja Tofik – Respire
Out on LP and digital on May 23rd

Distributed worldwide by www.spacecadets.world

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

With 'Respire', Stockholm's Sonja Tofik presents a collection of works that cluster around themes of disunion and contemplation. In two halves, tiers of synthetic materials are layered into sullen reveries with organic components and concrète treatments, and as the obscurity of their genesis reaches a crescendo, these delicate and foreboding compositions find further means of communication the more they blister and bloom.

Sonja Tofik – In Refuge

Track from NE24 Abdulla Rashim - A Shell of Speed

Pre-order: http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Abdulla Rashim - A Shell Of Speed

NE27 Ulwhednar - Om syndernas förlåtelse

Recorded by Ulwhednar in Sofia 2013 - 2015

Buy: http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Ulwhednar - Om syndernas förlåtelse 3

Track from NE1 Varg - Misantropen

Pre-order: http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Varg - Náströnd

Track from NE31 Acronym - Guadalquivir

Pre-order: http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com


Acronym - Cleansed in Fire

Track from NE39 Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City
2x12", CS & Digital

Orders from March 27th at http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Artwork by Cali Thornhill DeWitt
Mixed by whitearmor
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Varg - Red Line II (127 Sätra C) with Yung Lean

Track from NE43 The Empire Line – Rave LP

Photography by George Nebieridze

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Pre-order: https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

"The Empire Line present six cyclonic episodes for confined spaces on their debut album, 'Rave.'

Comprised of Posh Isolation's Christian Stadgaard (Damien Dubrovnik, Vanity Productions), Jonas Rönnberg (Varg), and with Isak Hansen (Iron Sight) on tantrums, the trio's marauding live shows have been translated into a slippery set of pummelling techno works, watermarked with florid noise.

'Rave' is a celebration of contemporary rave culture, focused on the everlasting and transcendent as the night slips out past the day. With living-for-the-weekend hedonism irretrievably converted into a manicured, violent cliché, building new worlds and forging new modes of intimacy takes an exceptional sincerity. Naming some of the crews closest to The Empire Line in the album's titles, their spaces are examples of just how rave culture persists as a transgressive stronghold in people's lives.

Ranging from k-hole anthems to jacking, close-range sessions, 'Rave' still bears the traces of the group's experimental background, ensuring the tension is kept up through the catharsis."

The Empire Line – Fast Forward (Intet glemt, intet tilgivet)

Track from NE61 Ulwhednar – Razor Mesh Fencing
Out on 2xLP and Digital on March 29th.

The relentless stride of Northern Electronics can be put down to the attitudes of its owners, Anthony Linell and Jonas Rönnberg. Their collaborative project, Ulwhednar, has been shapeshifting at the centre of the label since its inception, and has captured their hard line electronics in its many guises.

Following on from 2017's 'Modern Silver', their new album reprises the intensity by grappling with its themes from a refreshed perspective. Crossing Norrland, the northernmost part of Sweden, and graffiti incidents and exploits, 'Razor Mesh Fencing' tracks the fervour of operations left undercover with blistering rhythmic pieces.

With only brief moments of respite on 'Razor Mesh Fencing' its stamina perpetually keeps us on the edge. Winding around its paths, our escape is in its adrenal crescendo.

Recorded by Anthony Linell and Jonas Rönnberg in Sofia, Sweden 2018
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Razor Mesh Fencing

Ulwhednar - Through Gates of Ice

Track from NE58 Varg – Sky City: A Weak Heart to Break (Spit)
Out on vinyl and digital May 3rd.

Part curse, part declaration, part Rorschach test, Varg's new collection of EPs is a barely balanced inferno. Side by side, raw club burners arrive from the wretched plateaus levelled out by chaotic neurotransmissions, while sweet and soft anthems take the pain away.

The first EP, Sky City: Even in the Heart of Heaven, Angels Can Still Feel Fear, affirms Varg's deft and agile take on techno. Here minimalism spars with blissed out programming, unafraid to pepper sedate hooks with intricate percussive rufige. With each track's eyes on the raving kru, Varg restates his permit to take it to the floor. It's foreboding, but it always has been—and Sky City: A Weak Heart to Break (Spit) makes this its method. Launching itself under the opening track's dazzling melancholic sweep, the EP loses its way in every direction at once by the last track's glitching gabber meltdown. Fair warning is required for the demonic and cosmically unhinged piece of rhythmic noise that begins the second side.

Artwork by David von Bahr
Production assistance by Anthony Linell
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Sky City: A Weak Heart to Break (Spit)

Varg – A Weak Heart To Break (BD 4-Ever)

Track from NE64 Evigt Mörker – Krona 2xLP
Out on 2xLP and digital September 27th.

Following up his pair of cryptically luminous EPs for Northern Electronics in the past years, Evigt Mörker presents his debut album, Krona.

With a shuffling atmosphere that’s hard to pin down, the album chronically fixates on the degradation and construction of rhythmic drills with finely rendered parts and patterns. Spiralling the listener through a set of stormy soundscapes, Krona keeps placing the horizon just ahead, and just out of reach. The unease that Evigt Mörker invites us into is electrically charged and threatening to crack. For all its syncopation we are relentlessly swerving through the works, afraid of teasing an arcing static shock from the blistering commotion. The album’s propulsive tracks are settled against a pair of stunning ambient compositions that capture some of the tension from a distance. Technical dexterity and perfectly pitched intensity stakes out Evigt Mörker’s debut album as an impressive statement.

Recorded by Evigt Mörker in Stockholm, Sweden 2018.
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome.
Artwork by Jonas Rönnberg

Evigt Mörker - Etisk piska

Track from NE67 Anthony Linell — Core Field Horizon 
Out on 12" and digital December 12th

This time Anthony Linell cuts his peerless supply four ways in four tracks. Short on hubris, and economical to the point of being cruel, 'Core Field Horizon' relents in all the right places to make the effects of its peaks and troughs impossible to defend against. The opening track is a deluge. Spinning on its hydro-blasted synth line, the gravitational pull erases and ensnares in equal disordering measure. On its heel is the EP's title track, an austere display of the venom in the seam between his club-focused work and his experimental output. 'Evaporating Entities' is one of Linell's most diaphanous works to date, and after weaving through the sky we are abruptly subjected to the gravity of the closing track's nerves.

Recorded by Anthony Linell in Stockholm, Sweden 2019
Mixed and mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome
Artwork by JB

Core Field Horizon EP

Anthony Linell — Crystal Storms

Track from Varg2™ — Fuck Varg
Out on 12" and digital December 12th

'Fuck Varg' is Varg2™—the artist formerly known as Varg—at his most chaotic and ornate. Streamlining a plethora of techniques and motifs into his inimitable and fearless style, there's reckless charm and misanthropy turbulently sequenced to perfection.

The EP comes with baggage. The German metal band Varg issued a cease and desist letter earlier in the year to the artist now known as Varg2™. It is an obvious enough move for a band that cites pagans as an influence and theme, but it is a move that nevertheless affirmed a preference for ceasing to exist. 

Charting a route through the cybergothic psychedelia of the opening track, to the wistful anthemic charge of 'Thirst (Dressed in Nothing But UV Paint and Biodegradable Glitter)', and finally landing on the peak dead-eyed sermon of 'Parasites (Honest Music for Dishonest People) ft. G19',  the digital EP's presentation rounds off on a lean and severe remix from VTSS.

It's an EP of restlessness, ruins, and ecstatic keyboard mashing because there's not an emoji that's demonic enough.

Recorded by The True Varg aka @skaeliptom2 in Copenhagen, Kyiv & Tbilisi 2019
Mixing Assistance by Malte Fischer
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome
Artwork by David von Bahr

Fuck Varg

Varg2™ — Thirst (Dressed in Nothing But UV Paint and Biodegradable Glitter)

Track from NE67 Anthony Linell — Core Field Horizon
Out on 12" and digital December 12th

This time Anthony Linell cuts his peerless supply four ways in four tracks. Short on hubris, and economical to the point of being cruel, 'Core Field Horizon' relents in all the right places to make the effects of its peaks and troughs impossible to defend against. The opening track is a deluge. Spinning on its hydro-blasted synth line, the gravitational pull erases and ensnares in equal disordering measure. On its heel is the EP's title track, an austere display of the venom in the seam between his club-focused work and his experimental output. 'Evaporating Entities' is one of Linell's most diaphanous works to date, and after weaving through the sky we are abruptly subjected to the gravity of the closing track's nerves.

Recorded by Anthony Linell in Stockholm, Sweden 2019
Mixed and mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome
Artwork by JB

Anthony Linell — Evaporating Entities

Track from NE74 Various Artists — Scandinavian Swords IIII: Atlas of Visions Pt. I
Out on 3xLP and digital June 12th.

The fourth instalment of the Scandinavian Swords series breaks with its predecessors’ forms. Deviating from the austere brevity that marks Northern Electronics out, Scandinavian Swords IIII: Atlas of Visions completes a survey of the label’s confidants and components in the same breath as it introduces a swarm of new artists and genre-collisions.

With the swell of the last 12 months behind them, Anthony Linell and Jonas Rönnberg have forged the compilation with a paradoxical formula: Atlas of Visions stakes itself as a milestone release that retains the sure-footed programming of its proprietors yet cuts a new silhouette for what the platform of a Northern Electronics release consists of.

Presented across two volumes, Atlas of Visions courses through the hyper-pigmented and infectious fallout zone between club-focused works and the abstract territories of experimental modes. The release compiles egression and intensification into a pandemoniac whole, a refracting design for fractured times.

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome.
Graphic design by Jonas Bard.

Scandinavian Swords IIII: Atlas of Visions

The Empire Line - Træt av lagen, træt av Systembolaget

Track from NE80 Varg2™ - Norrskensflamman
Out on CS and digital on November 6th.

Norrskensflamman – roughly “the northern lights flame” was a communist newspaper of Luleå that in 1940 suffered a sinister and cowardly attack. Their only crime was fostering a dream of a better world. A fairer world built on camaraderie, equality and peace. Only to see it go up in flames. 

Using an explosive charge fitted to the printing press, a violent fire broke out leaving five people dead. Among them two children. Devoured by the flames in a wicked blaze of a bizarre aurora borealis. In the subsequent investigation a conspiracy emerged, consisting of soldiers, officers and a journalist colleague, but shockingly also the local chief of police. Varg2™ bestows upon us an homage to Norrland, an album embracing collaborations with local abilities, driving spirits and heroes of the north. Varg2™’s bright and brilliant flame continues to enlighten and lead the way like a lantern for the feet – a pole star for the mind.

Recorded by Jonas Rönnberg in Ursviken, Sweden 2020
Side A featuring The Lapin King & CTM
Side B featuring The Lapin King, Jeuru & HforSpirit
Artwork: Depiction of Toivo Lundmarks ’Flammanmonumentet’, 1998.
Mastered by Noah Kin.

Norrskensflamman

Varg2™ — Norrskensflamman A

Track from NE81 Evigt Mörker - Enande måne EP
Out on EP and digital March 19th. Pre-orders on Bandcamp from March 5th.

'Enande måne' is Evigt Mörker's first release for Northern Electronics since his artful debut album, 'Krona.' The fizzy bliss of melancholia's brutal truths have rarely been explored this thoroughly by Evigt Mörker until now. Though often riding the torque of his caustic moments with a playful, ebbing refrain, these four tracks lead with the elation.

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome.
Artwork by Jonas Bard.

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