Angela Flame Biography

Varied in influences, Angela Flame expresses a sound that is rich and unique. Her own artist experience aspires one to read just as much.

Singapore’s true female techno warrior has a DJ career spanning more than a decade. From her legendary driving techno sets during the heat of the local scene in the 90s at venues such as Area 22, Liquid Room and Sessions @ Zouk, AF’s sound has advanced to a bridging edge creatively blending the classics with the new. She showcases a knowledge and respect for the depth of electronic music in all its complexity, not one to be waylaid by trend. Reading like a United Nations rollcall, AF’s list of tours include: Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, India, Mexico, USA, Holland, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia, UK and Poland. Of which, Germany and in particular its electronic music mecca, Berlin, stands out as being her place of residency for 3 prominent career years from 2001-2004. With Berlin as her launch pad, AF performed at world-famous gatherings and clubs including Tresor (Berlin), Awakenings Festival (Amsterdam), Future Shock Party (Croatia) and Love Parade parties (Berlin). From intimate club environments

To 10,000-strong festivals, AF has stretched her sound across bodies and nations more than she could ever imagine.  It was also in Berlin where her foray into production began, resulting in releases on labels AsianDynasty (Japan) and and a double-disc DJ Mix – Essential Underground Vol. 05: Berlin / Singapore with Frank Muller on DJ-sets.com. Her track “Fire Walk with Me” received airplay on BBC Radio 1 show ‘The Breezeblock’.

Having travelled the world, AF returned to do what she loves and knows best – the music. Exploring the experimental reaches of this vast domain comes with a turn towards digital platforms and its limitless boundaries. With a harness of current technology, AF continues to move forward into the future of techno, which is when it all began.

" LA JOURNEE ∆V∆NÇAIT ET, EN PROIE À CETTE TERREUR SOLENNELLE QU'INSPIRE LE SILENCE BL∆NC, LES VOY∆GEURS S' APPLIQU∆IENT À LEUR TÂCHE S∆NS PAROLES." JACK LONDON

Send us your demos for Friends & Family Records! fandfdemos@gmail.com

The future:

08/11 Ormside, London (UK)
21/11 NE x Headframes, Kiruna (SE)
12/12 Tresor, Berlin (DE)
19/12 Under Bron, Stockholm (SE)
20/12 Astron, Athens (GR)
31/01 Industrial Copera, Granada (ES)
13/02 TBA Tblisi (GE)
06/03 Under Bron, Stockholm (SE)


Requests/Booking:

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The cohesive array of depth charged devices that Anthony Linell has produced is formidable. From his opening statements as Abdulla Rashim on his early label of the same name, right through to his recent work that puts his aliases aside, there is a robust and rigorous intent that compounds the elemental strategies of techno's models to apprehend his singular vision.

Presiding over Stockholm's Northern Electronics label with Varg (Jonas Rönnberg), Linell dispenses with mechanisms of attention on all fronts. Marked by an indefatigable self-reliance, the label presents exactly what it means to display, and no more. Carving an idiosyncratic platform for his music is as great of a warning as there could be that Linell's leveraging little toward the benefit of the audience. By his measure, the familiarity and comfort of contemporary techno is stripped back to its rushing heart, the senses left tailgating the strobe in a fit of intuition over decision. The greater this is exposed the colder it gets, and its in these extremes that Linell's caustic rhythmic precision hits. Live, it comes off as a galvanizing strike from the outside; analysing the room as a DJ, it's a case of being pursued through the dark.

Just as the brevity of Linell's output in the eyes of techno is exalted as it is brought into focus, the background to this blurs as you start to decipher his other projects. Lundin Oil skirts the fringes of noise and experimental music, and in collaboration with Varg as Ulwhednar, this is perhaps even more pronounced.

Purposively ricocheting between the techno world and experimental electronic music, Linell forges a distinct passage that gathers the aesthetically uncompromising motifs and missions from across this spectrum. It's this combination and resolve that's brought Linell to the world's attention, however little that attention has been solicited.

British artist and composer based in Helsinki, Finland

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