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A collection of Understated Theory tracks from over the years.

Taken from various albums as below;
https://sparkwoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/juxtapparition
https://sparkwoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/critical-drift-ep
https://indigolabcolincrighton.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/understated-theory
https://www.facebook.com/understated.theory/

New material in production.

Juxtapparition

Understated Theory

Chill Out

Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

Get the limited edition 12" exclusively on Record Store Day 2015.
Order the album on 2xLP/CD/DL: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP062
Or order the album DL via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/kiasmos

After dropping several tracks and performing at select festivals throughout the years, Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen dedicated the year 2014 to explore the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop, with their collaborative electronic project Kiasmos.

By focusing solely on their self-titled debut album, Ólafur and Janus have been able to combine and further develop their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music. Made in Ólafur’s newly build studio in Reykjavík, Iceland, a majority of the album was recorded using acoustic instruments next to a variety of synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. It features a live drummer, string quartet and Ólafur performing on the grand piano, producing an ambient, textured sound, which makes it a perfect home listen and equally danceable record. If you listen closely, you can spot them record the thumb piano, finger snapping and even the sound of the metal grinder of a lighter slowly to replace the usual electronic hi-hat sounds, giving the album a far more intimate and unique atmosphere.

“We decided to start almost completely over with this record, so most of the material is written this year with the idea of making a record that can stand as one piece rather than a collection of songs. I am very excited to get a proper record out exploring a different territory than I am used to. I touch a lot on electronic genres in my own music but never have the opportunity to go full out electronic like we do here.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“The Kiasmos project has been around since 2007, but because of all our other projects we never really got the time to sit down and write all the tracks we always wanted to. So when we early this year finally found the time to sit down and make a full length album there was so much we wanted to try out. The result surprised us a bit, it's deeper and more emotional than we imagined it to be, but that's the beauty of being able to make an album.” – Janus Rasmussen

Kiasmos – s/t will be released on Double-Vinyl, CD and Download via Erased Tapes on October 27th, 2014.

TRACK LISTING: 

1. Lit  2. Held  3. Looped  4. Swayed  5. Thrown  6. Dragged  7. Bent  8. Burnt 

LIVE DATES:	

17.08. HAMBURG (DE) - Dockville Festival			
26.09. BRUSSELS (BE) – Bozar Electronic Arts Festival
27.09. DEN HAAG (NL) – Todays Art Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:  	facebook.com/kiasmos · erasedtapes.com

Kiasmos

Looped

Buy 12"/DL

Kiasmos – Looped

Alloy

From the brand new album, Something in The Sky, by Indigolab & Colin Crighton (out 21st April 2014) - http://indigolabcolincrighton.bandcamp.com/ 

Thanks for listening. 



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Understated Theory - Until Later

Featuring Minette Fourie: 
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https://www.facebook.com/minette.music
https://twitter.com/minettefourie



I Will Wait (Feat. Minette)

home

Tears

For the Ambient Online forum collaboration album - 2015.

Please visit www.ambientonline.org.

Falling Into Stars

TYMELAPSE - Small Feet Leave Big Marks

Listen to an exclusive “Solo Piano Edit” of 'Them' by Nils Frahm, taken from his approaching Late Night Tales album. The original version appears on his score of the film 'Victoria'. 

"This is the main theme from my first feature film score and it soundtracks the part where they finally kiss in the club… I soloed this piano part in the track and listening to it on its own, I almost preferred it to the original version, so I was pleased that I had the chance to use this alternative version on my mix." - Nils Frahm

Follow Late Night Tales:

Web: http://latenighttales.co.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/latenighttales1
Twitter: http://twitter.com/LateNightTales
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/latenighttales
YouTube: http://youtube.com/latenighttalestv
Instagram: http://instagram.com/latenighttalesofficial
Spotify: http://goo.gl/Q98T7d
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/curator/late-night-tales/1233898093
Bandcamp: https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/

Nils Frahm - Them [Solo Piano Edit] (Late Night Tales: Nils Frahm)

Order 7"/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP073
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/lifestoryloveandglory

Erased Tapes artists and friends Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm have separately carved out a musical career that defies genres both with their unique live shows and a loyal fan base that’s always eager to hear what their prolific output will bring. 

Their latest collaborative 2-track release ‘Life Story Love and Glory’ is a live improv affair on two pianos, recorded in 2012 at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin. Fans may wonder why they have waited until 2015 to release these tracks, but having revealed a new website www.arnaldsfrahm.com you may think this may not be the end to their musical story this year. 

“We would meet in Reykjavik or Berlin with the intention to share some days off work, hiking, swimming or eating pizza. That is great for a couple days, but after a while we would always end up back in the studio, fiddling with synths or pianos.” – Nils Frahm 
“You can hear in the beginning of ‘Life Story’ how I have already started playing the piano whilst Nils is still moving microphones around and preparing everything. It was all kept in!“ – Ólafur Arnalds 

‘Life Story Love and Glory’ will be released as a 7” on Erased Tapes – exclusively through record stores only on August 21, 2015 ahead of its digital release later on – as an ode to this classic and beloved format. 

More info: www.arnaldsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Life Story Love And Glory

Life Story

Buy 7"/DL

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Life Story

Coming soon...

Somewhere between now and the future, a hunt begins in the blue neon space before darkness. The near dark.

Gideon Wolf’s new album lives in the headlights on that empty road, sweeping the distant violence at high speed. A soundtrack to the escape from a Ballardian dystopia.

‘Near Dark’ sees the duelling elements of Tristan Shorr’s musical output merge into one; prophetic ambience driving headlong into rhythm and distortion.  

Think Ben Frost and Max Richter colliding in a futuristic urban landscape – “a vertical Kubrick event horizon that is equal parts Nils Frahm and Oren Ambarchi” (Cyclic Defrost).

Mastered with precision by James Plotkin, the album will be limited to 200 copies, for release in September 2015, with packaging in the customary Fluid Audio style.

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

Gideon Wolf - Hunger

Another piece using a similar setup to "Beyond The Infinite". This one has a TD sensibility but not entirely. Its doing its own thing in a vintage sort of way. Swirly Mellotrons, Moog Basslines, ARP rhythm elements.

Adrift

out now on pause:
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rain, pt. 2

From the full-length debut album by Understated Theory, titled "Juxtapparition", Out now!
https://sparkwoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/juxtapparition
Following on from the mid 2015 ‘Critical Drift’ EP released through Sparkwood Records comes ‘Juxtapparition’. A full length release which explores much darker territories; mixing ambient post-rock with deep droning atmospherics and downtempo electronica. Weaving amid waves of fuzz tinged drones, fractured beats and hints of twisted melodies, the sound envisages a dark panorama in which the listener is left to bring their own interpretation.

Understated Theory - Apparition

hang on every word

From the 2015 album, Juxtapparition. 

Available to download or purchase a handmade CD digipak here - https://sparkwoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/juxtapparition

Thanks for listening.

www.facebook.com/understated.theory
http://www.sparkwoodrecords.com/
https://sparkwoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/juxtapparition

Understated Theory - Solitary Demons

Taken from Juxtapparition, available as a digital download or handmade CD digipak through Sparkwood Records... thanks for listening!
https://sparkwoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/juxtapparition

Understated Theory - Juxtapparition - 07 Decoy

02 - Hawa Sun Hawa - Alka Yagnik, Sonu Nigam

w&p by Andrey Sonniy & Mitya Terkin(Moscow, Russia)
Microcosmos Records
http://microcosmosrecords.com/va-cahaya-dari-jiva/

Sonnie Mishki - Lost Planet (Mushroom Lab touch)

w&p by Oivier Aubin & Olivier Abitbol (France)
Microcosmos Records
http://microcosmosrecords.com/va-cahaya-dari-jiva/

Wavespell - White Wispers Dub

w&p by Oleg Belousoff (St.Petersburg, Russia)
Microcosmos Records
http://microcosmosrecords.com/va-cahaya-dari-jiva/

Astronaut Ape - Your Personal Sun

When I first heard Re, it put a huge smile on my face. I was fascinated by the delicate honesty in the recording. Sometimes one great idea can trigger many streams of thought - this was such a derivative, and I've worked to preserve the fragility of the original, while letting the electric guitar have a nice conversation with Nils's piano. Hope you enjoy it, and have as much fun as I had working on it - Sridhar

Lyrics:

We, we are empty
We are empty

It's the same design
should've been 'cause of a reason
He spent his time
to search and find a solution

How could it be?
How could it be?

He stood aside
never got into the meaning
He gave his life
but never tried in believing

How could it be?
How could it be?
We, we are empty
We are empty

Song art licensed via Creative Commons from flickr user Vinoth Chandar http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinothchandar/6168933212/

Nils Frahm - Re (We are Empty, Sridhar rework)

Small independent label based in Norway, with focus on ambient, drone and left field electronic music.