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December 13, 2017 Mischa Mathys

From me to you – An interview with Steven Rutter from B12

Steven Rutter from B12 has had a complicated history with electronic music. What should have installed him an Mike Golding into the annals of music, never really transpired, even though their records like Electro Soma and Time Tourist are considered modern classics today. We talk to Steven Rutter about how

November 8, 2017 Mischa Mathys

On the record – EP.2 with Robin Crafoord

Robin Crafoord is an artist, a DJ, and a facilitator and he warrants as one of the most innovative and progressive figures in Oslo’s electronic music scene. His musical career has been defined by a kind of all-encompassing machine music that has gone from Italo to Techno, and has always

October 11, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Hjemme med Dama – In conversation with Jan Mayen

In our digital age, music is no longer even a commodity item. It’s artistic value has long ago been monetised, but in the present it barely holds any commercial significance. Music being streamed, downloaded and even bought on a physical format like vinyl or CD, has no monetary value significance

July 27, 2017 The Formant

Chasing UFOs – A Q&A with Kjolbjørn Lyslo

Born into one of the most prolific regions and eras of electronic music, Kolbjørn Lyslo represents a community of DJs and producers that has probably been the most creatively fertile per square mile, and that’s including Detroit and Chicago. Growing up in Tromsø in the eighties, Kollbjørn was the younger

July 19, 2017 The Formant

A Space Between – An Interview with Drox

One day, during a torrential rainstorm in Sydney, Australia, Adrian Burns felt particularly inspired to make some music. With the internet down and his day job resigned to the back of his mind he felt a creative urge nudge at him. It had been two years since his last self-released

July 13, 2017 The Formant

WAVE∞FORM with Per Martinsen

Cold, industrial noises interject cold stark planes, with a thinly veiled layer of frost entombing the fragile sounds in their own resonances. Like a lifeless radar station starts spreading a dormant signal after years of inactivity, Per Martinsen’s latest project WAVE∞FORM slowly gestates into life. A wholly ambient project, WAVE∞FORM

July 8, 2017 The Formant

55 presents UFO Lounge

UFO Lounge (Kolbjørn Lyslo & Per Martinsen) Per Martinsen (Mental Overdrive) and Kolbjørn Lyslo (Doc L Junior) land their UFO lounge at Hærverk. Charting the outer dimensions of electronic music with a special back to back set, the two Norwegian stalwarts, forego bland functionalism of the dance floor in a grand narrative

June 5, 2017 The Formant

The Act of Art – A Q&A with Hilde Marie Holsen and Tyra Fure Brandsæter

A few weeks ago a cryptic message arrived on social media, talking about a performance at Galleri Ram and a request; to document an exchange between the artists involved as they explain the ideas behind the project. The message came from Hilde Marie Holsen, a musician who I have interviewed

June 1, 2017 The Formant

On the Record – EP. 1 with Kompressorkanonen

As we progress into the autumn years of our lives, priorities change. The beckoning call of nocturnal urges dissipate into a faint whisper only indulged when they grow too loud and we our preferences change to savour the more refined… possibly distilled and fermented fruits of life. Ours becomes an

April 10, 2017 The Formant

Concrete: A Q&A with Soft Armour

Incandescent tones, drone against the fabric of a sonic environment, scratching and clawing its way through a soupy miasma of synthesised textures. Moments of intense sonic excursions into alien territories open up onto a world of stark minimalist, cold landscapes that are redolent of the empty spaces they symbolise in