In a world where anything is available at your fingertips and mass consumerism and media has gentrified music into pre-defined packages, digging for new and interesting music has both gotten easier and harder. We constantly have to wade the shit to find those hidden gems, but with the internet we
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Robin Crafoord | Asbjørn Blokkum Flø | Ernst van der Loo (live modular set) It begins as a blank canvas, a realm of endless possibilities. An incipient creation where void and everything exists at the same time, fertile with a nascent artform existing between the trilogue of creative concept, performer/artist
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Stochastic Resonance propagate an artistic intent in their music that forms a congruous flow of creative ideas, from live shows to apps through musicians to label/collective and back, forging something significantly their own in a time of consumerist media and perfunctory listening experiences. In a time when the ubiquitous brown,
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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
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