INSPIRED BY MUSIC LAB PRESENTS
ROAM THE STREETS FORTY ARTISTS FIVE FESTIVALS FIVE VINYLS ONE CITY AARHUS BERSÆRK/FUSSKALT/DRÖN/STONE CADAVER/MAGNIFIED EYE/DOUBLE SPACE/THE SILENT LOW/GREEN ORB/BLOOD LABEL/MØL/SAVAGE MACHINE/TONGUES/WOEBEGONE OBSCURED/ROAD TO MANILA/GESPENST/MORDTOR/ORGEL DUO/I THINK YOU’RE AWESOME/TIGERS MIND/ORNITHOPTER/ADDISABABABAND/BANGIN’ BÜLOWS NICE JAZZ QUARTET/ADMIRAL AWESOME/KASPER STAUB TRIO/CENTRAL/ SOFT ARMOUR/ISAKTELEFON/DJ SPORTS/2 BIT CREW/REGELBAU/JONGPADAWAN/MAIZENA/HANSSOLO/ATHLETIC PROGRESSION/HAHN SOLO & PERZON/NICOLAI HARTMANN/LIUD, NICHOLAIEN, MARKI SNØRE & DJ FMD/EYE N’ EYE/WHOGOTDRUMZ/THOR KVISGAARD & A.V.L. 1
ROAM THE STREETS Roam The Streets was a 2015-2016 series of five mini festivals and vinyl releases developed by Fonden VoxHall’s Inspired By Music Lab and executed in close cooperation with carefully selected curators. Each mini festival and vinyl release presented eight Aarhus bands from a certain genre: Aarhus Koger (Aarhus is Boiling), curated by Magnified Eye member and head of Osmium Records Torben Egebjerg, had its focus on hard rock, while Fuck You We’re From Aarhus, curated by musician and producer Jacob Bredahl, was all about metal. The Golden Years Of Aarhus, curated by connoisseur and Sun Ship man Rasmus Telling Poulsen, was dedicated to jazz, while Sammenstilling. Indblik i Aarhus’ Elektroniske Musik (Coupling. Insight Into The Electronic Music Of Aarhus), curated by musician and producer Natal Zaks, obviously was concerned about electronic music. Finally Aarhus Tager Den Tilbage (Aarhus Takes It Back), curated by connoisseur and head of Idiotsikker Records Jesper Nyboe, concentrated on hip hop. Every single one of the two day mini festivals were great successes with devoted and enthusiastic audiences. Meanwhile the very limited records, which were pressed in only 300 copies each, were very popular among the fans and pretty much sold out. Fonden VoxHall would like to thank all of the involved bands and curators as well as all the audiences.
CONTENT
AARHUS KOGER 6 BERSÆRK FUSSKALT DRÖN STONE CADAVER
MAGNIFIED EYE DOUBLE SPACE THE SILENT LOW GREEN ORB
FUCK YOU WE’RE FROM AARHUS BLOOD LABEL MØL SAVAGE MACHINE TONGUES
THE GOLDEN YEARS OF AARHUS ORGEL DUO I THINK YOU’RE AWESOME TIGERS MIND ORNITHOPTER
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2 BIT CREW REGELBAU JONGPADAWAN MAIZENA
AARHUS TAGER DEN TILBAGE HANSSOLO ATHLETIC PROGRESSION HAHN SOLO & PERZON NICOLAI HARTMANN
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ADDISABABABAND BANGIN’ BÜLOWS NICE JAZZ ... ADMIRAL AWESOME KASPER STAUB TRIO
SAMMENSTILLING CENTRAL SOFT ARMOUR ISAKTELEFON DJ SPORTS
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WOEBEGONE OBSCURED ROAD TO MANILA GESPENST MORDTOR
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LIUD, NICHOLAIEN, MARKI SNØRE ... EYE N’ EYE WHOGOTDRUMZ THOR KVISGAARD & A.V.L.
ROAM THE STREETS VOL. 1
a arhus
k oger Aarhus Koger presented eight of Aarhus’ finest, most promising and perspective hard rock acts. Curated by Magnified Eye member and head of Osmium Records Torben Egebjerg the limited edition vinyl and two day mini fes-
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tival showcased the following bands: Bersærk, Double Space, Drön, Fusskalt, Green Orb, Magnified Eye, Stone Cadaver and The Silent Low. Every band contributed with a new recording and a great concert.
FUSSKALT • BERSÆRK STONE CADAVER DRÖN • MAGNIFIED EYE
D THEOUBLE SPACE SILENT LOW GREEN ORB •
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DRÖN STONE CADAVER
MAGNIFIED EYE DOUBLE SPACE
THE SILENT LOW GREEN ORB
BERSÆRK Deeply rooted in the soil of Jutland Bersærk shouts their audience to life and leads them back to the days when a man was a man, a woman ready to fight and going berserk was something you did together. The musical universe is heavy, solid and forceful with the Nordic sound as the main nerve. The high explosive, Danish-language stoner rock that dominates the expression of Bersærk, calls on the inner wolf and gives the audience the opportunity to howl in unison.
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facebook.com/bersaerk traktoraction@gmail.com bersaerk.bandcamp.com
FUSSKALT Fusskalt is made up of a handful of experienced musicians from different parts of the Danish metal and rock scene. The band plays a fast-paced mix of stoner rock and desert rock without a hitch, inviting you to step on the accelerator and just drive toward the horizon without looking back. Among the band’s more prominent inspirations we find great bands like Mustasch, Red Fang, Monster Magnet, Clutch, Sasquatch, B.L.S. and Wo Fat.
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facebook.com/Fusskalt.dk fusskalt@gmail.com fusskalt.bandcamp.com
ROAM THE STREETS VOL. 1: AARHUS KOGER BERSÆRK FUSSKALT
DRÖN STONE CADAVER
MAGNIFIED EYE DOUBLE SPACE
THE SILENT LOW GREEN ORB
DRÖN The West Jutland references are prominent in the case of duo Drön. The music is simple and futile and has a hardness, which is not far from the landscape out west. The music draws on inspirations from 70’s British rock to the grunge of the 90’s and the motivation is to get a dynamic and hard-hitting sound out of the duo format. The heavy riff is vital when Drön creates a melting pot of distorted amplifiers, primal song, resounding boilers and snarling cymbals.
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facebook.com/dronweb lauritsen@gmail.com bandbase.dk/dronweb
STONE CADAVER Stone Cadaver combines 70’s hard rock and early heavy metal with elements such as doom metal and in that way creates a wonderful mix that easily conjures up a unique stoner rock sound that lies somewhere between giants like Kyuss, Electric Wizard and Black Sabbath. Stone Cadaver is a cauldron of punitive slow grooves and distorted, catchy and fast-paced riff that particularly in live settings makes quite an impression on the listener.
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facebook.com/stonecadaver stonecadaver@hotmail.com stonecadaver.bandcamp.com
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ROAM THE STREETS VOL. 1: AARHUS KOGER BERSÆRK FUSSKALT
DRÖN STONE CADAVER
MAGNIFIED EYE DOUBLE SPACE
THE SILENT LOW GREEN ORB
MAGNIFIED EYE With their lava rock Magnified Eye has been a prominent act in the Danish and European rock underground since 1999. Everything from small clubs to large festivals have witnessed the band’s riff storm, psychedelic atmosphere and melodic hooks seasoned with a crisp and bluesy harp. Magnified Eye is known as an intense, energetic and engaging live band, and with more than 150 live concerts behind them they always deliver razor sharp live performances.
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facebook.com/magnifiedeye fbjerkely@gmail.com www.magnifiedeye.com
DOUBLE SPACE Double Space distills the essence of genres such as sludge metal, stoner doom and noise rock into their own crystal clear vision that is incomparable epic groove rock. The band stands for a completely and utterly relentless onslaught consisting of crushing power riffs and strong solos and the band seems to never look back. Double Space formed in 2003 around the recording of some songs written by guitarists Mikko Mansikkala Jensen and Rasmus Rosenkilde Jensen.
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facebook.com/2xspace 2xspace@gmail.com 2xspace.bandcamp.com
ROAM THE STREETS VOL. 1: AARHUS KOGER BERSÆRK FUSSKALT
DRÖN STONE CADAVER
MAGNIFIED EYE DOUBLE SPACE
THE SILENT LOW GREEN ORB
THE SILENT LOW The Silent Low plays a catchy and captivating mix of hard rock, blues, metal, stoner rock, alternative rock and grunge and yet they sound completely different - a massive blend created and executed without any bullshit. The band’s four members combines many years of musical experience from bands such as Bullet Train Blast, The Burning and Second Society. The band play no bullshit rock with broad shoulders and an attitude that goes beyond the stage.
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facebook.com/thesilentlow thesilentlow@gmail.com thesilentlow.bandcamp.com
GREEN ORB Green Orb was formed in 2014 by four guys all known from other Aarhus stoner rock and space rock bands. In the new constellation focus is on heavy and psychedelic stoner rock - harmonic guitars and a technical as well as hard-hitting rhythm section challenge each other, and all of the band’s songs gradually intensifies before the major energy is released; sometimes in a relieving manner, other times in an even more escalating fashion.
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fuck you we’re from
aarhus Fuck You We’re From Aarhus presented eight of Aarhus’ finest, most promising and perspective metal acts. Curated by musician and producer Jacob Bredahl the limited edition vinyl and two day mini festival showcased the 12
following bands: Blood Label, Gespenst, Mordtor, Møl, Road To Manila, Savage Machine, Tongues and Woebegone Obscured. Every band contributed with a new recording and a great concert.
BLOOD LABEL • MØL
SAVAGE MACHINE • TONGUES
WOEBEGONE OBSCURED
R OAD TO MANILA
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ROAM THE STREETS VOL. 2: FUCK YOU WE’RE FROM AARHUS BLOOD LABEL MØL
SAVAGE MACHINE TONGUES
WOEBEGONE OBSCURED ROAD TO MANILA
GESPENST MORDTOR
BLOOD LABEL Blood Label has via countless shows over the years gained a reputation as an extremely intense live band, and with their genre bending approach to metal, they’ve manifested their place as one of the biggest talents on the underground metal scene in Denmark. Fusing the immense energy of extreme metal with the more melodic qualities of rock, they deliver powerful metallic anthems packed with intense, hook-ridden vocals, catchy riffing and machinegun drumming.
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facebook.com/bloodlabel booking@bloodlabel.com bloodlabel.bandcamp.com
MØL Møl was formed in 2013 by two dark men, who wanted to make a path for themselves, after they’d been wandering around in existence. After a short time other dark men came onboard. Many intense, harrowing days in the practice chamber later - buried in concrete Møl’s first EP was conceived in a sphere of hunger for living souls. In the summer of 2014 the group let go of their offspring, who has since hovered and spread a screaming light over the black abyss.
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facebook.com/moeldk moeldkband@gmail.com ...
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SAVAGE MACHINE TONGUES
WOEBEGONE OBSCURED ROAD TO MANILA
GESPENST MORDTOR
SAVAGE MACHINE With live performances alongside Artillery and DragonForce, it’s easy to see where Savage Machine draws their inspiration. The band revives the old school heavy metal and carry on the torch of the metal kings. The band’s five musicians, who are all significant players in the metal underground, are ready to peep up to the surface and conquer the world. Pounding basslines, galloping guitars, thundering drums and screaming vocals. This is true heavy metal at its best.
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facebook.com/savagemachineband shout@savage-machine.com savage-machine.com
TONGUES The black/death/doom band Tongues was formed in 2012 by Thorbjørn and Qvortrup, who in the autumn of 2014 released their debut EP “Thelésis Ignis” on the Italian label I, Voidhanger Records. Tongues’ sound is characterized by grim and ominous soundscapes that range from dark and meditative rhythms to dissonant melodies and sudden brutal outbreaks, all of which are tied together by a constant apocalyptic, mysterious and dark aura.
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facebook.com/tungerne ... tungerne.bandcamp.com
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SAVAGE MACHINE TONGUES
WOEBEGONE OBSCURED ROAD TO MANILA
GESPENST MORDTOR
WOEBEGONE OBSCURED Arising from the ashes of Danny Woe’s 10 year old black metal project Rimfrost Woebegone Obscured reincarnated in 2003. The new foundation and reason to exist was built upon funeral doom, but this time around it was important to the band’s members to follow a completely uncompromising expression without restrictions of any kind. Woebegone Obscured is all about painting dark atmospheric soundscapes of the nature in the mind of the listener.
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facebook.com/woebegoneobscured woebegoneobscured@hotmail.com woebegoneobscured.bandcamp.com
ROAD TO MANILA Road To Manila, originally from Fredericia, is one of the leading melodic hardcore bands in Denmark. The music is influenced by inspirations from a lot of different genres and hereby mixes the energetic style of hardcore music with very melodic and atmospheric melodies. The band has experienced rapid growth over the last few years, especially outside the Danish borders, where they’ve played most of their concerts doing several tours of Europe and Russia.
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facebook.com/roadtomanila roadtomanila@gmail.com roadtomanila.com
ROAM THE STREETS VOL. 2: FUCK YOU WE’RE FROM AARHUS BLOOD LABEL MØL
SAVAGE MACHINE TONGUES
WOEBEGONE OBSCURED ROAD TO MANILA
GESPENST MORDTOR
GESPENST Gespenst has the early 90’s black metal as their starting point and shrouds the genre in an obscure haze of atmospheric passages whose shuffling steps carries the mind into the emptiness and the echoes of the dead. Formed back in 2008 as a one-man band the 2016 edition of Gespenst consists of members from bands like Woebegone Obscured, Glorior Belli (live), Dwell and ex-Horned Almighty. The band’s first LP, “Forfald”, will be released in the coming months.
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facebook.com/gespenstband ... gespenst-dk.bandcamp.com
MORDTOR Mordtor is made up of members who have worked with prominent other bands such as Illdisposed, Barcode and Hell’s Domain - the line-up consists of Lasse Gee (guitar), Mortor Rahm (drums) Knud T. (vocals) and Lars Knudsen (bass). The band mixes together elements from thrash metal, death metal and hardcore in a brutal and at the same time melodic new expression. With a blink of the eye Mordtor plays a great mix of German speed metal and British scream metal.
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facebook.com/mordtor mordtor666@gmail.com ...
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the golden
years of
aarhus The Golden Years Of Aarhus presented eight of Aarhus’ finest, most promising and perspective jazz acts. Curated by connoisseur and Sun Ship man Rasmus Telling Poulsen the limited edition vinyl and two day mini festival showcased the following bands: AddisAba18
baBand, Admiral Awesome, Bangin Bülows Nice Jazz Quartet, I Think You’re Awesome, Kasper Staub Trio, Orgel Duo, Ornithopter and Tigers Mind. Every band contributed with a new recording and a great concert.
OI THINK RGEL DUO YOURE AWESOME TIGERS MIND • ORNITHOPTER
A DDISABABABAND
B ANGIN’ BÜLOWS NICE JAZZ QUARTET
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TIGERS MIND ORNITHOPTER
ADDISABABABAND BANGIN’ BÜLOWS NICE JAZZ QUARTET
ADMIRAL AWESOME KASPER STAUB TRIO
ORGEL DUO The duo consists of Daniel Sommer and Simon Eskildsen and is the culmination of the two’s longtime musical friendship and cooperation. Orgel Duo stands for a solid, danceable and not least surprising jazz experience when armed with the organ, synth and drums they invite the listener into their very own musical universe. The boundaries between genres are blurred and the only thing that remains is their immediate communication with each other and the audience.
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I THINK YOU’RE AWESOME What came first - the music or the despair? People are worried about children playing with guns, or watching violent videos - worried that some kind of violent culture will take control over them. Nobody cares about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about deep sorrow, rejection, pain, despair and loss. Did I begin listening to pop music because I was desperate? Or was I distraught because I listened to pop music?
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TIGERS MIND ORNITHOPTER
ADDISABABABAND BANGIN’ BÜLOWS NICE JAZZ QUARTET
ADMIRAL AWESOME KASPER STAUB TRIO
TIGERS MIND Tigers Mind was formed in SPLAB’s rooms in Mejlgade almost six years ago where they initially called themselves the selfproclaimed terrible name Thomas Eiler Trio. No band sounding like this, had deserved such a dismal band name and with focus on free jazz, electronica and minimalist composition, they found a name worthy of tours in Europe and Japan. In the spring of 2016 they release their second album - the first released through the international label, JVTLand.
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ORNITHOPTER The jazz orchestra Ornithopter has taken its name from an airplane that moves by flapping its wings up and down like a bird. In the same way the orchestra’s sound is characterized by excellent themes that carries the many different improvisations out and back again. The music draws on the legacy of Ornette Coleman among others, but can also give associations to the wild New Orleans parades, that embrace the raw brass sound and use the blues as a base.
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TIGERS MIND ORNITHOPTER
ADDISABABABAND BANGIN’ BÜLOWS NICE JAZZ QUARTET
ADMIRAL AWESOME KASPER STAUB TRIO
ADDISABABABAND AddisAbabaBand is a 12-13 piece band from Aarhus, who plays intense and swinging afrobeat. The band has been around since 2010 and has played countless concerts in Aarhus and the surrounding area, where the repertoire has gradually been explored and expanded. The music is written collectively which means that the music unfolds like a glowing bastard of everything from free jazz and psychedelic rock to west coast funk and traditional African grooves.
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facebook.com/addisabababand addisabababand@gmail.com www.addisabababand.com
BANGIN’ BÜLOWS NICE JAZZ QUARTET In just two years BBNJQ has become a celebrated name on the Danish jazz scene - their debut album “BBNJQ” landed them a Danish Music Award as the Best New Danish Jazz Artist 2014. Despite the band’s short life they’ve toured Norway, Russia and Guinea. The band members see BBNJQ as their very own musical laboratory where talented soloists meet in an almost telepathic interplay. BBNJQ is helping to shape the future of jazz, and is a band to watch out for.
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TIGERS MIND ORNITHOPTER
ADDISABABABAND BANGIN’ BÜLOWS NICE JAZZ QUARTET
ADMIRAL AWESOME KASPER STAUB TRIO
ADMIRAL AWESOME Admiral Awesome plays the self-invented genre kapow jazz. As the name suggests, kapow jazz is hitting, humorous, massive, swinging, rebellious, straight from the heart, adventurous, beautiful and sentimental. Admiral Awesome is inspired by countless corners of the jazz history and mixes it all in a highly explosive kapow jazz cocktail of quirky ideas. With humor and irony, but also with something at stake they deliver the music with a faithful dedication.
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... mail@admiralawesome.dk www.admiralawesome.dk
KASPER STAUB TRIO Over the years the three young musicians in Kasper Staub Trio have come up with their own sound and musical aesthetics. The trio has been compared to everything from Carl Nielsen-ish meekness and Jan Johansson-ish folklore to Paul Bley-ish free jazz, and the trio takes pride in letting compositional and instrumental inspirations go across the conventional genre boundaries. The trio has released two albums “/” (2012) and “Port Plate” (2014).
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s ammen stilling indblik i aarhus’ elektroniske musik Sammenstilling. Indblik i Aarhus’ Elektroniske Musik presented eight of Aarhus’ finest, most promising and perspective electronic acts. Curated by musician and producer Natal Zaks the limited edition vinyl and two day mini festi-
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val showcased the following bands: 2 Bit Crew, Central, DJ Sports, Isaktelefon, Jongpadawan, Maizena, Regelbau and Soft Armour. Every band contributed with a new recording and a great concert.
CENTRAL • SOFT ARMOUR
ISAKTELEFON DJ SPORTS • 2 BIT CREW
REGELBAU • JONGPADAWAN
M AIZENA
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ROAM THE STREETS VOL. 4: SAMMENSTILLING CENTRAL SOFT ARMOUR
ISAKTELEFON DJ SPORTS
2 BIT CREW REGELBAU
JONGPADAWAN MAIZENA
CENTRAL In recent years Aarhus based artist Natal Zaks has been working with various forms of club-oriented music under the alias Central. Often Central’s music has an immediate and almost impulsive feeling to it and the sound is quite often raw but of course there are arguably many exceptions to the rule if one dig into Central’s whole body of work. In 2013 Natal Zaks started the record company Help Recordings with his brother Milán.
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facebook.com/regelbauaarhus ... soundcloud.com/regelbau
SOFT ARMOUR Behind the electronic music project Soft Armour one find CR Hougaard. He has been an important part of the local electronic scene in Aarhus since 2009 and has created an impressively wide range of ambient releases on cassette and CD-R (Space Program, CR Hougaard & Forvarsel). Musically Soft Armour builds further on and expands the ambient sound scapes and explores the atmospheric varieties of techno in an expressively unique way.
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facebook.com/crhougaard ... crhougaard.com
ROAM THE STREETS VOL. 4: SAMMENSTILLING CENTRAL SOFT ARMOUR
ISAKTELEFON DJ SPORTS
2 BIT CREW REGELBAU
JONGPADAWAN MAIZENA
ISAKTELEFON Isaktelefon conjures up a very rare and rousing kind of electronic live music on his hardware. With the help of tools like drum machines, synthesizers and samplers his music consequently sounds different each time he’s expressing himself using the aforementioned tools. The music of Isaktelefon varies from ultra slow to ultra fast and it works perfectly well whether you want to dance or think - in an astounding way it suits both scenarios.
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facebook.com/regelbauaarhus ... soundcloud.com/regelbau
DJ SPORTS Milán Zaks has a great interest in the many different ways of electronic music, and gradually he has established himself in the electronic environment of Aarhus under the alias DJ Sports. Here he explores a more rhythmically oriented sound, which, however, remain focused on the melodic elements of the sound. The music has a naive as well as playful expression. Along with his brother, Natal Zaks, Mílan Zaks founded the record company Help Recordings in 2013.
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facebook.com/regelbauaarhus ... soundcloud.com/regelbau
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ISAKTELEFON DJ SPORTS
2 BIT CREW REGELBAU
JONGPADAWAN MAIZENA
2 BIT CREW The duo 2 Bit Crew consists of C.K. and O.P.T. who make electronic music. Since the beginning in 2012, they have released their material on various American and Spanish record labels, and they even started their own label in 2013. 2 Bit Crew’s earlier material derived much inspiration from the deep house of the 90’s. In the newer material focus is on simple repetitive elements and breaks which aim to to create grooves that drives the duo’s music forward.
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... contact2bit@gmail.com soundcloud.com/twobitcrew
REGELBAU Regelbau is a collective comprising of 11 producers and DJ’s from Aarhus. Originally the group had its headquarters in an old bunker in Aarhuc C where they engaged themselves in their common interest in DJ’ing, records and music production. The ambition to spread the joy of music made open parties the natural continuation of Regelbau and they’ve since aimed at organizing parties that has the finger on the pulse. They’ve released two EP’s of experimenting house.
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ISAKTELEFON DJ SPORTS
2 BIT CREW REGELBAU
JONGPADAWAN MAIZENA
JONGPADAWAN The electronic composer Mads Bering makes music under the alias Jongpadawan. The music, which mainly leans towards hip hop and instrumental beats, is also inspired by other genres and styles, which is clearly reflected in Jongpadawan’s material. One can hear a mix between a digital and an organic sound in the music, that creates a unique and particularly breathtaking sound universe. Jongpadawan released his debut EP “Far Away” on Greased Up Records in 2014.
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facebook.com/jongpadawan contact@jongpadawan.com jongpadawan.com
MAIZENA Maizena makes electronic music of the rhythmic and ambient kind. “Luxus Rhythms”, the band’s debut, was released on C40 in the summer of 2015 on local Help Recordings. The members are individually active on the electronic scene of Aarhus, but are also to be found internationally. Maizena sets up the frames for a free space build on simple and repetitive aspects that tests the listener’s patience. The band consists of Manmade Deejay, DJ Sports, C.K. and Central.
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facebook.com/regelbauaarhus ... soundcloud.com/regelbau
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a arhus tager d en tilbage Aarhus Tager Den Tilbage presented eight of Aarhus’ finest, most promising and perspective hip hop acts. Curated by connoisseur and head of Idiotsikker Records Jesper Nyboe the limited edition vinyl and two day mini festival showcased the following bands:
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HansSOLO, Thor Kvisgaard & A.V.L., Eye N’ Eye, Hahn Solo & Perzon, WhoGotDrumz, Athletic Progression, Nicolai Hartmann and Liud, NicholaiEn, marki snøre, DJ FMD & Aske. Every band contributed with a new recording and a great concert.
A THLETIC PROGRESSION H AHN SOLO & PERZON N ICOLAI HARTMANN • THOR KVISGAARD & A.V.L.
L IUD, NICHOLAIEN, MARKI SNØRE & DJ FMD
E YE N’ EYE WHOGOTDRUMZ • HANSSOLO
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HAHN SOLO & PERZON NICOLAI HARTMANN
LIUD, NICHOLAIEN, MARKI SNØRE... EYE N’ EYE
WHOGOTDRUMZ THOR KVISGAARD & A.V.L
HANSSOLO HansSOLO is a young producer and member of the American hip hop crew Pro Era. He has already supplied beats to many international rappers. A list that among others includes names such as Joey Bada$$, CJ Fly, Dessy Hinds, The Voyagers, Sincere and Flo Kennedy. In addition, he also provided the music for the Danish rapper Eric’s forthcoming album. But he also works for himself - as an example the number “Abundance” has been played 150,000 times on SoundCloud.
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facebook.com/hanssolo.denmark hanssolo@live.dk soundcloud.com/hanssolo-denmark
ATHLETIC PROGRESSION The instrumental group Athletic Progression from Aarhus embraces jazz, soul and hip hop. They play atmospheric jazz hop that lets the listener linger, but also makes you want to dance. The band consists of Jonas (piano), Jonathan (drums), Justo (bass) and Ole (guitar). Athletic Progression mixes soul/jazz and hip hop and creates a sound that has many facets. The music has a relaxed feeling and playful approach to it, and the rhythms and evocative harmonies merge.
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HAHN SOLO & PERZON NICOLAI HARTMANN
LIUD, NICHOLAIEN, MARKI SNØRE... EYE N’ EYE
WHOGOTDRUMZ THOR KVISGAARD & A.V.L
HAHN SOLO & PERZON Hahn Solo is a 26 year old rapper that resides in Aarhus. Along with his producer Perzon, he has found his dusty place in the hip hop scene. The productions have a clattering, sample-based boom-bap sound with a modern angle, that creates a perfect foundation for Hahn Solo’s text universe. Lyrically the rapper is operating in a dominating punch line inspired territory, but often mixes this with deeper and more personal aspects of both his life and environment.
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NICOLAI HARTMANN Nicolai Hartmann is a sample-based beat maker whose expression is greatly influenced by dirty sounds and organic drum programming. In recent years, however, he has moved into new directions - he produced the debut of the spoken word group De Skjulte and is currently working on a conceptual instrumental album based on abstract hip hop and trip hop. Nicolai Hartmann is active in the underground of Aarhus and has several projects in the pipeline.
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HAHN SOLO & PERZON NICOLAI HARTMANN
LIUD, NICHOLAIEN, MARKI SNØRE... EYE N’ EYE
WHOGOTDRUMZ THOR KVISGAARD & A.V.L
LIUD, NICHOLAIEN, MARKI SNØRE & DJ FMD Three generations of hip hop meet when Liud, NicholaiEn, marki snøre and DJ FMD flip their style on top of a production by Aske. Liud is one of the new hopes in the hip hop environment of Aarhus and NicholaiEn, who previously rapped under the name K-Liir, is now back on the scene after taking a break. marki snøre is known as one of the biggest rap talents in Denmark and has performed with Manus Nigra and DJ FMD is simply a true legend of hip hop in Aarhus.
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EYE N’ EYE Eye N’ Eye is the alias of the Aarhus rapper Victor Nyland. Inspired by rappers like Talib Kweli, he started at age 13 to rap with the goal of making it his way of expression. Four years ago, the now 21 year old MC set out on a quest to find himself in music. Eye N’ Eye is the result of this quest - a mix of soulful, catchy, serious and entertaining hip hop told with stories from personal experiences. Music that makes you bop your head and think at the same time.
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ROAM THE STREETS VOL. 5: AARHUS TAGER DEN TILBAGE HANSSOLO ATHLETIC PROGRESSION
HAHN SOLO & PERZON NICOLAI HARTMANN
LIUD, NICHOLAIEN, MARKI SNØRE... EYE N’ EYE
WHOGOTDRUMZ THOR KVISGAARD & A.V.L
WHOGOTDRUMZ Sample based and instrumental hip hop is the starting point of the beatmaker WhoGotDrumz, who’s heroes count people like Madlib, DJ Shadow and J. Dilla. At the same time, however, he has a strong love of the classic dusty boom-bap. The musical expression leans first and foremost on an immediate and undogmatic play with samples - with tons of respect for both the sample material and all WhoGotDrumz’ many sources of inspiration.
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THOR KVISGARD & A.V.L. Thor Kvisgaard is a lo-fi/boom-bap producer from Skanderborg. Thor is mostly active on his SoundCloud profile and in October 2015 he released his first official EP “Homegrown” via the Swedish label Ninetofive Records. The Aarhus rapper A.V.L. previously rapped over the instrumental track “Fade” which became “Fade - freestyle”. A.V.L. makes it sound so easy without letting the listener have the slightest doubt about his flow and lyrical messages.
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