Odd music from cold countries

[thepigjockey]

Been listening to a great ambient compilation by an Icelandic label, uni:form. I want to find out more about Icelandic music (apart from múm, Sigur Ros, and of course Bjork) and also where I can buy anything on this label. Any ideas? Had a dig on the net but couldn't find anything promising.

Also bought some great music from Estonia by a band called Opium Flirt. Kind of difficult to categorise but really good. Seems to be self published and the CD cover says it was recorded on a 4 track. Highly recommended.

[penciLneck]

the uni:form stuff sounds right up my street. which one have you got?

just listening to some ruxpin now. (not teddy)

thule closed down in 2002 according to discogs. maybe why you can't find it easily.

[aleks]

einoma (verticalform) and traject (spezialmaterial) are from iceland ... it´s not odd, but good.


check jacob krikegaard´s eldfjall mad out of geothermal recordings of vibrations in the ground around the area of krisuvik, geysir, and myvatn in iceland.

[spoon]

ulmeplaadid from estonia is a very nice label!

http://www.ulmeplaadid.ee/

also, stilluppsteypa from iceland are worth checking out, i'd recommend their album 'the immediate past is of no interest to us' on bottrop boy. if you like the mego label you might like them.

[V Knid esq]

Mugison and Trabant are both mad genre-mashers from Iceland. I especially like Mugison's stuff... it's sort of like Beck if he smoked crack. Johann Johannsson (http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=15828) is great too - absolutely beautiful orchestral ambient stuff. I'd love to visit Iceland.

http://www.exo.net/~pauld/TomTits2000/iceland/bluespring.jpeg

TRUFAX: Iceland is self-sufficient in bananas.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

On a tangent.. The Norwegian arctic dronester Biosphere is currently touring UK picturehouse cinemas with a film set to his music.

http://www.biosphere.no/news.html

In Brighton next Sunday.

[V Knid esq]

I love Biosphere :)

We had a dream last night. WE HAD THE SAME DREAM.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

hehe. I do still really like that album.

I haven't heard dropsonde or whatever it's called.. the last things I heard were the tracks on that 'Touch Light' album.. and the performance at the royal festival hall with fennesz and Hazard... lovely blurry films with that.

I'm gonna book tickets for the brighton showing actually.

[aleks]

maybe this might be of interest: www.lampse.com

[aleks]

or this http://www.fonal.com/

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

We had a dream last night. WE HAD THE SAME DREAM.

A free Litre of Norwegian snow to anyone who knows what film the sample came from...

[V Knid esq]

I always assumed it was Village Of The Damned... but I can't place where it would be in the film.

[KaOz]

fonal rules

[V Knid esq]

Haha no way! The Krays!

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Haha no way! The Krays!

hehe.. yeah i saw it recently and was very surprised :)

[thepigjockey]

the uni:form stuff sounds right up my street. which one have you got?

just listening to some ruxpin now. (not teddy)


It's a double album compilation called uni:form presents 42 More Things To Do In Zero Gravity. It's got some Ruxpin tunes on it. Found it in the library. Good Sunday pie making music :)

thule closed down in 2002 according to discogs. maybe why you can't find it easily.

Ah I see, will try and find some secondhand Thule stuff then.

@everyone- cheers for the tips.

[thepigjockey]

Found this (http://www.basterdized.net/F/Ruxpin_Basterdized_Session.mp3 ) Ruxpin mix on another forum. Just downloading it now...

[Ladytron]

Ruxpin is a great musician and a great young fella. i like his music. pitty he isn't on this forum.

[wheezer]

I've listened to Dropsonde and it's a bit jazzy for my tastes... still quality stuff though.

I've been picking up loads of weird 7"es recently, Killer is a cool Norwegian drone/ambient label which also has Birchville Cat Motel appearing on one release. Another one is Tore Honoré Boe, also Norwegian drony music, sounds like he's doing something with spoons on the 7" I have, but I may be wrong.

[thepigjockey]

Biogen has a couple of albums online- listened to Mutilyn just now while traipsing round the fleamarket, very dark, noisy and atmospheric, a bit like Biosphere (no, I don't know if they're related). Anyway, that album is here (http://mutilyn.com/audio/mutilyn/) and the other one, Youarestrange, is here (http://mutilyn.com/audio/youarestrange/).

[wheezer]

Oh yeah, the Finnish artist Es is cool too, featured on the Invisible Pyramid compilation, that incidentally is well good.

[solitary_zen]

Mugison and Trabant are both mad genre-mashers from Iceland. I especially like Mugison's stuff... it's sort of like Beck if he smoked crack. Johann Johannsson (http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=15828) is great too - absolutely beautiful orchestral ambient stuff. I'd love to visit Iceland.



And HOH - as well as the collaboration with Sigur Ros, has collaborated with Current 93 quite a few years ago (Island, also featuring Bjork on one track).

[penciLneck]

Found this (http://www.basterdized.net/F/Ruxpin_Basterdized_Session.mp3 ) Ruxpin mix on another forum. Just downloading it now...

thanks for the great mix spotting, really enjoying them. ;)

[Kino]

anything on DUM, coldness isolation & moomins in every groove.

case anyone aint heard but is curious on the 'we had a dream last night' from biosphere/krays i done a clip when got distracted in an advert thread [novelty waves off lp was in an ad] which is still in my putfile thing so might as well link it.. here (http://media.putfile.com/BioPhantasm)

[ivan]

don´t know the artist.. but it was kick ass... me and rob were watching this documentry about two swedish fellas going throu siberia on ski´s... took them 11months in -42" degree. rough as hell.

but in the middle somewhere they meet this fellow " a jakut " that was 84 years old and lived in the coldes area of sibera. -60" and he refused to wear gloves cause that where for sissys........ ok anyway. he sang some bad ass shit.

HHHHAAAAA JAAAH, WAAAH IIII OOOO ÄÄÄÄÄIIIHH AAAA HÅÅÅÅÅ BIIII WIIII PÅ P ÅPÅÅÅÅ VÅÅÅÅÅ HAAAA.... miaow!

he also had a horse.

[Ladytron]

you must be talking of "throat singing" which i sreally great. it's when they can produce two or more notes simultaneously or unusual textures/timbres through special vocalization and resonance of the throat. it's used in Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva (situated North-West of Mongolia), surrounding regions, South Africa, as well as among few other Siberian peoples, such as the Chukchi from the far north of Russia or the Ainu of Northern Japan. there also sime kind of throat singin in some part of Sardinia and Monte Negro.

was is something like this: click (http://folklora.lv/pasakumi/reportazas/20040118/21rikles.mp3)

[Kino]

cool stuff.

not long before Zappa died there was a documentary on BBC2, part had studio soirée footage where he'd assembled Johnny Guitar Watson, Irish folk band the Chieftains, and a couple of Mongolian throat singers who looked like they'd just been plucked straight from off a mountain, all to do a session together... Zappa looked ill as fuck but still doing mad stuff like that.

"HHHHAAAAA JAAAH, WAAAH IIII OOOO ÄÄÄÄÄIIIHH AAAA HÅÅÅÅÅ BIIII WIIII PÅ P ÅPÅÅÅÅ VÅÅÅÅÅ HAAAA.... miaow!"

sounds wicked too :)

[cut out]

that ruxpin basterdized sesh is the business.... is it his tunes or a mix... i cannae remember my login to b'dized so can't check without reregistering (too lazy/buzy at moment)

[thepigjockey]

that ruxpin basterdized sesh is the business.... is it his tunes or a mix... i cannae remember my login to b'dized so can't check without reregistering (too lazy/buzy at moment)

haven't listened yet, so i dunno if it's mixed, but according to the tracklist it's all ruxpin stuff.


PS re. throat singing- there's a great Mongolian band called Yat Kha who do the throat singing in a punky style, although the traditional stuff I've heard (which as far as I can remember is acapella) is fantastic too. Surprised no-one's tried remixing it yet, although the KLF used a throat singing sample on Chill Out.

[thepigjockey]

A mix on this (http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/) blog appears to have lots of tunes from Northern Europe on it, you can find it under the heading 'fishing for april'. Haven't heard it yet but it's got some Mika Vainio on it so it could be good.

[big raff]

I love Biosphere :)

We had a dream last night. WE HAD THE SAME DREAM.what was this track called? want to slsk it.....cheers...

[thepigjockey]

Phantasm. I think.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Nope as already said.. It's from The Krays.

Dunno what the track is called but its the first track off 'Patashnik' (spelling?)

[big raff]

cheers guys!

[thepigjockey]

This Norwegian record label are apparently giving away some free MP3's (oops, nearly typed MP's..), haven't had time to check it yet but here's the link: http://www.miasmah.com/music/index.html

[wheezer]

Some more class Finnish acts I believe I recently mentioned to you:

- Tomu Tonttu
- ES
- Kuupuu
- Kulkija
- Doktor Kettu
- Avarus

All great weird folky drony stuff, Kuupuu and Tomu Tonttu have to be my recent faves

[thepigjockey]

Some more class Finnish acts I believe I recently mentioned to you:

- Tomu Tonttu
- ES
- Kuupuu
- Kulkija
- Doktor Kettu
- Avarus

All great weird folky drony stuff, Kuupuu and Tomu Tonttu have to be my recent faves

Thanks. I only have one of these- Es' Sateenkarisuudelma LP, which is relaxing Sunday music. It was on Boomkat if anyone's interested, status is currently 'sold out', but you can still listen to it- http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=19937

Shit claim to fame: my girlfriend went to school with at least one member of Avarus. We have one of their 7"s and it's, as you say, folky droney.