Bedroom Community is an Icelandic record label and collective established in 2006 by longtime friends and collaborators Valgeir Sigurðsson , Nico Muhly and Ben Frost . Later on the crafts of the versatile artists Sam Amidon , Daníel Bjarnason and Puzzle Muteson were added to the intimate roster. Read More

by Tobias Carroll In June of 2011, Ben Frost & Dan el Bjarnason's S LARIS was performed at Alice Tully Hall, as part of the New York edition of the Unsound Festival. As projections inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky's 1971 adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's novel hovered over the stage their images, courtesy of Brian Eno... Read More

Photo by Alex Zhang Hungtai -- Dirty Beaches ' Alex Zhang Hungtai and minimalist  William Cody Watson recently curated a free compilation, Expressway , for experimental label Bathetic , highlighting the scene fueled by  Night-People Records . The compilation features new tracks from both Dirty Beaches and Watson as well as Wet Hair, Tonstartssbandht, Speculator, Ela Orleans, Cough Cool, and more. -- Broken Social Scene 's Justin Peroff and Liam O'Neill and Dave Hamelin of the  now-disbanded group  the Stills have formed a new band, Eight and a Half . Their self-titled debut album is due April 10 from Arts&Crafts; , preceded by the "Scissors" b/w ...

Here in Berlin, we're eagerly gearing up for the launch of Club Transmediale , an annual festival dedicated to advanced club music, experimental sound and multi-media. This year's theme is "Spectral," a topic that will resonate with listeners who have been tracking recent developments in hauntological audio and capitalist meltdown alike. The festival begins this Friday, January 27, with the opening of the Ghosts Off The Shelf exhibition featuring installations and works from the likes of Felix Kubin and Ursula Bogner; it kicks off in earnest next Monday, January 30, and runs through Sunday, February 5, with a packed ...

We asked A Winged Victory For The Sullen ’s Adam Wiltzie to talk about five artists that have influenced his music in some way, and he did just that. Three of them are alive, and two of them are dead. Regardless of their current state, Wiltzie has picked five pretty amazing people. Before we get into that, make sure you catch A Winged Victory For The Sullen play their first UK shows this month at the following dates: 14/01/12 : Academy 3 - Manchester (UK) 15/01/12 : Oran Mor - Glasgow (UK) 16/01/12 : Cecil Sharpe House – London (UK ...

Ben Frost & Daniel Djarnason together have created a deep space abyss of an ambient album. The question is, do you want to take the trip? Music Player (reviews):  05 - Reyja.mp3 06 - Cruel Miracles.mp3 read more

Ben Frost " Stomp " ( Scanner Remix), a track on the Yule 2011 compilation of Bedroom Community If you buy something in December (hurry up) @ Bedroom Community website you get it for free! Full track list: Puzzle Muteson — Will You Love Me Tomorrow Nico Muhly — Once in Royal David's City Daníel Bjarnason — Spindrift / Montauk in February Remix Valgeir Sigurðsson — Flesh and Wine and Firewood Ben Frost — Stomp / Scanner Remix Nico Muhly — The Holly and the Ivy Ben Frost — The Gravity of Numbers Daníel Bjarnason — Air to Breath / Montauk in February Remix Sam Amidon — How Come That Blood / FM Belfast Remix

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Rjó minn published a TOP 20 of Icelandic albums @ Arslistinn 2011 1. Só ley - We Sink 2. Sing Fang - Summer Echoes 3. Björk - Biophilia 4. Ham – Svik, harmur og dauði 5. Nolo - Nology 6. Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Sólaris 7. Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Miner's Hymns 8.-10. Ofvitarnir - Stephen Hawking/Steven Tyler 8.-10. Low Roar - Low Roar 8.10. Helgi Hrafn Jónsson -Big Spring 11.-13. Þórir Georg - Afsakið 11.-13. Ragga Gröndal - Astrocat Lullaby 11.-13. Mugsion - Haglél 14.-17. Sólstafir - Svartit sandar 14.-17. Of Monsters and Men - My head is an animal 14.-17. Lay ...

Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason: Sólaris (Bedroom Community, 11/8/11) Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason: "Reyja" Last year, Mat Schulz, who started Poland’s Unsound Festival, asked composers Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason — each residents of Reykjavík, Iceland — to rework Andre Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Sólaris. For both Frost and Bjarnason, their collaborative album Sólaris is [...]

Due date a gennaio per Ben Frost: 27 @ Auditorium del Carmine (Parma), 28 @… Ben Frost in Italia pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

Das Londoner Label Rough Trade veröffentlicht am 16. Januar die mittlerweile elfte Ausgabe seiner "Electronic"-Reihe exklusiv über den hauseigenen Vetrieb. Die Mitarbeiter der beiden Rough Trade-Shops in London sind auch für die Auswahl der Tracks verantwortlich. Dabei präsentieren sie eine handverlesene Selektion stilsicherer, frischer und minimalistischer Musik aus dem elektronischen Sektor. Neben gediegeneren Tönen von Nicolas Jaar oder Solar Bears, gibt es auch Experimentelles von Flying Lotus , sowie amtliche Tanzflächenfüller von Hercules And Love Affair und Azari & III . Eine unverzichtbare Sammlung für alle, die an einem Überblick über wichtige Entwicklungen in der elektronischen Musikszene der letzten Monate interessiert sind ...

Rough Trade Shops are set to release new compilation album 'Electronic 11' on January 16th. In addition to being a fine music emporium, London's Rough Trade is also responsible for a series of top compilations. The ongoing Electronic series is due to receive another instalment, with Electronic11 set to drop on January 16th. The wide ranging comp has a loving curated tracklisting. Rough Trade Shops have earned a reputation for piecing together prize comps, and Electronic 11 shows no signs of letting this reputation slip. Opening with Rene Hell, the album covers most of the main threads running through ...

Bedroom Community made a special Christmas compilation album with previously unreleased material; Yule 2011 . Like least year, the album will be free to download exclusively with every purchase made through the web store throughout December. The album contains previously unreleased music by Valgeir Sigurðsson, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon, Daníel Bjarnason and Puzzle Muteson , including remixes by Scanner, FM Belfast and Montauk . Puzzle Muteson — Will You Love Me Tomorrow Nico Muhly — Once in Royal David's City Daníel Bjarnason — Spindrift / Montauk in February Remix Valgeir Sigurðsson — Flesh and Wine and Firewood Ben Frost — Stomp / Scanner Remix Nico Muhly — The ...

by TMT Staff • December 2011 Our Favorite 50 Albums of 2011 list reflects a multiplicity of trends. Yes, it continues our own trend toward the esoteric (Hype Williams), the difficult (Tiziana Bertoncini & Thomas Lehn), and the overlooked (KWJAZ), but it also trends toward an embrace of transition in a time of sensory abundance, a time when nostalgia and memory have become aestheticized, a time when the very process of music-making has become increasingly audible and our valuation of it increasingly suspect. Trends are often equated with homogenization, superficiality, conformity, and reification, written off by those uncomfortable with change, people too afraid to commit in fear of sinking with a trend once it reaches its inevitable conclusion. But in 2011, all trends demanded critical ears, not only because they hinged on the same impulse that increased awareness and impact for marginalized voices — which, outside the music world, manifested in political occupations and revolutions before we even realized it — but also because trends are as ephemeral as our values of them, coming and going, twisting away from logic and producing ruptures and permutations that disrupt preconceived notions and turn over values we’ve internalized as given. Pessimists might dismiss this embrace as a capitulation to the rhythm of capitalism, symptomatic of a consumer culture whose signifiers are pretty much dead weight in the context of a sanctified modernism. But optimists see this sensory explosion as simply more potential breaking points, increased opportunities to partake in both demystification (Tom Waits) and deconstruction (Bill Orcutt), democratization (Oneohtrix Point Never) and myth-making (Liturgy); more chances to extract new value from traditions (Rafael Toral) and elevate kitsch from the dumpsters (James Ferraro); to prove wrong those who prematurely announced their death two years ago (Lil B, Shabazz Palaces, Death Grips, etc.); to uncover new constructions of the mind (The Caretaker), body (Colin Stetson, DJ Diamond), and spirit (A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Grouper); to find new mediums (The Flaming Lips), temporal ...