VA - Str÷m (Pausfageln Remixad)
artist: Various
title: Str÷m (Pausfageln Remixad)
label: Container
type: Compilation
genre: Electronic
source: CDDA
tracks: 12
time: 01:12:14
size: 66.22 MB
bitrate: 198kbps
mode: VBR
location: -
url: http://www.dotshop.se/ds/release.php?code=CONTCD4&rand=164401889
rip date: 25.06.2006
street date: ??/??/2006
1. Porn Sword Tobacco - SvarthΣtta/SvarthΣttan 5:57
Beh÷ver Ingen Tatuering
2. Hans Appelqvist - G÷k/Jag En G÷k 5:46
3. Sophie Rimheden - NΣktergal 6:06
4. Ola Bergman - PΣrluggla 5:50
5. Midaircondo - Rosenfink/For Scarlet 5:15
6. Anders Ilar - Korp 5:04
7. Mokira - Storspov/FjΣderreverb 7:26
8. Tape - N÷tknΣcka 4:26
9. Folie - R÷dvingetrast 6:33
10. Saralunden - HΣrmsσngare/Slightfeeling 7:28
11. Hσkan Lidbo - Sommargylling 6:24
12. Son Of Clay - Sσngsvan/Cob And Pen 5:59
SwedenÆs finest in electronica meet the sounds of Swedish
birds. Playful, straightforward, beautiful and extremely
entertaining. This is the perfect mix of computer-generated
and natural sounds. As heard on radio show series "Str÷m",
broadcasted by Swedish National Radio, P2, curated and
hosted by Andreas Tilliander, Hσkan Lidbo and Mats Almegσrd.
Remember Edgar Allen PoeÆs "The Raven"? Throughout time,
poets, painters and composers have used natureÆs influences
to create great art. But what about the electronica scene?
IsnÆt it captured in its own little space bubble, dreaming
of the future, of the advances in technology and SF-related
topics? In short: DonÆt producers of electronica dream of
electric birds?
If asked, most of the producers involved in this compilation
album would clearly state that the Swedish forest does not
influence their work. Yet, they would reflect upon this
remixing experience as having been a hell of lot of fun. How
much can a natural birdcall be remixed before it loses its
meaning completely? Can it ever lose its meaning? Is it
actually still a raven if, not PoeÆs version of it, but the
cold, focused minimal techno version by Anders Ilar; a
Scarlet Rosefinch in the hands of experimental
electronicatrio Midaircondo; Hans Appelqvist┤s cuckoo
anxiously alone on the African desert, accompanied by the
yearÆs funkiest little piano tune; Sophie Rimheden┤s highly
digitalized nightingale just aching to go to the coolest
club in town, and by that taking a part of the deep woods
with it? The answers are unimportant; placing songbirds in
the hands of some of the finest producers in Sweden creates
mind-blowing results.
This album is much more than simply a compilation of cool
digital birdcalls. It is also a memorial to by-gone days.
For 42 years (yes indeed!) Swedish National Radio, P2 hosted
a show dedicated to the birds in our northern country. Along
with explanations by ornithologists, radio listeners also
heard the call of each bird. The show Mσnadens Pausfσgel
(The Pausebird of the Month) was shut down. As a celebration
of this cool show, another radio show, Str÷m (Current
started on the 18th of January 2006) wanted to commemorate
the silenced pause birds in some way. Although the show is
not linked to a natural theme, but to the wonderful world of
electronic music, the idea of combining birds and
electronica was born.
The weekly remix of birdcalls was indeed a new (and
precious) thing for Swedish radio listeners. A number of ten
producers were asked to participate. They all turned up with
inventive and bold versions of the natural sounds. Whether
keeping it mostly analogue (as saralunden┤s mockingbird) or
giving the bird a real treatment of zeros and ones, as Ola
Bergman did for his Tengmalms Owl, the results are stunning.
The remixes included on the album feature not only the ten
that were broadcasted on Str÷m, but also bonus tracks from
two of the giants in Swedish electronica: Hσkan Lidbo and
Andreas Tilliander, the latter under his moniker Mokira. The
Golden Oriole and the Curlew have never sounded more
beautiful and odd. ThatÆs a promise.
Apart from being producers and bird remixers, Andreas
Tilliander and Hσkan Lidbo together with journalist Mats
Almegσrd produce the mind-blowing radio show Str÷m.
Greets goes out to :
ATX, BLZ, BWA, CR, ESC, GTi, hbZ, krbZ, PR, RAGEMP3, rXn, SSR,
TDU, TSP, UTB, XXL, uC, WHOA, ... and all the others we have forgot.
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