Track By Track: brb babe By Amor Vincit Omnia

Amor Vincit Omnia’s debut EP brb babe revives the ancient art of Eurodance

The Latin-titled experimental dance duo Amor Vincit Omnia haven’t been kicking around for long. Their recently released EP brb babe mixes elements of hip-hop, house and Italian dance music, resulting in an eclectic collection of party-appropriate tunes to pick out the next time you get handed the aux. They guided us through the release track by track.

Lounge Music

The first song of the EP is a failed attempt to make elevator music. The vocals are just improvisation, recorded in two minutes, and the drums are actually an older recording of Baldur playing the drums himself in another project. With an addition of a sample from the bestest song of all time ever, we love how simple this song is; and it is many listeners’ favourite song although it was intended as an intro. Sweet lounging music.

Do You

Sleepy, horny crocodiles, with fries on the side. This ‘80s inspired sonic paradise was made in Baldur’s kitchen, with some curry, and gin and tonics on the side. Originally, this song was in Italian. Then we remade the lyrics. Then we remade them completely again so there are three other versions of “Do You” in existence. But finally it became the sleepy utopia it is. Baldur just really wanted to make a very poppy song, so we did.

Eina

“Eina” was created in only one day in Jamhouse (RIP), our former studio in Grandi. The song was made from a bunch of vocal chops, then Erla improvised lyrics and melody over them in one take, and that’s the first and only take you hear in the song. Then Baldur laid down the drums and the bass… the rest is history.

100.000 km/klst

Imagine being in space, all alone in the void with no one but your spaceship. But then, all of a sudden, you see a purple-italo-disco-planet. You land, step outside your vessel, BOOM, 100 dancing space monkeys greet you with a pounding kick drum and bass and 50 congas forcing you to dance. “100.000 km/klst” is a really fun and groovy dance banger inspired by the Italians, and perfected by Amor Vincit Omnia for you. But behind all the disco, this song is in reality about finding peace in loneliness, not about monkeys and not even space travel.

Amor Vincit Omnia

You are standing at the club, alone in your bridal dress. Then in steps the love of your life, with his skinny jeans and puffer jacket. It’s love at first sight — that’s amore. The title track was actually the first song we made as a duo, before we even chose the band name. The lyrics are inspired by an interesting encounter when Baldur met an old crush at a club in Reykjavík, which reminded him of his desire to marry her. The beat is pretty straightforward, with some two-step in the verse with a Jersey twist in the chorus. This is rather sexy and also danceable. We fell in love with the phrase Amor Vincit Omnia after we made the song and made it our band name. It’s very cliché but also difficult to pronounce and hard to spell; which we all know are the criteria for a good band name.