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  • Track By Track: brb babe By Amor Vincit Omnia

    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,…

  • An Experimental Birthday Gift

    An Experimental Birthday Gift

    Skelkur Í Bringu breaks from hibernation Welcome back to the filthiest interview column in Iceland. In this issue, we went to a secret location to interview the non-punk, psytrance-influenced, Reykjavik-based band Skelkur Í Bringu. We’re a Happy Family Skelkur Í Bringu has…

  • Electric Dreams: bbbbbb On Their Newest Concoction

    Electric Dreams: bbbbbb On Their Newest Concoction

    Icelandic electronic music producer Bjarki needs little introduction by now. But, if you do need one, calling this Berlin-based musician an ‘experimental rave engineer’ could make things clearer. This year saw the release of his album ‘Happy Earthday’, which he described as…

  • Emotional, Intimate, A Little Experimental: ‘Vast’ Is A Work Of Ambient Art

    Emotional, Intimate, A Little Experimental: ‘Vast’ Is A Work Of Ambient Art

    Viktor Orri Árnason is probably best known in Iceland for his work in the band Hjaltalín, but lately, he’s been doing his own thing. Most recently, his own thing is collaborating with fellow Berlin resident and musician Yair Elazar Glotman to create…

  • Few More Days To Go

    Few More Days To Go

    Fufanu evolved out of Captain Fufanu, a two-piece techno production team that rose to prominence in Reykjavík’s electro scene at the beginning of the decade. Opting to ditch the mixing deck for a backing band, Fufanu churn out sparse, distorted post-punk on…

  • Plate Shifting, Wall Busting

    Plate Shifting, Wall Busting

    If I didn’t know any better, I would say that the main purpose in the professional life of Tectonics curator and Icelandic Symphony Orchestra conductor Ilan Volkov is “to stir shit up.” Of course he’d probably call it something like “being radical…

  • Instrumetal And Experimetal // And With A Growl, It Was Over…

    So Iceland Airwaves 2012 comes to a close. The festival where everything that could go wrong went wrong. A festival that was lacking in breathtaking new discoveries and crazy live performances. But it was also a festival where the Icelandic bands stepped…