An Electric Direction – ThizOne On Making Music

ThizOne —the music moniker of one Sigtryggur Egilsson—is known for his warped and eclectic sets of crackling beats from various realms of electronic music. He utilizes tried and true drum-machine snares, hi-hats and claps that he mixes with a rumbling bass, creating otherworldly sounds that seem to seem to connect reality with the essence of futuristic technology and space travel. Now, this well-known figure within Icelandic dance-music is about to release a new song on recent Icelandic techno-imprint Planet X.

Coming back to Iceland

Sigtryggur spent his formative years in Denmark but has recently moved back to Iceland via Berlin. “I basically just went [to Berlin] for a ten-day vacation back in 2014 and then decided to move there since I needed a change,” he says. “Day to day I’m usually producing music or chilling at Prikið. I just started working with some great people in town recently.” Sigtryggur’s track ‘Bolts’ will be out on November 15th on Planet X and includes other no-nonsense-techno-tracks by LaFontaine, Bjarki’s side-project Q-Cumb and prolific US techno-producer Matrixxman.
“[Planet X label-manager] Addi Exos heard the track and said to me that it made no sense that it hadn’t been released, so he asked me if I was up for releasing it.”

Electronic Music

In recent years, Sigtryggur has become known for an electro-influenced direction in his production. “I can’t remember how early I started listening to music but I started making hip hop beats in around 2002. “Slowly I started getting more and more into all kinds of experimental electronic music,” he says. “I listen to a wide variety of music and have produced many different styles of music through the years. But electronic music fills up a lot of space in my world.” Planet X also plans to release a full ThizOne LP in the coming months. As I say goodbye to the very beat-driven yet seemingly aloof Sigtryggur, he leaves me with some two points to ponder: “Remember to keep on keeping on,” he says. “And the best system is a soundsystem.”

Follow ThizOne’s music on SoundCloud. The compilation ‘Invisible Limits II’ will be released on November 15th.