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WIRED 005EP
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This is a limited edition (500 copies) one-sided 12" with handmade engravings and a unique painting on each. The record features three songs in Heidi Mortenson's characteristic style. On "Up From Ocean" you will hear slide guitars and electronic waves that will sail you to an island of paradise. Mortenson does vocal bass and vinyl scratch on "Disco Club" and "Stronger Than This" is a melange of mental conversations by various voices. You're not schizophrenic you're just... distracted.
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WIRED 003LP
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LP version. Don't Lonely Me is Berlin-based Heidi Mortenson's second album on Wired Records featuring 10 new songs. To reflect her life's contradictions and variances, Don't Lonely Me unites extremes and balances opposites. The record spans from dance-y electronics to nerdy R&B over new sound experiments and seriousness vs. self-irony, all in a twisted pop production.
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WIRED 003CD
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Don't Lonely Me is Berlin-based Heidi Mortenson's second album on Wired Records featuring 10 new songs and a Ben Adorable remix of "I Just Know." "What you search for in other people is to be found in oneself..." says Heidi in relation to her new album whose title is open to translation. In the year of making this album Heidi has been commuting back and forth between the Danish Music Academy and her home in Berlin resulting in a kind of double life and mobile studio working process. While at the same time she's been touring, producing other bands, releasing a compilation of 14 artists (The Wired Ones). To reflect her life's contradictions and variances, Don't Lonely Me unites extremes and balances opposites. The record spans from dance-y electronics to nerdy R&B over new sound experiments and seriousness vs. self-irony, all in a twisted pop production. "Tiger" floats on a bossanova rhythm box with sounds of a growling tiger, meows and even an elephant's toot. "Music" is an ode to sameness and a modest disbelief in human marriage, soundwise reflecting overproduced pop and with a digital taste of the '80s, featuring guest vocals by Monotekktoni. "Coincidence" is fairly dance-y and deals with spontaneous decisions. "Hard To Say" features a double bass and various trumpets, and "Girl Since I Met You" dares you to believe that you can overcome any previous love. Mortenson's alter ego The Nosnetboy plays drums on "Hurt Machine," and "Sphere" features contributions from Kevin Blechdom.
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WIRED 001CD
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This is Berlin-based Heidi Mortenson's debut release on her own label, Wired Records. After a Danish childhood spent listening to her dad fixing cars while her mom played organ, Mortenson discovered all things electronic and moved to Barcelona to start an intense, self-study of machines, quickly becoming an integrated part of the electronic underground scene. She began recording herself singing inside a washing machine and through a walkie-talkie -- even rebuilding a telephone receiver into a microphone. Through this sort of rule-bending experimentation, Mortenson became a one-woman band, playing concerts that continue to offer a mix of tomboytronica, electrosoul and dirtyrocking nu-techpop with songs driven on beats and a full-powered voice. Think harmonies, rhythm n' bass and crisp cut-up sound patches. Live on stage she makes use of instruments, machines, effect-units, computers and special built microphones. Add emotional overdrive, a mentalist flavor and lots of energy. Wired Stuff includes ten songs which were created in Barcelona and Berlin with reflections on urban life, emotional disturbance, mental spins, solitude, love and loss. Most of the songs are narrative and melodic with crunchy beats and impulsive figurines of sound that come together in a detailed production. The album is fresh and goes deep; the harmonic spectrum is fully exploited and there's a good energy in the dynamic playfulness of the sounds. Most importantly, Heidi's full-powered voice is the central ingredient.
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