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HNR 030EP
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Höga Nord Rekords present Al Lover's 7" single Dark Matter Discotheque/Mark E. Moon. In these tracks, Lover's influences mainly stems from a decadent eighties New York or Paris. Listening to the opening bars of "Dark Matter Discothéque" you can tell that Lover is on to something new and different from his previous Höga Nord releases. In some ways you hear similarities to Zodiak Versions (HNR 005LP, 2015) but on these two tracks of the 7", Lover has left the German regions of Europe and the '70s behind to instead embrace an updated '80s sound.
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HNR 017LP
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When you put on the first track on the album Antisocial Background 2017-2019 by Mythologen your likely to think: "this is THAT kind of an album", and feel happy with that. But Mythologen, aka Alexander Palmestål, is not "THAT" kind of an artist and this album reflects his broad musical background. It spans from Japan to USA, from the '70s to the '00s and from cold concrete floors to fluffy cotton clouds. Palmestål, with a background in bands such as Pistol Disco and Iberia, now releases his second full-length album on Höga Nord Rekords. The album is a play with emotions and genres, with unexpected meetings between major and minor keys and is a collection of tracks where jungle, electro, house, synth, and big beat are deconstructed and put together as relevant contemporary dance music. The production on Antisocial Background sometimes sound like a more electronic version of Boredoms but most of the time it puts the listener on the British Isles and in the '90s. Palmestål pays respect to his masters but he is not in any way too careful with their legacy and let, just as on his self-titled debut album (HNR 009LP, 2017), influences from the 1970s and 80s Nigeria and Soweto.
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HNR 028EP
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Gothenburg's well-renowned bass player extraordinaire, Osynlige Mann (URAN GBG, The Exorcist) releases long-awaited new solo material. This 7" contains high voltage material; "Airports" and "Exodus" brings tense seventies synth and early eighties electro to the table. "Airports" is a Kraftwerk-inspired elegy over the lumpenproletariat of the machines -- airplanes. "No sleep for the big machines, no rest for the sad machines". "Exodus" carries more obvious characteristics from Mann's other projects and sounds like a more electronic version of URAN GBG!
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HNR 025EP
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This 7" is a collaboration between Silverbullit, Fontän, and the Bhutanese group AA Yang who have produced some of the most powerful, loving and life-embracing music yet to have been released on Höga Nord Rekords. The songs springs toward the top of Gangkhar Puensum, Bhutans highest mountain, building a mighty storm, noticeable all the way to the Scandinavian woodlands.
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HNR 014LP
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Rickard Jäverling, born and raised in Borlänge, Sweden and now living and working in Stockholm, is a wayward and productive musician. Besides releasing material under his own name, Jäverling is/has been part of constellations such as Dödens Dal, Liljor, and Jäverling & von Euler. Album 3 is his third solo album. It breathes psychedelia, dub, Swedish folk, "progg", and continental vintage electronic music. The songs on this album are in a way like a compilation of short stories rather than chapters in a novel. The common factor in this album is Jäverling's exquisitely worked-out melodies and the warm, round production but the songs can, due to the rich storytelling qualities of each one of them, almost be regarded as small albums of their own.
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HNR 024EP
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As founding member of Uran GBG, with a past in cult bands such as Lava, Jerker Jarold is one of the cornerstones in Gothenburg's psychedelic scene. By the name of Västlänken, Jarold is now making his first release as a solo artist on Höga Nord Rekords. The music is a mixture of dub, ambient, and techno where few but tasteful components builds the sound. Västlänken's transcendent qualities lies in Jarold's ability to limit himself in matter of recording techniques and instrumentation; one synthesizer, one delay pedal, and one mobile studio.
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HNR 013LP
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Tross have always had the ability to place the listener in a bubble of introspection and escapism, in the most positive way. The band members themselves rate the joys of discovery and not looking back, two of the leading factors in creating their sound -- no hesitation, no regression -- and this comes clear on their second full-length album, The Overview Effect. Captured on this album is the feeling of true presence created when musicians play together and not for themselves to prove their skills for each other and the listener. No show off -- just boogie! The band focuses more than before on rhythm. Here they have fallen deeper into disco and jungle funk, approaching the nerve of their live appearances clearer than on their previous records, creating dance music for spaced-out kids.
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HNRUK 003EP
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Jean-Louis Huhta and Joachim Nordwall are High Boys. Together they share a deep interest in old school techno acid, as well as electronic experimentalism and insane electro-acoustics. They want to make music that will mess with your mind and make you move while your skull is melting. They have served in the ritual rock group The Skull Defekts for over a decade, but this is their first project together. Huhta also does his killer project Dungeon Acid, amongst other things, and Nordwall has run his iDEAL label since '98 and makes electronic music alone and with other heads.
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HNR 013EP
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"Goo" will manipulate you like a Hare Krishna recruiter would -- if he or she had groove and swagger. B-side "Pool" combines an organic bassline with a dreamlike landscape that will drag you up to a place where The KLF's golden era echoes inside yer head like an appealing Conny Plank OCD!
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