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BARN 073LP
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Lisa Milberg and Jon Bergström started their band Miljon over a pitcher of margarita in Mexico City and have since kept busy writing gorgeous little pop-songs in makeshift studios in and around their hometown of Stockholm, Sweden -- mostly in their bedrooms and various cabins in various woods surrounding the city, never staying too far from the pine trees. Having assembled a collection of 13 pieces of proper flaskpost-disko, these demos were passed on to Studio Barnhus' in-house mix master Matt Karmil, who worked his studio magic on the recordings, turning them into a seductively warm and spacious debut album. "Until then, our only expenditures for the album were wine bottles and taxis," says the band. This isn't the first time Miljon has teamed up with Studio Barnhus, the ever-explorative Stockholm dance label. The band collaborated with Barnhus co-founder Axel Boman on the wistful piano-house ballad "Forgot About You" in 2018 ("a summer anthem ... a marvel of simplicity" --Pitchfork) and the label's core personnel are all regulars at Arranging Things, the design store ("Stockholm's coolest" --Vogue) that Lisa runs with another friend. Going further back, Miljon isn't the first musical project of neither Lisa nor Jon's -- the former enjoyed her fair share of '00s indie rock success as drummer and eventually lead singer of The Concretes, while Jon has earned a reputation as the hardest working man in several Swedish music scenes, bringing energy and expertise to punk stages around the country as well as Stockholm's electronic underground. With Miljon, the two friends make sure to keep it short and sweet, happily celebrating imperfections. "We believe in 'first thought, best thought' and try to work on the songs as little as possible, instead trusting a good melody and a nice vibe, not overthinking it. We dare you to find a bridge on this album!" With Don't They Know, the duo presents not only 13 beautiful songs (perfect for shower-humming, living room shuffling and warm summer night boombox-blasting alike) but also an album that turns into something grander than the sum of its parts. "We made it because it's the kind of album we've been wanting to hear ourselves. It's all quite song-centric these days and it feels rare to find a whole album to step into and stay inside, you know? We hear great songs all the time, but we wanted an album that was its own little universe, with its own mayor, own happy hour, its own yard sales and extramarital affairs."
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BARN 071LP
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Having shone his light over the damp canals of Gothenburg for at least a decade, Paradise City Jams is the first album proper from Johannes Brander and his Skogar project, as well as his first release on Stockholm's Studio Barnhus label. This highly anticipated record is the crown jewel of all those strangely glimmering shards scattered via the barely existent Native Parts imprint over the last ten years, as well as numerous live performances around town. Though rooted in the mid-00s neo cassette underground, this debut album bares little resemblance to the hypnagogic era, the mostly guitar-driven tracks evoking a longing for something that has never actually existed, in contrast to yer standard nostalgic exercises. A Malmsteeninan approach to the riff is soaked in a peculiar strain of melancholia, accompanied by mesmerizing synths and bad-ass percussion. As a visual artist, Brander works with returning images of feverish jungle scenes, often incorporating Vodou mysticism and tribal settings. These images are always present in the mysterious musical world of Skogar, painting pictures of a parallel universe far away from those Gothenburg canals. Well worth the wait! Recorded in Gothenburg, Brännö and Hawaii between 2017 and 2020. Mastered for vinyl by Viktor Ottosson.
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BARN 069LP
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Off The Meds is a Swedish-South African crew based in Stockholm, consisting of producers Adrian Lux, Carli Löf, and Måns Glaeser with vocalist Kamohelo Khoaripe. The band first appeared on Studio Barnhus with the Ethio-jazz sampling hip-house gem "Currency Low", one of the standouts on the Stockholm label's 2018 compilation Studio Barnhus Volym 1 (BARNVOL 001CD/LP, 2018). This was followed by 2019's rave-y smash single "Belter", which came paired with a much-lauded remix by London top selector Joy Orbison. Their self-titled debut album arrives on Studio Barnhus in late 2020. First album single "Karlaplan" was recently played by Four Tet on Benji B's show on BBC Radio 1, while second single "Wena" got included in hotly tipped UK garage reformist Conducta's recent Resident Advisor podcast.
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BARN 070EP
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Axel Boman's new single "Eyes Of My Mind" is a big-room-unifying psychedelic house music anthem and a multidisciplinary, collaborative Gesamtkunstwerk all at once. As so often the case with Boman's home label, Studio Barnhus, the process leading up to this release happened organically, among friends. Axel's initial sketch (produced during sessions at Future Classic Studios in Los Angeles) was sent to his good friend and long-time Studio Barnhus associate Malin Gabriella Nordin, who found herself obsessed with the track's steady-fast rhythms, gently flowing melodies and mind-expanding message. The Stockholm-based visual artist put the song on loop, started drawing to the sounds and didn't quit until 455 individual drawings lay before her. These drawings have been animated to create the video for "Eyes Of Our Mind" and will be exhibited at Stockholm gallery Steinsland Berliner during April 2020.
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BARN 072EP
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Lo and behold -- it's Mark E on Studio Barnhus! Since 2005, the Birmingham-based maestro has continuously blessed the international discotheque community with a non-stop stream of carefully constructed dance trax -- amounting to two albums and dozens of singles until his SB debut in February 2020. The Outdoor Pursuits EP contains four perfect exemplars of the Brummie genius's warm, reduced signature sound -- cherry-picked from a fresh batch of produce by an awestruck Studio Barnhus A&R team. Enjoy forever!
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BARN 064EP
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Brooklyn's finest FaltyDL debuts on Studio Barnhus with two slices of lovestruck rave classicism. "Flechazo" steadily builds a shifty groove before eur(o)pting into lavish synth themes, "New Lover" gets straight to the point with razor-cut breakbeats and showstopping sub-bass. Cupid's ammo for all the deadeye deejays out there!
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BARN 068EP
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New EP from Sofia Kourtesis on Studio Barnhus, following up her instant hit debut from early 2019 (BARN 058EP). Four mind-expanding dancefloor bombs chock-full of intricate rhythms and next-level sampling wizardry. "Sofia Kourtesis makes house music that skirts convention and renounces rote functionality without ever forgetting that its purpose is to make people move" --Pitchfork.
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BARN 067LP
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Once Upon A Passion is the debut album from Bella Boo, arriving on Studio Barnhus shortly after a sprinkling of releases through the label that have quickly established the currently LA-based producer (and longtime Stockholm DJ hero) as one of dance music's most distinctive new voices. Throughout its nine tracks, you are treated to a fascinating, wider-than-ever view of Bella's uniquely intimate and personal world of sound. The album features vocal contributors Gnučči and Def Sound as well as Nils Janson on trumpet and Axel Boman on acid bassline. Cover photo by Bozi Borbély Espinosa, artwork by Alexandra Karpilovski.
Bella Boo on the album: "I made the album this spring during an intense creative period back home in Stockholm. I was obsessed with my studio, I wanted to spend all my time awake there. I found out I was getting evicted from it, this sudden chock turned into a decision to do this album. It made sense, like an 'end of an era' thing. I was pretty isolated back then, spending almost all my time outside of the studio with my daughter Bozi. She snapped the cover photo while I was picking out records for a gig. I never wanted to leave the studio during these months, but I realize now how the breaks with Bozi worked for the process -- they gave me space to reflect on the music I was making. That dynamic was exactly what I needed to finish this album."
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BARN 061EP
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Man Tear are back with Kill Me, a high-energy emo-disco record, originally scheduled for release some 11 years ago. A sweet little 7'' is what their equally fast-footed and broken-hearted fanbase are finally being offered. On the record are two captivating dance-pop ditties from the greatest band to never make it, once again proving that it's all about love -- not about emotions! Let's hope this release is the spark that sets Man Tear's future ablaze. Let's hope for death to self-loathing, death to expectations, and death to laziness! Man Tear are back, maybe!
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BARN 065X1-EP
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Stockholm Marathon Remixes is dancefloor-ready remixes of selected tracks from Kornél Kovács' Stockholm Marathon (BARN 065CD/LP, 2019). The A-side sees Robert Dietz sending "Rocks" on a trance trip, D. Tiffany getting all deep and bubbly with "Purple Skies." On the B-side, Paradise Alley perform their sing-along cover version of "Marathon," while Butch butchers "Baltzar."
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BARN 059EP
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Jimi Tenor & Freestyle Man, Finnish legends and everything-but-grey eminences of electronic music, return to Studio Barnhus for another four-tracker full of the good stuff. Deep house as done by professionals! The world keeps changing, people and sounds come and go, but when Jimi croons away over Freestyle Man's Finn-tastic funk foundations, it all just about makes sense. Plenty of flute solo on this thing as well.
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BARN 053EP
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Exactly two years after their debut release landed on Studio Barnhus, MLiR are back with Trans-World Junktion, a summer-ready two-tracker that packs enough musical twists and turns to put your favorite quadruple 12-inch to shame. Half part wide-eyed exotica, half high-intensity festival blitzin' from this Swedish musical collective fronted by Marco Gegenheimer and Einar Christoffersson. Artwork by Stockholm's very own Leolyxxx.
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BARN 066LP
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Mount Liberation Unlimited are Tom and Niklas, two Swedes from space who have spent the last five years carving out a particularly vivid niche in contemporary electronic music. Their previous work has seen them connect with an impressive list of global dance powerhouses: New York's Beats In Space, Melbourne's Superconscious, and Munich's Permanent Vacation have all released 12" heat from the duo, while their hometown buddies at Studio Barnhus provided an outlet for what has been perhaps their biggest and boldest release yet, 2017's double smash single Double Dance Lover (BARN 050EP). Their live shows are fervent, fast-paced, and very multi-instrumental affairs, performed non-stop at an increasingly prestigious list of clubs and festivals, serving as prime examples of the MLU boys' core obsession: the interaction of human rhythm and electronic pulse. They have their own great little radio show on Gilles Peterson's Worldwide FM, Australia loves them, and they got their artist friend Tom-Hadar Elde to sculpt their heads for their debut album cover. This self-titled debut on Studio Barnhus has been in progress since the very formation of the MLU project in 2014. It contains some of their earliest work and of course their very latest -- all perfected at the Neve desk of legendary Gothenburg studio Svenska Grammofonstudion, in cahoots with mix engineer Christoffer Berg (Depeche Mode, Robyn, Fever Ray). The result is a sonically fascinating, endlessly generous, and straight-up fun record that takes the listener on a joyride through bittersweet stoner disco, frenzied Scando-kraut jams, and some of the sweetest dance pop to come out of Sweden this side of "Super Trouper".
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BARN 060EP
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Off The Meds is a Swedish-South African crew based in Stockholm, consisting of Adrian Lux, Carli Löf, and Måns Glaeser with vocalist Kamohelo Khoaripe. Belter is their first solo release, appearing on Studio Barnhus seven months after the band's Ethio-jazz-influenced "Currency Low" on the much-lauded 2018 label compilation, Studio Barnhus Volym 1 (BARNVOL 001CD/LP). A relentlessly catchy party starter, "Belter" combines classic rave elements with cutting edge production and Kamo's pitch-shifted rapid-fire vocals. Joy O took it upon himself to remix the track, turning it into an extended broken techno trip, a few shades darker and dubbier than the original.
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BARN 063EP
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The story of Bella Boo is not one of overnight success, though of course it might appear as such. It wasn't until her Studio Barnhus debut, the Fire EP (BARN 049EP, 2018), that the world finally started talking about Bella's extraordinary production skills. This was followed quickly by "boyboy," a universally-beloved track on Studio Barnhus Volym 1 (BARNVOL 001CD, 2018). Supervillain is Bella's first solo release of 2019, a perfect three-track thing that sees the currently London-based artist continue to expertly straddle the fence between enigmatic dreamlands and groove-locked dance floors. Artwork by Stockholm long-time Bella colla-Boo-rator Alexandra Karpilovski.
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BARN 066X1-EP
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Mount Liberation Unlimited are Tom and Niklas, two Swedes from space who have spent the last five years carving out a niche in contemporary electronic music. Their live shows are fervent, fast-paced and multi-instrumental affairs, performed non-stop at an increasingly prestigious list of clubs and festivals, serving as prime examples of their core obsession: the interaction of human rhythm and electronic pulse. The result is a sonically fascinating, endlessly generous and straight-up fun record that takes the listener on a joyride through bittersweet stoner disco, frenzied Scando-kraut jams and some of the sweetest dance pop to come out of Sweden this side of Super Trouper.
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BARN 065LP
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Double LP version. Kornél Kovács's second album is on the way via Studio Barnhus, which he runs with Petter Nordkvist and Axel Boman. Stockholm Marathon sees the Swedish-Hungarian producer, who was born in the Swedish capital, "reflecting a lot on this beautiful, boring city I never quite manage to move away from," he says, after moving back in September of 2018. Kovács credits his "dearest Stockholm people" for making the album his most collaborative and most personal release. That list includes jazz musician Niclas Skagstedt, Matt Karmil, Rebecca & Fiona, and Malin Gabriella Nordin, who did the artwork. The album is his second full-length, following 2016's The Bells (BARN 045CD/LP), also released on Studio Barnhus.
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BARN 065CD
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Kornél Kovács's second album is on the way via Studio Barnhus, which he runs with Petter Nordkvist and Axel Boman. Stockholm Marathon sees the Swedish-Hungarian producer, who was born in the Swedish capital, "reflecting a lot on this beautiful, boring city I never quite manage to move away from," he says, after moving back in September of 2018. Kovács credits his "dearest Stockholm people" for making the album his most collaborative and most personal release. That list includes jazz musician Niclas Skagstedt, Matt Karmil, Rebecca & Fiona, and Malin Gabriella Nordin, who did the artwork. The album is his second full-length, following 2016's The Bells (BARN 045CD/LP), also released on Studio Barnhus.
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BARN 062EP
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For his Studio Barnhus debut, Laurence Guy connects the dots between the lo-fi ambient investigations of his 2017 album Saw You For The First Time, the warm club sounds heard on All I See Is Her (MUSIQ 220EP, 2018), and the London-based DJ/producer's long roots in deep drum'n'bass and dubstep soil. From the unswerving neo-jungle of "Wildlife", through "My Brain Is A Scrambled Egg" with its dusty rave euphorisms, onwards to the hypnotic guitar ballad "It's Good To Try", this six-track EP is chock-full of the sort of unrestrained musical enthusiasm that Studio Barnhus is always on the lookout for.
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BARN 058EP
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Repressed. On her self-titled debut EP, Sofia Kourtesis channels experiences of her transatlantic existence between hometowns Lima and Berlin through a torrent of sounds, rhythms, voices, and loops. This world-travelling, MPC-busting, Gold Panda-collaborating maverick's first appearance was with 2018's "WinWin San", a sparkly, razor sharp dance diamond which was received as one of the highlights of Studio Barnhus Volym 1. A self-confessed "travelling bedroom producer", Sofia started the process of writing her debut solo outing with a journey into the Amazon jungle. Stops were also made in front of a dusty Juno 106 in her Berlin bedroom and a Tokyo flea-market.
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BARNVOL 001CD
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The first Studio Barnhus compilation, Studio Barnhus Volym 1. The 19-track release will feature music from the label's three founders -- Axel Boman, Kornél Kovács, Petter Nordkvist -- plus various associates, a mix of "Stockholm newcomers and superstar friends". Also features Man Tear, Lukas Nystrand, Off The Meds, Baba Stiltz, Adrian Lux, Bella Boo, Qaadir Howard, DJ Koze, Sofia Kourtesis, Pedrodollar, Axel Boman & Miljon, Superpitcher, Paradise Alley, Torolf Stendik, Thomas & Jonas, John Talabot, Whispers, and Moonilena.
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BARNVOL 001LP
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3x12" version. The first Studio Barnhus compilation, Studio Barnhus Volym 1. The 19-track release will feature music from the label's three founders -- Axel Boman, Kornél Kovács, Petter Nordkvist -- plus various associates, a mix of "Stockholm newcomers and superstar friends". Also features Man Tear, Lukas Nystrand, Off The Meds, Baba Stiltz, Adrian Lux, Bella Boo, Qaadir Howard, DJ Koze, Sofia Kourtesis, Pedrodollar, Axel Boman & Miljon, Superpitcher, Paradise Alley, Torolf Stendik, Thomas & Jonas, John Talabot, Whispers, and Moonilena.
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BARN 049EP
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In the making of her first Studio Barnhus record, veteran DJ and world-travelling introvert Bella Boo divided time between bedroom studios in Ladbroke Grove and Hornstull, where she would hook up a dusty old Tanzbär, press record, and sing straight into the laptop microphone over fuzzy r&b harmonics and snappy analog drums. The result is a collection of fascinating and fascinatingly groovy tracks, shuffling about with grace and vigor in the secret place where warm club music and introspective audio diaries meet to mingle.
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BARN 052CD
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Shakarchi & Stranéus inhabit a secret place in the universe of music, one existing at the intersection of Scandinavian poplands, Hisingen forest raves, and outer-national placelessness. Faik Shakarchi and Daniel Stranéus famously started making beats together in the Gothenburg tapas-joint coat check where they both worked as clerks. Their now ten-year-old friendship is the story of legends, their sparse vinyl output the secret love of deep house 12" enthusiasts round the globe -- the warm, vibrant sounds found on those records are a stark contrast to the stripped-down effectiveness of their marathon DJ sets, frequently heard within the more nefarious examples of GBG nightlife. The duo has also been a part of Studio Barnhus since the very beginning, first letting the label into their strange and cozy world with the Dödskallar Och Korallrev EP in 2010, effectively turning what was then a one-release operation into a record label. The distinctive sound of that early material (described by one Discogs commenter as "enlightened, naive future dub for children") has been expanded upon and further defined on their debut album Steal Chickens From Men And The Future From God, its 12 cuts lovingly selected from a plethora of works floating in-and-out of makeshift studios from Storgatan to Gamlestan over the last seven years. The record took its final form at Nacksving, same place where recent albums from Talaboman and Kornél Kovács were sonically perfected in cahoots with mix engineer Matt Karmil. The label and the artists wish to thank Statens kulturråd for their endless patience during the creation of this masterpiece.
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BARN 052LP
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2021 repress. 2x12" version. Shakarchi & Stranéus inhabit a secret place in the universe of music, one existing at the intersection of Scandinavian poplands, Hisingen forest raves, and outer-national placelessness. Faik Shakarchi and Daniel Stranéus famously started making beats together in the Gothenburg tapas-joint coat check where they both worked as clerks. Their now ten-year-old friendship is the story of legends, their sparse vinyl output the secret love of deep house 12" enthusiasts round the globe -- the warm, vibrant sounds found on those records are a stark contrast to the stripped-down effectiveness of their marathon DJ sets, frequently heard within the more nefarious examples of GBG nightlife. The duo has also been a part of Studio Barnhus since the very beginning, first letting the label into their strange and cozy world with the Dödskallar Och Korallrev EP in 2010, effectively turning what was then a one-release operation into a record label. The distinctive sound of that early material (described by one Discogs commenter as "enlightened, naive future dub for children") has been expanded upon and further defined on their debut album Steal Chickens From Men And The Future From God, its 12 cuts lovingly selected from a plethora of works floating in-and-out of makeshift studios from Storgatan to Gamlestan over the last seven years. The record took its final form at Nacksving, same place where recent albums from Talaboman and Kornél Kovács were sonically perfected in cahoots with mix engineer Matt Karmil. The label and the artists wish to thank Statens kulturråd for their endless patience during the creation of this masterpiece.
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