Chords had a little chat with Music Business Worldwide regarding his new beat tape, and the fact that you can already now get hold of the multi-track files for sampling through Tracklib. Check out the full article here.
Month: April 2020
Tomas Andersson Wij, ny skiva och turné i höst.
Sedan augusti har Tomas Andersson Wij haft ett sabbatsår från turnerandet, hans första på 22 år. Nu har han spelat in en ny skiva, ”Högre än händerna når” som släpps i september och i oktober åker han på turné igen, dessutom med ett helt nytt band. “Tiderna är ovissa men vi tror och hoppas att vi ska kunna mötas i höst. Det är vad vi jobbar för och längtar till.” – Tomas
Biljetter finns ute nu: https://www.blixten.se/taw/
Producer & songwriter Chords just released a beat-tape!
Producer & songwriter Chords just released a beat-tape! Listen here: https://chords.lnk.to/poisson On top of that the whole release is also available for multitrack sampling at Tracklib. This means that any beatmaker can download, sample, and fully license all-new music coinciding with the official release.
“It’s so cool to release the album with stems on the very same day, I’m really excited about that,” says Chords. “It’s a thing out of love for the beat culture. Why wait with releasing multitracks if you can actually help producers with it?”
Tingsek – Family – New single out now!
Swedish soul-king Tingsek just released his new single “Family”, and its one for the books. Check it out here: https://tingsek.lnk.to/family
Lemaitre – “Wondering If I’ll Ever Come Down” out now and EP to drop on May 22nd!
Norwegian duo Lemaitre burst onto the scene in 2010, the intricate electronic pop of their debut EP ‘The Friendly Sound’ effortlessly defying conventional electronic formulas. Fast forward 10 years and Ketil Jansen and Ulrik Denizou Lund have barely paused to breathe. The prolific LA based pair’s upcoming ‘JGM’ EP is set for release via Substellar Records on 22nd May and named after close friend and collaborator Johannes Greve Muskat who passed away last year, it’s no doubt their most personal work to date. Out today, first single and opening track ‘Wondering If I’ll Ever Come Down’ is a defiant electro-pop gem, it’s thumping piano chords and frank lyricism a timely reminder to make the most of each day. The band has this to say on it:
“We wrote the hook and melody at 6am after a long day and night of just making music, drinking wine and doing mushrooms. We were quite literally wondering if we’d ever come down. We did, and to our pleasant surprise the song sounded good afterwards too. We kept working on it and it developed into this anthem about trying to keep going when things are hard, because they can only get better again.”
‘JGM’s’ collaborators include producer friends Bearson, Coucheron, Jerry Folk, Didrik Thulin and one of Sweden’s most sought-after producers, Chords, who co-wrote ‘Eyes Wide Open.’ In true Lemaitre fashion they continue to reinvent themselves and constantly push the boundaries of the genres in which they operate. Their endless commitment to upending what’s expected of the musical experience dates back to their earliest days as a duo. After meeting at a party in Oslo and bonding over their love of the Chemical Brothers and Basement Jaxx, Lund and Jansen started making music as teenagers, often holing up in Jansen’s parents’ basement for 14 hours a day. In 2010 their debut release reached No. 1 on Hype Machine overnight, and the subsequent releases of the ‘Relativity’ series (3 EP’s) caught the attention of some of dance music’s biggest names, including Martin Solveig and Porter Robinson. Upon signing for Astralwerks, the pair relocated to LA. In 2016, Lemaitre drew critical acclaim for ‘1749’ and ‘Afterglow,’ two boundary-blurring EPs that found the duo mastering everything from electro-swing to nu-disco and future bass. Lead track ‘Closer,’ featuring Jennie A, has had over 85 million plays on Spotify. The duo’s creativity culminated with the release of the Fast Lovers EP in 2019, featuring breakout tracks ‘Rocket Girl’ (feat Betty Who), and ‘Big.’
Known for their incendiary live sets, they have made a name for themselves globally through headline tours, huge support shows and some bumper festival slots, including Coachella, Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza Paris and Stockholm, and the Roskilde Festival in Denmark where they broke the record for the biggest ever audience at the Apollo stage. “The last few years have flown by really fast and there is still so much music we want to make,” they say. “Our music has taken us all over the world, but we feel like we’ve just begun.”
Listen to their new single here.
Tomas Andersson Wij – Dit du går – ute nu!
Idag släpptes ”Dit du går”, andra singeln från det kommande albumet med Tomas Andersson Wij. En stor ballad med omedelbar refräng uppbackad av legendariska Fläskkvartetten. Lyssna på låten här.