Category: Anders Svensson

Anders Svensson – Run Anders Run EP {mtk114}

Artist: Anders Svensson
Title: Run Anders Run EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk114
Release Date: 2003/07/23

A return to Monotonik duties from Swedish artist Anders Svensson, formerly a Scandinavian indie band stalwart, and following up his debut Monotonik EP with another 3 tracks of wonderfully elliptical, genuinely original takes on the whole electronic music thing.

First up, ‘Making It Personal’ does that almost-cylical gorgeously crystallic thing than so many of Anders’ tracks seem to, before ‘Facing Trouble’ drifts beautifully around the question, all coy and drifting. Finally, ‘Sooner As Well As Later’ patters the percussion and pitters your heart with pure tones and delicate drums.

Credits:
watchcam photo by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Making It Personal
02 – Facing Trouble
03 – Sooner As Well As Later

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Anders Svensson – Keywords EP {mtk100}

Artist: Anders Svensson
Title: Keywords EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk100
Release Date: 2003/01/30

We’re pleased to welcome another debut, from Swedish artist Anders Svensson, for the 100th mp3 release on Monotonik, wow. We’ve been doing this net.label thing for a while now (almost 7 years!), and we’re delighted there’s still fresh and exciting material like “Keywords EP” coming along to make us happy, contented, and.. well, blissed out.

As for artist info – well, this is a debut under his own name, but Anders Svensson was formerly in a number of Scandinavian indie bands such as Eldarens Hus (signed to Virgin in the late ’80s) and Sulky (alongside former members of the seminal Union Carbide Productions.) His electronic experimentation in the art of, as he puts it, ‘simple melodies and sweet harmonies’ has spawned the quite lovely “Keywords EP”.

So, “Present” is a great present to start with, combining a sorta pastoral, drifting air with some genuinely quirky melodies which intentionally drift cyclically. Then, “Memories” uses tiny snippets of voice rhythmically, and then drives improvised synths straight through the top of it to mesmerising effect. Finally, “Returning” feels like the end of the line, almost summoning a ‘Blade Runner’ feel for the epic, cybernetic sprawl, where acoustic meets electric meets neon in the realm of the bandwidth gods. Drift on.

Credits:
cover by anders svensson

Tracklist:
01 – Present
02 – Memories
03 – Returning

Artwork:
Front Cover

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