Furi Anga
Cold scandinavian moods delivered in a form of drumandbass...
Furi Anga (Antti Viitamäki) is a deep soul explorer from Finland.
Born in 1981 and father of four children, Furi Anga started his musical career at the age of 17, and has
released several privately funded records, (Comatarium, Tuulenvartija, Blackvegas), the ambient project
Succisa Pratensis, and Orion (A downtempo collaboration together with J.Jylhä), as well as releases on
Vampire, Qilin Music, Translation Recordings, Silk Recordings, Med School, Break-Fast Audio, Plush,
Shadybrain, Dubkraft, Broken Audio, and Influenza Minus. With his 5th L.P out soon and Silk’s first artist L.P this truly is a work of art. Clips and more details weill be announced soon. There is also a remix E.P featuring big names such as Skeptical, ASC, Nether and Bulb.
Listening to his music transports you into a melancholic fairy world, sometimes true and beautiful, sometimes dark and grotesque. He is heavily influenced by the Scandinavian nature and weather.
FURI ANGA L.P – RELEASE DATE – TBC
THANKS: Thanks to my kids, who has given me supreme love and direction in life. Thanks to the rest of my immediate family (especially my brother & sister) who’s shoulders were there when I needed them. Respect to Jamie and Matt from Silk, for their great patience. Shouts to Gerwin, Nuage, Brian & Steph at Translation, for listening to all my pains. Greetings to all great producers and labels who have dealt with me on AIM and sent me tunes and inspiration. And last but not least, a big thanks to Ilpo Kärkkäinen / Resound, for mastering my tracks.
Three years of my life is now summarised in the shape of an album. Thank you listeners.
-Furi Anga
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Integration Now
Intergration Now emerged in Recife around 2009 by producer Jeferson Paulo, with the goal of producing electronic music with a different footprint. Without neglecting the influences of the producer, Jeferson’s blend of styles range from DNB, Heavy, Minimal, House, Downtempo, experimental to MPB, and other atmospheres.
Jeferson Paulo has featured in the new crop of producers for DNB and experimental music, which he’s had track’s played by national and international DJ’s like Stunna (UK), Forge (NZ), and Pearson Sound (UK). Integration began to conquer DNB space after releasing his first EP by the English label VIP Rec. The EP composed six track’s and brought up his innovative style and melodies. As a result of the launch, this opened the door for new releases and partnerships with producers from all over the world including DBR Uk, D. Ridgway, the Swedish Fable, and recently with producer owner of Silk Recording label, Forge. With this trajectory, Integration Now has big plans for 2011, starting with his first LP containing 12 tracks for VIP Extent. After this a EP release by Silk Recordings, 2 Vinyl Records for Solace (Dubstep) and his high-profile releases for Darkestral, which have artists and producers like DBridge, Instra:Mental, Rockwell and others within the ranks.
On top of all this Jefferson has been working on his new project “The Hybridz” which connects Brazil / New Zealand through a partnership with producer and Forge. ‘The Hybridz’ project has loads of releases lined up including 12″ + digital formats for labels such as Silk, Soalce and GBDA. Integration Now is just beginning his career and promises great things for the future.
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Bulb
Daniil Vavilov aka Bulb is not just a random ‘home-producer’ you might stumble upon and enjoy, he is a well-rounded artist who needs more spotlight without ever suggesting it.
His ‘main’ alias, Bulb, is the product of witty friends and his trademark (lack of a) hairstyle. A typical combination of trancey melodies and mellow soundscapes on top of 170 bpm drum & bass. At some point he decided that Bulb isn’t enough to cover his full range of states of mind and ideas expressible through music, thus building up a second online persona, Fill.
At first it was meant to be just a dump space for his experimental works, however the quality of these works couldn’t have been ignored for long. Even though the music enthusiasts seem to be pretty far from buying experimental or even ambient pieces having been used to the huge amount of net labels delivering quality stuff for free, the day will definitely come when a hectic night out flooded with 4/4 beats and drug-induced euphoria will only be soothed and healed by a proper beatless, melodic ambient treatment that money can and should buy.
His evolution’s pattern is a realistic indicator of how long it would take someone with no musical training to build up a solid technical background that can allow turning ideas and inspiration into full length tracks. While he opened his first music production software roughly 5 years ago it wasn’t until last year that he stepped up his game and made some well placed financial investments into a home studio setup that definitely worked wonders on his production level and overall workflow.
Currently 21 years of age it’s quite easy for him to fully dedicate his time into music. Those who know him might call him a workaholic. His passion towards the community did leave it’s marks and a quickly growing fan-base is a steady proof of the concept that “the internet is working”.
During the early stages of learning he was fooling around, as most so-called newbies do, with the easy, pattern-style sounds of trance, house or hip-hop. Without being able to make use of any musical background or playing by notes has made this exploration part the most important in his learning process. It has been insightful enough for him to discover an affinity towards what he calls “atmospheres, melodies and lovely parts”, something one can easily find as the highlight or backbone of all his works under both aliases.
Touching the matter of raw talent versus well buried inspirations he thinks “there is nothing new in this world, only geniuses can make truly unique stuff and it’s definitely not the case in electronic music. It’s always a combination of the art that you see, the feelings that you get and the music that inspires you – each recipe of these three factors will always have a different result”. The combination of his young age, his dedication and the constantly evolving technical possibilities can only be a preview of the basic factor that makes electronic music so great and unique – the unforeseeable sound he will be delivering as time passes.
At first all his projects started with no ‘genre’ limitations whatsoever but as time passed and his first few works got an unexpectedly positive reaction from his listeners it was pretty clear that Bulb should stick to anything dnb-related and Fill had to come up as a platform for whatever “wouldn’t *Fill* the expectations”.
“Making soundtracks would fit me but now it’s just my skill that makes me and my audience happy”
As most up & coming producers probably do, he hopes for a music related career further on in his life but he isn’t necessarily thinking about this while making his everyday decisions. He is still as much a passionate listener as he is a skilled DJ and producer. Finding special music is a big part of developing into a professional, maybe even bigger than it is for a really passionate listener like myself.
Interacting with the artists you like as a listener can be either artificial through awkwardly stalking them or the straight-forward direct contact, congratulating and crediting them for what their work means for you. When asked about his approach on this matter he confesses to being one of the few in the latter category: “Quite often I contact whoever I enjoy with some respectful words and I am constantly surprised by how open, friendly and talkative some of the bigger names are without delivering the classic polite one-worded sentences. I don’t expect to make friends with the likes of Aphex Twin or any of the iconic names but it’s still comforting to offer that sense of gratitude as long as I know how it feels”
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eleven8
Edd Legg, aka eleven8 is a young producer hailing from East Grinstead. A keen musician from an early age, Edd picked up several instruments – more notably the drums. After several years of playing in Punk and Post Rock bands, he decided to transfer his skills as a drummer to electronic music – which has influenced his productions heavily. His sound is now often known for his distinctive percussion and acoustic samples. With a precise blend of industrial, warped sound effects and melodic snapshots of real, organic samples, his productions are beginning to make waves.
In January 2009 eleven8 went to a Med School night at Fabric, which entirely changed his attitude towards production. This initiated a dramatic shift towards the more complex yet spacious Dubstep and Drum & Bass he’s producing today. 2 years down the line he had been featured on the Med School compilation ‘New Blood 011’ along with the likes of Lung, Bulb, Nuage and Anile. In July he played his first set at Fabric at one of the Med School takeovers – a fitting event for a Fabric debut.
Since this he has been busy working on more material around the 130/40bpm area, with 12” releases lined up on Indigo’s ‘Mindset Records’ as well as ‘Solace Records’. 2012 is already lining up to be a busy year for eleven8, with more releases to follow and exciting collaborations with the other producers such as Clarity, Kaiju and Lung.
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Anile
Anile has established himself as a competent producer/DJ with releases on labels; Renegade Hardware, DeepSoul Music, Cylon, Inneractive Music, Phunkfiction, Buried Audio and Broken Audio. Forthcoming releases on Commercial Suicide and Temah.
The South East uk based artist has been producing for little over 3 years, styles of tracks differ which shows versatility and maturity within the studio, from Ambient tracks like ‘Lessons To Become’ and ‘Never Together’ and harder tracks like ‘Orthodox’ & ‘Glass Of Greed’.
‘Orthodox’ released on Cylon Recordings ‘Various Art EP’ & Spirits – ‘All I Need’ Anile remix, last year both remain to be a definitive dance floor classic across the globe, putting the name Anile clearly on the map of newcomers to watch out for in the near future.
With support from top established names across the scene such as Goldie, Spectrasoul, D Bridge, Loxy, SPY, Marky, Andy C, Total Science, Jubie, Ulterior Motive and many more, this proves Anile’s tracks are A class standard dance floor killers.
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