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Studio Barnhus Sweden
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Bound (feat Vaz) - (3:52) 116 BPM
Can't Stop - (3:25) 151 BPM
Boo Moon - (4:36) 120 BPM
Later (feat Bave) - (3:20) 120 BPM
Summertime (feat Venus Anon) - (4:16) 120 BPM
Heartbeat/Into The Night - (3:02) 106 BPM
Feel It - (5:55) 126 BPM
Orange - (3:49) 120 BPM
4ever - (4:05) 126 BPM
Gemini Sun - (5:06) 84 BPM
Review: She's already delivered some seriously good EPs on her own Frizner Electric imprint, and now LADYMONX has been given the opportunity to showcase her wares on Stockholm's deliciously inspired and off-kilter Studio Barnhus label. The Baltimore-born, Detroit-based DJ/producer is on form right from the off. Opener 'In a Daze' offers an enticing mix of lo-fi drum machine beats, bleeping melodies, looped synth stabs and booming bass, while 'So Sweet' joins the dots between starry Motor City deep house and classic peak-time cuts from Chicago and New York. Elsewhere, 'Welcome To My House' is a driving Detroit deep house anthem in the making complete with techno style restless hi-hats, and 'Desire' is a more rhythmically fluid and sun-soaked slab of intergalactic house excellence.
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Bella Boo's 2019 debut album was one the finest deep house-related sets of that year - a distinctively freewheeling affair that marked her out as a producer with a distinctive musical vision. Recently, the Swedish producer has spent many happy nights DJing in Berlin, and it's those experiences that inspired this EP, which Studio Barnhus describes as her "most club-focused" material to date. It's certainly a peak-time ready selection, with Boo wrapping heady electronics and deep sub-bass around a wildly bouncy, percussive groove on opener 'Looney', before blurring the boundaries between hot-stepping bass-music and R&B-infused house on 'Dancehall'. 'Girls' is a deliciously loose-limbed broken beat number infused with wonderfully wobbly bass, while 'Get Away' is a rushing piano-house workout that boasts some suitably weighty sub-bass.
Played by: Juno Recommends Electro
Review: Not long after Kamohelo Khoaripe moved to Stockholm from Johannesburg he met Adrian Lux, Carli Loef and Mans Glaeser, three local DJ-producers and veterans of the small, tightly-knit, constantly evolving Swedish club scene. Choosing the name Off The Meds, the outfit serves up its third release on local imprint Studio Barnhus; from the woozy tropical slow burner "Bang Bang", sci-fi beats aplenty on the electro beats of "Talmode" and the deep meditative vibes of downbeat closer "WOF".
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: The Studio Barnhus Sweden team have delivered a little slice of winter wonder with this gorgeous new three track arrangement from Kornel Kovacs, who explores a set of unique remixes and edits, all doused in icy energy from the off. We begin with the bell-driven VIP mix of 'Sziv Utca', which explores a global approach to the garage sound with scattered drum slides and floating vocal textures behind, followed by the moogy bass drifts and glittering synthetic designs of 'Atlas Dubb', taking the project in a completely different direction in both tempo and flavour. From here, we round off with 'Nordic Rave 4.5' an acidic sled race through eerie vocal beeps and unpredictable rhythmic additions, putting an unusual but pleasing final touch to this very unique selection.
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: It would be fair to say that multidisciplinary artist Arvid Wretman is a little on the eccentric side. In his musical output as Your Planet is Next, the Swede has spent years cultivating an alter-ego - the "Mr Music" of the title - that updates the sci-fi seeped electronic funk template of the 1980s for the 21st century. It's this character that sings and acts as narrator throughout his first album for Studio Barnhus, a giddy, synthesizer and TB-303 heavy trip through intergalactic electro, lo-fi space pop, mutilated synthesizer reggae, stripped-back acid house, slow motion synth-soul and much more besides. It's a quirky collection of cuts, that's for sure, but also hugely entertaining and immaculately executed.
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Review: Following outings on Unknown to the Unknown and Blueberry Records in the last two years, Drew Lustman AKA FaltyDL makes his belated return to Studio Barnhus with a typically varied, imaginative and far-sighted EP. After teasing us in gently via the cascading, synth-heavy ambience of 'Wrath', Lustman brilliantly joins the dots between breakbeat, techno, slow jungle and spaced-out electronica on 'Stereo Zaddy'. He then peppers a tweaked dub house rhythm with alien-sounding melodies and warehouse-ready stabs on 'Night Regulars', while 'Roller' wraps a mangled UKG beat and bassline in woozy electronics and moody stabs. The NYC-based producer rounds off a fine EP with 'Lust', a gorgeously sparkling slab of ambient/IDM fusion.
Review: Given the growing eccentricity of his Superpitcher project, it would be fair to say that Aksel Schaufler is a neat fit with the similarly inclined Studio Barnhus label. Certainly, the former minimal techno producer has delivered the goods on 'Lonely Lover', his first release of any sort for two years. The title track is simply gorgeous: an epic slab of slow building, soft-focus deep house that creates heads-down dancefloor gold out of little more than brilliant percussion programming, effects-laden drum hits, swelling (and often filtered) chords, and some deliciously misty-eyed samples from a dreamy old French chanson record. Also impressive is the similarly framed virtual flipside 'Smile It's a New Day', a clicking, string-laden shuffle through sunrise-ready deep house minimalism that's worth every second of its ten-minute duration.
Review: Lisa Milberg and Jon Bergstrom are Miljon! The Swedish duo made a ripples in 2018 when their link up with Axel Bowman and their "Forgot About You" single was picked up for the odd compilation (and BoyBoy release it first appeared on). Given some time to subside back into the studio, the pair now fully emerge with the release of their debut album, Don't They Know. Keeping in line with a lineage of great Swedish indie music, Miljon opt for a lo-fi and disco-tinged sound, described by some as flaskpost-disko or message-in-a-bottle-disco which the band acknowledge but redefine themselves as "something faded, worn, sun-bleached and ocean-sprayed but all the same carefully written, perhaps romantic or a touch dramatic".
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Played by: Juno Recommends Broken Beat Nu Jazz
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Finish artists Jimi Tenor and Freestyle Man may seem unlikely bedfellows, but both have a reputation for bending musical boundaries and - to coin a clich? of the business world - thinking outside the box. Their previous collaborations for Studio Barnhus were all excellent, and their latest outing, 'Forgotten Planet Awakens', is another gem. A kind of imaginary theme to a future sci-fi B-movie, it layers gentle flute solos, easy listening choral vocals, jaunty TB-303 lines and foreboding orchestration atop a squelchy nu-disco bassline and rolling house drums. On paper it shouldn't work, but it's genuinely great. Ricardo Villalobos remixes, delivering a typically bass-heavy but surprisingly chunky version that makes much of the Finnish duo's interesting musical details.
Review: If it's experimental, forward-thinking music from deep house's outer fringes you're after, you'll find it in abundance on this four-tracker from Sweden's Studio Barnhus, released to mark the label's 10th anniversary. Label bosses Kornel Kovacs and Axel Boman bring us a track each, with Kovac's 'Zero Feel' a laidback, shuffle-y groover while Boman's 'Radionova' fuses deep, prog and Balearic influences and is probably the closest thing to a straight-up 'deep house' cut anywhere on the EP. Elsewhere, Studio Barnhus's 'Sverige' is a wonked-out downtempo/chill-out piece, while Pedrodollar's 'Gazzoo' comes on like '91-style hardcore as heard through a post-PC Music filter, chipmunk'd vocal and all.
Played by: Juno Recommends Experimental
Review: Off The Meds is not the new artistic alias of a certain deranged American President, but rather a freewheeling, hard-to-pigeonhole collaboration between South African photographer-turned-vocalist Kamohelo Khoaripe and Swedish scene stalwarts Adrian Lux, Carli Lof and Mans Glaeser. The quartet's debut album is little less than brilliant, offering up a swathe of tracks that add Khoaripe's distinctive improvised raps to distinctive, imaginative and unusual backing tracks that regularly blur the boundaries between hip-house, electro, deep house, skewed synth-pop, kwaito, SA 'Bacardi house', dancehall and twisted, sub-heavy bass music mutations. It's genuinely hard to pigeonhole, but that only adds to the album's immense allure.
Played by: Juno Recommends Bass
Review: Next up from the Studio Barnhus Sweden crew we see them welcome back the wonderful Bella Boo, this time reworking a number of previous releases into vibrant remix creations, kicking off with the trippy melodic swirls and punchy bass slaps that emit from Off The Meds' rethink of 'She's Back. Next, Karima F gives 'Can't Leave You' a potent tribal rethink, Shy One delivers a spacey roller revamp of 'Tuesday' and Kornel Kovacs sends 'Stars' to the breakbeat manipulation machine for a sombre lick of paint. Finally, Matthew Styles provides us with a stripped back 4x4 overhaul of 'Sin Sin' rounding off a fantastic selection of fabulous recreations.
Played by: Kraak & Smaak, Jac The Disco, Alkalino, Juno Recommends Deep House, Juno Recommends Experimental, ROLLOVER DJS
Review: We were rather surprised to learn that "Eyes of My Mind" is Axel Boman's first solo single on Studio Barnhus, the label he co-founded, since 2013. It's also his first EP of any sort since 2017 (though 2019 did see the release of his fine "Le New Life" LP on Mule Musiq). The track is little less than a loved-up aural hug; a slow building, deliciously glassy-eyed affair in which dreamy chords, quirky vocal samples, droning bass tones and bubbly electronic motifs ride a bustling, loose-limbed drum track that sits somewhere between regular deep house, Max D's Dolo Percussion project and good old-fashioned breakbeat. Boman calms things down dramatically on "Echoes of My Mind", a swelling, wall-of-sound ambient revision of the A-side that's as comforting and meditative as they come.
Review: Mark Evetts is nowhere near as prolific as he once was, but the Birmingham-based producer is still capable of crafting must-have releases. He's at it again here on his first outing for eccentric Swedish label Studio Barnhus. Opener "Nova Blur" sees Evetts' add warm chords and skewed electronic lead lines to his usual hypnotic deep house template, while closing cut "Outdoor Pursuit" is a surprisingly fuzzy, lo-fi and distorted stomp through dense drums and echoing percussion sounds. Perhaps most ear catching of all is the faintly foreboding "Find A Way", where echoing chords, creepy melodies and looped Irish fiddles attempt to smother a sturdy, locked-in groove, though the fuzzy, proto-house influenced "Block Out" is also rather fine.
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Berlin-based producer Sofia Kourtesis joined Swedish imprint Studio Barnhus last year, offering up an assured debut EP that took a left of centre approach to deep house/tech-house fusion. If anything, this follow-up is even better, with the Peruvian expertly showcasing her impressive grasp of drum programming and inventive production techniques. Our pick of an impressive bunch is title track "Sarita Colonia", a throbbing affair that builds to a righteous, life-affirming conclusion (all cut-up string samples, booming bass and glassy-eyed vocal snippets) after a deep and drowsy start. There's much to set the pulse racing elsewhere across the EP, including the sub-heavy, melody-rich wonkiness of "Akariku" and the sunny deep house warmth of "Hollywood".
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Drew Lustman has been relatively quiet by his standards this year, though he's still found time to offer up a couple of quality singles on Blueberry Records and Unknown To The Unknown. Here he makes his first appearance on Studio Barnhus with an EP that showcases two distinctly different sides to his multi-faceted musical persona. Title track "Flechazo" is a veritable drizzle of melodic positivity, with eyes-closed synthesizer motifs, sun-bright electronics and dreamy chords cloaking a crunchy, off-kilter deep house rhythm and suitably heavy bassline. In contrast, "New Lover" is a fair more warehouse-ready affair, with Lustman reaching for the mid-90s U.S garage riffs (think "Show Me Love"), bustling breakbeats, booming bass, sweaty female vocal samples and twinkling melodies.
Review: Since signing with Studio Barnhus in 2018, Bella Boo (real name Gabriella Borbely) has released a couple of quirky, off-kilter EPs in the Swedish label's trademark hard-to-pigeonhole style. Here the Los Angeles based delivers her debut album, an expansive nine-track affair that shifts shape at regular intervals. After beginning with the lightly Afro-tinged vocal deep house pulse of "Can't Leave You Like This", she breaks up the beats on rolling workout "She's Back", offers up some downtempo nu-jazz on "Tuesday", squelches her way through contemporary deep hip-house number "Hotel Europa", goes on an ambient diversion via "Stars", and doffs a cap to Floating Points' early works on the jazzy but acid-fired wonder that is Axel Boman hook-up "Do The Right Thing".
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Review: Sweden's Gabriella Borbely, AKA Bella Boo, trails her soon-come debut album 'Once Upon A Passion' with this two-track release. The handful of EPs she's put out to date have consisted mostly of wonky, midtempo deep house, but this one finds her exploring more leftfield, downtempo territory: some gently tapping wood block percussion aside, 'Tuesday' is a near-ambient piece made up of piano chords, fragments of at least three different vocal parts (one male, two female) and a mournful sax line, while 'Can't Leave You Like This' is a slow-building Balearic cut that's tailor-made for warm-up sets.
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: Sweden's Axel Boman is the man at the controls here. Working as Man Tear (usually with fellow countryman Petter Nordvkist, here with vocalist Johan Jonason) he's put out a handful of tracks over the past half-decade on DFA, Needwant, Future Disco and Studio Barnhus, and now he returns to the latter with two cuts that look to the late 70s for inspiration. 'Kill Me' would be a fairly typical disco-house workout were it not for the single male vocal line, which loops throughout and has a new wave/powerpop kinda feel: it might take a listen or two to sink in, but it's a proper earworm once it does. 'Black Park', meanwhile, comes on like Talking Heads given a nu-disco makeover.
