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On Saturday, 26-11-2011, the well known ambient club Flim returns to its urban dwelling in Stockholm.

The line-up includes live performances by:

DEADBEAT (LIVE)
LUDVIG ELBLAUS (LIVE) + CURRENT CURRENT (Visuals)
ROMAIN TARDY aka AALTO (Visuals)

as well as DJ sets by:

SIMON HAYDO (DJ)
JOHAN ÖSTMAN (DJ)
HENRIK MÅRTENSSON (DJ)
KLIIN (DJ)
CURT LUNDBERG (DJ)

Be sure to take part in the continuous Flim tribute to beautiful sounds, sights and winter nights at Nordic Light Hotel on Saturday 26th of November. More information at: Flim Stockholm

This week the 18th – 23rd October 2011 you have the possibility to visit the Sound of Stockholm festival in Sweden.

“Sound of Stockholm is a new festival for improvised, new and experimental art music. The festival takes place a week each autumn. It is artist-driven and organised through a collaboration between 9 independent presenting societies along with EMS and the Swedish Musician’s Alliance.”

The week is filled with performances by well-known and not so well-known artists. The hub of events is the glorious Kulturhuset in the very centre of Stockholm. This Saturday, 22-10-2011 you should direct special attention to Ludvig Elblaus solo performance: King Of Infinite Space, pt 3.

The first part was performed at Audiorama during the Kulturnatten event in Stockholm and the second at the Flim Open Air Festival in Vinterviken this summer.

The project is based on one composition that is presented in three different ways in three different contexts. At Audiorama the original composition was used in a shortened but otherwise unprocessed form. At the outdoor Flim festival the original composition was multiplied and superimposed thus creating a compact, dense mass of sound. In the third and final part being performed at Kulturhuset; the original components will be disassembled and processed in order to construct a new integral piece.

Ludvig Elblaus’ set is one of three presented by Fylkingen on Saturday night. The other two sets are performances by: Axel Dörner / Jassem Hindi and Andrea Belfi.

Today, Thursday 28-07-2011, is the start of the annual Norbergfestival: +80 artists, 4 stages during 3 days and it is all taking place in an abandoned iron mine a truly spectacular and unique venue. It is “The premier festival for electronic music in Scandinavia”.

On Saturday, 09-07-2011, the well known ambient club Flim temporarily relocates from its urban dwelling into the lush green countryside for a festival at Vintervikens Trädgårdscafé in Stockholm.

Flim Open Air promises to be a nice sounding and looking one-day festival presenting an array of gifted local musicians. The line-up includes live performances by:

PETER BENISCH (LIVE)
JOEL MULL (LIVE/DJ-set)
LUDVIG ELBLAUS (LIVE)
THE BIRD WHO FELL TO EARTH (LIVE)
EBB (LIVE)
LISA+KROFFE (LIVE)
PPM (LIVE)
TELEBILD (LIVE)

as well as DJ sets by:
KNIVFLICKAN (DJ)
MATS ALMEGÅRD (DJ)
GOOGOL PLEX (DJ)
KLIIN (DJ)
COMBINETOR (DJ)

Be sure to take part in Flim’s tribute to beautiful summer days/nights and experience lovely sounds and sights at Vinterviken on Saturday 9th of July. More information at: Flim Stockholm

This Saturday, 11-06-2011 it is time for the yearly musical festival Volt.

The artists attending the festival are: Alva Noto, Radio Slave, Ben Klock, Darkstar, Mary Anne Hobbs, Little Dragon, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Ulf Eriksson, SKLS, Mokira, Håkan Lidbo, Nomaton, Kliin, Mats Almegård, Hanna Kihlander aka Knivflickan, Kymatica, Lisa and Kroffe, Samlingen, Glasnost, Hype and Nicole Carter.

The music will be accompanied by: VJs and a wide variety of installations, for example R.fm Cinema hosted by the lovely people at R.fm and last but not least the Lost Bots…

The festival takes place at the spectacular Uppsala Konsert & Kongress in Uppsala, Sweden. Be sure to visit this high quality electronic music festival!

On Saturday, 28-05-2011, three sets will be performed by the members of the Schematics.

A solo performance by: Ludvig Elblaus, a duo performance by Katt Hernandez and Daniel Karlsson as well as a performance with the full quartet.

The performances will take place at: Kafé Klavér in Stockholm. The concerts begin at 19:00.

And maybe, just maybe, the fourth Schematics’ release IV (Green) recorded live in concert at Fylkingen in Stockholm 11-03-2011 will be available for purchase at the venue.

This Thursday, 28-04-2011 you can once again explore the sonic world of ‘The Schematics’. They will be performing live at: Galleri Andersson / Sandström (GAS) in Stockholm, using the installation of German artist Wilhelm Mundt’s ‘Trashstones’ as a framework for their improvisation.

The quartet consists of: Katt Hernandez (Violin), Ludvig Elblaus (Supercollider), Daniel Karlsson (Guitar) and Erik Calälv (Bass Clarinet).

For more information and the possibility to obtain highly customised and limited records please visit: The Schematics.

This Friday, 11-03-2011 you can explore the sonic world of ‘The Schematics’ at Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden. It is the electro acoustic 4-piece band’s first public performance.

The venue is probably not chosen by chance. Fylkingen is among other things, home to EMS ‘Elektronmusikstudion, formerly known as Electroacoustic Music in Sweden, prior to that known as Elektronmusikstudion, is the Swedish national centre for electronic music and sound art.’

The band members are: Katt Hernandez (Violin), Erik Calälv (Bass Clarinet), Daniel Karlsson (Guitar & Electronics) and Ludvig Elblaus (SuperCollider).

The evening also features solo performances by: Jonatan Liljedal and Mattias Peterson. Last but not least you will have the opportunity to buy highly limited records.

Do yourself a favour or as ‘The Spaniard’ would put it, ‘Give Yourself a Break!’ and listen to this marvellous set by DJ Krazy.

While you’re at it (you have to listen first though) check out r.fm the slickest streaming source around.

Krazy’s set is aptly entitled ‘Born Again’ and yes it’s bass and drum through and through, never mind the genres, because I’m telling you, that you need to hear this set now… Yes, I want to give myself a break.

This story starts with the notion of youth and the promise of an eternal, ever accelerating evolution of increasingly complex beats, unlimited and eternal bass and last but not least the so very, very bright future that should rightfully belong to all youth! As well as the deep and undiluted belief in the power of art, music and last but not least bass.

The Seba set posted here at resurface.se represent all of the above and also signifies the meaning of, or rather was is meant when applying the term “soldier” in a drum and bass context, it means nothing else but serving the drum and bass. And they constitute the key musical elements according to Lee Scratch Perry and I for one agree and I always have, ask somebody. A soldier serves the drum and bass with loyaly and without hesitation. And let’s not forget the future part…

It is claimed that the current year is 2009 and if that is actually true it would seem that quite some time has passed since 1995 when this particular journey in question took off *, Seba’s that is, one of a select few that is a living, breathing musical hero, relentlessly pursuing a musical vision, no matter what the obstacles may be, belonging to the group of individulas that all are artists in the very meaning of the word.

I feel that it is my obligation to pay tribute to some of the real artists in the World, so I say a big thank you to: Ludvig, Krazy, Jesper, Inigo, Hecq, Mileue, Seba, Icarus, Proem, Auer, Lufth, Alaska, Paradox, Coltrane, Mehldau, Pole, Phonem, Funckarma, Somatic Responses, Autechre, Beefcake, Mary J Blige, Jodeci, Group Home, KDD, Fanu, Rother, Finlow, Tonikom, Fabian, Descartés and many many more… again thank you!

Now proceed and listen to the fresh mix, straight from the Secret Operations HQ brought to you by the one and only Seba.

* Seba started producing music well before 1995, but for the sake of the argument and my text I'm choosing to stick to 95'. If for no other reason I have some really great musical and personal memories from 1995.

Seba – Session at Secret Operations HQ mix hosted by R.fm — Mix.Pacemaker.net.