About
Resurface is essentially a collection of texts about electronic music. The texts were originally posted on the Electronic Desert web site. Electronic Desert was founded by the long-time friends Jonas and Janos in Stockholm in 2002 and started out as a recurring musical event focusing entirely on contemporary electronic music. Between the years 02’ and 06’ close to 30 events were arranged and in addition Electronic Desert was invited to play at: Norbergfestival, Spitz, Svaj to mention a few.
Essential to any ED event were live performances and a quality sound system. During the active years the following artists performed live: The Policy Unit, Andreas Tilliander, Pavan, Ludvig Elblaus, Neil Landstrumm, Liquid Stranger & Dorothy’s Magic Bag, Bobby Madrid & Jens Kallbäck, Sophie Rimheden, Johan Inkinen & Slem, Sourcery, SonyCo, Posthuman, Johan Skugge, Jean-Louis Huhta, VITA/ M. Stavöstrand, FAB, Stendec, Benge, Peter Benisch, Bauri, Cide, Funkwecker, Folie, Håkan Lidbo, Smyglyssna and Ola Bergman.
Apart from the musical events a record label bearing the same name was also started in early 2002. After spending a long period in hiatus Electronic Desert Recordings recently added a fourth release to the catalogue: Pawalski’s debut album Namespace. The very first release was the Viva Fab! twelve-inch by the duo Frank And Bill as a matter of fact this duo was a major motivator in starting the label in the first place. With vinyl production costs, logistics and severe distribution problems in mind the label switched the output format to CDR instead for the two subsequent releases. Now the output format has changed once more and the three coming albums will be regular CD releases
Resurface has been started to better reflect the current activities of Electronic Desert’s co-founder and to retain the more than 300 texts about music that has been written since the start of Electronic Desert in 2002. The ambition and hope is that new texts will be written and posted here at Resurface in the not to distant future.