ALASKA IN WINTER
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ALASKA IN WINTER is performing within the field of Electronic music and is ranked #14510 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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Alaska in Winter was an American electronic band, consisting of frontman Brandon Bethancourt, who dropped out of art school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and reportedly, "spent a semester in a tiny cabin out in the middle of nowhere Alaska recording music on a laptop during the winter", and which later came to be known as the project, "Alaska in Winter".
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• Alaska in Winter (aka Brandon Bethancourt)…
• Is originally from New Mexico but spent half a year in Alaska out in a cabin in the woods recording music during the winter of 2004… hence the name.
• Released its ‘debut’, “Dance Party in the Balkans” which featured a young Zach Condon (Beirut) in the summer of 2007 on US and European labels.
• Relocated to Berlin, Germany and recorded 2nd album “Holiday” summer 2008.
• Toured for 3 years with the “virtual orchestra” around N. America and- and Europe including festivals such as Iceland Airwaves, SXSW, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Phono Festival (Norway), Nu Music Festival (Norway) and over 100 other shows in Europe.
• In 2009 was robbed into poverty by his European label.
• Came back to the US and was she-hospitalized. After exiting the mental hospital, Bethancourt started his own record label AIWM Records in 2010.
• Released “Space Eagle” [the motion picture soundtrack] on cassette tape 2010.
• Released “B-sides & Other Missed Opportunities” as a middle finger to his greedy-ex-label beginning of 2011.
• Released " Suicide Prevention Hotline" EP summer 2011
• Was hospitalized again… fun times!
• Released VHS movie “Futurecoder” fall of 2011.
• Released Memorex Floppy Disk 7" Vinyl October 2011
• Released Airwolfe Flexi Disc VInyl November 2011
• Is currently taking a hiatus from touring to finish 5 albums at once, for some reason.
Achievements:
• Alaska in Winter was featured on Grey’s Anatomy television series (season 4, episode 15)
• Alaska in Winter was song of the day on LA’s KCRW (remix of Submarines iphone commercial song “You Me and the Bourgeoisie” )
• Alaska in Winter was featured in MTV’s Making of the Band 4 (spring 09)
• Alaska in Winter’s 2nd album “Holiday” won the 2009 Independent Music Awards for best Electronic/ Dance album
• Alaska in Winter is also the 9th Independent Music Awards Vox Pop vote winner
• “We Are Blind” remix was used in professional skateboarder Daewon Song’s video “New Years Dae” aired 1/1/11 on theberrics.com
• “Your Red Dress” was used in Daweon Song’s X-Games video part summer 2011.
“This whole thing started when I spent an isolated winter recording music on a laptop in a tiny cabin out in the middle of nowhere Alaska…”