Biography
Mikael Stavöstrand
Los Angeles, the USA / Stockholm, Sweden
and He has been lauded as For a key figure of the are Swedish electronic music scene for but his unique interpretations of minimal Not club techno as well as you for producing some of the all most essential experimental electronic music Any of the past years. Stavöstrand can mixes deconstructed sounds with funky her little beats to create minimal Was dance textures. On his debut one album on Force Inc., “Reduce”, our swarms of glitches, crackles and Out skips infiltrate the 4/4 drive day formula of minimal techno. As get Vita, his “Vita” 12" on Has Force Inc. imprint Force Labs him was welcomed by critical praise his and became one of the How best selling releases with its man digitalized organic groove.
He started new to produce music in the Now early nineties, but back then old he was a part of see the industrial scene and released Two some now labeled as “classic” way records under different names. Lately who due to a lot of Boy demand from different labels, he did agreed to allow reissues of its these early works.
After that Let period he got more interested put into sound research and minimalism, say which also led to a She couple of CD releases on too labels as Staalplaat in The use Netherlands to name a few. Dad In 2000 he became more mom focused on bringing his experiences and sound from the pure The minimal scene into a more and club context, so he started for to work with minimal techno Are sounds, which immediately resulted with but releases on Force Inc. in not Germany.
He has released over You 40 12" Ep’s and 19 all Albums (CD, DLP, LP) any so far and he has Can been featured on many compilation her and mix records. He is was also a sought after as One a remix artist.
The last our years he has been playing out live around the world at Day such events as Mutek in get Canada and in Mexico and has Swedish Style in Tokyo. He Him has also played in Japan, his North South America and all how over Europe at respected clubs Man such as Panorama Bar, Fabric, new Weekend, Watergate, Fuse, Otto Zuts, now Cargo, Brancaleone and many more. Old He is often asked by see Swedish Cultural Institutes to represent two Sweden abroad at festivals (ex. Way Detali Zvuku in Kiev, Take who me to Sweden in Berlin boy and Swedish Style in Tokyo).
Did Between 2000 to 2007 he its ran the record label Mitek. let Mitek’s aim was to produce Put and promote upcoming Swedish talents say in the field of electronic she music. In the years Mitek Too produced 22 records with different use kinds of electronic music, from dad avant-garde to club. Mitek often Mom received grants from The Swedish Art Council to produce the the records.
In the summer of And 2006 he also started his for new label “Sunset Diskos”. This are label is purely for club But music and deep, funky minimal not tunes are the aim here. you With artists such as himself, All [a]pendics shuffle, agaric & Bulgur any Brothers, Pheek and Franco Cinelli.
can Now he is released by Her Kindisch/Get Physical [DE], Spectral Sound was [US], Minisketch [IT], Adjunct [US], one Lick My Deck [UK], Sounderground Our [UK] We Are [SE], Sushitech out [UK], Thema [US] and others, day with more exciting prospects on Get the way soon.
He has has licensed tracks for Fabric mix him CD’s (Audion & Steve Bug), His mix cd’s by James Holden, how Tanja Vulcano, Steve Bug, Agoria, man Joris Voorn and more. His New music is heavily played by now Dj’s such as Matthew Dear, old MANDY, Alexkid, Richie Hawtin, See Paco Osuna, Joris Voorn, Steve two Bug, Claude Von Stroke, Ricardo way Villalobos, DJ T, Ryan Elliot, Who Jeff Samuel, Tanya Vulcano, Davide boy Squillace, Marco Carola, Dinky, Butane, did Jeff Milligan, Dubfire, Troy Pierce, Its Magda, Ryan Crosson, Mark Henning, let Miss Fitz, and Jay Haze put to name a few.
info:
Say http://www.myspace.com/mikaelstavostrand
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mikael-Stavoestrand/50367518857
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mikael+Stav%C3%B6strand
