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Released: Jan 1, 2008
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  • Genre: Electronica / Hip Hop / Indie

    Location Dirtville, Please select your region., Sw

    Profile Views: 158952

    Last Login: 8/22/2011

    Member Since 7/3/2005

    Website www.affictionados.com

    Record Label Revolving Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    (Cd) Affictionados - Affictionados. CDR(2006) iTunes(2009) ft. Séamus, Kissey Asplund, Crippual, Tessa Saxell and Torin Williams. .. (Single) Affictionados - Beyond. Revolving Records/iTunes (2010) .. (Single) Affictionados ft Christine Owman - T.B.N.A. Revolving Records/iTunes (2010) .. (Single) Affictionados ft Bracey Hansun - My Mind Goes Revolving Records/iTunes (2010).. .. (Album) Affictionados - MMX Revolving Records/iTunes (2011).. .. (Single) Affictionados ft Christine Owman - Bow & Arrow Revolving Records/iTunes (2011).. ........ .. .. Whether it's a melancholic rhythm, an instrumental track, a hiphop song or indie influenced beat you can rest assure that Affictionados will set the mood with dust and scratches. .. .. Carl Nordström came up with the name while reading an article about drum and bass circa 2000. The word was aficionado, which means 'admirer of'. He considered himself quite the aficionado, not only of drum and bass, but of so many different music styles it seemed impossible to come up with a name that actually captured the essence of his approach to music production at that time. .. .. Carl remembers always, and still, being very inspired by the birth of a genre. "Nothing sounds as good as when it's uncompromised and made with an intention not to sound like something specific, like nowadays people say they wanna be in a punk band or play jazz or whatever, but the people who started that whole scene didn't think that way. It's like they just made something completely new and the boundaries were limited only to what they themselves wanted it to be like, if there in fact were any boundaries at all in that moment of creative process..." .. .. His earliest music memories are from his parents record collection and includes Rocksteady Crew, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, The Police and Neil Young to mention a few. Different genres but all with artists who have made big contributions to music history. "I think the most important genre I've picked up so far was hiphop. I might have been twelve or thirteen so I was too young to understand and have experienced those groundbreaking moments of blues, jazz, soul, rock, punk, and to a certain extent the electronic music, but hiphop became like a melting pot for all those genres through sampling. This was like an awakening and the biggest connect-the-dots I've ever made." .. .. During his teenage years Carl played in a punk band (at first set out to play nintendo music) and gradually moved on to producing music using computer software and a growing vinyl collection. "It was great being in a punk band and writing whatever music i felt like, but at the same time I always wanted to do other stuff too. Always glancing away at other genres. I experimented alot at home with different styles, mostly hiphop and different electronic styles that I didn't know what to call." .. .. So what do you do when you can't decide which genre you'd rather focus on? You make up other premisses to create your music around. And that's exactly what Carl eventually did. And if soundscapes was a genre, defined by just that rather than a style or rhythm, then that's where you'd look to find the music of Affictionados. .. .. ....Affictionados on Facebook.. .. .... .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

  • Members

    Carl Nordström - Writer/Producer. Programming, guitar, glockenspiel, turntables, stylophone.

  • Influences

    Kim Gordon, Brian Ferry, Robert Smith, P.J Harvey, Jimmy Lee Lindsey, John Anthony Genzale, Jr., Ennio Morricone, Herbie Hancock, Simon Green, David Bowie, Andrew Bird, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, Billie Holiday, Prince Rogers Nelson, Nico, Neil Tolliday and Simon Mills, Christopher Edward Martin, Stina Nordenstam, Jim Morrison, Erika Rosén, Quincy Jones, Steven Patrick Morrissey, Nina Simone, Johan Duncanson, George Clinton, Matthew Herbert, Robert Del Naja, Grantley Marshall, Andrew Vowles, Ramble John Krohn, 石 英明, Gil Scott Heron, Donald Byrd, Christine Owman, Louie Vega and Kenny Gonzales, Adrian Nicholas M. Thaws, Kevin Michael Allin, Freddie Wadling, John Lee Hooker, Jack White, Mark Kozelek, Mike Skinner, Shawn Corey Carter, Joshua Davis...

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