Behemoth, Pan Sonic, Fuck Buttons, DAF, Irreversible, Suicide, The Young Gods, Pig Destroyer, Buck 65, ZAO, Ísak Harðarson, Jóhann Jónsson, Melt-Banana, Wolf Eyes. William S. Burroughs, Jón Steingrímsson, Cut-up technique, Surrealism, Dadaism, Christianity, Anarchism.
When foreign members of the press talk about Icelandic music, glaciers are often brought into th’ mix for some reason. The music is glacial, mountainous, influenced by northern lights and northern winds, frozen tundra and some of the most beautiful waterfalls this side of the Atlantic. Elves dance as colourful leaves blow through, nature inspires within Icelanders a purity and innocence that enables them to express the whole of the emotional spectrum with a jagged pointedness and childlike innocence that leaves no one untouched.
The music of AMFJ is neither glacial nor mountainous. It was not written under a glacier, but it could bring to mind how it is to be stuck under one – between narrow mountains, creeping snowstorms, murky waters, incomprehensible interest rates and wage-slavery. It is the searing pain in the eye of the teenager that looks his suited father in the face and realizes that there is no hope – nothing is coming this way.
Haukur S. Magnússon, editor of The Reykjavík Grapevine
Electric Ethics (which is responsible for many of the most interesting electronic music-events last year), in collaboration with the Neo-Collective Movement (Nýja Samvinnuhreyfingin) and the electric-funhouse: Jacobsen (Austurstræti) – invites you to an exciting feast of music and visual effects: 1st of august - 22:00 o..clock (Verzlunarmannahelgin). The Icelandic Electric-Green driven juggernauts: Stereo Hypnosis – are going to introduce their new upcoming album: “Hypnogogia”, which will be realized later in middle of august! the album was recorded – more and less – totally inspired by Jules Vernes and his book: Voyage au Centre de la Terre, and the Icelandic – unbound nature. What we can expect on this special night – besides Stereo Hypnosis; Gjoll – who are going to introduce new material on their upcoming album; AMFJ – who recently released his Plutonian-sound on cassette-tape (or ,,snælda’’, which is popular Retro-Principle these days) – and Wc Einar Krautzwel – he will also take care of the nights.. live music – plus many more exciting acts in this program of grandeur. Entry is 1000 (Krónur) – appetizer is included (in courtesy of Mekka). Details about the program can be found at: myspace.com/electronicethics myspace.com/stereohypnosis and on Face book – as well
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