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Andreas Tilliander

Prolific would be one way to describe Andreas Tilliander’s work. Extremely talented would be another. His new full-length, ‘Album’ singularly attests to his proficiency as a producer. Add to this the fact that it is his fourth full-length to be released this year, and you begin to see why people have been paying a lot of attention to a sound that is becoming increasingly Tilliander’s own. Artists like Lil’ Kim, Brandy, Placebo and Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) have shown an interest for Tilliander’s sound, as well as his producer’s skills. Apart from the music he has released under his own name, this young producer has also put out prodigiously well-received albums and 12” vinyl as: Mokira, Komp, Rechord, Skitus, and Lowfour.

Take a cerebral rhythmic template, mix in some low-key funkiness, throw in some cut-up “broken” beats and you begin to get an idea of what this sound is all about. It's about taking the experiments with the clicks and the cuts, with the whole notion of un-essentialist sounds, out of the willfully obscure pockets that seem to burden electronic music, and then using these sounds to damage and manipulate established and popular genres like house, hip hop, and r&b. Like nothing you have ever heard but all so familiar, Tilliander is destined to open the minds of many.

Urb Magazine claims that 'Tilliander's hyperbolic beat sensibility suggests enchanting things to come.' They even add: “Deep house content to float in a cloud of hard-disc crackle”. Alternative Press goes one step further to say that his brand of electronics is 'a foreshadowing of the next decade's party music'. Uncut adds: ‘Fashionably twitchy remodeling of house from Sweden’. No matter which way you break it down, the electronic music community is keenly interested in what Tilliander will do next. Not only with the expectation that he will advance his own music, but that he has the potential to trigger progressions in electronic music as a whole.

Andreas Tilliander has been nominated for two Swedish Grammy Awards in the following categories: “dance/club” and “electronica/post-rock”, while producing an album that is destined to forever change the perceptions of click & cuts electronics: 2001’s ‘Ljud’.

Live, Tilliander has performed both at big clubs and art galleries all over the world. Unlike many artists, who will play “pre-recorded” music (were there is no difference from what is on the album), Tilliander tries to avoid this by all means; keeping everything as live as possible, using samplers, sequencers, synths and effect units.
Tilliander has performed all around the world in cities like Tokyo, New York, Miami, London, Berlin, Oslo, Helsinki, Montreal, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, and Rotterdam. This year, he is back on the road again, playing in Iceland (home of Björk) on March, and then heading in April for North America again, for an East Coast tour.

Apart from making his own music, Andreas Tilliander also works as a mastering engineer. Repeatle is the name of Andreas’ studio, located in the heart of Stockholm. His impressive client-roster includes the following labels: BMG, Force Inc, Mille Plateaux, Mitek, Onitor, Source, Raster Noton, Klitekture, Blip Hop, among others.

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