Agent side grinder
| Agent side grinder | |
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 Agent Side Grinder at the Nocturnal Culture Night 2018 in Deutzen . |
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| General information | |
| origin | Stockholm , Sweden |
| Genre (s) | Electronica , post-punk , industrial |
| founding | 2005 |
| Website | www.agentsidegrinder.com |
| Current occupation | |
Synthesizer , piano, programming, percussion, background vocals |
Johan Lange |
Modular synthesizer, sampling, tape loops |
Peter Fristedt |
| Emanuel Åström | |
| former members | |
| Aleksander Blomqvist (2007-2011) | |
| Kristoffer Grip | |
synthesizer |
Henrik Sunbring (2007-2017) |
bass |
Thobias Eidevald (2011-2017) |
Agent Side Grinder is an electronic band from Bromma , Stockholm , which was founded in 2005. The band has released four albums so far.
history
The first two albums, Agent Side Grinder (2008) and Irish Recording Tape (2009) had their musical roots in post-punk, industrial and dark electro.
The third album Hardware (2012), which came up with complex and structured sounds, was named “Album of the Month” in Vice, landed on various Best Of lists of the year including those by Dagens Nyheter, Metro and Time Out Paris and won the Manifest Award (Swedish Indie Grammy) as the best synth album in 2013. Other Swedish artists such as Skriet and Henric de la Cour also took part in this album.
In 2015 the band released Alkimia , which far exceeded the success of hardware . The album includes a guest appearance by Nicole Sabouné.
Agent Side Grinder has done eight European tours so far and has performed at festivals such as the M'era Luna Festival , Wave-Gotik Treffen, The Great Escape, Eurosonic, Les Transmusicales de Rennes, Entremurahlas, Bimfest, Drop Dead Festival and Arvikafestivalen. Agent Side Grinder shared the stage with Suicide and Laibach, among others, and cooperated with artists such as Dirk Ivens, Kite and Henric de la Cour.
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- Agent Side Grinder, cast live at Nocturnal Culture Night 2018 in Deutzen
Keyboardist Johan Lange
Keyboard player Peter Fristedt
Singer Emanuel Åström
Discography
Studio albums
| title | format | year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent side grinder | LP | 2008 | Enfant terrible |
| CD | 2010 | Kill Shaman | |
| LP reissue | 2011 | Energy records | |
| The Transatlantic Tape Project | Tape | 2009 | Hästen & Corset |
| LP | 2009 | Enfant terrible | |
| Irish recording tape | LP | 2009 | Enfant terrible |
| CD | 2010 | Klangarkivet | |
| LP reissue | 2016 | Progress Productions | |
| hardware | CD | 2012 | Klangarkivet |
| Tape | 2012 | Klangarkivet | |
| LP | 2012 | Energy records | |
| Hardware (SFTWR included) | 2xCD | 2013 | Artoffact Records |
| SFTWR (Remixes) | CD | 2013 | Klangarkivet |
| Alkimia | CD | 2015 | Progress Productions |
| LP | 2015 | Progress Productions |
Live albums
| title | format | Live date | year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live at TMPL | Tape | 09-06-2007 | 2007 | Self Released |
| Live at Delicious Goldfish Records | Tape | 10-06-2007 | 2007 | Self Released |
| Two Nights With ASG | Tape | 24-10-2008 & 25-10-2008 | 2008 | Self Released |
| Live In Paris 2009-10-02 | Tape | 02-10-2009 | 2010 | Self Released |
| Industrial beauty | Tape | Spring 2010 | 2010 | Self Released |
| CD | Spring 2010 | 2011 | Manic Depression | |
| Live in Switzerland
(with Suicide ) |
Tape | 04-09-2010 | 2010 | Klangarkivet |
| Live targets | Tape | March 2012 | 2012 | Klangarkivet |
| Hardware comes alive | CD | 17-05-2012 | 2012 | Complete Control Productions |
| Live In Brussels 2012-12-08
(with unhappybirthday) |
Tape | 08-12-2012 | 2013 | Self Released |
Singles
| title | format | year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Untitled | 7 " | 2007 | Enfant terrible |
| Wolf Hour | CD promo | 2011 | Klangarkivet |
| Go (Bring It) Back
(with Dirk Ivens) |
12 " | 2014 | Collapse records |
| This Is Us | 12 " | 2014 | Progress Productions |
| Rip me | 12 " | 2015 | Oráculo Records |
Compilation albums
| title | format | year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial beauty | CD | 2011 | Manic Depression |
| Industrial Beauty Extended | CD | 2016 | Manic Depression |
Contributions to compilations
| Tite | format | song | year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoera! A Hex Voor Thuis! | LP | In Line With Me (Compressed Version) | 2007 | Hex gramophone plates |
| Festival of ingenious dissidents | LP + 7 " | There Is A Sound That Always Goes Out | 2008 | Enfant terrible |
| Darkness Before Dawn Volume 3 | CD | Die To Live (Darkness Before Dawn Edit) | 2011 | UpScene |
| Dödgrävardisko - En Samling Svensk Elektronik 1980-2012 | Tape | Billy | 2012 | Dödsdan's record |
| Inside The Volcano Volume One | CD | Life In Advance (Crash Course In Science Remix) | 2013 | Complete Control Productions |
| My Precious! A Waves Radio Show Compilation 1 | LP | Giants Fall (Kinex Kinex remix) | 2016 | Red Maze Records |
| 30 Years Of Black Celebration - A Compilation Of Exclusive Depeche Mode Cover Versions | CD | A question of time | 2016 | Sonic Seducer |
Web links
- Official website
- Agent Side Grinder at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agent Side Grinder on facebook
- ↑ Release info Enfant Terrible: Agent Side Grinder album ( Memento from April 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Release info Enfant Terrible: Irish Recording Tape album ( Memento from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Vice Magazine Album of the Month April 2012: Agent Side Grinder Hardware
- ↑ Dagens Nyheter: Agent Side Grinder: "Hardware"
- ↑ Manifest award 2013: best synth album
- ↑ electric Skull: Live report: Agent Side Grinder (+ Henric de la Cour, Skriet), Stockholm
- ↑ Dagens Nyheter: Agent Side Grinder: "Alkemia"
- ↑ Manifestgalan: Manifest award 2016: best synth album
- ↑ Sydsvenskan: Manifest award 2016: best synth album
- ↑ http://www.post-punk.com/best-event-of-2015-24-h-annual-wave-gotik-treffen/ trainee link | url = http: //www.post-punk. com / best-event-of-2015-24-h-annual-wave-gotik-Treffen / | date = 2018-08 | archivebot = 2018-08-22 10:15:44 InternetArchiveBot}} (link not available)
- ↑ Entremurahlas 2015 ( Memento from June 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bimfest 2014
- ↑ Agent Side Grinder releases on Discogs