Arne Van Petegem

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Van Petegem in an appearance with Death Cab for Cutie (2008)

Arne Van Petegem (born November 4, 1973 ) is a Belgian musician who is best known under the pseudonyms Styrofoam and Tin Foil Star . His music is largely attributable to the Indietronic genre .

Life

Van Petegem attended a music school and started playing the guitar at the age of 12. At the age of 15, influenced by Sonic Youth , Dinosaur Jr. and Hüsker Dü , he founded his first band. From the late 1990s he published his first works on phonograms. In 1997 the cassette album Repeat After Me was released under the pseudonym Brassneck. The following year the album Dreams In Technicolor by the band Amber # 2 followed, for which Van Petegem contributed vocals and guitar.

Bored of playing in rock bands, he began experimenting with electronic music. In 1999 the first publications as Tin Foil Star followed . These appeared on the Atomic Recordings label , which was operated by a record store in which Van Petegem was active at the time. Van Petegem met Thomas Morr through the distribution of Atomic Recordings , who shortly thereafter founded the Berlin label Morr Music . He gained greater fame in the electronica scene with his albums published on Morr Music under the pseudonym Styrofoam .

In 2004 Van Petegem was involved in the founding of Dieter Sermeus' band project The Go Find , with which he recorded the album Miami , which was also released by Morr Music. Van Petegem also performed live with Sermeus. In the same year, the Styrofoam album Nothings Lost was released , on which Van Petegem added vocals, raps and classical instruments to his mostly instrumental electronica pieces. For the recordings Van Petegem worked with musicians Valerie Trebeljahr ( Lali Puna ), Andrew Kenny ( The American Analog Set ), Ben Gibbard ( Death Cab for Cutie , The Postal Service ), Bent Van Looy ( Das Pop ), Markus Acher, among others ( The Notwist ), Miki Yoshimura ( pitch tuner ) and the rapper Alias ​​( anticon ) together. Van Petegem put together a band for live performances.

After several albums on Morr Music, he switched to the Nettwerk label. There the album A Thousand Words was released in 2008 , on which Jim Adkins ( Jimmy Eat World ), Blake Hazard ( The Submarines ) and Josh Rouse appeared as guest musicians.

In addition to his work as a musician, Van Petegem was involved in various funding projects for young musicians and worked at the Trix music center in Antwerp . He is married and has two children.

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 1999: Tin Foil Star - Too Late Then, Too Late Now (Noise Museum)
  • 1999: Tin Foil Star - Mort Aux Vaches (Mort Aux Vaches)
  • 2000: Styrofoam - The Point Misser (Morr Music)
  • 2001: Styrofoam - A Short Album About Murder (Morr Music)
  • 2003: Styrofoam - I'm What's There To Show That Something's Missing (Morr Music)
  • 2004: Styrofoam - Nothing's Lost (Morr Music)
  • 2006: Fat Jon & Styrofoam - The Same Channel (Morr Music)
  • 2008: Styrofoam - A Thousand Words (Nettwerk)
  • 2010: Styrofoam - Disco Synthesizers & Daily Tranquilizers (Nettwerk)

Singles and EPs

  • 1997: Tin Foil Star / The Azusa Plane - Split 7 " (K-RAA-K³)
  • 1998: Tin Foil Star / ISAN - Split 10 " (Atomic Recordings)
  • 1999: Tin Foil Star - A Different Face (Acetone Records)
  • 1999: Tin Foil Star - Tin Foil Star (Active Suspension)
  • 2002: Styrofoam / Dntel - Styrofoam / Dntel Split 7 " (Rocket Racer)
  • 2002: Styrofoam - EP2 (Rocket Racer)
  • 2002: Styrofoam - To Simply Lie Here And Breathe (A Number Of Small Things)
  • 2003: Styrofoam - A Heart Without A Mind EP (Morr Music)
  • 2006: Fat Jon & Styrofoam - The Same Channel EP (Libyus Music)

Remixes

  • 1999: Pinback - Tripoli (Tin Foil Star Remix)
  • 2001: múm - Please Sing My Spring Reverb (Styromix)
  • 2001: The American Analog Set - The Postman (Styrofoam's Just Like The Nineties Never Happened Mix)
  • 2002: Giardini di Mirò - A New Start (Styrofoam Remix)
  • 2002: Tristeza - Casio (Styrofoam Remix)
  • 2002: múm - Please Sing My Spring Reverb (Styromix)
  • 2004: The Go Find - What I Want (Styrofoam's Perfect Time Remix)
  • 2005: The Postal Service - Nothing Better (Styrofoam Remix)
  • 2005: Jimmy Eat World - Drugs Or Me (Styrofoam Remix)
  • 2006: Najwa - Capable (Styrofoam Remix)
  • 2010: Milow - Never Gonna Stop (Styrofoam Remix)

Web links

Commons : Arne Van Petegem  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tin Foil Star at rateyourmusic.com, accessed October 3, 2011
  2. ↑ Arne Van Petegem ( memento March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at drummerszone.com, accessed October 3, 2011
  3. ↑ Disco Synthesizers & Daily Tranquilizers, that's about it at bestfbothworlds.blogspot.com, accessed October 3, 2011
  4. ↑ a b c d Arne Van Petegem of Styrofoam talks to PE ( Memento from September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at popexperiment.com, accessed on October 3, 2011
  5. ↑ a b Biography at morrmusic.com, accessed October 3, 2011
  6. ↑ Styrofoam Biography at allmusic.com, accessed October 3, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Van Petegem, Arne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Styrofoam (pseudonym); Tin Foil Star (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian musician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1973