Blotnik Brothers
| Blotnik Brothers | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Ystad (Sweden) |
| Genre (s) | Electro |
| founding | 1999 |
| Current occupation | |
| Martin Rasberg | |
| Roberto canteen | |
| Patrick Casey | |
The Blotnik Brothers are a Swedish electro project.
history
The Blotnik Brothers were founded in 1999 in Ystad by Martin Rasberg and Roberto Mensa, who shared an apartment . In 2001 the duo moved to Malmö . After the release of an EP , Patrick Casey joined the project. As a result, pieces by the band appeared on mixes and compilations, for example by Dave Clarke or Billy Nasty . In 2003 the group performed live for the first time. In 2004 the trio signed with Satamile Records , the oldest still active and at times most important electro label in New York , and released two more EPs and one album there. After the album was released in 2006, there was no further sign of life of the project until a split single with the Spanish producer Dark Vektor was released on the French label Fdb Recordings in 2016 .
The three members of the group run the film effects studio Blotnik Studios in Malmö, which created the special effects for the Danish children's film Superbror in 2009 .
Style and reception
The Italian magazine for digital culture Neural sees the music of the trio as a symbiosis of the origins of electro in the late 1970s and early 1980s as well as futuristic developments of music in the style of Dave Clarke. The magazine also noted Synthpop borrowings, fractured rhythms and a “dreamy, melodic groovy atmosphere”. The German music magazine Intro called the Blotnik Brothers “power plant adepts” whose “undercooled chatter” was predictable and interchangeable and was reminiscent of Anthony Rother's much-criticized Popkiller album . British DJ Mag saw the 2004 EP Pragmatic Response "influenced by European electro aesthetics". The magazine found that serious and sometimes sparse passages alternated with moody arrangements, atmospheric bass lines and vocoder chants influenced by Kraftwerk . The magazine gave the mantra-like scraps of text a socially critical tone. The cross-genre music magazine Funprox described the music of the EP Museful Revolution as "clean and flat" with elements from synthpop and electronic body music . Funprox reviewer Hans D. drew parallels to the music from Kraftwerk and Telex . Technobass.net judged the 2016 comeback that the Blotnik Brothers would still “rock the masses”, and the “solid groove and strong beats” showed that one could count on the “talent and creativity” of the trio.
The group sees their music as the intersection of classical electro and neo-electro , with roots in funk of the 1970s and hip-hop of the 1980s.
Discography
- 2001: Electro För Udomsocknes ( EP , Cosmic One Records)
- 2004: Pragmatic Response (EP, Satamile Records )
- 2004: Museful Revolution (EP, Satamile Records)
- 2006: Mizuage (Satamile Records)
Web links
- Błotnik Brothers at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Play.fm: About Blotnik Brothers. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Neural.it: Blotnik Brothers - Mizuage. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Technobass.net: Satamile Records. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ IMDB.com: Superbror Company Credits. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Intro.de: Blotnik Brothers - Mizuage. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Błotnik Brothers - Pragmatic Response . In: DJ Mag . July 2004.
- ↑ Funprox.com: Environment, Błotnik Brothers, Bytecon. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Technobass.net: Dark Vektor, The Blotnik Brothers - The Bass Academy Vol.1. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .