Jan Blomqvist

Jan Blomqvist (* 1982 in Ahnsbeck ; bourgeois Jan Freter ) is a musician and music producer. In addition to the production of electronic music, he performs solo as a live artist as well as with a band. In his songs he combines electronic beats with analog synths, piano and bass and sings to them. He is represented in the booking by Four Artists .

Musical career

Blomqvist began his musical career on the guitar, with which he still develops his songs today. As a teenager he was a member of a punk band, but was fascinated by electronic music from an early age. After graduating from high school, he moved to Berlin at the age of 19, where he first began to study aerospace engineering and then mathematics. He broke off his studies in favor of a music career. From 2003 he concentrated only on electronic music. The first appearance took place in 2008 in the Berlin club Tresor .

In 2011 the first single, Big Jet Plane , was released on the Dantze label. The following year, Ink, was the first EP on the Stil vor Talent label . To the song Something Says from this EP was in 2012 on the roof Rooftop of Weekends turned on Alexanderplatz in Berlin a video made known worldwide the Blomqvist. Also in 2012 he sang to Oliver Koletzki's song The Devil In Me . In the following six years he performed over 500 concerts worldwide.

In 2016, Jan Blomqvist's first album Remote Control followed , with which he then performed numerous concerts, including appearances at world-famous festivals such as Burning Man , Coachella , Rock am Ring or Tomorrowland, as well as regular gigs at the legendary Woomoon parties on Ibiza .

Between May and September 2018, the second album Disconnected was released in three parts . The following Disconnected Album Tour was almost always sold out across Europe, which earned him a regular club night in Ibiza's renowned Heart Club.

When Jan Blomqvist performs with his band, he plays together with Christian Dammann on drums and Felix Lehmann on keyboards. He writes the lyrics for his songs together with Ryan Mathiesen.

Blomqvist is the father of one son and lives with him in his adopted home Berlin .

Discography

Albums

• 2016: Remote Control
• 2018: Disconnected

EPs and singles

• 2011: Big Jet Plane (Dantze Records)
• 2011: Ghosttrack (Dantze Records)
• 2011: Desert Days (Dantze Records)
• 2012: Devil In Me feat. Oliver Koletzki (Universal Music Records)
• 2012: Cleopatra feat. Niconé & Sascha Braemer
• 2012: Dancing People are never Wrong feat. The bianca Story (Motor Music)
• 2012: I don't think about You (Hive Audio Records)
• 2012: Awake (style before Talent Records)
• 2012: Something Says (style before Talent Records)
• 2013: Hummingbird feat. Pablo Einzig (togetherness music)
• 2013: Black Hole Nights (style before Talent Records)
• 2014: Time Again (Motor Music)
• 2014: Sleepwalker feat. Midas 104 & Joshua Jesse (Dantze Records)
• 2014: Keep Control feat. Animal Trainer (style before Talent Records)
• 2015: Tourist feat. Markus Kavka (Dantze Records)
• 2016: Stories Over (Armada Music)
• 2016: More feat. Elena Pitoulis (Armada Music)
• 2016: Empty Floor (Armada Music)
• 2016: Her Great Escape (Armada Music)
• 2016: Dark Noise (Armada Music)
• 2016: Drift feat. Aparde (Armada Music)
• 2016: Same Mistake (Armada Music)
• 2016: Dancing People Are Never Wrong feat. The bianca Story (Armada Music)
• 2016: Back In The Taxi (Armada Music)
• 2016: Ghosttrack- Rework (Armada Music)
• 2016: Just Ok (Armada Music)
• 2016: The End (Armada Music)
• 2016: Woodpeckers Love Affair feat. Miyagi, Sascha Braemer, Dan Caster (Rennbahn Records)
• 2017: Same Mistake But Different Mix (Armada Music)
• 2017: Winter Roads (Days Like Nights)
• 2017: Winter Nights (Days Like Nights)
• 2018: Connect One (Armada Music)
• 2018: The Space in Between (Armada Music)
• 2018: Our Broken Mind Embassy (Armada Music)
• 2018: The Six Degrees Theory feat. Kid Simius (Armada Music)
• 2018: Disconnect One (Armada Music)
• 2018: Maybe Not (Armada Music)
• 2018: Synth for the Devil (Armada Music)
• 2018: The Noun Destroys (Armada Music)
• 2018: A Bridge over Novocaine (Armada Music)
• 2018: Elephant Shunned (Armada Music)
• 2018: Suicide Spaceship (Armada Music)
• 2018: 404 Not Found (Armada Music)
• 2019: In Between feat. Schiller (Sony Music)
• 2019: Decade feat. Ben Böhmer (Anjunadeep)

Remixed by

• 2011: Niconé - Ghosttrack
• 2011: Niconé - Desert Days
• 2011: Animal Trainer - Big Jet Plane
• 2012: Niconé & Sascha Braemer - Devil in Me
• 2012: Format B - Devil in Me
• 2014: Per Kusiv - Time Again
• 2014: Ryan Mathiesen - Time Again
• 2014: Animal Trainer - Time Again
• 2014: Matteo Floris - Time Again
• 2014: Billy Kenny - Time Again
• 2017: Mathias Kaden & Daniel Stefanik - Empty Floor
• 2017: Lexer - Back in the Taxi (Lexer)
• 2017: Acid Pauli & Nico Stojan - Dancing People Are Never Wrong
• 2017: Budakid - Dancing People Are Never Wrong
• 2017: Miyagi - Dancing People Are Never Wrong
• 2017: Fears for Tears - Dark Noise
• 2017: Me & Her - Dark Noise
• 2017: Animal Trainer - Dark Noise
• 2017: Eelke Kleijn - Drift
• 2017: Ryan Mathiesen - Her Great Escape
• 2017: Felix Räuber - Same Mistake
• 2017: Aparde - Stories Over
• 2017: Vilette - Stories Over
• 2017: DeVante - Empty Floor
• 2017: Dan Caster - Her Great Escape
• 2017: Pubkulies & Rebecca - The End
• 2018: Ben Böhmer - The Space in Between
• 2018: Boris Brejcha - Our Broken Mind Embassy
• 2018: Rodriguez Jr. - Maybe Not
• 2019: Solee - Elephant Shunned
• 2019: Budakid - Maybe Not
• 2019: Tim Schaufert - A Bridge Over Novocaine

Web links

• Jan Blomqvist's homepage
• Jan Blomqvist at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan Blomqvist
2. ↑ iaatm: JAN BLOMQVIST IN AN INTERVIEW: THE FIRST ALBUM, SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND ANALOGUE VS. DIGITAL
3. ↑ dj-magazin.de: INTERVIEW JAN BLOMQVIST
4. ↑ motor.de: INTERVIEW with JAN BLOMQVIST