rump recordings artists

Jesper Skaaning began his musical carreer as a guitarist in various experimental punk bands in the early eighties. Inspired by electropop and especially Yellow Magic Orchestra, he formed the band Akustisk Ungdom, which he later took his name from.
In 1994, he formed Future 3 together with Anders Remmer (aka Dub Tractor) and Thomas Knak (aka Opiate).

Badun´s adventurous, and narrative music is the product of three people (Oliver Duckert, Aske Krammer & Brian Møller) from very different musical backgrounds. In 2001 the group was formed with the ambition to create a new musical genre, somewhere in between abstract digital sound design, non-repetitive electronica and the free spirit of seventies fusion jazz.
Baduns music is based on recordings of traditional instruments such as fretless bass, vibraphone, guitar, rhodes and drums, as well as various field recordings which is being manipulated through homemade software based on neural networks (ie: the computer makes its own musical decisions based on musical observations). These elements are then being rearranged by the band in a very detailed manner, which results in an interesting tension between control and chaos.
Badun´s fast beats and complex arrangements expects a lot of the listener and share certain similarities with the early work of Flanger.

Bjørn Svin is a live performer and producer of experimental electronic dancemusic. He started making music in 1992, and released his first record in 1995. Since then he has produced several albums and 12”s, as well as music for films.
In the late nineties he became a "techno pop-star" with the hit “Mer Strøm #2”, and reached cult-status in most of Scandinavia.
Through his charismatic live-performances, he has become known as a very passionate man with a physical connection to his own beats and loops.
This is also seen in his strictly analogue approach to music making and perfoming, where he usually prefers old hardware boxes such as analogue sequencers, synthesizers and drummachines to computers.

In 1995 Ollie Bown and Sam Britton, accidentally tuned into a pirate station and split their sides with hysterics at the machine-gun breakbeat frenzy they were soon to learn was called jungle. After the laughter subsided, Sam and Ollie turned their wholehearted attention to the domain of samplers and breakbeats, consuming and producing more or less unfamiliar strains of drum'n'bass, tinged by longer-standing influences such as no-wave and free jazz, psychedelic rock, minimal techno and avant-garde classical music.

Inspired equally by 80´s synth pop, Detroit techno and Nordic folk-music, Karsten Pflum starts playing around with old synths and sequencers in the middle of the 90´s using the name of Slaphead Faun. In 2003 he releases his first album 'Tracks' on the English label Worm Interface, which is soon followed by two EP´s and second full album on the two Danish labels Tender Productions and Jenka Music.

Jens Berents Christiansen aka Rumpistol is a very enthusiastic soul. He releases exciting underground acts on his own label Rump Recordings. Moreover, under the moniker Rumpistol he has released three albums full of melodic and bubbling electronica. Opus three from Rumpistol is called Dynamo. Here the Dane has turned his ears towards London and added a little dubstep to his humming sound universe. And his eclectic mix of glitch, ambient and minimalism does not deny him also putting accessible melodies in the mix as well as orchestrating strings.
As a musician, Jens Berents Christiansen has a background in different bands, where he played guitar, synths, and sang, but since the year 2000, he has been concentrating on the Rumpistol project and commisioned work for TV, theater and film. In his live shows he re-interpretates tracks from his albums and mixes in new unreleased tracks, using his laptop, effects, hardware synths, guitar and melodica.

'Snöleoparden' - the snowleopard is a rare and threatened animal, native to the harsh and remote areas of the mountain ranges of central Asia.
There are several reasons why multi-instrumentalist Jonas Stampe has chosen this particular animal as his alter-ego; just like the snowleopard, Stampe has roots in Asia, more precisely in Pakistan, and the lithe physique of the snowleopard can also be compared to Stampe´s almost gymnastic ability to switch smoothly between different musical genres.

Noise and Silence. The band Svartbag is an entity full of contradictions. Like its namesake the gull, Svartbag is a free bird, but also a scavenger with a black back. An outsider impelled by an underlying primitive force. A black sheep. Elements, that on the surface seem violent and indigestible for everyday people are, in the hands of Svartbag, transformed into something oddly fascinating, alluring and soothing.

In 1994 Anders Remmer (aka Dub Tractor), Thomas Knak (aka Opiate) og Jesper Skaaning (aka Acustic) met around the compilation series 'Boredom Is Deep And Mysterious', which they were compiling for April Records. After having used the name D.A.W.N. for a while, they changed their name to Future 3.
Due to each groupmembers solo-output and label involvement, new group-material from Denmarks 3 electronic pioneers has become a quite rare experience. Many of Anders Remmer´s Dub Tractor releases on City Center Offices as well as Thomas Knak´s Opiate releases on April, Morr Music and Raster Noton (with Alva Noto as Opto) has long been acclaimed as milestones in modern electronic music. Thomas Knak has also been busy with his Hobby Industries label, producing for Björk on the Vespertine album as well as remixing for Efterklang, Sketch Show and Ryuichi Sakamoto. And then there is Jesper Skaanings´s Acustic project, which was featured on Rump in 2005 with the 'Welcome' album.

Layered sampling based electronic music in respect of real instrumentation on compositions based on jazz, dub & loop structures. Vektormusik is the collaboration between acoustic engineer Kristoffer Jørgensen and drummer Thomas Ahlmark. Where Thomas has a degree in drumming at the music conservatory, with a master in electronic music, Kristoffer has studied signal processing and acoustics.