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skurken

About Me

I like to make melodic electronic music in my bedroom when I get some spare time from being a dad. Actually it's not my bedroom, but you get the idea.Melody is everything to me. I have little patience to listen to (or make) monotonous wallpaper music. This can possibly be blamed on growing up in the 80's.My influences include corny icelandic 80's ballads, old skool rave, jazz/funk/soul, drum&bass, drill&bass, breakbeat and old computer game themes.. And probably elves and nature too.... I'm icelandic after all.Someone said my music is 'emo'. I hope he's right - assuming the term 'emo' means what I think it does.

Releases:(work in progress, more added soon)

SK/UM - Í Þágu fallsins
CD + Vinyl. Resonant UK 2003. (With Prince Valium)


(From Resonant)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/09/2007
Band Members: Johann Omarsson and a PC running EnergyXT 2 sequencer, Reaper, and some VST plugins.
Influences: Helga Möller, Limahl, Plaid, Prince Valium, Pink Floyd, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Squarepusher, King Crimson, Sigur Rós, James Brown, Múm, Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson, John Coltrane, Jóhann Helgason, Aphex Twin, Jefferson Airplane, Rob Playford, Gunnar Þórðarsson, Vangelis, Coldplay, Acen, Kraftwerk, The Moog Cookbook, New Order, Weather Report, Plone, Genesis, Herbie Hancock, The Smiths, Nick Drake, 4hero, Jochen Hippel, Joy Division, The Beatles, Icelandic 80's ballads, Danny Breaks...... to be continued.
Sounds Like:

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Pimping my profile

At last I'm working on making this place more pleasing to the eye and learning some basic html as I go. Not decided yet if I'm keeping all the pinkness but I'm quite fond of it though. Hopefully I won...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:43:00 GMT

Im not a terrorist

Gordon Brown unjustifiably used the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act of 2001 against the people of Iceland for his own short-term political gain. This has turned a grave situation into a nationa...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:14:00 GMT

About the Hammock remix.

This is a remix I did for the band 'P for Panther' this summer.You can hear the original track at http://www.woodshedrecordings.com/ Great, great music to be found there, be sure to check it out! -sku...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:20:00 GMT

Skurken - Das plakat out

My new album, titled 'Das plakat', is out. It..s only available in downloadable MP3 format for now. I've still not decided if it will be available on CD sometime in the future.... we'll see about tha...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:48:00 GMT

Skurken can be bought.

Since I've had  some  requests for my  music in a non-crappy format, I've created a PayPal account (yes, I'm really living on the edge now) and Payloadz takes care of the instant digital delivery. Qui...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:19:00 GMT