Sprutbass
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- Behind the artist Sprutbass, you find the norwegian musician Eivind Henjum. After many years active as a musician, playing the electric bass and synth in several successful Norwegian acts, Henjum decided he had to fulfill his innermost musical dreams...Over the course of the last five years, Norwegian Sprutbass, or Eivind Henjum if you want to call him by his birth name, has gained major attention on the international music circuit with his analog synth-based Electro Funk. Sprutbass made his debut on Dødpop in 2008 with the critically acclaimed 7” Ulykke and has since then released music on Finnish Harmönia and UK record label Ninja Tune. Critics have described his music as “the best synth work since the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack” and “Friday night at EDMX’s place”. Nevertheless, Henjum made a claim as to why he deserves the amount of buzz he receives when he set a new record for attendance and created a mosh pit at the Apollo stage at the Roskilde Festival in 2012. Over the last year, Sprutbass has been touring solidly overseas and filling up dance floors in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Berlin. When not on tour, the Berlin-based talent has been working extensively in the studio on his debut album, which will be released on Dødpop in 2014. Meanwhile we give you this 9-track EP with remixes of Schengen-Funk from Pyrolator (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft or D.A.F.), Sandra Kolstad, Melkeveien, Full Pupp’s Øyvind Morken, Sex Judas (Ost & Kjex), amongst others. Download Press Info [ENG] —————- Nothing But Hope And Passion “Over the last five years, Sprutbass has gained major attention on the international music circuit with his analog synth-based Electro Funk.” —————- Groove “One of the leaders of his genre” —————- No Fear Of Pop “Norwegian synth extraordinaire” —————- Kaltblut “Eivind Henjum, better known as Sprutbass, is representing Norway’s booming skweee scene combining chunky dubstep beats, erratic synth lines and metallic textures.” —————- Boomkat “Eivind Henjum represents for the Norwegian Skweeegian fraternity with his first solo Sprutbass EP. His low-riding, arctic gangsta title tune proves he’s got the funk. ‘Hell Goya’ cracks out the purple 8-bit R&B vibes and ‘Schengen-Funk’ sounds like Friday night at EDMX’s place, while ‘Norsk Dans’ does it like a viking Justin Timberlake.” —————- Thomas Rees, XLR8R “Here at XLR8R, we’ve had our ears blown away by the recent skweee sounds coming from Scandinavia, evidenced by our feature on the genre in issue 127. A new compilation from one of the genre’s flagship labels features this monster, a squeaky, anthemic take on dubstep rhythms featuring frenetic synth modulations and acidy flourishes. Watch out for future Sprutbass releases, as his diversity of influences and textures is quickly making him one of the stars of the Oslo scene.” —————- Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1 “One of this years highlights at the Øya Festival.” —————- Patrick Fallon, XLR8R “Norway’s Dødpop label has been at the forefront of the funky, synth-driven music called skweee since its inception in 2008. Now, three years later, the imprint gathers together its handful of 7″ releases to be reissued on the forthcoming compilation Dødpop: A’s & B’s. Oslo producer Sprutbass contributes “Ulykke”—from a split 45 with fellow Norwegian Beatbully—to that record, which we also have to share with you today. The playful track has an almost comically, not to mention cosmically, sinister vibe, almost like you can picture the tunesmith grinning ear to ear in a not-so-maniacal way while he drops the crunchy synth fragments and skittering beat work of his production. It’s a welcome change of mood, as opposed to the über-seriousness often plaguing artists with a similar sound pallette.”