“I think making an album is always hard,” says Bjarki, “especially with all critiques that can be scary. In the end I just want people to enjoy what I put out without the music being forced into some category.”
To hammer that point home this summer, Nina Kraviz has pillaged the Icelandic producer’s archives for a time-lapsed triptych of LPs on her Trip imprint. Up first: Б, a self-proclaimed set of “ravey, sample-based music, mostly tracks that Bjarki never had any intention of releasing.” Which would have been a shame; as you’re about to hear in our exclusive #selftitledpremiere, these tracks aren’t table scraps by any means. They’re restless broadcasts from the great beyond, as if Bjarki somehow beamed us all back to a warehouse party in the Clinton era.
Have a listen down below, and look out for an experimental compilation (Lefhanded Fuqs) in August and a survey of restrained, hardware-based sounds (“Æ”) in September…
