1. Rival Consoles ‘Odyssey’
Feels like an spiral of sound. Perfect to open a session. I love the way it grows up. It is an experience.
2. Weval ‘Half Age’ Original Mix
Reminds me “idiot” of James Holden. I like it. Makes me feel like feeling the sun in my face in a cold day.
3. Kiasmos ‘Wrecked’ (65daysofstatic Remix)
Perfect song for when you feel like you are travelling in the dark. Travelling in your mind across a very dark night, driving to nowhere.
4. DIGITAL 21 + STEFAN OLSDAL ‘War’
We open most of our concerts with this song. It is a trip from the organic feeling of the String Quartet at the begining, to the final madness of the analog Synths. I like the fact that in concert grows up even more than in the studio recording.
5. Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm ’00:26′ (Ryan Davis remix)
One day you go out and there is no one in the streets… You start to search for the rest of the world but there is no one else at all.
6. Moderat ‘Rusty Nails’
No matter how many times you heard it. We made a cover in our album… with our string quartet… and Stefan playing the riff on a broken piano. Best memories. I post here the original. The video is very special too.
7. James Holden: ‘Lump’
The perfect song to scream a lot. Its like the best therapy to scream feeling you are not alone… Or not compeletly alone. Holden meets Aphex T. in ‘Lump’. Maximum volume to feel the whole universe.
8. DIGITAL 21 + STEFAN OLSDAL feat JULIENNE ‘Who are all of you?’
I want to choose a song feat Julienne From the Berlin band Saschienne, (Julienne Dessagne + Sascha Funke). (Kompakt). Their song “Unknown” was years ago the song that made us think of her as one of the singers for our songs, and finally she sings 2 tracks in our new album. Here is one of that songs.
9. Modeselektor feat Thom Yorke. ‘The White Flash’
Everything is in the right place when Thom sings. And This track could make you go to the outer space. So simple and complex at the same time.
10. “Rebellion (Dave Clarke Remix)”
Great to be remixed by Dave Clarke. And the remix is included in his remixes album. And i love the fact that the remix has almost nothing from the original song. So you can enjoy both (original track or remix) enjoying two very different points of view of our track.
DIGITAL 21 + STEFANOLSDAL ‘Who Are All of You’
DIGITAL 21 + STEFANOLSDAL, the new project of Miguel López Mora (Digital 21) and Stefan Olsdal (Placebo) announce the release of their debut album ‘Inside’. The band today reveal the new track ‘Who Are All Of You’ featuring Kompakt Recordings artist Julienne Dessange.
Already acclaimed in their own right with their own projects, the album was the result of burgeoning friendship within the fringe music scene in Madrid, revealing the multi facetted duo in perfect union and brought about the birth of DIGITAL 21 + STEFANOLSDAL.
Miguel’s past in electronica proved a good fit for Stefan, who had years of experience in the iconic, guitar-led alternative rock band Placebo. Both are multi- instrumentalists, and Miguel is the band’s visual artist, creating the artwork and live visuals. Both equally sharing a passion for electronic, rock and classical music, they have now created, in their debut album, Inside, a contemporary hybrid of electronic music, mixing up club sounds and real instruments; including a strong focus on strings.
Working from their studios in Madrid and London, the album grew over many trips back and forth, “The process of creation long-distance gave the songs a fruitful journey,” muses Stefan, “Like sending the tracks into orbit and slowly pulling them back to earth covered in space dust.”
With strings recorded in the legendary RAK studios in London, the tracks developed first as instrumentals, then evolving into songs with the addition of female vocalists, and the album features the singers Cuushe (Japan), Margrét Rán from Vök (Iceland), Helen Feng from Nova Heart (China) and Julienne from Saschienne (France / Germany). “There’s an intimacy to all these vocals, we felt like we were travelling to different parts of the planet through their voices” says Miguel. Digital 21 & Stefan Olsdal have fine-tuned their live performance over the last few years, appearing at Pohoda and Sonorama festivals, as well as putting on underground shows in both London and Madrid. Most shows are augmented by a live string quartet, most recently while supporting Placebo around Spain and Portugal, impressing with an expansive, widescreen sound.
After a couple of singles, the debut album, ‘Inside’, is now ready for release on limited edition, white-coloured vinyl, CD and digitally, via Kobalt Music Recordings in November 2017.
Listen to new track ‘Who Are All of You’ featuring Kompakt Recordings artist Julienne Dessange
