ANDRE BRATTEN – Photo by Tonje Thilesen / Pitchfork
One of the best acts at BY:LARM 2014: ANDRE BRATTEN
ANDRE BRATTEN was born in Oslo and grew up in a suburb of the Norwegian capital, which borders on the deep, dark Scandinavian forest. In the late 1990s, he was bitten by the hiphop bug, but also was heavily influenced by LED ZEPPELIN records from his father’s record collection. No matter if Norwegian electronica like RØYKSOPP or acts like SIGUR RÓS, ENO, CLUSTER or WEATHER REPORT: ANDRE BRATTEN is into all of them, takes out the best and transforms it all into electronic music. At BY:LARM he proved to be one of the best upcoming Scandinavian electronic music acts.
ANDRE BRATTEN‘s tracks share the exploratory vibe of the 80s synth pop pioneers, and misfit electronic pop musicians like John Foxx, who were forced learning to sculpt new sounds with new tools. Yet he updates those sounds to a contemporary rhythm matrix, in parallel with the dayglo analogue dance music of Lindstrøm, Todd Terje and Prins Thomas himself – and he just happens to share the central Oslo studio space used by that glorious trinity.