Fanu
Fanu is a new electronic music artist and a professional DJ from Finland. He grew up listening mostly to breakbeat music during the mid-nineties. Around that time, he started experimenting with electronic music equipment and began sampling.
Living in a small countryside town with very little to offer, Fanu found that breakbeat music filled the gap. At the age of 15, his acquaintances had exposed him to some early electronica, and a serious commitment with that style of new urban music took shape within. He began recording on cassettes new electronic music that was being played on the radio - from house to techno to early drum and bass - which soon led Fanu to try to emulate the artists from the tracks he heard. As a consequence of his venture into new territories, he created a progressive style with his own aesthetics and atmospheres, picking up where Reinforced Records and Metalheadz tunes had left off.
All the music that is being arranged and slowly crafted in his studio is composed of virtuosic and stark, amen influenced breakbeats in combination with sharp, downtempo back beats and upfront low-end basslines becoming the backbone of all of his tunes. All these juxtaposed musical elements are highly condensed in one place, like in a canned heat; soaring, tight, and programmed with layers of futuristic production.
The list of his influences has a strong mid-nineties flavor in terms of ideas and soundscapes. He owes some of his dub techniques in the studio to The Future Sound Of London and Underworld and to other influential works by artists such as Source Direct, Photek, early Metalheadz artists, DJ Shadow, Krust, and Amon Tobin, with the intensity of the Ramones thrown in the middle to fill the emotional gap.
He has been performing live and touring internationally for several years, bringing together new electronic, breakbeat music of various genres and tempos. His well crafted beats and mature, musical arrangements is highly excepted worldwide and, in addition to all his releases on many imprints and on Lightless Recordings, he can be heard on albums by Nine Inch Nails, Bill Laswell, Amon Tobin, Gigi and on several remixes, including, two which were made and are still unreleased for the confrontational, Public Enemy.
Circa 2003, Fanu started to release his music on several indie labels, and became the founder of Lightless Recordings in 2007 in order to release his own breakbeat driven compositions independently, and all of his releases can be found in most digital stores worldwide. His debut album titled "Daylightless" is a heavy load of ground breaking music, and it was released in 2007.
During the same year, he participated on the Inamorata album project which was conceived by Bill Laswell and Robert Soares and released worldwide between 2007 and 2008 through Sony Music Japan, Ohm Resistance U.S., and Клаб+Стар imprint in Russia. He contributed to this fusion project by crafting one of his drum signature workouts alongside musicians Herbie Hancock, Pharoah Sanders, John Zorn, Masada String Trio, Graham Haynes, Nils Petter Molvær, plus session musicians from Miles Davis' electric period in interaction with drum and bass artists Corrupt Souls, Paradox, Amit, Evol Intent, Black Sun Empire, (among others).
In 2008, again, he collaborated on Fanu / Bill Laswell - Lodge; the result of crew work between himself, Laswell, ex-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell, trumpeters Graham Haynes and Nils Petter Molvaer. Lodge was released in Europe, U.S.A. and Japan during that same year.
In 2009 his second album, "Homefree", was released and his third album, "Serendipity", in 2011. Resident Advisor's Review Magazine, giving his third album 4.5 stars, had agreed with many of the breakbeat afficionados' point of view that it was versatile in different forms. His "Coffee Crazy" EP was released in 2012, and his "Breakbeat Brew" EP was released shortly after receiving excellent reviews from British, Mixmag Magazine as well from Laurent Garnier.
Always keeping track of new remixing techniques, Fanu remixed Tobin's “Journeyman” for a Special Limited Edition Box-Set entitled Amon Tobin - Amon Tobin on Ninja Tune and released in 2012. Other remixes were done for Ane Brun and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, an act seen as a mutation of visual and musical expressions, inspired by silent films such as "Nosferatu" by Murnau, electronica, chamber music and jazz, and remixing tunes for Yona, Gracias, and Animation as well. There will be new tracks coming out on Subtitles and Pauze labels and new remixes for Two Fingers.
Another set of albums are now being written; one with an Akai MPC 2500, and it will incorporate samples from hip-hop beats strickly taken from vinyls, while the other will be more inclined towards his traditional style being titled as “Northern Movement”. He is always building and structuring beats as a method to expose a higher range of composition, and still fulfilling his duties by touring, doing Ableton Live workshops and giving Live training.
Companies supporting Fanu: Serato Scratch LIVE, Ableton Live, Sonalksis, iZotope and Audeze.
Fanu
Fanu is a new electronic music artist and a professional DJ from Finland. He grew up listening mostly to breakbeat music during the mid-nineties. Around that time, he started experimenting with electronic music equipment and began sampling.
Living in a small countryside town with very little to offer, Fanu found that breakbeat music filled the gap. At the age of 15, his acquaintances had exposed him to some early electronica, and a serious commitment with that style of new urban music took shape within. He began recording on cassettes new electronic music that was being played on the radio - from house to techno to early drum and bass - which soon led Fanu to try to emulate the artists from the tracks he heard. As a consequence of his venture into new territories, he created a progressive style with his own aesthetics and atmospheres, picking up where Reinforced Records and Metalheadz tunes had left off.
All the music that is being arranged and slowly crafted in his studio is composed of virtuosic and stark, amen influenced breakbeats in combination with sharp, downtempo back beats and upfront low-end basslines becoming the backbone of all of his tunes. All these juxtaposed musical elements are highly condensed in one place, like in a canned heat; soaring, tight, and programmed with layers of futuristic production.
The list of his influences has a strong mid-nineties flavor in terms of ideas and soundscapes. He owes some of his dub techniques in the studio to The Future Sound Of London and Underworld and to other influential works by artists such as Source Direct, Photek, early Metalheadz artists, DJ Shadow, Krust, and Amon Tobin, with the intensity of the Ramones thrown in the middle to fill the emotional gap.
He has been performing live and touring internationally for several years, bringing together new electronic, breakbeat music of various genres and tempos. His well crafted beats and mature, musical arrangements is highly excepted worldwide and, in addition to all his releases on many imprints and on Lightless Recordings, he can be heard on albums by Nine Inch Nails, Bill Laswell, Amon Tobin, Gigi and on several remixes, including, two which were made and are still unreleased for the confrontational, Public Enemy.
Circa 2003, Fanu started to release his music on several indie labels, and became the founder of Lightless Recordings in 2007 in order to release his own breakbeat driven compositions independently, and all of his releases can be found in most digital stores worldwide. His debut album titled "Daylightless" is a heavy load of ground breaking music, and it was released in 2007.
During the same year, he participated on the Inamorata album project which was conceived by Bill Laswell and Robert Soares and released worldwide between 2007 and 2008 through Sony Music Japan, Ohm Resistance U.S., and Клаб+Стар imprint in Russia. He contributed to this fusion project by crafting one of his drum signature workouts alongside musicians Herbie Hancock, Pharoah Sanders, John Zorn, Masada String Trio, Graham Haynes, Nils Petter Molvær, plus session musicians from Miles Davis' electric period in interaction with drum and bass artists Corrupt Souls, Paradox, Amit, Evol Intent, Black Sun Empire, (among others).
In 2008, again, he collaborated on Fanu / Bill Laswell - Lodge; the result of crew work between himself, Laswell, ex-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell, trumpeters Graham Haynes and Nils Petter Molvaer. Lodge was released in Europe, U.S.A. and Japan during that same year.
In 2009 his second album, "Homefree", was released and his third album, "Serendipity", in 2011. Resident Advisor's Review Magazine, giving his third album 4.5 stars, had agreed with many of the breakbeat afficionados' point of view that it was versatile in different forms. His "Coffee Crazy" EP was released in 2012, and his "Breakbeat Brew" EP was released shortly after receiving excellent reviews from British, Mixmag Magazine as well from Laurent Garnier.
Always keeping track of new remixing techniques, Fanu remixed Tobin's “Journeyman” for a Special Limited Edition Box-Set entitled Amon Tobin - Amon Tobin on Ninja Tune and released in 2012. Other remixes were done for Ane Brun and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, an act seen as a mutation of visual and musical expressions, inspired by silent films such as "Nosferatu" by Murnau, electronica, chamber music and jazz, and remixing tunes for Yona, Gracias, and Animation as well. There will be new tracks coming out on Subtitles and Pauze labels and new remixes for Two Fingers.
Another set of albums are now being written; one with an Akai MPC 2500, and it will incorporate samples from hip-hop beats strickly taken from vinyls, while the other will be more inclined towards his traditional style being titled as “Northern Movement”. He is always building and structuring beats as a method to expose a higher range of composition, and still fulfilling his duties by touring, doing Ableton Live workshops and giving Live training.
Companies supporting Fanu: Serato Scratch LIVE, Ableton Live, Sonalksis, iZotope and Audeze.