Mikael Stavöstrand

Though perhaps a little unrecognized towards the global music community, Stockholm’s Mikael Stavöstand played a significant function in Scandinavia’s experimental digital music scene through the later ’90s and early 2000s as not just a prolific artist but additionally as a meeting organizer, sound installation artist, and label supervisor. After having documented for labels such as for example 12k, Firework, and Staalplaat, Stavöstand brought Mitek alive, a store label he individually oversaw. After debuting Mitek with Lite, a full-length record of minimal glitch which was celebrated because of its smart program of computer-assembled noises, the Swedish musician joined makes with Germany’s mammoth Power Inc label in early 2001. Upon this world-recognized, innovative experimental techno label, Stavöstrand released another full-length, Reduce, which noticed him applying his careful glitch aesthetic for an ambient dub-techno design template. Undeniably his many accessible and broadly praised release up to now, Reduce released Stavöstrand to a worldwide audience among the leading ambient glitch performers working inside the quickly evolving design.