Single Unit

Single Unit is definitely, because the name suggests, a one-man task masterminded and executed by Norwegian multi-instrumentalist/visible artist Are Mokkelbost. Hard to pigeonhole so far as genre will go, Solitary Unit’s music falls someplace among the spastic drum’n’bass of a few of Aphex Twin’s even more aggressive work as well as the industrial-leaning metallic experimentation of fellow Norwegians Crimson Harvest and Dødheimsgard. For the very first Single Unit recording, 2001’s Category of Makes (released on Norway’s Jester Information), Mokkelbost managed all the songwriting, playing, and creation along with the graphic design, uncovering an intensely personal and currently strongly developed creative eyesight. Mokkelbost also takes on within the Oslo-based improv/consumer electronics trio ARM, with whom he continues to be involved because the mid-’90s.