Ruxpin
b. Jonas Thor Gudmundsson, 6 April 1981, Iceland. Drawing overt influence from artists such as Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Future Sound Of London, and Vangelis, Gudmundsson recorded his first album of pretty, experimental electronica (1999’s Radio) at the age of 17. The follow-up, Midnight Drive, was issued by Elektrolux, a Frankfurt-based label famous for hosting the Space Night show on German television (and releasing a series of accompanying down-tempo albums). As if to accentuate the sense that Gudmundsson’s music could provide an apposite soundtrack for the otherworldly and the mystical, Ruxpin’s third album, Magrathea, derived its name from an imaginary planet in author Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy that was capable of building other planets. The follow-up, Avalon, meanwhile, took its title from an island paradise in the western seas where, according to Celtic legend, King Arthur and other heroes went at death. Ruxpin has notably remixed for artists such as Múm, Ampop, Krom, and Sanasol, and was featured on 42 More Things To Do In Zero Gravity, Thule Records’ lovely 2002 collection of electronica that seemed to make explicit the correlation between ambient music and the Icelandic topography.
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Discographie
8 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Avalon (Remastered)
Électronique - Paru chez Sun Sea Sky Productions le 1 juin 2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Fields of View
Électronique - Paru chez Sun Sea Sky Productions le 24 avr. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Where Do We Float from Here?
Électronique - Paru chez n5MD le 6 sept. 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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This Time We Go Together
Électronique - Paru chez n5MD le 28 mai 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Fire Within (Original Mix)
Divers - Paru chez StopListenDance le 11 sept. 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo