DIAMONDVAMPIRES
The elusive Diamond Vampires only come out at night, bringing with them their slow BMP-ed disco, a hypnotic synthesized coda of pulses and low-end bass that makes time shift just a little bit. This is disco with a horror edge, an intricate weave of delicate baroque images seeped in the midnight realms of exploit-horror (think giallo films, early Romero, and Dario Argento faves Goblin). Elegant, evocative and atmospheric, their cinematic slices of sexually-charged disco, a soundtrack for when dusk falls, cut right to the bone.
TELEPHONES
Hailing from the obscure outskirts of Bergen, Norway, the 82-model Henning Severud has been producing music under his Telephones-moniker since 2006. His music and DJ-sets combine influences from disco, italo, new wave, house, kraut and punkfunk. Since 2001 he has been spinning records dozens of places in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim - earlier under the name DJ Dureves, including anything from jazz and funk to broken beat and house, whilest with Telephones he has taken a different direction. With a neverending hunger for new impressions and a diverse taste for sonic pleasure, Henning has always had an eclectic approach to music, both in his own work and in his DJ-sets. However, after getting a bit bored with mostly groove-based music, he fell in love with melodies and the naive bittersweet, but yet joyfull spirit of italo disco and electro. Then Telephones emerged - piloting the shuttle somewhere between cold european synthetics and warm analogue-, often tropical sounds. Being somewhat of a multiinstrumentalist, Henning plays anything from guitars, drums, synth and percussion in his productions.
He has a couple of releases and remixes lined up - still, his only physical release so far is a super-rare and old split 10” with Annie from 2001, released by his friend and Bergen-based painter Silje Heggren as part of an art exhibition. In the coming months Telephones will release tracks on new norwegian labels such as Untz Untz Records and Palermo.
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Diamond Vampires - Friday Nights
This is the first release of the Amateur recordings. 400 copies on 140 gr vinyl with black inner sleeve and mat finishing.
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DIAMOND VAMPIRES
The elusive Diamond Vampires only come out at night, bringing with them their slow BMP-ed disco, a hypnotic synthesized coda of pulses and low-end bass that makes time shift just a little bit. This is disco with a horror edge, an intricate weave of delicate baroque images seeped in the midnight realms of exploit-horror (think giallo films, early Romero, and Dario Argento faves Goblin). Elegant, evocative and atmospheric, their cinematic slices of sexually-charged disco, a soundtrack for when dusk falls, cut right to the bone.
TELEPHONES
Hailing from the obscure outskirts of Bergen, Norway, the 82-model Henning Severud has been producing music under his Telephones-moniker since 2006. His music and DJ-sets combine influences from disco, italo, new wave, house, kraut and punkfunk. Since 2001 he has been spinning records dozens of places in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim - earlier under the name DJ Dureves, including anything from jazz and funk to broken beat and house, whilest with Telephones he has taken a different direction. With a neverending hunger for new impressions and a diverse taste for sonic pleasure, Henning has always had an eclectic approach to music, both in his own work and in his DJ-sets. However, after getting a bit bored with mostly groove-based music, he fell in love with melodies and the naive bittersweet, but yet joyfull spirit of italo disco and electro. Then Telephones emerged - piloting the shuttle somewhere between cold european synthetics and warm analogue-, often tropical sounds. Being somewhat of a multiinstrumentalist, Henning plays anything from guitars, drums, synth and percussion in his productions.
He has a couple of releases and remixes lined up - still, his only physical release so far is a super-rare and old split 10” with Annie from 2001, released by his friend and Bergen-based painter Silje Heggren as part of an art exhibition. In the coming months Telephones will release tracks on new norwegian labels such as Untz Untz Records and Palermo.