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SATURDAY, 17.02.2024

Carbon Based Lifeforms - LIVE

Sync24 - LIVE

Miktek - LIVE

AesDana - LIVE

Visual Art

Location:

GAZARTE / Ground Stage

ATHENS

DOOR: 21.30

END: 03:00

METRO: Kerameikos

TICKETS

EARLY BIRD  € 14.00

NORMAL PRESALE € 17.00

DOOR € 20.00

ARTISTS INFORMATIONS

CBL/CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS

Carbon Based Lifeforms (CBL) are Johannes Hedberg and Daniel Vadestrid, both born in

1976 and based in southwest Sweden. They met when both 15 and are still, amazingly,

working happily together, over 25 years later.

Their latest album, ‘Seeker’ (2023), showcases their trademark ambient sound, filled with

layered synthesizers and intricate electronic beats. you will experience both a fresh sound and

will undoubtedly be immersed in the signature atmosphere and the very unique Sound of Carbon Based Lifeforms.

History:

CBL itself was formed in 1996, as an offshoot

from other projects, but it soon became their focal point, culminating in their first release on

‘mp3.com’ in 1998.

The duo signed with the celebrated Lyonbased ‘Ultimae’ label in 2002 and have since

released six official, full length albums:

‘Hydroponic Garden’ in 2003

‘World of Sleepers’ in 2006

‘Interloper’ in 2009

‘Twentythree’ in 2012

In 2014 they left Ultimae and went independent and have released:

‘Derelicts’ in 2018

'Stochastic' in 2021.

Derelicts made it to #12 on Billboards Dance/Electronic albums chart, #11 on UK Official

Charts Top 40 Dance Albums and #59 on UK Official Charts Top 100 Independent Albums.

Their music has been extraordinarily well received by connoisseurs within the ambient scene

and clearly beyond, since in 2012 they were also commissioned to write the soundtrack to

the independently produced movie ‘The Mansion’ and the theme to ‘ Green Land’ by

Wanderword in 2018. In addition to their own work, they have actively participated in

successful collaborations with several other artists, including Magnus Birgersson of Solar

Fields in a project to compose the music for the Swedish dancer Olof Persson’s ‘Fusion’

performance in 1999.

Johannes and Daniel aim to combine earth and space in their music. Using the combination

of nature and technology as the main inspiration for their work, they like to represent both

the positive and negative effects that this collaboration can lead to, including the negative

impact that incorrect technology can have on the environment. Johannes often creates the

building blocks of sounds and harmonies and could happily tweak sounds forever, whereas

Daniel develops the rhythms and sculpts the ideas into tracks. It remains unclear which of

them derives the greatest pleasure from manipulating the distinctive, squelching sounds of

the Roland TB-303.

CBL are frequently present among the headliners of the biggest Electronic & Psytrance festivals across

Europe and have done many shows in Russia and even USA and Australia.

In 2009 they performed at ‘Cosmonova’, the Planetarium within Stockholm’s Museum of

Natural History, with a backdrop of nature inspired imagery from across the world and

then beyond too, with the International Space Station taking an impromptu tour of the Solar

System. The gig sold out way in advance, so they scheduled another night, which also sold

out. Those who attended will readily attest to an unforgettable experience. They did another

four sold out shows in 2014. In 2018 they did a show in the Moscow Planetarium. The tickets

was sold out in less than 14 hours. The Russian tours of 2018, 2019 and 2020 made some

noise in Russia and was covered by TASS and Aeroflot magazine.

Links:

http://carbonbasedlifeforms.net/

https://www.facebook.com/carbonbasedlifeforms

https://www.youtube.com/user/carbonbasedlifeforms

https://soundcloud.com/carbonbasedlifeforms

https://instagram.com/cblofficial/

SYNC24

SYNC24 is the solo project of Daniel Segerstad from Carbon Based Lifeforms.

From the very beginning of his career Daniel has written tracks by and for

himself. He wrote two self released albums under the name TiN.

But for the most part he was busy with CBL,Thermostatic and the lesser known

acts T.S.R. and Arius.

In 2005 he decided to start a solo project when he happened to have a few

tracks that didn’t quite fit the CBL sound space that Ultimae Records, who where

releasing CBLs material at the time, wanted to release.

Sync24’s debut album “Source” was released in 2007 and was followed by

“Comfortable Void” in 2012. The same year Daniel started the label “Leftfield

Records” and released “Ambient Archive [1996-2002]”, a collection of old and

unreleased tracks, some reaching as far back as his first solo project TiN.

Since 2014 Leftfield Records is the main digital label for CBL, Sync24 and T.S.R.

The same year Sync24 released two singles. “Eadgyth”, inspired by a sound

piece his 10 months old daughter did on a circuit bent Casio SK-1 and

“Everything will be ok” featuring two more uptempo tracks.

Since 2017 Daniel works more or less full time in the studio and plans to release

two albums, one ambient and one uptempo late 2018 or beginning of 2019.

Links

https://www.sync24.se

AesDana

Vincent Villuis aka AES DANA is composer, sound designer, DJ and founder of Ultimae records label.

An electronic activist for over 25 years, also a founding member of the Asura band.

Bass player and singer in several coldwave and industrial bands as a teenager, Vincent then moved on

to composing with machines and specialised in audio sampling and layering of acoustic sounds digitally

transmuted. Its music ensures a coherent fusion between Deep Ambient, Downtempo and IDM with a

touch of Electronica Neo-Classical, Indus & Liquid Drum'n'Bass.

As AES Dana he has produced 10 albums, a collection of audio samples and about 50 tracks for various

compilations, while collaborating with the Swedish artist Magnus Birgersson (aka Solar Fields) under

the moniker H.U.V.A. NETWORK on 3 albums and with the Greek artist MIKTEK on 3 EP releases

athered later in the concept album « Far & Off ».

They also worked together on the “Fragments 01 & 02” sample libraries. His solo-designed music

library «Aethers» (co-published with Loopmasters) which was voted « best Cinematic Ambient sound bank » in 2015.

He composed scores and licensed existing works for short and feature films, documentaries and BBC tv programs such as « Atrophy Bank » by Sam Asaert, « The Passport » by Amund Lie, « Mandorla » by Roberto Miller or « Breath of Life » by Susan Kucera which opened new perspectives on composition and sound design and collaborations with various advertising agencies.

He is also the curator of the Fahrenheit Project compilations.

As head of the Ultimae Studios, he earned a solid international reputation for his audio mastering works & Sound Design.

Albums

Season 5

MemoryShell

Aftermath

Leylines

Pollen

Far & Off (with Miktek)

Inks

(a) period.

Interstice | Live Set

Terrene (with Lauge)

Links

https://linktr.ee/aesdana

https://ultimae.com/

https://ultimae.com/artists/aes-dana/

www.ultimae.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/Aesdana.Official.Page

https://www.instagram.com/aesdana

MIKTEK

Mihalis Aikaterinis is the name behind project Miktek, born in Mytilene (Lesvos island /Greece). Miktek is in a constant exploration of various soundscapes, styles and atmospheres; experimenting in a large scale of electronic music mostly in Ambient / IDM / Downtempo . His music has been described as meticulously crafted from beginning to end; featuring unique percussion, palpable atmospheres and subtle melodies.

With various EP releases on the net and  appearing on many V.A compilations he joins Ultimae Records in 2013 to release his second album [ Elsewhere ] and participates to the compilations [ Ambrosia ], [ Greenosophy ], [ Oxycanta III ] and [ Passages ].

The storie does not end here and goes on….

Links

https://linktr.ee/miktek

https://ultimae.com/artists/miktek/

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