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2000 - 2004

by Jónsi

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rikm
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rikm A collection of early demos and works in progress clearly demonstrating a playfulness and a sense of humour that runs beneath a great talent...
crimsonbubbles
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crimsonbubbles I heard Songs for The Little Boy previously in the year and it links in really well between the sounds of Sigur Ros and Riceboy Sleeps by Jonsi and Alex, experimental and music you can dream to whilst wide awake. From this kind of music you couldn't wish for much more than that. Favorite track: SFTLB9.
hyruleana
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hyruleana Well I haven't heard the entire album yet but the ones that are on youtube are beautiful, am not mucho into electronic music but these songs are so nice to listen to., I fell asleep a couple of times to them, not because they're boring, but because sometimes they sound like lullabies. That is perfect for someone like me who likes to listen to music laying in bed.
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    "Frakkur was the artist name jónsi used for his experiments in electronic music. working on his own, either at home in reykjavík, in hotel rooms on tour with sigur rós, or later at his boyfriend’s house in boston, jónsi spent endless hours diving into then-new bits of kit and programming, having fun and seeing how far he could push things.
    the legacy is three collections of work totalling 25 tracks collated into one triple album - each made a year or so apart, under slightly different circumstances and with different equipment.

    The oldest, 2000-2001, was made on jónsi’s first pc laptop, named the tank for its unwieldy size. the second, 2002-2003, was made in his small flat in the middle of reykjavík, where he set up his first home studio in a cupboard, so that it could be packed away at night. the final part of the frakkur trilogy, 2003-2004, was made in cambridge, mass. in breaks of sigur rós touring. his partner, alex somers, had by then introduced jónsi to the programme logic, and this he coupled with a yamaha vss-30 toy keyboard to sample his"

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1.
SFTLB1 05:08
2.
SFTLB2 05:45
3.
SFTLB3 04:40
4.
SFTLB4 05:44
5.
SFTLB5 03:31
6.
SFTLB6 03:03
7.
SFTLB7 03:46
8.
SFTLB8 00:39
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SFTLB9 08:10
10.
TB1 05:34
11.
TB2 04:17
12.
TB3 03:57
13.
TB4 04:48
14.
TB5 02:27
15.
TB6 04:02
16.
TB7 02:04
17.
TB8 04:45
18.
PP1 04:21
19.
PP2 03:07
20.
PP3 05:48
21.
PP4 03:29
22.
PP5 05:05
23.
PP6 04:46
24.
PP7 09:28

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Frakkur was the artist name Jónsi used to define his experiments in electronic music in the early years of the 21st century. Working on his own, either at home in Reykjavík, in hotel rooms on tour with Sigur Rós, or later at his boyfriend’s house in Boston, Jónsi spent endless hours diving into then-new bits of kit and programming.

The oldest, 2000-2001, was made on Jónsi’s first PC laptop, named The Tank for its unwieldy size.  A record of unrequited love for a straight boy at home in Reykjavík, SFTLB was Jónsi way of dealing with heartbreak via sampling kalimbas and music boxes and channelling it all through the Fruity Loops program.

The second, 2002-2003, was made in his small flat in the middle of Reykjavík, where he set up his first home studio in a cupboard, so that it could be packed away at night.  He had a Yamaha RS-7000 with 32mb memory in the top drawer, which he called the Grey Machine and used to sample the beat-up toys he’d collect from local goodwill stores.  Jónsi recalls it as a time "filled with blinding sunlight and pure fun creative energy”.

The final part of the Frakkur trilogy, 2003-2004, was made in Cambridge, Mass. in breaks of Sigur Rós touring. His partner, Alex Somers, had by then introduced Jónsi to the programme Logic, and this he coupled with a Yamaha VSS-30 toy keyboard to sample his voice in what he describes as a spontaneous and exciting process. 


For many years the music represented on this Frakkur collection was thought lost, since Jónsi's unbacked-up hard-drive eventually corrupted.  However, Alex had shared burned CDRs of the music with some of his close friends around Boston, and one of these came to light around a decade later, thus saving the project from oblivion. 

The songs on Frakkur 2000-2004 have been mastered for the first time for this release, with some of the glitches and drop-outs that bedevilled peer-to-peer shares now eradicated.

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released November 23, 2018

Mastered by Taylor Deupree

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Frakkur was the artist name Jónsi used to define his experiments in electronic music in the early years of the 21st century. Working on his own, either at home in Reykjavík, in hotel rooms on tour with Sigur Rós, or later at his boyfriend’s house in Boston, Jónsi spent endless hours diving into then-new bits of kit and programming. ... more

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