Kiasmos is a Faroese-Icelandic minimal, experimental techno duo, composed of Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen. They started in 2009 and released their first extended play, Thrown, in 2012 and their album Kiasmos in 2014.
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"This is Ritual from Jon Hopkins. It's basically a 45 minute long song that is kind of just like a really long meditation piece in a way. It gets really brutal at the end, so the meditation gets very kind of difficult, but love this record, really really good."Watch this moment
"This is Last and First Men from Jóhann Jóhannsson. It's a posthumous release from Jóhann, it's from a film that Jóhann actually directed himself, narrated by Tilda Swinton. It's a really cool piece of art, highly recommended."Watch this moment
"I actually picked this because I got into Four Tet a little bit later than this album, so this is one of his first. I just felt like I really needed to dig into his earlier albums as I got into his album around there's love in you. I'm just really excited to listen to this one."Watch this moment
"I just felt I needed to represent Iceland Sugarcubes or Sean as they're called in Iceland. This is one of Björk's earlier endeavors, but I picked it because it has a song called 'Birthday' that I really, really like."Watch this moment
"Speaking In Tongues, watch out you might get what you're after. This album is for me perfection. If I want to put something on and be in a good mood, I put this on. Obviously has absolute huge songs on it, this must be the place. For me, the whole album is just so weird and lovely, and if you haven't heard this album, you definitely need to hear it. One of my top 10 albums for sure."Watch this moment
"this is another one of my absolute favorite albums and one I already own this one but it's so worn down so I saw this is a reissue it looks beautiful also the cover is amazing she has a key in her mouth which is a reference to the song Houdini from the album... it boggles my mind in absolutely what are we doing in our early 20s it's insane."Watch this moment
"Nothing says Indonesia like hard psychedelic progressive rock and funk. I found the music scene there to be really amazing... it's a lot about very, very hard psychedelic."Watch this moment
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