Fever Ray is Karin Dreijer Anderson’s new solo project. Her unusual compositions and characteristic eerie vocals have inspired some of the best remixers and producers to create amazing reworks of the songs featured on her first solo album.
Most of these remixes you can find and purchase on iTunes and one of them you can listen to just below! It comes courtesy of hyped up Brazilian duo The Twelves.
Fever Ray – Seven (The Twelves Remix)
Now Karin Dreijer Anderson’s name might not immediately ring a bell but chances are you’ve heard her voice before… In 1999, Karin and her brother Olof formed the electronica band The Knife. Between 2001 and 2006 they released four albums and won 6 awards. Interestingly enough, they always stayed away from the media and only recently agreed to play live but they performed behind a screen, in the dark, with masks on.
This obsession with anonymity didn’t stop Andersson from sharing her talents with other artists and appearing on many of their records. In 2005, she supplied vocals for the track “What Else Is There?” by Röyksopp, maybe one of her most famous contributions and surely one that established her reputation on the electro/club scene.
Her solo album, under the moniker Fever Ray, is a tribute to the most audacious and conceptual music of the 80s. There are lots of the synthesised faux-ethnic sounds : chimes, oriental motifs, talking-drum percussion… Disturbing as it may be, this debut is also quite fascinating. And the remixes.. Ah, the remixes…
More info and more music on MySpace…
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ROYKSOPP – THE GIRL & THE ROBOT (Dance/Electro – Norway) « umstrum || music
December 7, 2009 at 10:06 pm (UTC 1)
[...] in clubs, where its numerous remixes took dancefloors by storm. The track was a collaboration with Karin Dreijer from the Swedish electronic band, The [...]
U R MY DISCO // vol.6 « umstrum || music
December 20, 2009 at 5:18 pm (UTC 1)
[...] Remix) 13 Hercules & Love Affair – Raise Me Up 14 My Tiger My Timing – I Am The Sound 15 Fever Ray – Seven (The Twelves Remix) 16 Jupiter – Starlighter 17 Two Door Cinema Club – Cigarettes in [...]
LEAVE THEM ALL BEHIND III « umstrum || music
January 11, 2010 at 7:03 pm (UTC 1)
[...] Who Made Who, Tiga, Whitest Boy Alive, Phoenix, Jesse Rose feat Hot Chip, Simian Mobile Disco, Fever Ray & Florence + The Machine amongst others, plus remixes by the likes of Aeroplane, Holy Ghost!, [...]
U R MY DISCO // vol.5 « umstrum || music
February 7, 2010 at 11:20 pm (UTC 1)
[...] (Crystal Castles Remix) 09 Empire of the Sun – We Are The People (Says Simom Remix) 10 Fever Ray – Triangle Walks (Rex The Dog Remix) 11 Sébastien Tellier – Kilometer (A-Trak Dub) 12 [...]
CROOKERS – TONS OF FRIENDS (Electro/Club – Italy) « umstrum || music
March 25, 2010 at 1:14 am (UTC 1)
[...] boys are also known for their remixes of artists such as Basement Jaxx, Fever Ray or Lady Gaga. For the record, their remix of Kid Cudi’s “Day’N'Nite” [...]
BLACK KIDS – PARTIE TRAUMATIC (Indie/Pop – US)
January 21, 2011 at 5:51 pm (UTC 1)
[...] Rolling Stone called them one of ten “Artists to Watch” in 2008 and they were also included in the BBC Top 10 Sound of 2008 poll. Their debut spawned two singles, “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance” and “Hurricane Jane”, which were both remixed by many a-class producers, including Brazil’s own The Twelves. [...]
FAMILJEN – MÄNSKLIGHETEN (Electro/SynthPop – Sweden)
May 8, 2011 at 11:15 pm (UTC 1)
[...] New York or Paris. Or maybe you have stumbled upon one of his classy remixes for the likes of Fever Ray, Rex The Dog or Lykke Li. Well, it’s time to dive a little deeper into Familjen’s [...]
FIRST AID KIT – THE BIG BLACK AND THE BLUE (Acoustic/Folk/Pop – Sweden)
June 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm (UTC 1)
[...] in April 2008 in Sweden on the label Rabid Records, managed by cult Swedish electronic duo The Knife. The EP was then re-released through Wichita Recordings in 2009 with one bonus track (Fleet [...]
saturday nite with… TOVE STYRKE + FAMILJEN
October 15, 2011 at 9:25 pm (UTC 1)
[...] in the past few years. Internationally, he is best known for his remixes for the likes of Fever Ray, Rex The Dog or Lykke [...]
U R MY DISCO // vol.6
December 7, 2011 at 5:58 pm (UTC 1)
[...] Remix) 13 Hercules & Love Affair – Raise Me Up 14 My Tiger My Timing – I Am The Sound 15 Fever Ray – Seven (The Twelves Remix) 16 Simian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions 17 Jupiter – [...]
DOE PAORO – BORN WHOLE (Alternative/Pop – US)
June 5, 2012 at 1:10 am (UTC 1)
[...] banshee soul with echoes of gospel. Equally influenced by contemporary pop (think Lykke Li or Fever Ray), soul (who said Lauryn Hill?) and Lhamo (a powerful, unusual and vocally acrobatic Tibetan-style [...]