GIEDO PRIMO: 2009

torsdag den 10. december 2009

Giedo Primo - a short introduction

Giedo Primo is the name most often used by the electronic musician Jannik Juhl when making tracks or playing live. Over the last decade a specific Giedo Primo sound have been shaped, containing strong elements of analogue rave techno and old 8 bit computer game music, and sometimes described as a having similarities with electro, acid and breakcore, but in the end not sounding like much else around. Most of all it is a part of a unique style called skrot, which have developed in Giedo Primos home city of Odense, Denmark.

The music is made with a heap of more-or-less antiquated hardware machinery, and even the tracks that are later released are recorded as live one track takes. The result in a rather "raw", perhaps lo fi sound, and recordings that can never be fully repeated. The approach also makes every Giedo Primo concert a unique experience, with plenty of room for variation, improvisation and audience feedback.

In addition to the solo productions, Giedo Primo is working with several other projects. In particular he is half of the hardcore/acid/skrot-duo Genespleizer, but he is also involved in Organbox with Ras Bolding, and he have been playing with the unpredictable improvisational project Ekkoregimet, as well as with avant garage rock group The Live Museum. Sometimes Giedo Primo also works as a DJ, sometimes using the name Giedo Secundus.

News about coming concerts, releases or other activities will be posted on this blog, but it can also be used as a kind of Giedo Primo homepage, with discography, background, pictures and links. You can use the email address in the profile if you want to book or just get in contact with Giedo Primo.

RELEASES

Infinity Machines of the Second Moon

The first proper Giedo Primo release was the LP Infinity Machines of the Second Moon, released in 2007 on hamarplazt. Here the music is mostly from the more atmospheric and gloomy end of the Giedo Primo style, diverging somewhat from the usually very energetic concerts.

Side A:
Sad Little Monster
Den Fortabte Tid
Betäubt und Betörend
Infinity Machines of the Second Moon

Side B:
Tiefpunkt
The Spell is Broken?
Yen-Tinh Sam-Set

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Empty Circles

Released in early 2010, official release date may 8th.
Empty Circles catch Giedo Primos unique bleep skrot-music at its most straightforward and euphoric - like it's usually heard at the concerts. At times heavy and angular, at times circus-like silly, and often a bit of both, but always driven by a weird and absolutely unhinged sense of melody, in colorful contrast to the current trend of tastefully well-behaved electronica and minimal techno.

Side A:
Empty Circles
Zerstörer

Side B:
Skrot Brothers
Dæmonskinke
An Idle Celebration

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Compilations and group projects

SKROT - The New Machine Sound of Odense

Compilation of skrot music from Odense. Giedo Primo appears with the track Mental Maze, as well as with the group projects Genespleizer and Organbox. Plenty of further details here.

Side A:
Genespleizer: Skrotstep Live
Strozqnu: Zap
Ekkoregimet: Ekkoskrot
Ras Bolding: Zombiesjæler
Bashcorpo: Friend of Death

Side B:
Papa Stein: UFO'er over Svendborg
Giedo Primo: Mental Maze
Commodore Combat Unit: Puck Man
Hr. Eide: Brain Rape
Organbox: Doctor Clown

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Rare/obscure releases

Klub Golem 2006 - 2009
A compilation from the danish goth club Klub Golem, given away for free at its three year birthday party, and containing tracks from all artists that had played there until then. Includes the Giedo Primo track Robo Jojo.

Infinity Machines of the Second Moon - promo CD-R
An early CD-R promo version of Infinity Machines of the Second Moon. Only a small amount was made, and it's unknown where most of them are today. As it was made several years before the LP, the content is quite different. In addition to Tiefpunkt, The Spell is Broken?, Infinity Machines of the Second Moon and Yen-Tinh Sam-Set, the promo also contain the tracks Zone Machine, Little Children of the Sea, Gilgarmix, Ruiner and De Sorte Bjerge.