When there are things to correct in life, they eat you up inside as time goes by and it doesn’t get done. Something like that happened with the release we bring to 1051 Magazine today.

Swedish artist Harald Björk started releasing music around 2006 in his youth when he was living in Berlin. After his first releases on Traum Schallplatten, he founded his own label Kranglan Broadcast to release his own work and other remixers such as ADA, Axel Boman, Fairmont, Kate Wax, Suzanne Kraft and many more. Harald’s main focus, apart from experiments in the studio with various synthesizers, has always been to find new ways to realize his atmospheric mix of ambient and techno live with hardware. In 2013 Harald joined the Red Bull Music Academy and packed his bags to move to New York.

 

In 2015 Harald released a 12″ EP plus a 7″ single at Studio Barnhus followed by the album Kris- & Konflikthantering, whose title track, Sabor Latino, had a huge audience in Ibiza and ended up on Sven Väth’s The Sound of the 17th Season compilation.

Harald has continued to release on Kranglan Broadcast and this year he has paid off his debt to himself. And no one better than him to tell the story:

“Luftlust was one of my first record releases was on Traum Schallplatten in 2007. I was living in Berlin and Traum was in its heyday releasing acts like Extrawelt, Dominik Eulberg, Gabriel Anada, Minilogue, Fairmont…. The era of melodic minimalism…

The release of Luftlust introduced me to great DJ’s like Sven Väth, etc. And I was really overwhelmed by the support. But the version on the 12″ was actually up 5 BPM. And in the end the mastering was not in my personal preference. Watering my feelings, once or twice a year people would ask me to do a remaster. Over the years it has been a theme that has circulated the web and playlists, haunting me.

Last year I dug into the past and actually wrote a masters exam in philosophy on how to be a young person in the techno scene and how to stay creative while working with labels. Somewhere in that process I decided to face the old ghost and make it real. The time was ripe for the re-release of Luftlust, on my terms on my own label Kranglan Broadcast.”

 

 

And for the reissue we have the original version now remastered and corrected by Harald, the one that saw the light of day as the B-side of Brus and two remixes. One is by his compatriot Özgur Can, who reinterprets the original and calms it down in almost two thirds of the remix. The second has fallen into the hands of one of the favourites at 1051 Magazine, the legendary Justus Köhncke, author of unforgettable remixes for more than twenty-five years. Justus takes Luftlust to almost seven minutes of danceable elegance, with his personal and non-transferable stamp.

It’s a good thing Harald did face the old ghost, because the result was unbeatable. Release date December 10th, available for pre order here

 

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