Mikael Stavöstrand
location . Berlin, DE
project website . mitek-web.net

Mikael Stavöstrand was born in Stockholm, Sweden 1972, and is now based in Berlin, Germany. He has been featured as a key figure of the Swedish electronic music scene for his unique interpretations of minimal club techno as well as for producing some of the most essential experimental electronic music of the past years. Stavöstrand mixes deconstructed sounds with funky little beats to create minimal dance textures.

On his debut album on Force Inc., "Reduce", swarms of glitches, crackles and skips infiltrate the 4/4 drive formula of minimal techno. As Vita, his "Vita" 12" on Force Inc. imprint Force Labs was to meet critical praise and became one of the best selling releases with its digitalized organic groove.

He started to produce music in the early nineties, but back then he was a part of the industrial scene and released
a bunch of "classic" records under different names, lately due to a lot of demand from different labels, he agreed to
allow reissues of these early works.

After that period he got more interested into sound research and minimalism, which also led to a couple of CD releases
on labels as Staalplaat in The Netherlands to name a few. In 2000 he became more focused on bringing is experiences and sound from the pure minimal scene into a more club context, so he started to work with minimal techno sounds, which led to result immediately with releases on Force Inc. in Germany.

The last years he has been playing live around the globe, for example Mutek in Canada and in Mexico, Japan, and all over Europe. At the moment he is also working on different collaboration, as the Luus project together with Johan Fotmeijer, deep minimal techno with a melodic touch, Skugge&Stavöstrand, and the Bulgur Brothers together with Johan Skugge and Andreas Tilliander.

Hi output has been a bit quiet for a while but that doesn't mean that he has been on the lazy side, 2005 he released one album and 4 ep's with different projects and 2006 will see a whole bunch of releases, solo, with Bulgur Brothers with Johan Skugge and Andreas Tilliander, Stavostrand feat. Erika with singer Erika out of Stockholm, a collaboration with [a]pendics.shuffle from LA and other constellations. So 2006 looks already like a very bust year. Working with labels such as Karat out of France, Adjuct in LA, Audiobahn in Malmö, Contexterrior in Berlin, Mineral, Sunset Diskos, Mitek and more.

Since 2000 he also runs the Mitek label. The aim and policy for the label is to produce, release and promote new Scandinavian artists within the field of experimental electronic music. For us this includes everything that's exciting between abstract minimalism and experimental techhouse. Mitek has been around since september 2000 and has as so far produced 14 albums, 5 eps and two t-shirts.. In the years Mitek has not only been a label releasing music, but also organized shows and showcases of swedish electronic music around europe and Japan.. We see mitek more as a platform than a pure label.

In the summer of 2006, we will also see the birth of his new label "Sunset Diskos", this label is purely for club music, deep and funky minimal tunes is the aim here. With artists such as himself, [a]pendics shuffle, agaric & Bulgur Brothers.

Recently he licensed tracks for Fabric mix series as well as a new mix Cd by James Holden. And his music is heavily played by Dj's such as Matthew Dear, Jeff Milligan and Jay Haze to name a few.

Discography Mikael Stavöstrand (excerpt)

TBA EP 12", Series Culture [D/UK] - as Skugge & Stavöstrand, upcoming
TBA EP 12", We are [SE] 2006, upcoming
TBA EP 12", Mineral [US] 2006, - as Bulgur Brothers, upcoming
TBA CD, Mitek [SE/D] 2006, - as Bulgur Brothers, upcoming
TBA DLP, Sunset Diskos [SE/D] 2006, - as Bulgur Brothers, upcoming
Funkage EP 12", Audiobahn [S] 2006, upcoming
My Moon EP 12", Sunset Diskos [SE/D] 2006, upcoming
Compliments EP 12", Adjunct [US] 2006, upcoming
Jaffa EP 12", Karat [FR] 2006 - as Bulgur Brothers
Mosquito Morpher 12", DSP [IT] 2006
ep2 12", Gastspiel [D] 2005 - as Luus (Stavöstrand & Fotmeijer)
Disco 12", Budenzauber [D] 2005 - as Skugge & Stavöstrand
Gräns EP 12", Onitor [D] 2005 - as Skugge & Stavöstrand
Humla CD, Onitor [D] 2005 - as Skugge & Stavöstrand
Ängel EP 12", Onitor [D] 2005 - as Skugge & Stavöstrand
Formula mp3, textone [D/US] 2004
Jay Haze vs. Mikael Stavöstrand 12", Contexterrior [D/US] 2004
Rheinsberger EP 12", Onitor [D] 2004 - as Skugge & Stavöstrand
Lite remixed 12", mitek [S] 2003
Format 12", Klitekture [E] 2003
Ena CD/DLP, Force Inc. [D] 2001 - as Vita
Vita 12", Force Labs [D] 2001 - as Vita
Reduce CD/DLP, Force Inc. [D] 2001
Lite CD, mitek [S] 2000

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