andreas tilliander

Prolific would be one way to describe Andreas Tilliander’s work. Extremely talented would be another. His new album, Elit singularly attests to his proficiency as a producer. Add to this the fact that it is his third full-length to be released this year alone, and you begin to see why people have been paying a lot of attention to a sound that is becoming increasingly Tilliander’s own. Apart from the music he has released under his own name, this young producer has also put out prodigiously well-received albums and 12's as Mokira, Komp, Rechord, Skitus, and Lowfour. Take the cerebral rhythmic template established by innovators like SND, mix in the low-key funkiness of acts like Boards of Canada, and you begin to get an idea of what Elit is all about. It's about taking the experiments with the clicks and the cuts, with the whole notion of unessentialist sounds, out of the willfully obscure pockets that seem to burden electronic music, and then using these sounds to damage and manipulate established and popular genres like r'n'b, hip hop, and reggae. Urb claims that 'Tilliander's hyperbolic beat sensibility suggests enchanting things to come.' Alternative Press goes one step further to say that his brand of electronics is 'a foreshadowing of the next decade's party music'. No matter which way you break it down, the electronic music community is keenly interested in what Tilliander will do next. Not only with the expectation that he will advance his own music, but that he has the potential to trigger progressions in electronic music as a whole.