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Jakob Skøtt and Kristoffer Ovesen, the duo behind Videodrones, add percussion and guitars to the mix on their fourth album after three records purely composed of synthesisers.

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Videodrones : Atavistic Future

Videodrones : Atavistic Future

Videodrones work in swaths of synth and analog dread. From their beginnings in 2016 with Mondo Ferox, the electronic duo which consists of Jakob Skøtt and Kristoffer Ovesen, relied on Betamax memories of grainy horror and sci fi flicks and the world of music composers like Popol Vuh, Fabio Frizzi, and the modular synth excursions of Tangerine Dream for inspiration. The music was as equally humid…

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Complex Distractions Presents : The Videodrones Starter Pack

Complex Distractions Presents : The Videodrones Starter Pack

Videodrones appeared out of the ether and buzzing drones of modular synths back in 2016. The Danish electronic duo of Jakob Skøtt and Kristoffer Ovesen took their love of sleazy Video Nasties of the 70s and 80s and combined that with their equal adoration of the music of Popol Vuh, Ennio Morricone, Fabio Frizzi, Marcello Giombini and Riz Ortolani. The result was an eerie, woozy electronic classic…

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Videodrones -  A Blade In Your Mind & Maniac City from new LP  Nattens Hævn (El Paraiso)

2nd album from Danish synth-improv duo Videodrones, dives deeper their brand of throbbing synth themes from the goriest movies that never was.  It’s easy to hear the starting point of Videodrones: From italian composers such as Fabio Frizzi, Marcello Giombini, Riz Ortolani - or even Morricone & Alessandroni at their most industrial. But Videodrones adds a touch of previously unheard madness to their Giallo-themed synth-gasms. Based largely on improvisation, Videodrones tosses and turns - it’s like the thing is ALIVE: leaving slimy trail of electronic musical styles in their wake: there’s toxic levels of italio disco, german kosmiche musik, new age, even some stabs at holy grails of 70’s and 80’s pop. The record culminates in a Synth-proto-doom track - Nattens Hævn (Revenge of the Night): too weird to live, yet too rare to die. Videodrones improvisations are far from boring: chopped into smaller bits the album is of a suite-like nature - keeping the odd, jagged energy of improvisation, every part adds to a whole, larger narrative. The result is a suite-like walkthru, often changing pace, dropping notes or drifting in scale. The images Videodrones convey is collectedly strangely solemn - almost uplifting at times, in their maddening state of constant synth flux.

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First day of September brings treasures from Denmark, via @elparaisorecords. Weekend is set. #videodrones #astraltv #nicklassørensen #elparaisorecords

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Videodrones : Nattens Hævn

Videodrones : Nattens Hævn

Videodrones makes music that grabs you by the jugular and doesn’t let go. It’s dark, brooding electronic music that conjures up late night flicks you’d come across when you were a kid in the witching hour. Vampires, zombies, demons, witches, and the supernatural emanating from your television as a strange, buzzing wave of music accompanied it. Sometimes(most of the time) the music would somehow…

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Videodrones - Maniac City

From ‘ Nattens Hævn’ out July 21st @ El Paraiso Records

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Videodrones' "Maniac City"

Videodrones’ “Maniac City”

Somewhere, hazily floating in the ether, is where Videodrones lie. This synth duo encompass a musical world filled with supernatural dread, dark occult doom, undead creatures just over the horizon, and unseen forces lurking in your psyche. They create musical interludes for b-movies you never saw in the late 70s and early 80s. Don’t bother looking for titles like “Blood Brew”, “Helena Markos”, or…

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