André Bratten

André Bratten, the electronic musician from Oslo, has pursued fresh sonic directions across every album he has issued. His debut full-length, Be a Man You Ant from 2013, blended cosmic disco built on analog gear with a stronger German minimal techno accent than that of his Norwegian counterparts Lindstrøm, Todd Terje, and Prins Thomas. Over the ensuing years the artist gravitated toward more experimental territory: Gode, released in 2015, offered introspective material shaped by IDM and ambient aesthetics; Pax Americana in 2019 leaned into electro; Silvester in 2020 explored dark, abstract soundscapes; and Picture Music in 2022 favored melodic, meditative textures.

Prins Thomas first encountered Bratten’s recordings in the early 2010s and issued the debut album on his Full Pupp imprint in 2013. The producer accumulated club experience at Panorama Bar and Fabric, where Erol Alkan placed the track “Trommer Og Bass” on the Fabriclive 77 mix CD. Bratten delivered a remix for Holy Ghost! in 2014 and reworked material by Röyksopp the next year. The darker, streamlined-club EP Math Ilium Ion surfaced on Smalltown Supersound in May 2015. Six months afterward came the second album Gode, which largely abandoned dance-floor conventions and disco references in favor of dark, personal experimental techno and downtempo pieces. The limited-edition 12-inch Valve followed in 2017, succeeded by three further singles in 2018 whose tracks later fed into the electro-oriented album Pax Americana of 2019. Silvester, released in 2020, marked another pronounced shift by honoring German experimental pioneer Conrad Schnitzler, especially his contribution to the debut release by Norwegian black metal legends Mayhem. Bratten helmed the 2021 full-length Cracks by saxophonist Bendik Giske. The 2022 set Picture Music, titled after a 1977 Sky Records compilation, presented synth meditations drawing from innovators such as Klaus Schulze.