Blue Foundation

Blue Foundation crafts a sound of cinematic dream pop laced with shoegaze-inflected electronics that has appeared in motion pictures such as Twilight and on television programs including CSI: Miami. Danish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Tobias Wilner launched the project in 2000, taking cues from Mark E. Smith’s method of assembling the Fall by drawing in a changing roster of acoustic players across the years to stimulate fresh ideas while retaining multi-instrumentalist Bo Rande as a fixed presence from 2008 onward. The first release, single Hollywood & Hide, came out on Moshi Moshi in 2000; the self-titled debut album followed on April Records the next year, after which a steady flow of singles, albums, remixes, compilation tracks, and soundtrack placements continued. In addition to Twilight, the music surfaced on the Miami Vice soundtrack and in the European features Tankograd, Normal, and Manslaughter, while further small-screen placements beyond CSI: Miami have included So You Think You Can Dance, The O.C., The Cleveland Show, and Anna Pihl. Wilner opened DPC Records in Copenhagen in 2009 to handle output from Blue Foundation and the related acts Bichi and Ghost Society. Broader exposure arrived via joint work with Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon together with Jonas Bjerre of Mew on the 2009 single Watch You Sleeping and through a remix of Bjerre’s Window Pane.