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2000 - 2004 | Frakkur

2000 - 2004 by Frakkur, released 23 November 2018 1. SFTLB1 2. SFTLB2 3. SFTLB3 4. SFTLB4 5. SFTLB5 6. SFTLB6 7. SFTLB7 8. SFTLB8 9. SFTLB9 10. TB1 11. TB2 12. TB3 13. TB4 14. TB5 15. TB6 16. TB7 17. TB8 18. PP1 19. PP2 20. PP3 21. PP4 22. PP5 23. PP6 24. PP7 Frakkur was the artist name Jónsi used to define his experiments in electronic music in the early years of the 21st century. Working on his own, either at home in Reykjavík, in hotel rooms on tour with Sigur Rós, or later at his boyfriend’s house in Boston, Jónsi spent endless hours diving into then-new bits of kit and programming. The oldest, 2000-2001, was made on Jónsi’s first PC laptop, named The Tank for its unwieldy size.  A record of unrequited love for a straight boy at home in Reykjavík, SFTLB was Jónsi way of dealing with heartbreak via sampling kalimbas and music boxes and channelling it all through the Fruity Loops program. The second, 2002-2003, was made in his small flat in the middle of Reykjavík, where he set