EXISTENSMINIMUM
Existensminimum makes dayglo electro-pop, likened to DJ Shadow meets Spiritualized meets XTC meets Seefeel. A sparkling set of vocal and instrumental tracks ranging from blissed-out full-on orchestrations and romantic crooner trips to anxious, deconstructed rock... Existensminimum's posh orch-pop arrangements are bedecked with a kitchen sink sonic palette: strings and horns, guitars and keys, beats and breaks, bleeps and bloops...

Anyone who has experienced Existensminimum on stage knows that you can’t get any wilder than Magnus Henriksson. If there are pipes in the ceiling he’s bound to hang from them sooner or later, making guttural sounds as the mike will be stuck in his mouth, until he falls down head first. He throws himself backwards on the stage floor, and if there is an unlucky drum kit in the way it can blame no one but itself. Just as wild was the debut album of Existensminimum, Last night my head tried to explode and I wrote everything down, a couple of years ago. It mixed kraut with electronica, and balalaika orchestras with pop that could be racing with his old employer Moneybrother’s in such a dizzyingly strange mess that most reviewers where lost for words in their search for the essence of Existensminimum.


DISCOGRAPHY


1993 Remixes
(novo0212)

1 1993
2 1993 (Rigas Enemies Remix)
3 1993 (Nordpolen LSD Remix)
4 Mirrors (Russian Adults Remix)
5 1993 (Trollfunk Remix - [Fé & Pluto])



Format:
Download EP
Produced by:
Magnus Henriksson & Tobias Fröberg
Recorded & Mixed by:
Magnus Henriksson & Tobias Fröberg
Studio:
Grytgöl Studio
Mastered by:
Henrik Jonsson(Masters of Audio)
and Magnus Henriksson
Graphic Design:
D/A/G/G/A/N

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Ok boys
(novo021)

1. Mirrors
2. Fuglesang
3. Signs of human life
4. Night out
5. 1993
6. Satan
7. I won't go
8. Instrumental track
9. Sound of music
10. Messin up


Format:
CD-album, Digipac
Produced by:
Magnus Henriksson & Tobias Fröberg
Recorded & Mixed by:
Magnus Henriksson & Tobias Fröberg
Studio:
Grytgöl Studio
Mastered by:
Henrik Jonsson at Masters of Audio
Graphic Design:
Daggan

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Fuglesang
(novo0211)

1. Fuglesang
2. Fuglesang (Killit Space Aires Remix)
3. Fuglesang (Chicagojazzen Reform)



Format:
MP3 Single
Produced by:
Magnus Henriksson & Tobias Fröberg
Recorded & Mixed by:
Magnus Henriksson & Tobias Fröberg
Studio:
Grytgöl Studio
Mastered by:
Henrik Jonsson at Masters of Audio
Graphic Design:
Daggan

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Changing Lines
(novo011-2)

1. One Day I Shall Die


Format:
MP3 single
Produced and Recorded by:
Jari Haapalainen Magnus Henriksson
Studio:
Konst& Ramar and Existensminimum
Mastered by:
Håkan Åkesson at Cutting Room
Sleeve:
Daggan
Preview track:
One Day I Shall Die

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Last night my head tried to explode and i wrote everything down
(novo011)

1. Acid
2. Changing Lines
3. Cina
4. Take me to your leader
5. Sweden
6. From me to you
7. The Knees
8. Running down everyone
9. Love Trak
10. One day I shall die


Format:
CD-album, Digipak
Produced, Recorded & Mixed by:
Magnus Henriksson, Jari Haapalainen,
Henrik von Euler and Henrik Svensson
Studios:
Temporary Studios, Konst&Ramar
Gröndahl and Existensminimum
Mastered by:
Håkan Åkesson at Cutting Room
Sleeve:
Daggan
Preview track:
Changing Lines

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Changing Lines
(novo011-1)

1. Changing Lines


Format:
MP3 single
Produced, Recorded & Mixed by:
Magnus Henriksson, Henrik von Euler
and Henrik Svensson
Studio:
Temporary Studios and Existensminimum
Mastered by:
Håkan Åkesson at Cutting Room
Sleeve:
Daggan
Preview track:
Changing Lines

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Running Down Everyone
(novo007)

1. Running Down Everyone
2. From Me To You (Radio LXMBRG Remix)
3. Growing Up Fast/Dealing With Darkness (Henrik Svensson Remix)


Format:
CD-single, Carton sleeve
Produced, Recorded & Mixed by:
Magnus Henriksson
Studio:
Studio Gröndahl
Mastered by:
Magnus Henriksson
Photos:
Andreas Avelin
Sleeve:
Andreas Avelin
Preview track:
Running Down Everyone

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The On And On
(FFCD11)

Released by Flora & Fauna
1. From me to you
2. Guidelessness
3. Jag tog din hand
4. Soul shake
5. Feel like I know you


Format:
CD-EP, Digipack
Produced, Recorded & Mixed by:
Magnus Henriksson
Studio:
Existensminimum
Mastered by:
Magnus Henriksson
Sleeve:
Frans Carlqvist och Viktor Brobacke
Preview track:
From me to you

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DOWNLOADS

MP3 Changing Lines
The second single off the upcoming "Last night my head tried to explode and i wrote everything down" album. A great song about making upp your mind. It also shows a little about the somewhat new sound of the upcoming album.
CHECK IT OUT HERE

VIDEO Changing Lines
The video for "Changing Lines" is through Existensminimum's quite surreal nightmare we are very satisfied with the final cut and want to thank Andreas Avelin and Frank Aschberg who made this little gem and had Existensminimum dragged all around Barcelona in his underpants. That caught your attention didn't it?
CHECK IT OUT HERE

VIDEO From Me To You [directed & filmed by: Magnus Magnusson]
A video suited perfectly for this track. A visual delight which go hand in hand with the blissed-out full-on orchestrations and romantic crooner trips of the song. We suggest you put aside ten minutes and check this treat out properly.
CHECK IT OUT HERE


HI-RES PHOTOS

If you use the photos on a site or in a magazine don't forget to mention the photographer, please.

Photo: Frank Aschberg

Download press info sheet here.


RELATED LINKS & REVIEWS
Existensminimum - Official Homepage
Luger - Existensminimums booking agency
Flora & Fauna - Previous label

Reviews:
SVD - Last night... (in swedish)
Musikindustrin - Last night... (in swedish)
DN - Last night... (in swedish)
Norrköpings Tidningar - Last night... (in swedish)
Sellfish.de - Last night... (in german)
Said The Gramophone - Changing... (in english)
Sixeyes - Changing Lines (in english)
Strawberry Fire - Changing Lines (in english)
Smithereens - Changing Lines (in swedish)
Allshools.de - Running Down ... (in german)
Zero - Running Down ... (in swedish)
Muzic.se - Running Down ... (in swedish)
Swedesplease - Running Down ... (in english)
MakeBelieve - Running Down ... (in swedish)
Soundmag - Running Down ... (in german)


Groove.no - Last night... (in norwegian)
Piteåtidningen - Last night... (in swedish)
Muzic.se - Interview (in swedish)
Dagens Skiva - Last night... (in swedish)
Muzic.se - Last night... (in swedish)
Folkbladet - Last night... (in swedish)
Noisedfisk - Changing Lines (in english)
Echo - Changing Lines (in english)
Rockomondo - Live review (in french)
Musiklandet - Running Down ... (in swedish)
Revolver - The On And On (in swedish)
Dagens Skiva - The On And On (in swedish)
KFJC Reviews - The On And On (in english)
The Cricket - The On And On (in swedish)
Dagens Skiva - Live review (in swedish)
Geiger - Live review (in danish)