Silvester, by André Bratten

Silvester

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1.	Witching Hour 04:26	buy track
2.	Silvester Anfang 18:19	buy track
3.	Untitled 1 13:44	buy track
4.	Untitled 2 13:59	buy track
5.	Coral 01:08	buy track

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"All traces of life – Maniac’s scream, Euronymous’s riffs – are gone, as the Oslo based producer dusts tiny fragments of beats across deserted ambient tracks(...)This is the sound of black metal with the humans removed."
- The Wire, October 2020

A lot has been written about seminal Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, but André Bratten’s Silvester (Smalltown Supersound) surfaces a little known story about the group.

In 1986-87, years before Mayhem's 1994 debut album, guitarist Øystein Aarseth (aka Euronymous) took a musical pilgrimage to Germany to solicit collaboration with one of his musical heroes. Øystein, who was tragically destined to be murdered by former Mayhem member Varg Vikernes in 1993, bought an Interrail ticket and travelled from Norway to Germany to seek out experimental musician Conrad Schnitzler. Conrad was the founder of krautrock incubating club the Zodiac Free Arts Lab in West Berlin in 1968 and a former member of Tangerine Dream and Kluster, both key experimental groups in the development of industrial music and Kosmische electronic music.

Øystein sat outside Schnitzler’s house and refused to leave until he was allowed in to talk. His persistence paid off, with Schnitzler surprisingly agreeing to supply a piece of music for Mayhem. The piece was “Silvester Anfang”, the first track and introduction to Mayhem’s classic debut EP Deathcrush. A detailed percussive number, Mayhem still open their heavy live shows with this track today.

When Mayhem founder Jørn “Necrobutcher" Stubberud told the story behind “Silvester Anfang” to Bratten at a party, they immediately had the idea that Bratten should remix or rework this little known track. Totally absorbed in the sounds of Schnitzler and its strange and unusual pairing with Mayhem, Bratten started out with a plan to make one remix. He ended up with a series of tracks inspired by both Schnitzler's intro and the sounds of the debut record “Deathcrush”. The results transpired into a mutation of Conrad Schnitzler, Mayhem and André Bratten.

Silvester is Mayhem and Schnitzler reimagined. Or deconstructed and then rebuilt. However you term it, a remix turned into a new André Bratten unlike any he has recorded before, haunted by the echoes of Mayhem’s grisly legacy as well as Klusters early industrial musique concrete looped experiments. 5 new tracks and 50 minutes of new music. An album of abstract freeform structures morphing elements of kraut, techno, ambient, black metal, industrial, minimalist and drone. A perfect fusion of two dystopian extremes of Norwegian underground music.

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released July 24, 2020

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André Bratten Oslo, Norway

Norway's André Bratten grew up in Oslo on the border between a bustling city and a dense forest. That juxtaposition has informed his sound as he skillfully imbues cosmic disco with intense cerebral techno.

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Slay Tracks

Mar 2024
Picture Music

Jun 2022
Silvester

Jul 2020
Pax Americana

Jun 2019
Valve

Mar 2017
Gode

Nov 2015
Math Ilium Ion

May 2015

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