Kronofonika

01/02/2024

Kronofonka returns to its ritualistic roots and releases 52 new EP’s in 2024.

In the first Kronofonika project of 2010, 253 and Kolthrast made one new song for each day of the year, as a sort of experiment, an open sketchbook. I think it’s fair to say that the results were mixed. But nonetheless interesting!

Since then we have transformed and evolved with Kronofonika, the cassette label perhaps being the pinnacle. Through which we have facilitated the ongoing rediscovery of the previously almost completely forgotten Swedish 90s rave scene found in ”The Finspång Sound” and launched artists like Yukiko Jansson and Dyngherren to an even smaller audience than they had before. An endeavor we have no plans of retiring, we remain committed to being Europe’s number one destination for artist’s artists and pseudo-intellectual discourse in music form distributed through cassette tapes.

But alongside the unfolding rolls of tape we have felt an urge to rekindle the ritualistic flame that got us started, so for this year (of our lord) 2024, we decided to make a weekly procession of split EPs, a hyper sigil of sorts. Each installment features the work of two artists, our own projects and invited guests, as arcane and indecipherable as always. The EPs themselves will be distributed exclusively through streaming services, a medium just shy of the cassette in terms of time it takes to get a release out. So no physical media, all that is solid melts into air. For no immediately apparent reason we are calling this series “Kronofonisch Kronophon”.

We have found over the years that through quantity comes quality. In spontaneity lies the subconscious and (sometimes) the purest of forms, momentum as a way to transcend! Although we can not promise any transcendental experiences for the listener we hope you will come along for the “ride”, preferably enjoying what you experience or failing that, any other discernible emotion. See you on the other side.

Birt Berglund & Magnus Lenneskog

01/02/2024

ps. The first three albums are now available, as the mills of streaming platforms don’t grind at quite the same IPS as a Tascam 244, the next four are stuck in bureaucracy purgatory for a bit longer, hopefully they will come out on a bit more regular basis going forward. ds.

13/12/2023

Happy 6th anniversary to the Kronofonika label, and/or 13th anniversary of the Kronofonika project!

2023 has not seen many releases , mostly due to foreseen circumstances. 2024 has more in stock, both releases and circumstances!

23/01/2023

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, each Dyngherren - Bortom den lila zonen ships with a custom limited edition 16hp Eurorack blank panel! 🇪🇺 💜 (can potentially also be used as a very small back patch on denim jacket)

23/01/2023

📼Normal service is back!

We’d like to thank and Yukiko Jansson for their time during the last throuple of weeks Instagram takeover. We still find the idea of linking each day with Tarot cards a bit pushed, but respect the decision.

If you haven’t already picked up a copy of Dyngherren’s album ‘Bortom den lila zonen’ (which this whole takeover was all about!), you still have the chance! Check the link in our bio for our Bandcamp page.

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05/08/2022

📀WIP Finspång Sound alumni - track. Just like Yukiko Jansson he is quite hard to deal with and could communicate better but if all goes well his debut cassette on Kronofonika is coming some time this autumn! 🤷🏻‍♂️

10/05/2022

⚙️”Det här är Finspångs Tekniska, och vi levererar!”

Short jam with Ludvig De Gärsgård celebratibg technical services in Finspång. Big up! 🙌🤝

22/04/2022

A snippet or esoteric ambient on the Volca Modular for all aliens out there. 👽

13/12/2021

🕯 St. Lucy’s day -

”…These competing narratives are reflected in Lucia’s name: both lux (light) and Lucifer. On Lussi’s night, or Lussinatta, families stayed inside while spirits and witches consorted, night riding above them in the wintry air and threatening anyone who dared cross them. The history of the Lussinatta, or Lucy Night, has been literally whitewashed, with young girls in Sweden and Norway brandishing baked goods and clad in white on what was known as (and is still) one of the most potent magical nights of the year.”
- Laura Dorwart

It also happens to be the kronofonik new year, 4 years since our first cassette now! Have a ginger snap and listen to ”Theodor’s Kalla Fajitas” or ”Music for Childrens Keyboard (Part I)” on our Bandcamp.

23/04/2021

🥸Kronofonika is the proud official music partner™️ of ”Levande Bottenvåning” an exhibition by CSAM, a photographic archive of openings that have shut, doors that have closed forever, shops converted to private accommodation and entrances turned concrete walls.

Kronofonika is providing urban planning ambiance classics in the shape of Undhulat’s London walks from “Walking Music”, unreleased fictional Noir film music about the claustrophobics of Itaewon in Seul and other more or less urban music to sit in the background at the exhibition space.

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Opening today at in Malmö. Check their profile for deets.

15/04/2021

😐👮”Swan Song (VMA)” by Ludvig de Gärsgård featuring Hesa Fredrik, from our latest ”Finspång Sound” compilation ”Revelations”.

Available now from our Bandcamp, link in bio!

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09/04/2021

🐊🌅🚨✨ Out now! 𓆋𓁭𓁿

Both the final chapter of “The Finsång Sound”, ”Revelations” and the debut on cassette from one of the brightest stars in that scene; Yukiko Jansson is now out, available digitally on our bandcamp right now. Pre-orders shipping out this weekend!

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04/04/2021

🥸Super shaky lazy Sunday Jam with Hesa Fredrik, one of the new artists on Finspång sound - revelations (98-00) shipping out next weekend! (Slightly out of his comfort zone) 😐

Built a small wooden case for the Westlicht Performer, the standing sequencer on the right. So just had to try it on the living room floor...

-Hesa Fredrik

02/04/2021

👮‍♀️🚨 In this third and final (?) chapter of ’The Finspång Sound’, the divergence in style has seemingly reached its climax, some have embraced the new trance wave sweeping across Europe, rekindling their ravey roots whilst others have taken their spiritual seeking to the next level. Sharp supersaws intertwined with contemplative mellow soundbeds. An esoteric and explicit exploration of the Finspång region’s soul featuring unreleased work by Problematic Pistill, Ludvig de Gärsgård and Snebald Snyting amongst others.

The Finspång Sound - Revelations (98-00) Pre-Order available today! (Link to our Bandcamp page in bio) Shipping out next weekend.

02/04/2021

✨🐊🧝‍♂️ Musica Smaragdina, a path to transmutation of your inner and outer self! The first official album by acclaimed (in spiritual wellness circles) electronic avant garde composer and sound artist Yukikio Jansson, of the infamous ’Finspång Sound’-scene. Dark but gentle soundscapes as if slowly emerging from the chaotic waters of Nu.

’Great to listen to on the go, or for short to medium length rites’
-Dyngherren

💚🔮 Preorder available now on our Bandcamp page! (Link ina the bio).

29/03/2021

🐊::: YUKIKO JANSSON 🌟 SOBEK'S BLESSING :::🐊
The first single from Östergötlandish artist Yukiko Janssons upcoming album "Musica Smaragdina".
With a video produced and directed by the Yukiko Jansson herself!
Enjoy this, and more exciting news very soon! 🥵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQBwqdNj56o

The cassette will be able for pre-oreder Friday 2nd April 2021 at Kronofonika casette label: https://kronofonika.bandcamp.com

Sobek's Blessing is the first single of the upcoming esoteric cassette album "Musica Smaragdina" by Yukiko Jansson.The cassette will be able for pre-oreder F...

28/03/2021

😐 Ambient soundscape Lazy Sunday Jam with the Waldorf Blofeld, which I got after hearing it was one of ’s favourite synths (yeah, that’s how much of a fan boy I am). Not dissapointed, very ”lush”. Here playing along with the Roland SH-201 arpeggiator through a Boss BX-8 with random clicks from who knows what?! 🔮✨Dodging a difficult decision with a random sequence, a fortunate and generous amount of reverb for future determination! Two of Swords - Star - Knight of Swords

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22/03/2021

😐 traditional and self caring acid dub for a resiliant new week! Lazy ambient Sunday Jam (so lazy it’s one day late!) and this weeks reading 🔮✨.

14/03/2021

🌑Lazy Sunday Jam , and this weeks tarot reading! From the second most esoteric artists in the Kronk roster (after Yukiko Jansson); . He sends his regards and notes ”A calm an patient sequenced Barp2600 with partly random self generating drones on the Lil Erebus for a wealthy Sunday afternoon - Temperance, two of Cups (reversed) and King of Pentacles.” ✨🔮

09/03/2021

🌘 Waning Moon - spring thing on the Barp. New Kronofonika releases are in post Production. Might be Finspång related...

Oh yeah, sidenote - prediction: iphone clipping will be the ”tape saturation” of the 2040’s.

#2600

06/12/2020

😐Very lazy Sunday jam by Undhulat again with some random polymetric legowelt-aspiring jv-1080 bells and a sloppy super recycled acidubby thing! 🥳

29/11/2020

😐 Lazy Sunday Acid Doom Jazz Dub with on the tb03 and a General Midi sequencer. Listen to the cream in that muted trumpet! 😑

22/11/2020

😐🤹‍♀️ Lazy sunday jam on the Volca bass and a looper. Yeah that’s the podcast ‘Talking Politics’ leaking in in the background. 🥴

19/11/2020

🥴 ruining Högdalstuppen’s track from last week by detuning two virtual analog synths. Full vid for all out of tune fans out there up on the tewb!

12/11/2020

😐😑 One of two new videos up on our tewb! Short modular jam by ’Högdalstuppen’.