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We start them young over here in the Border Community, and they don't come much youngerthan our pet Swede Petter Nordkvist.
At the tender age of 19 he put out his first record, the sublime 'These Days' on Holland's Deep
records, closely followed by the two slices of loveliness on vinyl that was his 'Six Songs EP' for his
second home Border Community. But all that was over two years ago now, during which time the
young Swede has spent a year or so in Berlin, squeezed in a few tracks and remixes here and
there for labels like Deep, GU Music and Manual, and celebrated his twenty-first birthday. And as
he returns with his second release on Border Community, the killer double pairing of bass driven
rave monster 'Some Polyphony' and twitchy Swedish tech-funk of 'Untight', the boy really has
come of age.
Like most of his Border Community label mates, Petter's sound is one which naturally falls
between several camps and doesn't take kindly to any efforts to slot it neatly into established
pigeonholes. The key to Petter's winning approach has been to carve out his own unique niche in
the musical spectrum, in the process winning himself fans from all corners: a more solidly diverse
young talent you<#8217;d struggle to find.
Petter<#8217;s music wears its diverse influences on its sleeve, fusing together techno, electro, dub,
ambient, acid, breaks and deep house in his own inimitable way. His tracks are equally at home in
the sets of just about any DJ that is currently doing it: Miss Kittin, Nick Fanciulli, Laurent Garnier,
Josh Wink, Trevor Jackson, Steve Bug, Damian Lazarus and even Prince of Prog Sasha, who
revived and remixed <#8216;These Days<#8217; for his experimental <#8216;Involver<#8217; compilation.
But none of his supporters have been more vocal than Border Community main man and
production soul mate James Holden. <#8220;On a technical level, I don't think many people can compete
with his production <#8211; it doesn't sound like anyone else at all,<#8221; Holden explains. <#8220;I get really jealous
listening to it. He's technically very stunning, very innovative and very musical.<#8221;
Early in his career, as is the natural progression for any young music addict, Petter turned his
hands to Djing, his diverse tastes manifesting themselves in an already fairly distinctive hybrid of
electro-tinged dubbed-out house and techno, off the back of which he was able to begin exploring
the clubs of Europe. But it is with the recent development of his own live set that the 21 year old
has really come into his own: one hour of twitchy techno-funk as tight as his jeans, which pulls off
the enviable feat of pushing all of the audience's buttons whilst remaining ever true to his own
high artistic values. Ever alert and responsive to his audience, the Petter approach to the live
show involves selecting which track to play next on the fly, in a manner which has more in
common with the reactiveness of a DJ than your standard pre-planned static Ableton chugalong.
A serial clip-maker, with a back catalogue of as-yet-unreleased music as stunning and as
extensive as Petter has, we can of course be sure that there is a lot more to come from this young
producer yet. All too often emergent artists are described as a unique talent who set to make
waves in the production world over the years to come, but in Petter<#8217;s case we genuinely,
wholeheartedly, believe this is true. We hope you will too.
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