Electronic horror

dj. flugvél og geimskip

dj. flugvél og geimskip (Airplane & Spaceship) is the one-person orchestra of Steinunn Hardardottir that draws influences from a thousand worlds. Defined as psychedelic electronic dance-music from outer space, the music is a mix of playful beats, cool bass, catchy melodies and unusual vocals. Her live performances are highly memorable and the music deals with alien worlds, mysteries, and surrealistic dreams. Her concerts are a strange blend of music, storytelling, poetry, and theater. The audience is left feeling like they are in a vivid dream or have traveled to outer space. dj. flugvél og geimskip has released three full length albums. Two of her albums won the Icelandic Kraumur Music Awards, her album Our Atlantis was nominated as the best electronic album of 2019 at the Icelandic Music Awards and her album Nótt á hafsbotni was nominated as the Best Pop Album at the Icelandic Music Awards 2015 and received raving reviews from both Uncut and The Arts Desk amongst others.

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“Playful, genuinely quirky and essentially Icelandic electronic pop.”

-Uncut review of Nótt á hafsbotni 8/10

“…the album’s texture is unconventionally abrupt and irrational.”

-Line of Best Fit review of Nótt á hafsbotni 9/10

“Nótt á hafsbotni would be a wonderfully weird trip to an alien world in any language. In the sing-song lilt of unalloyed Icelandic, it’s sensational.”
-The Arts Desk

Bicnic

“Incredibly special, like a solo Animal Collective”.

-Les Inrocks

“It’s mystical, mischievous and entirely marvellous.” -Clash

“Her vocal register seem to suggest some kind of Middle-Eastern musical influence, the electronics some oddball J-pop influence, and the project as a whole suggests she’s possibly picking up some kind of outer-space influence. Memorable.”
-The 405

It’s rare for a piece of art to take you to the places of impotence and weariness that Nott a Hafsbotni does – and that’s a perfect reason to listen.
-Line of Best Fit review of Nótt á hafsbotni 9/10

“Despite being made up of a plethora of warm transients and analogue instrumentation, the album’s texture is unconventionally abrupt and irrational. After establishing tension, “Draugalestin” doesn’t exactly explode but rather writhes and wriggles, never allowing the listener to digest its nuances. “

-Line of Best Fit review 9/10

“Utterly charming and hugely entertaining, she could have taught The Knife a thing or two about staging and The Flaming Lips that spectacle can also work on an intimate scale.”
-The Arts Desk

“Sometimes an artist’s recorded output cannot adequately prepare you for the experience of seeing them live, and Iceland’s dj. flugvél og geimskip is the perfect example. She bounces onto the stage looking like a cross between Lauren Mayberry and Björk, her pile of synths decorated with gold streamers and topped off with a color-changing disco-ball-light-thing. What follows almost feels like a piece of performance art – dj. flugvél taking on the role of a bizarre storyteller, spinning wonky electronica into tales of evil cats, deals with the devil, spaceships, being cloned by aliens and I swear to God I’m not making this up. She’s quite clearly in a world of her own, but dj. flugvél og geimskip is very accommodating of visitors, so you might as well stay a while.” -Drowned in Sound

“…Absolute star dj. flugvél og geimskip is the musical equivalent of eating a box of the most sugary cereal, and the toy inside, and letting your senses spin wildly out of control. There is no higher compliment in my pop universe.”
-London in stereo

“…dj. flugvél og geimskip seems to have been put on this earth to bring a smile to human faces. Her surreal world is full of encounters with strange creatures, this time including taking the

audience to visit “a dog who lives in a trash can in India, and is so drunk that tonight he’s going to tell us his secrets.”
-Reykjavík Grapevine

Our Atlantis nominated as the best electronic album at the Icelandic Music Awards 2019
Nótt á hafsbotni makes the Line of Best Fit Fifty Essential Albums of 2016 list
Nótt á hafsbotni is Line of Best Fit’s 6th highly rated album in 2015
Nótt á hafsbotni nominated as Best Pop Album at the Icelandic Music Awards 2015
Dj. flugvél og geimskip nominated as Best Live Performer at the Icelandic Music Awards 2015
Nótt á hafsbotni won the Kraumur Awards 2015
Nótt á hafbotni makes the list of 2015’s best albums in both Fréttablaðið and Fréttatíminn (Icelandic newspapers)
Glamúr í geimnum won the Kraumur Awards 2013
The video for the song Glamúr í geimnum from the album Glamúr í geimnum nominated as Best Video at the Icelandic Music Awards 2013

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