A little over a month ago we initiated a little artwork project together with fellow Dane and artist Trentemøller. The project was based around a remix swop – Trentemøller has remixed our song Raincoats and we have remixed his song Tide.

Back then, a month ago, we invited anyone to suggest the artwork for this joint release and to our joy a stream of submissions followed. There were so many good ones! You can see all of them on this designated Flickr page.

It was not easy picking a winner with so many great submissions, but it had to be done of course. Together with Trentemøller we have selected 13 artworks that all will be featured in the booklet for the digital version of this release. You can also watch some of our favorites in this post below.

The release is available on iTunes now. We hope you like the two remixes and the many fine artwork submissions.

Efterklang & Trentemøler – Raincoats vs Tide – on iTunes

Artwork by Felix Schellekens

Artwork by Frederik Johan Scheel

Artwork by Sophia Zagloul

You can also listen to the remixes right here:
Trentemøller – Tide (Efterklang Remix)

Efterklang – Raincoats (Trentemøller Remix)

We have remixed fellow Dane Trentemøller’s song Tide and he has made a killer remix of our song Raincoats. Together with Filter Magazine we are now hosting an artwork contest. You have the chance to create the official artwork for the digital release of this remix swop. Please give it a go! You can listen to the remixes and read about the artwork contest rules right here.

Efterklang – Raincoats (Trentemøller Remix)

Trentemøller – Tide (Efterklang Remix)

Trentemøller and Efterklang will pick the winner and as we have remixed each others music the challenge is to remix the artwork worlds of Trentemøller and Efterklang into something new. We would like to stress however that remix is to be understood loosely. All contesters are encouraged to create exactly the artwork they feel like, but it would be fun if the submissions are inspired by the artwork worlds of Efterklang and Trentemøller.

The contest aims at painters, photographers, graphic designers and visual artists in the widest sense, both young and old and established and non-established artists.

Contest Submission Guidelines:
1) Listen to the two remixes

2) Please email your image to atsn@senmail.de. Your submitted file should be a jpeg at 1200 x 1200 pixel size and 72dpi resolution. Filesizes exceeding 1MB will be rejected. Submission deadline: 05th August 2011. Submissions will be posted here as they come in: Flickr

3) Efterklang and Trentemøller will pick the winner(s) and the winning artwork will become the official cover of the release. The 10 best pieces of artwork will also be featured and credited in the official iTunes release‘s digital booklet.

Further prizes include Efterklang‘s „An Island“-DVD, Trentemøller‘s „Into The Great Wide Yonder“ limited edition and merchandise from both bands.

We hope you had a fantastic 2010 and we hope your 2011 will be even better!

To celebrate the new year we are hereby giving you a new free remix of Raincoats made by Kasper Winding and also a video featuring the (almost) original version of Raincoats and footage from the Danish web series Robin Färdig by Danish director Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen.

Listen to Raincoats (Kasper Winding Remix)

Download Raincoats (Kasper Winding Remix) here. We suggest that you add this remix to the playlist for your party tonight!

Raincoats + Robin Färdig Video

The entire Robin Färdig web series can be watched at dr.dk/pirattv. Raincoats is the theme song for the series and the Raincoats video gives you a glimpse of the Robin Färdig world. Currently there is no international version of the series but if you understand Danish we recommend the series – it is fun and brings back memories of the troubled times in high school.

Before we say goodbye we want to give you these four recommendations of some of our favorite albums released in 2010.
Casper liked Murder – Gospel of Man a lot
Thomas liked M.I.A – Maya a lot
Rasmus liked Clogs – The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton a lot
Mads liked Owen Pallett – Heartland a lot

Have lots of FUN tonight and take care of each other and the rockets.
Thanks for another great year!

Mads, Casper, Thomas & Rasmus

Today September 7th we start our 4th North American Tour in Montreal, Canada. We really look forward to this tour. 21 concerts await before it all ends in New York in a month on October 2nd. New American band Buke And Gass will support us on the entire tour and we look forward to get to know them – we already love their music!

We will be touring as a 7-piece. It will be the four of us and then Heather Broderick on piano, Peter Broderick on violin + more and Daniel James of Canon Blue on guitar. We are thrilled to welcome back both Peter and Daniel to the live band. It´s been a while since we had the pleasure of playing with them.

To celebrate the beginning of the tour we are giving away a free REMIX MP3. It is a remix of Alike made by Opiate aka Thomas Knak. We love all his work and we love this remix! Take a listen!

Alike (Opiate Remix) (click to Download)

For a full list of concerts and ticket links please visit:
www.efterklang.net/home/concerts

More free remixes to offer! And this time also a nice video to celebrate summer and this new remix swap. Oh No Ono is a superb band and we were happy not only to do a remix swap but also to jump in the cold Danish water with them!

The remix they have made for Modern Drift was done in their tour bus in one day on a drive from Cologne to Paris! We copied that idea, but it took us many many kilometers before we nailed our remix of their Icicles song.

For Oh No Ono’s remix of ‘Modern Drift’:

CLICK to DOWNLOAD

For Efterklang’s remix of ‘Icicles’:

Click to DOWNLOAD

The video was filmed by Kristian Sidelmann and by Andreas Munksgaard who also did the editing.

Icicles is from Oh No Ono’s latest and great album Eggs. You can visit the band at www.ohnoono.com

Efter Weekend maybe?

In our recent newsletter we promised you that we would air a lot of new remixes soon. Today is first day of soon! Efterklang & Turboweekend are two very different bands, but we also have a lot of things in common. We both hail from Copenhagen, we both work closely with Hvass&Hannibal and Morten and Rasmus are even squash buddies!

Recently we have been working on a remix swap with Turboweekend and today we are ready to present these remixes for you. They are both available for free download. Enjoy!

Turboweekend remix of Efterklang’s song Full Moon

Download: Full Moon (Turboweekend Remix)
you can listen to the original on www.efterklang.net and on our Magic Chairs album of course…

Efterklang remix of of Turboweekend’s song Sweet Jezebel

Download: Sweet Jezebel (Efterklang Remix)
you can listen to the original on www.turboweekend.com and on their Ghost of a Chance album

This is only the second official Efterklang remix ever! The first one we did was for Grizzly Bear back in 2005. The last artist to remix Turboweekend was DJ/rock star Tiësto -and yes we also follow him on Twitter and are intrigued by this DJ phenomena! It feels good to be the follow up to a Tiësto remix! hehe

Caravan our new single is available digitally @
iTunes – emusic

The digital version holds 4 tracks
01 Caravan
02 The Romance on Mammoth Hill
03 Caravan (Max de Wardener Remix)
04 Mirador (Vincent Oliver Remix)

The single is also out as a limited 7 inch vinyl. It’s available on posteverything.com

Please have a look at the video directed by Anders Morgenthaler!! It is produced by CopenhagenBombay and we owe great thanks to everybody who was involved!

watch a 35MB quicktime in good quality here: Caravan as quicktime movie

we have some new downloads to share with you!

First one is hosted by the Drowned in Sound run blog at Rcrdlbl.com. It is a remix of Cutting Ice To Snow the album closer of Parades and it is made by Hulk from Ireland – an artist we enjoy and admire very much.

Download Cutting Ice To Snow (Hulk Remix) via Rcrdlbl.com.

Next one is a full 4 track EP by our Rumraket friend Canon Blue. We recommend this highly and as a little bonus info we can let you know that Mads from Efterklang did the mastering of this new EP. It downoads as a zip-file and the MP3s are high quality and artwork comes along with the download as well.

Download Halcyon EP by Canon Blue via Rumraket.com