Munich duo and live act KIDSØ play music that you want to hear and feel at the same time. It is what could perhaps best be described as danceable melancholy.
Or, as Moritz Graßinger (analogue synths, piano, percussions) and Martin Schneider (drums, e-percussions, video installation), sometimes say with a smile: “electronic music for people who otherwise don’t listen to electronic music that often”. Both somehow hit the mark. And somehow also not, or only insufficiently. Because what the two of them produce as KIDSØ can hardly be squeezed into style pigeonholes or pinned down by euphonious adjectives. It is electronic music at its core, that’s for sure.
But not the finger-in-the-air-let-us-rub-against-each-other-in-the-Berghain electronic, but rather what Jon Hopkins produces when he has eaten the right mushrooms. With the difference that KIDSØ record this sound predominantly analogue and organic.
After the already very successful EP Apart (2018) and strong singles like Father, Childhood and Hologram, their debut album Fir will be released in March 2022 on the new Embassy of Music sub-label esc/ctrl.
KIDSØ recorded and produced their album in their own studio in their hometown of Munich, and it was mastered by Robin Schmidt, who has worked for HVOB, Fritz Kalkbrenner and Mumford and Sons, to name a few.
The title of the album ‘Fir’ is based on the song of the same name. For Martin Schneider, a perfect choice, because “the song shows that we don’t just make music for the living room, but also have this drive that works in the club or at a concert. ‘Fir’ as both a song and as an album carries both parts.” Moritz Graßinger explains. “We both get bored when techno or electro always falls back on the same sounds and strings them together in a new way. That’s why we’re looking for sounds, but also vocal samples for our songs that you haven’t heard a thousand times before.”
