TOBIAS BERNSTRUP Vinilo y CD

Review: Tobias Bernstrup is a contemporary musician and video artist born 1970 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He received an MFA from Royal College University of Fine Arts Stockholm in 1998. Using the visual language of pop culture, video games, sci-fi, classicism and gothic noir, he has created a stage persona with notorious live performances. Dressed in elaborate costumes of skin-tight rubber suits and fetish gear, Tobias' external appearance is androgynous. He raises questions about representation of identity, the body and physical space in both virtual and non-virtual realities. Between 1997 and 1998 he self-released two limited CD-R EPs. In 2002 his debut album 'Re-Animate Me' was released by Tonight Records followed by two limited 12" singles for the song "27" and the Italian version "Ventisette".

Review: Gothenburg's Tobias Bernstrup returns with his fifth album and it's a follow up to 2011's Sing My Body Electric. The dude is back with some more of his signature sound, a truly singular approach which spans across vast musical landscapes, from coldwave to techno and peppered in its own particular air of nostalgia. This collaboration between the Enfant Terrible and Gooiland Elektro imprints is the sort of club music for the headphone dweller, one which will get bodies moving on the floor but still contains enough pop sensibility to be enjoyed in other, less intense environments. Check "Revolution" in particular, you'll be humming its groove in no time...

Review: Hot on the heels of the updated DAF stylings of that Schwefelgelb 12", Enfant Terrible / Gooiland Elektro demonstrate the breadth of their output with this plate from Tobias Bernstrup. A decorated contemporary artist from Gothenburg, Bernstrup is one of those annoyingly talented individuals who works across visual, interactive, performance art and electronic music mediums and if there's a new wave of Italo Disco he's definitely amongst the top 5%. The Destruction EP is classic Bernstrup mixing elements of Italo with synth pop and at times it sounds like Bernard Sumner's been in the studio with Ali Renault. Dancefloor hits for the neo-romantics among us!