Martinou - Light (from within) @Barnhus

Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago

Swedish artist Martinou crafts deeply immersive electronic music, seamlessly balancing weight and delicacy. His productions oscillate between hypnotic intensity and introspective warmth, always evoking a visceral response on the dancefloor.

After releasing on acclaimed labels like Nous’klaer, Turbo Recordings, and Mule Musiq, the Malmö-based producer now makes his long-awaited debut on Stockholm’s Studio Barnhus. His Linked EP showcases six meticulously layered compositions, where intricate rhythms intertwine with luminous melodies – ethereal synths drifting in and out of the grooves, shaping an atmosphere that’s both expansive and deeply personal.

With Linked, Martinou further refines his signature approach, crafting music that feels at once free-flowing and deliberate. It’s a record that invites deep listening yet remains primed for the floor – a testament to the Malmö maestro's knack for blurring the lines between club functionality and sonic storytelling.

$Matt Karmil - No Going Back (Studio Barnhus) ffm.to/no-going-back Following a four-year hiatus from solo releases, the British musician Matt Karmil returns with the soft-focus gentle beauty and subtly stealthy beats of new LP, No Going Back. With inspired moments of creation happening incrementally, the album came together amidst a busy mixing/mastering/co-production schedule – the list of artists who’ve enlisted his multiple skills including Underworld, Bicep, Mall Grab, Jayda G, DJ Koze and Neneh Cherry. On the process behind his new work, Karmil comments: “After releasing my previous album, my feeling for making my own music was fractured, so I concentrated on working with other artists, grabbing precious moments to create only when compelled to do so, out of pure feeling. A few years later these moments of personal expression were starting to add up, and I gained the confidence to play them to some of my most trusted confidants – among them Rick Smith of Underworld and Axel Boman – getting such a positive response that I started thinking about bringing them to a wider audience.” Feeling the benefits of this new approach, No Going Back is the strongest expression of Matts artistic vision to date, honing the spectrum of styles for which he’s renowned, all smudged together by a warm, gauzy haze. Microhouse anthem SFP is followed by the broken tech science of No Going Back’ the spectral dub techno spookiness of Old Haunts and the sublime misty shimmer of The Last Time. Further switching things up is the oddball dancefloor experimentalism of Still Something There, the washed-out electroid balm of Things Really Happen, and the epic dark ambient closer 15 Mins. Born near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, Matt Karmil was a classical guitar child prodigy and an early record collector. His adolescence was spent DJing and working as a studio engineer in London, Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, all while honing his craft as a recording artist himself. In 2014, Karmil released the album - - - -, an acclaimed debut that blended dusty samples and tape effects with irresistible grooves, all framed within a striking minimalist aesthetic. In the same year he released the jubilant club anthem So You Say on Beats In Space Records. After this breakthrough, a steady flow of album and EP releases followed, on labels including Smalltown Supersound, Idle Hands, AUS and Studio Barnhus. Concurrently, Matts studio engineer work has flourished. Experience from his formative years spent working in some of the worlds most discerning recording studios, combined with a rare and precise musical intuition, has led to regular mixing, mastering and co-production work behind the scenes, with an array of renowned artists reaching out to Karmil in times of sonic need.$

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$ARN4L2 - VALE MIA ffm.to/tierra-bomba Studio Barnhus presents ARN4L2, a producer from Cartagena, who debuts on the Stockholm label with the striking EP TIERRA BOMBA, a record built from the fractured memory of an island in the Colombian Caribbean, understood as a surface in motion. The project draws on tools present in the early development of the Champeta genre – the Yamaha RY30 drum machine, the Yamaha DD-14 drum pad, and the Pyramid mixer – alongside percussive gestures and guitars characteristic of the style. On songs like the effortlessly bouncy title track and the gaita-laced curveball BULLA, featuring the characteristic melodic flute of the region, ARN4L2’s instinct for propulsion and detail comes into focus, while vocal tracks like the energetic closer LA ÑAPA integrate the artist’s voice as texture, without hierarchy or center. TIERRA BOMBA becomes a point of convergence, where technology, sonic practices, and fragments of local popular culture meet in the present tense. Released through Studio Barnhus on 12 vinyl and all digital platforms on March 13. Text written by Edna Martinez$