The Bells, by Kornél Kovács

The Bells

by Kornél Kovács

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1.	Szikra Intro 01:37	buy track
2.	BB 06:32	buy track
3.	Dollar Club 06:05	buy track
4.	Gex 02:44	buy track
5.	Josey's Tune 04:44	buy track
6.	Dance... While The Record Spins 05:25	buy track
7.	Szív Utca 05:44	buy track
8.	The Bells 06:44	buy track
9.	Pop 06:26	buy track
10.	Urszusz 05:14	buy track

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For the past seven years Kornél Kovács has been busy rocking dancefloors and boomboxes worldwide as one third of Stockholm’s Studio Barnhus alongside Axel Boman and Petter Nordkvist. The label and DJ trio is spearheading a new era of fearless Swedish off-centre dance music, straddling the line between the cute and the menacing.

Anticipation for Kovács' debut album has been rocketing following stand out releases like 2014's wistful Szikra, last year’s mad party anthem Pantalón on Glasgow's Numbers imprint and the late night groove of Space Jam on Smallville Records.

On The Bells, Kovács pops open his trunk full of sounds nicked from the lost and found bins of nightclubs all over the world. From the distorted organ chords of BB to the stripped down trancehall beats of Josey’s Tune and Szív Utca and the title track's cinematic romanticism, it's all of the bells and all of the whistles - further positioning Kovács as one of the most characteristic producers of modern house music.

The record was completed in an intense two-week session with Kovács' great friend and studio engineer Matt Karmil in the winter of 2016. Another close friend, artist Malin Gabriella Nordin, has created the album artwork together with her brother Jonas.

Prompted directly by Kovács to give his report on the record, Studio Barnhus label boss Axel Boman had the following to say:

Kornél's bells will echo far beyond the nervous and trend sensitive ”dance" genre that our label sometimes is associated with, and into pop history. It’s one of our best, most innovative and creative releases to date, and the fact that one of my best friends has managed to do this on the label we share together makes me so proud that I want to cry. ”The Bells” is the reason I dreamed of starting a label in the first place.

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released January 29, 2017

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Kornél Kovács is a DJ and producer from Stockholm, Sweden. He is a co-founder of the label Studio Barnhus.

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