Anton Kling - Interview

Anton Kling

Interview by
Riley Reinhold

Just recently moved to Malmo Anton Kling has been creating ambient music in the past. Born 1992 in Sweden, electronic music and music production has always been a big part of his life. He writes house music that tends to be melodic, progressive and organic with a lo-fi touch. His sound is ambient, spacey, atmospheric and sometimes a bit psychedelic with a lot of different types of percussions. He enjoys listening to music from pretty much every music genre so he is not influenced by any particular music.

His most popular track in the past was the track: 'Mareld'.

His "HANK" ep on TRAUM is definately the most minimal release TRAUM has released since it early days with Fairmont, Dinky, Gustavo Lames, Broker/Dealer and Process featuring a deep more relaxed, less high tech version on a big scale. The track shows sign of a humble sincere style, which is very focussed. Commenting on that he said:

When I make music I don't think about what I want to create, I just do and it'll become whatever, sometimes it's ambient, sometimes it's house and most of the time I don't know what it is. I will make more ambient music in the future so I wouldn't say that I'm done with that. My ambient music had a lot of house influences as well so the transition wasn't that big. I love to combine ambient, house, minimal and dirty/gritty sounds.

His "HANK" EP was motivated and dedicated to his friend who died of bipolar disorder. The story of the EP is about his friend, his bipolar disorder, and his love for him.

"When people you know die, you get a lot of perspective on life. I know that he always wanted me to make music so this EP about him just came natural. All the tracks were made in a very short timespan. The process was just so natural and I knew right away that these tracks were for and about him."

The soundscape of the EP is dirty and grimy but still atmospheric and melodic. As he said: "I wanted it to sound rough and smooth at the same time, almost like it has two sides, like bipolar disorder". His EP is meant to be listened to from the start to the end, likely with no skipping or fast forward through the tracks. With the fine details in his minimal set up every detail pops out more then you would expect. The cover drawing was done by his friend but the eyes were made black afterwards.

Anton Kling

Hank

Traum V257

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