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Tapetown in the press

Tapetown Studio is a mixing, mastering and live-recording studio for indie and alternative music, founded in Aarhus, Denmark, in 2011 by producer and mixing engineer Rasmus Bredvig. Tapetown is an Aarhus-based studio: mixing in Aarhus, recording on Djursland while a new studio at Friland is built (opening 2027). Its Tapetown Sessions, recorded fully live with no overdubs, have featured Iceage, The Murder Capital, Moaning, Ulrika Spacek and Elias Rønnenfelt, and its records and sessions have been covered by MusicTech, Drowned in Sound, Clash, Stereogum, AllMusic, The Quietus and GFR, among others. This page collects that coverage, with a link to every original article.

Since 2013, Tapetown’s sessions, records and studio have been covered by more than 120 independent music publications in 19 countries, from Clash, Stereogum, The Quietus and Drowned in Sound to GAFFA, GFR and Destroy//Exist.

På dansk: Tapetown Studio er et lydstudie i Aarhus for indie og alternativ musik – indspilning, mix og mastering – grundlagt i 2011 af producer og mixer Rasmus Bredvig. Tapetown er et Aarhus-baseret studie: mix i Aarhus, indspilning på Djursland, mens et nyt studie på Friland bliver bygget (åbner i 2027). Tapetown Sessions er livesessions uden overdubs med bl.a. Iceage, The Murder Capital og Elias Rønnenfelt, og studiet er skrevet om i bl.a. GFR, HQ og Selvtægt. Siden 2013 har mere end 120 uafhængige musikmedier i 19 lande skrevet om Tapetowns sessions, plader og studie.

What critics have said

“Recorded by Rasmus Bredvig (aka "The Sound of Aarhus") at the city's TapeTown studio”
— Drowned in Sound, in Some Velvet Mixtape: 2018 In Reverb, Delay, Distortion & Drone #1, 2018

“In Dänemark nimmt diese Benchmark TAPETOWN ein.”
(in English: “In Denmark, that benchmark is TAPETOWN.”)
— We love that Sound, in Ulrika Spacek - Mimi Pretend (Live at Tapetown), 2017

“the studio becoming an institution and part of a larger music community”
— MusicTech, in Studio Interviews: Tapetown Studio, 2018

“Bredvig nails it with a complimentary aggressive production and studio sound.”
— Sound of Aarhus, in Review: Shocking White – 'Ghosting' (Tapetown Records), 2017

“Producer Rasmus Bredvig has shown some serious skill in capturing their scuzzy, garage rock sound”
— Bring the Noise UK, in EP REVIEW: John Alcabean – Real Time Fiction, 2016

Tapetown Sessions in the press

Each page lists every publication that covered the session, with links to the original articles.

Records in the press

Features and interviews

Studio Interviews: Tapetown Studio
MusicTech, 2018-06-19
MusicTech studio feature in which owner and head producer Rasmus Bredvig describes Tapetown as a studio dedicated to alternative rock within the Lydhavnen community in Aarhus, including its equipment and approach.

How Tapetown Studio is Promoting Emerging Musicians in Aarhus
Scandinavia Standard, by Douglas Whitbread, 2018-10-18
Profile of Rasmus Bredvig's path to running Tapetown in Lydhavnen, the Live at Tapetown session series, and the studio's role in Aarhus's music community.

Musik eller ingenting – Historien om Tapetown
GFR, by Jonas Strandholdt Bach, 2016-11-10
In-depth Danish studio-visit interview on the history of Tapetown and Rasmus Bredvig: an Aarhus studio within the Lydhavnen collective that works only with alternative genres.

"Musik med sjæl og nerve" – Et besøg hos Tapetown i Aarhus
MUSIKBLOGGER.DK, 2017-01-03 (archived copy)
Danish studio-visit interview (December 2016) in which Rasmus Bredvig explains Tapetown's focus on raw alternative rock recorded live without a click track, and his roles in Lydhavnen.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ RASMUS FROM TAPETOWN
High Five For…, 2019-07-19
Q&A in which Rasmus Bredvig shares five personal recommendations; the introduction presents Tapetown as an Aarhus studio known for a steady run of live video sessions.

Selected session coverage

Watch The Murder Capital perform For Everything live in Tapetown Studio, Denmark
GoldenPlec, by Danny Kilmartin, 2020-02-25
News post on The Murder Capital's Tapetown Session of "For Everything", describing Tapetown as an alternative-music studio whose sessions Rasmus Bredvig records and mixes on multitrack.

[Video]: The Murder Capital – "For Everything" [Tapetown Sessions]
Son of Marketing, by Nicola Orlandino, 2020-02-21
Post sharing The Murder Capital's Tapetown Sessions video and describing Tapetown in Lydhavnen, Aarhus, as a studio for alternative music where Rasmus Bredvig records and mixes the sessions.

D//E Premiere: Moaning: Artificial // Live at Tapetown
Destroy//Exist, by ZR, 2018-09-07
Premiere of Sub Pop band Moaning performing "Artificial", recorded at Tapetown in Aarhus on 24 August 2018 during their European tour, praising how faithfully the session captures their sound.

Premiere: Les Big Byrd – 'A Little More Numb'
Clash Magazine, by Robin Murray, 2019-01-02
Clash premieres Les Big Byrd's live session of "A Little More Numb", recorded at Tapetown Studio in Aarhus before a Danish show.

Live at Tapetown: 'ONBC' perform 'Copenhagen'
Nordic Music Review, by Andy Worsey, 2018-07-23
UK Nordic music blog calls ONBC's SPOT Festival performance at Tapetown stunning and the Tapetown sessions series consistently excellent.

ONBC - Copenhagen (Live at Tapetown)
We love that Sound, 2018-07-16
Short German post on ONBC's "Copenhagen" session at Tapetown, praising both the performance and the recording.

Ulrika Spacek - Mimi Pretend (Live at Tapetown)
We love that Sound, 2017-11-09
German premiere of Ulrika Spacek's "Mimi Pretend" session that names Tapetown in Aarhus as Denmark's benchmark for indie music sessions.

Tapetown Studios Drops Epic Live Session With Heathe
welovelo-fi, by Bobby McBride, 2019-09-16
Write-up of Heathe's Tapetown Session that praises the consistent quality of Tapetown's live sessions and its sound for alternative music.

Elias Rønnenfelt à nu dans « Live at Musikhuset »
Extravafrench, 2026-01-25
French review of Elias Rønnenfelt's "Live at Musikhuset" that gives Tapetown's recording of the concert a decisive role in its raw, unpolished realism.

Tapetown live-session: The Entrepreneurs
HQ music, by Kristoffer Veirum, 2019-05-09
Danish article on The Entrepreneurs' Live at Tapetown session from SPOT 2019 that calls Tapetown Aarhus's home for noisy alternative rock and quotes Rasmus Bredvig on the band's raw sound.

Premiere: HIRAKI Tapetown Session
Selvtægt, by Tobias Holst, 2023-09-08
Danish premiere of HIRAKI's Tapetown Session, recorded live with an audience at SPOT Festival 2023, highlighting Tapetown's attention to sound quality and all-live approach, with a comment from Rasmus Bredvig.

25 years of SPOT Festival: DiS Picks Its Best 11
Drowned in Sound, by Dom Gourlay, 2019-05-21
Drowned in Sound's SPOT Festival 2019 round-up singles out Dark Times' and Mankind's Tapetown session sets at Lydhavnen among the festival's best moments.

Pacific Swell "Clean Gypsies" Videopremiere
Soundkartell, by Niklas Kolell, 2017-01-03
German post on Pacific Swell's "Clean Gypsies" live single recorded through Tapetown, praising its dirty, washed-out sound.

Selected record reviews

Abdomen – "Yes, I Don't Know"
Stereogum, by Tom Breihan, 2024-10-24
Stereogum new-track post on Abdomen's "Yes, I Don't Know", noting the album was recorded in Denmark with producer Rasmus Bredvig.

Abdomen Biography
AllMusic, by John D. Buchanan
AllMusic's Abdomen biography says the band made their second album Yes, I Don't Know with producer Rasmus Bredvig at Tapetown in Aarhus and radically reshaped their sound there.

Video van de Week: Abdomen keert terug met dikke Krautrocker
NMTH, by Ingmar, 2024-08-30
Dutch premiere of Abdomen's "Dazed" video, announcing the album Yes, I Don't Know (FatCat), recorded with producer and guitarist Rasmus Bredvig at his Tapetown studio in Aarhus.

Some Velvet Mixtape: 2018 In Reverb, Delay, Distortion & Drone #1
Drowned in Sound, by Dom Gourlay, 2018-06-05
Drowned in Sound picks Catch the Breeze's debut album Glow among its favourite shoegaze records of 2018 so far, noting it was recorded by Rasmus Bredvig at Tapetown.

The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far Chart 2022
The Quietus, by Richard Foster, 2022-07-04
The Quietus ranks SOON's self-titled album #74 in its mid-2022 albums of the year list, praising its intense, committed sound. Rasmus Bredvig recorded the album at Tapetown.

Flowers: Doom City
Destroy//Exist, by Rouble Rust, 2019-10-07
Review praising FLOWERS' debut album Doom City for its gritty stoner and noise-rock sound, stating it was recorded and mixed by Rasmus Bredvig at Tapetown and mastered by Emil Thomsen.

Review: Shocking White – 'Ghosting' (Tapetown Records)
Sound of Aarhus, by Bobby McBride, 2017-03-27 (archived copy)
Review of Shocking White's album Ghosting (4.5/6) that credits Rasmus Bredvig's aggressive production and studio sound at Tapetown.

EP REVIEW: John Alcabean – Real Time Fiction
Bring the Noise UK, by Josh Prentice, 2016-10-03
Gives John Alcabean's debut EP Real Time Fiction 8/10 and credits producer Rasmus Bredvig with capturing the band's raw garage-rock sound without polishing it away.

WPGM Recommends: John Alcabean – Real Time Fiction (EP Review)
We Plug Good Music, by Andrew Watson, 2016-09-14
Track-by-track review recommending John Alcabean's Real Time Fiction EP, noting it was recorded at Tapetown in Aarhus with Rasmus Bredvig.

New Video: Introducing the Trippy Visuals and The Jesus and Mary Chain-Inspired Sounds of Aarhus, Denmark's Love Talk
The Joy of Violent Movement, by William Ruben Helms, 2017-03-17
US feature on Love Talk's single "Fire", improvised on tape at Tapetown with Rasmus Bredvig, who then mixed it.

Lukas Vanggaard: Håndspillede Hits (EP) ★★★★☆☆
GFR, by Ken Thomsen, 2020-06-10
Danish 4/6 review of Lukas Vanggaard's EP Håndspillede Hits, noting that the songs began as smartphone recordings that Rasmus Bredvig of Tapetown then mixed.

Also covered

For press

Photos, bios and full session credits: Tapetown Session credits and About. Contact: iwantanswers@tapetownstudio.com

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