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The Murder Capital recording their Tapetown Session "For Everything" at Tapetown Studio in Aarhus

Ten Years of Tapetown Sessions (2016–2026)

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Tapetown Studio is a mixing, mastering and live recording studio in Aarhus, Denmark, founded in 2011 by Rasmus Bredvig. Since 2016 we have made the Tapetown Sessions, which are recorded fully live, with no overdubs. Ten years on, our session credits list 75 sessions with 56 artists. They run from Ulrika Spacek, Iceage, The Murder Capital and Mikal Cronin to Elias Rønnenfelt, shinyhunt and four sessions we recorded for KEXP. Tapetown has studios in Aarhus and on Djursland, Denmark.

Here are the ten years, era by era. Every credit, with a link to each video, is in Tapetown Session Credits; the videos are on our YouTube channel. Years are the years the videos came out.

At a glance

  • We recorded and mixed 50 of the sessions in our studios at Lydhavnen in Aarhus and 11 on location. The other 14 were recorded by other engineers and mixed by us.

  • Four are KEXP sessions, recorded and mixed on location at Dypång in Aarhus during SPOT Festival 2022.

  • Our YouTube channel, started in July 2016, has passed 3.7 million views.

  • Elias Rønnenfelt's "Live at Musikhuset" (2025) has passed 340,000 views, and his two solo sessions together more than 440,000.

  • Most sessions were mastered by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering.

The ten most-watched sessions

Views on our YouTube channel on 21 October 2026:

  1. Elias Rønnenfelt, "Live at Musikhuset" (2025): 348,280

  2. The Murder Capital, "For Everything" (2020): 316,672

  3. Pale Honey, "The Heaviest of Storms" (2017): 223,480

  4. shinyhunt, "city of no one" (2026): 195,974, in its first six months

  5. Ulrika Spacek, "Everything, All the Time" (2017): 182,634

  6. Collider, "Glockster" (2018): 127,278

  7. Iceage, seven-song set (2021): 121,772

  8. Heathe, "On the Tombstones; The Symbols Engraved pt. 2" (2019): 103,795

  9. Hater, "Blushing" (2018): 96,226

  10. Elias Rønnenfelt, SPOT Festival 2024 session (2024): 95,861

The four KEXP sessions are on KEXP's own channel and are not counted here.

2016: Tapetown Live Singles

The series started in 2016 as Tapetown Live Singles, with SANT ("Indimellem") and Tin Can Telescope ("Verge & Virtues"). Both were recorded in our studios at Lydhavnen, the studio community in Aarhus that Rasmus Bredvig started in 2012 with Emil Thomsen, Anders Boll, Magnus Vad, Carsten Heller, Jacob Erland and others. Rasmus Bredvig recorded and mixed SANT's session. Pacific Swell's "Clean Gypsies" followed as a Tapetown Live Single in January 2017. The live-single idea didn't stick with people. When the new studio is built, we may try some new formats next to the live sessions.

2017–2018: Live at Tapetown, at Lydhavnen

The first live session in the form we still use was Blood Child's, recorded at Tapetown during SPOT Festival 2017 and released shortly after. Boundaries recorded one at the same festival. In these years we called the series Live at Tapetown, and some credits say Tapetown Session; on YouTube they are all titled Tapetown Sessions today. Recorded at Lydhavnen; recording and mix by Rasmus Bredvig unless noted:

  • Ulrika Spacek: "Mimi Pretend" and "Everything, All the Time" (2017)

  • Pale Honey: "The Heaviest of Storms" and "Get These Things Out of My Head" (2017)

  • The Telescopes: "You Can't Reach What You Hunger" and "Something in My Brain" (2017)

  • The Fresh & Onlys: "Wolf Lie Down" (2017)

  • Dead Vibrations: "Reflections" and "Chemical Hug" (2017)

  • Peter Sommer & Tiggerne: "Sand Kærlighedshistorie" (2017)

  • Moaning: "Artificial" (2018), recorded on 24 August 2018 during the band's European tour (Destroy//Exist premiered it)

  • Baby in Vain: "One Feather" and "I Have Your Eyes" (2018), recorded and mixed by Anders Boll and Rasmus Bredvig

  • Hater: "Blushing" (2018)

At SPOT Festival 2018 we hosted two label specials at Lydhavnen: Crunchy Frog with ONBC ("Copenhagen") and Sista Bossen, and Escho with Collider ("Glockster"), all recorded and mixed by Anders Boll and Rasmus Bredvig.

In 2018 MusicTech ran a studio interview with Tapetown, and Scandinavia Standard profiled the studio and the Live at Tapetown series.

2019–2021: Tapetown Sessions

The series settled on the name it still has: Tapetown Sessions. Recorded at Lydhavnen; recording and mix by Rasmus Bredvig unless noted:

  • Les Big Byrd: "A Little More Numb" and "Geräusche" (2019). Clash premiered "A Little More Numb", recorded before a Danish show.

  • Mavourneen: "Bliss" and Dark Times: "Give" (2019), both from SPOT Festival 2019

  • Mint Field: "Ella Se Queda" and "Jardín de la Paz" (2019)

  • Dumb: "Content Jungle" (2019) and "My Condolences" (2020)

  • Heathe: "On the Tombstones; The Symbols Engraved pt. 2" (2019)

  • The Entrepreneurs: "Say So!" and "Sail Away" (2019)

  • MaidaVale: "Dark Clouds" (2019); Bull: "Eugene" (2019) and "Perfect Teeth" (2020)

  • Why Sun: "Traffic" and "Eastern Love" (2019), recorded at Tapetown and mixed by Rasmus Bredvig

  • Mikal Cronin: "I've Got Reason" (2020)

  • The Murder Capital: "For Everything" (2020), covered by 13 publications in six countries

  • Leizure: "Cherry Kisses" (2020); Joyce: "Tomme Ord" (2020)

  • Iceage: a seven-song set, from "Catch It" to "Gold City" (2021)

  • The Psychotic Monks: "Coherent Appearance / Jam" (2021)

Our first session recorded away from the studio also came out in 2021: Boundaries' "Erosion", recorded at To Øl City by Laurine Brugman and Rasmus Bredvig.

2022: on location, and KEXP at SPOT Festival

In May 2022 we recorded and mixed four KEXP sessions on location at Dypång in Aarhus during SPOT Festival: Rigmor, Brimheim, JJ Paulo and Jeuru. Jonna Aspeklev and Rasmus Bredvig recorded them, and Rasmus mixed them with Jonna assisting. They are on KEXP's YouTube channel. KEXP chose Tapetown for audiovisual production at SPOT Festival.

At the same festival, Christian Popp, Christian Askehave and Rasmus Bredvig recorded Sauna Senere ("Venter") and a live set by Joe & the Shitboys in Maritza-salen at FO-byen in Aarhus (both out in 2023). Sauna Senere's "Kødsovs" (2022) was recorded in a bowling alley, Kuglen & Keglen in Odder, by Christian Popp and Rasmus Bredvig.

Also from 2022: Why Sun's "Such a Meeting", recorded at Lydhavnen, and Bambara's "Mythic Love" and "Birds", recorded by Christian Alex Petersen at Grapehouse Studio in Copenhagen and mixed by Rasmus Bredvig.

2023–2026: SPOT Festival, concert halls and "Tapetown, on location"

We have recorded or mixed sessions from every SPOT Festival since 2022.

  • Lydhavnen, SPOT Festival 2023: Hiraki ("Common Coma", "The Idealist", "Wonderhunt", "The Alarmist", 2023), recorded live with an audience, and Mary Anne's Polar Rig ("The Way That I'm Feeling" and "Dopamine Detox", 2024). Recording: Christian Popp, Christian Askehave, Jonna Aspeklev and Rasmus Bredvig.

  • Aarhus Bowlinghal, SPOT Festival 2024 and 2025: Christian Popp and Christian Askehave recorded Elias Rønnenfelt ("Worm Grew a Spine", "Doomsday Childsplay", "River of Madelaine", 2024), Sauna Senere and Pære Banal (2025), and shinyhunt ("city of no one") and Nausia ("Golf Ball") (2026).

  • Musikhuset Aarhus: William Smith recorded Elias Rønnenfelt's "Live at Musikhuset" (2025) in the Great Hall at SPOT Festival 2025; Troels Holm and Rasmus Bredvig mixed it. Gary Payne recorded Angående Mig at GRIMFEST, also at Musikhuset (2024).

  • Other venues: Soaphorse at Frigjort Festival 2024 in Christiania (2025); deathcrash at Vera in Groningen, Netherlands, Patina at Train in Aarhus, A Good Year at Voxhall in Aarhus during SPOT Festival 2026, and Bænch at Engelsholm and RADAR (all 2026).

  • Tapetown, on location: Meejah x Hiraki ("All Contrast" and "Dead Calls", 2026), recorded by Troels Damgaard Holm and Tim Wöbke, and Kejser ("Paps Garage", 2026), recorded by Troels Holm and Tim Rosen.

After 11 years at Lydhavnen we moved on, to build something different. Tapetown still records. The mix studio is in central Aarhus; recording happens on Djursland, outside Aarhus; and our new 400 m² building at Friland opens in 2027 (studio build). Sessions happen wherever it makes sense: on location, at venues and in studios, in Denmark and abroad.

What "fully live, no overdubs" means

Every Tapetown session is recorded fully live, with no overdubs. In practice:

  • The band plays the song together, and that performance is the recording.

  • Nothing is added afterwards: no overdubbed parts, no re-sung vocals.

  • No default tuning, quantizing or cleanup. Imperfections that carry feeling stay in.

  • We mix from the room and audience mics outwards, with the bleed, the crowd and the dynamics left in.

  • The room is part of the sound, including rooms with difficult acoustics.

Who records and mixes them

Rasmus Bredvig, who founded Tapetown in 2011, recorded and mixed most of the sessions:

Tapetown Session "For Everything" (2020), recorded and mixed by Rasmus Bredvig at Tapetown in Aarhus.

The others in the credits:

  • Anders Boll recorded and mixed with Rasmus on Baby in Vain and the 2018 SPOT Festival label specials.

  • Christian Popp, Christian Askehave and Jonna Aspeklev recorded with Rasmus at SPOT Festival 2022 and 2023 (Jonna the KEXP sessions). Christian Popp and Christian Askehave recorded the Aarhus Bowlinghal sessions in 2024 and 2025.

  • Troels Damgaard Holm, our recording engineer (credited as Troels Holm on some sessions), recorded the 2026 on-location sessions and co-mixed Kejser, Nausia and this one:

"Live at Musikhuset" (2025), recorded by William Smith in the Great Hall of Musikhuset Aarhus at SPOT Festival 2025 and mixed by Troels Holm and Rasmus Bredvig.

  • Gustav Scheel, mixing and mastering engineer, mixed the 2026 sessions by shinyhunt, Nausia, Meejah x Hiraki, Patina, A Good Year, Bænch and deathcrash together with Rasmus:

Tapetown Sessions "All Contrast" and "Dead Calls" (2026), recorded on location by Troels Damgaard Holm and Tim Wöbke, and mixed by Rasmus Bredvig and Gustav Scheel.

  • Recorded by others, mixed by us: Christian Alex Petersen (Bambara), William Smith (Elias Rønnenfelt), Gary Payne (Angående Mig), Loppen (Soaphorse), Aske Wolfhagen and Mathias Thunbo (Patina), Rasmus Oxlund (A Good Year), Daniel Lund Hollesen (Bænch), Joeri Wassenaar and Kay Tjassing (deathcrash).

All 56 artists

Every artist with a Tapetown Session or a KEXP session recorded or mixed by us, 2016–2026: A Good Year, Angående Mig, Baby in Vain, Bambara, Blood Child, Boundaries, Brimheim, Bull, Bænch, Collider, Dark Times, David Nance, Dead Vibrations, Dumb, Elias Rønnenfelt, Hater, Heathe, Hiraki, Iceage, JJ Paulo, Jeuru, Joe & the Shitboys, Joyce, Kejser, Leizure, Les Big Byrd, MaidaVale, Mary Anne's Polar Rig, Mavourneen, Meejah x Hiraki, Mikal Cronin, Mint Field, Moaning, Nausia, ONBC, Pacific Swell, Pale Honey, Patina, Peter Sommer & Tiggerne, Pære Banal, Rigmor, SANT, Sauna Senere, Shocking White, Sista Bossen, Soaphorse, The Entrepreneurs, The Fresh & Onlys, The Murder Capital, The Psychotic Monks, The Telescopes, Tin Can Telescope, Ulrika Spacek, Why Sun, deathcrash and shinyhunt.

In the press

Since 2013, Tapetown's sessions, records and studio have been covered by more than 120 independent music publications in 19 countries. Every article is linked on Tapetown in the press.

"In Dänemark nimmt diese Benchmark TAPETOWN ein." (In English: "In Denmark, that benchmark is TAPETOWN.") — We love that Sound, on Ulrika Spacek's "Mimi Pretend (Live at Tapetown)", 2017
"the studio becoming an institution and part of a larger music community" — MusicTech, "Studio Interviews: Tapetown Studio", 2018
"Recorded by Rasmus Bredvig (aka "The Sound of Aarhus") at the city's TapeTown studio" — Drowned in Sound, "Some Velvet Mixtape: 2018 In Reverb, Delay, Distortion & Drone #1", 2018

Each session press page links every publication that covered it:

Record a session with us

We record live sessions wherever it makes sense: in the studio, at venues and on location, in Denmark and abroad. You get a full live session video, short edits for social media and a release-ready audio master. Tell us about the band, the songs and your dates through the contact page, and we will send a quote. More on live sessions.

Already have a live recording? We mix and master those too: live recording mixing. For Danish bands, in Danish: Lydstudie for bands og artister fra hele Danmark.

FAQ

Which artists have done a Tapetown Session?

56 artists from 2016 to 2026, including Iceage, The Murder Capital, Elias Rønnenfelt, Mikal Cronin, Bambara, Ulrika Spacek, Pale Honey, The Telescopes, Moaning and shinyhunt. The full list, with credits and videos, is in our session credits.

Where are the sessions recorded?

Most were recorded at Tapetown Studio at Lydhavnen in Aarhus. Others were recorded on location: at SPOT Festival, in concert halls and venues, in other studios and in two bowling alleys. Today we record sessions wherever it makes sense, in Denmark and abroad.

Are Tapetown Sessions overdubbed?

No. Every Tapetown session is recorded fully live, with no overdubs.

Can a band from outside Denmark book a session?

Yes. We record sessions in our studio on Djursland, on location and at venues, and bands from the US, the UK, Ireland and Sweden have done Tapetown Sessions. Send us your dates through the contact page.

Where is Tapetown?

Tapetown has studios in Aarhus and on Djursland, Denmark, and is building a new, large recording studio facility at Friland on Djursland, about 20 minutes from Aarhus, opening in 2027. We mix and master online for artists worldwide and welcome recording projects from across Denmark.

 
 
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