| EPISODE 195 | Harlem Electronics

Harlem is a duo from Stockholm formed in 2003. Known for their elastic, easy-on-the-feet approach to beat-based electronic music, their sound is at once disturbing, free-spirited, and sludgily hooky. The band has released a string of highly acclaimed albums, EPs, and 12 inches on labels like Veyl, Body Musick, and Marguerite, garnering them a feverishly devoted international fanbase. An upcoming EP will soon be released by Milan-based label Marguerite Records. Harlem is producer Johan Skugge and producer/vocalist Martin Thomasson. Since the band’s start, they have shared creation duties equally to a fault. With over 20 years of music-making and live performances, Harlem fuses and forges a wide range of influences and impulses with an effortless command into vocal-driven, loosely electro-tinged tracks. Continuously gravitating towards the space in between sounds, ideas, and rhythms, their music is characterized by a certain propulsive, nervous restlessness. Their sensibility is formed by a lo