Rumpistol

Rum” is a Danish word for “space”, “room” or “reverb”. For Danish composer Rumpistol, two huge driving forces behind his music are the search for beauty and the search for new sounds. These sonic and aesthetic curiosities, which can be firmly traced back to his self-titled 2003 debut, now considered a bit of an IDM classic, have taken him to many diverse fields of the electronic as well as the more acoustic landscape. His releases as well as his live sets ranges from soft neo-classical piano pieces to spaced out bass-driven electronic music, often hard to categorize but always full of melody. Rumpistol has performed his detailed sound across the US, Europe, Mexico & Brazil including venues like Boom Festival, Tipper & Friends, Boiler Room UK and MUTEK Montreal. Apart from producing under the name Rumpistol, he also creates scores for film, theatre & contemporary dance and plays keys and produces for the Gilles Peterson approved Danish supergroup Kalaha. His music was used at the opening ceremony of the Paralympics in Rio 2016 and in 2017 he won a Danish Music Award Jazz for the album “Masala” with his band Kalaha. Though currently connected to ØEN Records, he has run the label Rump Recordings since 2003 showcasing mainly electronic artists through a release span of more than 40 releases. He has also released on the renowned Berlin-based label Project Mooncircle, New York City-based The Rust Music and Danish Iboga Records. Rumpistol has gained wide acknowledgement from people like John Peel (UK) and Laurent Garnier (F) to Gilles Peterson (UK) & Tipper (UK).