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| Background information | |
| Origin | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Genres | New Wave IDM Folk Electronica Post punk Experimental Shoegaze Trip hop |
| Years active | 2011 - present |
| Labels | Temporary Secretary, RITE |
| Members | Catharina Jaunviksna |
| Website | badlands |
Badlands is the musical solo name used by producer, composer, documentarist and sound designer Catharina Jaunviksna. With a wide inspirational range from post punk to warehouse techno-like ambiences, she makes tracks rooted in vintage electronics, gritty pedal work, samples and organic orchestration.
Jaunviksna started to explore analog midi and sampling as a teenager, finding a musical sanctuary in her own electronic compositions. Merging from music to sound design, she attended the sound design program at the reputable National Film School of Denmark 2009–2011, but became the educations first dropout due to her constant longing to make music. She then formed Badlands as a home for her new electroacoustic fusions with vocals and released first Badlands EP Battles Within (2012), followed by album Locus (2016). Acclaimed album Djinn was released in 2021 as a memorial to her late mother. November 18, 2022 Badlands released her third studio album Call to Love followed by a remix package in 2023, Call to Love: Rendered, with contributing artists such as Ikonika, Art Feynman, Cooly G and Odd Nosdam among others.
The DIY approach is crucial to the distinct Badlands sound, where Jaunviksna exclusively writes, records, produces and mixes all material. She is the founder of the record label, arts platform and production company RITE based in Malmö, Sweden, from where she also makes transboundary arts and documentaries, original music and sound designs for film and theater, as well as production, remixes and mix work for other labels and artists.
Discography
Albums
- Call to Love: Rendered (remix package & bonus tracks, 2023)
- Call to Love (2022)
- Djinn (2021)
- Locus (2016)
Singles
- Ack E45 (2024)
- I Want Blood (2022)
- Bury You Whole (2022)
- My Time Will Come Again (2022)
- Lunatique (Stereo Total cover for Kill Rock Stars, 2021)
- Out of Reach (2021)
- Southbound Call (2021)
- Hearts featuring J. Cowhie (remastered album version, 2020)
- Hearts (2019)
- Echo (2016)
- Caramisou (2016)
- Tutu (2013)
- Never Dry Out (2012)
EP
- Cirkeln Remixed (remix version of EP "Cirkeln" by artist Fia, 2023)
- Fantasma I / Fantasma II (double single/EP, 2020)
- Battles Within (released as a duo together with Niklas Tjäder, EP, 2012)
References
- ^ "Badlands (Catharina Jaunviksna) Brings Warm and Gritty Analog Textures To Electronica With 'Djinn' - Glide Magazine".
- "Badlands: "Locus" - Dagens Nyheter".
- "Listen: Badlands - Battles Within EP - Ja Ja Ja Music".
- "Badlands goes hyperdrive on new album, Locus - The Line of Best Fit".
- "Badlands: Djinn – Channelling trauma into fine electro-pop tunes - The Irish Times".
- "A day in the life of... Badlands - SPIN magazine".
- "Badlands album är besjälat av något magiskt - Dagens Nyheter".
- "Moderns död gav liv åt Badlands nya album - Sydsvenskan".
- ^ "Badlands Unveils Hypnotic Single "My Time Will Come Again," Announces New Album - FLOOD Magazine".
- "Premiere: Badlands 'I Want Blood (Ikonika Remix)'". DJMag.com. 2023-09-07. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
- "Premiere: Badlands Debut New Single, "Southbound Call" - Under the Radar Magazine".
- Radio, Sveriges (2024-04-13). "Libba – gitarrvirtuosen som återuppstod - P2 Dokumentär". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- Radio, Sveriges (2022-01-21). "Fighter - vägen till världsmästarbältet - P1 Dokumentär". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- "Poesi, pizzarecept och mörka trauman på E45". www.aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). 2024-09-21. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
- "Be A Bear, il suo Mr Dust valica i confini e diventa un Badlands remix". TG24 SKY Italia.
- "Badlands covers Stereo Total - Tribute to Françoise Cactus". Kill Rock Stars. 2021-02-24. Retrieved 2023-09-12.