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Baba Stiltz has written and produced the award-winning soundtrack for the Swedish movie Shame On Dry Land (Syndabocken). Awarded the Guldbagge prize for best feature film soundtrack in 2024, the music is dense, at times oppressive, than again light-mediterranean, all perfectly accompanying the stories vibe. The score is now available on vinyl for the first time.
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Available for the first time and on CD only, the live sessions of Baba Stiltz second LP Paid Testimony recorded in 2023 at the legendary Atlantis Studios in Stockholm. When he's not writing or recording, Baba Stiltz immerses in fearless fiction by the likes of Denis Johnson and Dodie Bellamy; prose where pedestrian details become transcendent in aggregate and the inner lives of marginal characters are examined as though they were kings. A similar thesis runs through Paid Testimony, the essential second tape of minimalist guitar music from the Filipino-American-Swedish artist. In recent years, Stiltz has made like Lee Hazelwood's Cowboy In Sweden in reverse, making annual pilgrimages from Stockholm to California and reconnecting with his roots via a guitar and a Fostex four-track. He's drawn to the less glamorous corners of the golden state, an observant habitué of unkempt streets and dive bars stretching from LA to Vacaville. It's a long stretch from the jetset techno clubs where Baba originally plied his musical trade, but it's where he finds characters and ideas worth writing about. The characters on Paid Testimony are on the edge and on the run. Surrounded by flawed men with big schemes since childhood, he extrapolates characters who plot bank heists and order milk and vodka in AM hours, the type of confrontation -- prone characters who "say some shit, make everyone uncomfortable and then just split." To focus on the rawness of this document would discount the humor and sympathy with which he treats his characters, not to mention the subtly-psychedelic songwriting recalling David Berman, early Smog, the original indie rock minimalist poets. On the final song, Stiltz looks back on the city that raised him, "Stockholm," referencing "young professionals carelessly living" before adding "I can't say I'm not jealous even though I live my life just like they do." There's an honesty in the small details revealed on Paid Testimony, and a defined sense of place, be it Stockholm, Sacramento or some dim barroom across from the Bank Of America. Baba doesn't quite fit in anywhere. This outsider quality has often been used as a marketing tool, yet here, it lends a writerly aspect to the proceedings, an unreality to the everyday.
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When he's not writing or recording, Baba Stiltz immerses in fearless fiction by the likes of Denis Johnson and Dodie Bellamy; prose where pedestrian details become transcendent in aggregate and the inner lives of marginal characters are examined as though they were kings. A similar thesis runs through Paid Testimony, the essential second tape of minimalist guitar music from the Filipino-American-Swedish artist. In recent years, Stiltz has made like Lee Hazelwood's Cowboy In Sweden in reverse, making annual pilgrimages from Stockholm to California and reconnecting with his roots via a guitar and a Fostex 4-track. He's drawn to the less glamorous corners of the golden state, an observant habitué of unkempt streets and dive bars stretching from LA to Vacaville. It's a long stretch from the jet-set techno clubs where Baba originally plied his musical trade, but it's where he finds characters and ideas worth writing about. The characters on Paid Testimony are on the edge and on the run. Surrounded by flawed men with big schemes since childhood, he extrapolates characters who plot bank heists and order milk and vodka in AM hours, the type of confrontation- prone characters who "say some shit, make everyone uncomfortable and then just split." To focus on the rawness of this document would discount the humor and sympathy with which he treats his characters, not to mention the subtly-psychedelic songwriting recalling David Berman, early Smog, the original indie rock minimalist poets. On the final song, Stiltz looks back on the city that raised him, "Stockholm," referencing "young professionals carelessly living" before adding "I can't say I'm not jealous even though I live my life just like they do." There's an honesty in the small details revealed on Paid Testimony, and a defined sense of place, be it Stockholm, Sacramento, or some dim barroom across from the Bank of America. Baba doesn't quite fit in anywhere. This outsider quality has often been used as a marketing tool, yet here, it lends a writerly aspect to the proceedings, an unreality to the everyday.
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"This EP is a collection of songs that were recorded during the past couple of years," says Baba Stiltz. "They all represent things I've been going through, just day to day stuff; travelling, DJing, meeting people, being alone a lot, falling in love, parties, hang overs etc." Swedish-born 24-year-old Baba Stiltz has been steadily releasing his idiosyncratic take on dance music. Opening the EP with jazz inflected slow-jam "Showtime" and peaking with "Maze", the kind of summer floor-filler Baba is such a natural at crafting-his range is fully on show for Showtime.
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Can't Help It is the new single from Stockholm hyper-talent Baba Stiltz, who builds on gently howling synths, laser-cut percussion, and his own voice as sweetly and distinctly as ever, to create instantly life-changing dance pop music.
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"These three tunes feel like a gradual descent into madness... ample proof that the odd young man from Stockholm should go as far out of orbit as he wants." --Resident Advisor
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Another essential contribution to the Studio Barnhus catalogue from the unstoppable force that is Baba Stiltz. These ultramodern dance-pop anthems see young Baba utilizing his own voice in a more direct and heartfelt manner than on any of his previous Barnhus recordings, as well as dusting off the old acoustic guitar. Much more to come, until then: "let's make this last, don't move too fast / make it for real, know how you feel / let's make this last, don't move too fast / let's make this real, know how you feel / ---------------------- don't move too fast / make it real, know how I feel."
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BARN 032EP
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Baba Stiltz returns to his throne at Studio Barnhus, following his masterful 2014 Total album (BARN 026CD/LP). This 12'' delivers four highly exciting dance tracks straight from the House of Flogsta, ready to be worn and torn by all the shameless deejays, robot-curious lovers, and funky outcasts out there.
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This is a limited edition vinyl-only sampler of the album Total by Baba Stiltz on Studio Barnhus. The two B-side tracks are exclusive to this record. Baba is a great DJ.
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Double LP version. Baba Stiltz hails from a tradition of funky outcasts centered around the calm yet unpredictable city of Stockholm, Sweden. Since his infant days he's been guided through the nitty-gritty basics of what it is to be a true music lover by some of the city's most prolific artists, producers and DJs. Despite his youth, 20-year-old Baba boasts an impressive discography, with two albums of dreamy folk-pop (as The Bethlehem Beard Corporation) and a string of hit singles within the elusive Skweee scene already under his belt. His more recent studio adventures have led to three 12'' releases on Stockholm dance label Studio Barnhus as well as recurring production work for post-rap phenomenon Yung Lean. Total is Baba's debut album under his own name and his finest work to date. From the opening machine-funk arpeggio of "Missing" to the sanguine melancholia of closing hip-hop beat "Discovery -- New Dawn," Baba's masterpiece rides through psychedelic screw-pop, minimalistic emo-acid and opiate-drenched coming-of-age-ambient. As lucid and strong as it is obscure and beautiful, this is an album Studio Barnhus are immensely proud of presenting to the world.
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Baba Stiltz hails from a tradition of funky outcasts centered around the calm yet unpredictable city of Stockholm, Sweden. Since his infant days he's been guided through the nitty-gritty basics of what it is to be a true music lover by some of the city's most prolific artists, producers and DJs. Despite his youth, 20-year-old Baba boasts an impressive discography, with two albums of dreamy folk-pop (as The Bethlehem Beard Corporation) and a string of hit singles within the elusive Skweee scene already under his belt. His more recent studio adventures have led to three 12'' releases on Stockholm dance label Studio Barnhus as well as recurring production work for post-rap phenomenon Yung Lean. Total is Baba's debut album under his own name and his finest work to date. From the opening machine-funk arpeggio of "Missing" to the sanguine melancholia of closing hip-hop beat "Discovery -- New Dawn," Baba's masterpiece rides through psychedelic screw-pop, minimalistic emo-acid and opiate-drenched coming-of-age-ambient. As lucid and strong as it is obscure and beautiful, this is an album Studio Barnhus are immensely proud of presenting to the world.
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Oh-so fresh 12'' from the Studio Barnhus camp -- music by Baba Stiltz, artwork by Theodor Johansson. "Transit" is Mr. Stiltz on a night train, angelic voices and smooth tape hiss leading the stuttering acid sounds forward. "Principles" lets a canonical synth theme pave the way for a happy-go-jackin' campfire beat that just won't stop. Baba even threw in a little bonus ditty for all you freaks out there. Watch out for a Baba Stiltz album dropping on Studio Barnhus soon.
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Oh-so-fresh 12'' from the Studio Barnhus camp -- music by Baba Stiltz, artwork by Theodor Johansson. "Palats" lures you in with its grandiose synth theme over popping percussion before all bass line mayhem breaks loose -- "Crypt" is a soft whisper of a house anthem, full of beautiful Babaesque melodies that finally disintegrate into heavenly static. Watch out for a Baba Stiltz album dropping on Studio Barnhus later in 2014.
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People get ready, here's the first of several Studio Barnhus releases to come from Stockholm native Baba. Despite his youth, this former ballet dancer has an impressive discography under his belt, having been one of the strongest forces of the elusive skweee scene since 2008, while also releasing two albums of dreamy folk-pop under his Bethlehem Beard Corporation alias. Our Girls is a raw, bouncy house jam recorded to cassette in three different tempos and arrangements.
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