kontaktor
Oslo, Oslo County, Norway | SELF
Music
Press
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Discography
EP
2011 — SoundCheck EP
Singles
2010 — Bocce Ball
2011 - Back To School
Remixes
2011 Moddi — Ardennes (kontaktor remix)
Photos
Bio
Daniel Wold and Marius Njolstad has worked together in different settings over the last years, Wold as a sound engineer and Njolstad as a keyboardist.
Kontaktor started out as listening-sessions during the winter of 2010. This inspired them to start a collaboration together. Over the next few months they founded the label Tape Delay Records in order to release their first single "Bocce Ball", as well as remixes of this track.
In 2010 kontaktor released the single Bocce Ball. The song has been remixed by artists such as LehtMoJoe, PistolPuma, Yade and Fred Acler.
In 2010 kontaktor competed in the international John Lennon Songwriting Contest (session II) with the song Bocce Ball. Kontaktor won the Grand Prize in the category Electronic. In the next round, where they competed against the winner of seession I in the category Electronic in 2010, they won the Lennon Award in the same category.
"Bocce Ball" continued to achieve attention by receiving Honorable Mention in "The International Songwriting Contest" of 2010.
kontaktor's first EP, "SoundCheck EP", was released march 28th 2011. The track "should never happen" of this EP received Honorable Mention in the "Song Of The Year Competition" of 2011.
kontaktor's second single, "Back To School" was released in September 2011.
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