New re:fraction album – Cryptographic Algorithms

Embark on a sonic journey. re:fraction’s new album, Cryptographic Algorithms, isn’t just a collection of tracks – it’s a single, sprawling exploration of dub techno that unfolds a world of enigmatic dub techno.

Imagine a pulsating soundscape where “Cryptographic Algorithms” flows effortlessly into the warped echoes of “Divergence Measurement,” then melts into the hypnotic textures of “Data Compression.” Each track builds upon the last, creating a unified and immersive experience. This isn’t just an album, it’s an experience. Let re:fraction be your guide as you navigate the sonic landscapes and lose yourself in a world of meticulously crafted rhythms and atmospheres. So, put on your headphones, hit play, and prepare to be transported.

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New project, new release

After ten years of producing ambient music, I thought it was time to enter a new area. So for the past year I have taken the step to build up a hardware setup, and start up a new project focusing on dub techno production. It’s been a road paved with new knowledge and investments. And it has been a journey filled with joy and creativity, and there is still so much to explore and learn.

Finally the first collection of re:fraction recordings is gathered and finalized into one album. Every track is arranged and recorded live into one stereo channel.

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After 10 years of releases

After 10 years of releases, I have finally released the twentieth Fähund release, and this project now consists of 41 drone/ambient tracks. It has been ready for some time now and has finally been put together as a complete release. Hope you have enjoyed this project as much as me.

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Now it’s time to move on, I’ve invested much time this last year in my new project RE:FRACTION, a new dub techno project completely based on hardware. I have spent this year learning hardware sequencers, analog mixing and sound routing. And pursued a dream of getting into a genre I’ve been into for the last ten years.

There’s a release in the making with my new project and I have a YouTube channel where you can explore my latest journey. Vist my YouTube channel here.

It’s time to round things off

The 19th release from Fähund is here and it has been almost ten years since the first release and it’s time to round things off. And what started out as a project exploring the possibilities to create my own music, with a limited set up, has grown and I have moved on.

So from creating DAW based music I have moved to explore the world of producing outside a DAW with hardware. So this is the last series of Fähund releases that will be released until I can find new ways to keep this project creatively inspiring. I’m sure I will get back to this in time, but then in a new way, and with a new set of tools.

I have a complete new project that I’m totally focusing on right now, and more info on that in the next and final release.

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Last release in the floral series

The 18th release from Fähund is the last release in the floral series. In the same format as usual, with two new tracks joined together in an 45 minute journey. A progressive experience through sound-driven landscapes of darkness and light.

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After over two years of silence…

We can now present the 17th release from Fähund. In the same format as usual, with two new tracks joined together in an 45 minute journey. A progressive experience through sound-driven landscapes of darkness and light.

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Loneliness – Part Two

“Indifferent the finches sing, Unheeding roll the lorries past: What misery will this year bring. Now spring is in the air at last? For, sure as blackthorn bursts to snow, Cancer in some of us will grow, The tasteful crematorium door. Shuts out for some the furnace roar; But church-bells open on the blast Our loneliness, so long and vast.”

Sound-driven society are pleased to present the “Loneliness” series.

Thank you all so very much, who have supported our work so far. And thank you all for listening.

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Loneliness – Part One

“The last year’s leaves are on the beech: The twigs are black; the cold is dry; To deeps beyond the deepest reach. The Easter bells enlarge the sky. O ordered metal clatter-clang! Is yours the song the angels sang? You fill my heart with joy and grief – Belief! Belief! And unbelief… And, though you tell me I shall die, You say not how or when or why.”

Sound-driven society are pleased to present the “Loneliness” series.

Thank you all so very much, who have supported our work so far. And thank you all for listening.

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Prayer At Sunrise – Part Two

“O greater Maker of this Thy great sun, Give me the strength this one day’s race to run, Fill me with light, fill me with sun-like strength, Fill me with joy to rob the day its length. Light from within, light that will outward shine, Strength to make strong some weaker heart than mine, Joy to make glad each soul that feels its touch; Great Father of the sun, I ask this much.”

Sound-driven society are pleased to present the last part in the “Prayer At Sunrise” series.
Thank you for listening.

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Prayer At Sunrise – Part one

Sound-driven society are pleased to present the “Prayer At Sunrise” series.
Thank you for listening.

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Myrkviðr – part two

The first track in this second part, takes the journey on a disoriented path. Through mist and haze, with drones that clouds your mind. As everything seems lost and leads into a hole, the final track appears. Hope will once again emerge, with rays of light to bring you back. And lead you through the end.

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Myrkviðr – part one

Sound-driven society presents the Myrkviðr series, with two closely connected releases from FÄHUND. This time created with a black theme, notably crafted for the storage of drones and sound waves. Born out of the struggle through dark times, and the fact that everything must come to dust. That everything dies.

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The second SKYMF

Sound-driven society present the last of the first two releases by SKYMF .

SKYMF “TVÅ” continues were the first release ended. Three pieces joined together, with slow melancholy beats. This time with a more dark minimalist chamber style.

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SKYMF “ETT” a new chapter

It’s time to present a new chapter in the Sound-driven society history. A new project based on melancholy slow beats from the dark realms of techno. SKYMF is a new underground DIY side project from Gustav Sandstedt alias Fähund. This first SKYMF release is an experimental techno driven EP with a similar type of drones and sounds as the ambient work crafted for the Fähund project. Created to give you a slow rhythm driven experience.

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Northern Light by Fähund, part two

Sound-driven society is back with two new releases from FÄHUND, celebrating the spring and summer. Both parts contain a more soft and light sound, were darkness has been put aside and the sun has arrived to shine with rays off light.

This is a celebration to long summer days. With light that seems to never give up, warmth that heats the skin and smell like joy. For this is the season when everything turns green and bloom. This trip starts in a calm sea of light. Where soft waves of sounds takes you slowly through the first part. The second part starts with calm ray of light that filters through the clouds. And as the high tunes slowly rises, the swirling low drones transport you to a floating state. In the end the sun reveals it true glory, and transforms everything to a shower of light. Light that blinds the eyes, and disappears in a colorful haze.

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Northern Light by Fähund, part one

Sound-driven society is back with two new releases from FÄHUND, celebrating the spring and summer. Both parts contain a more soft and light sound, were darkness has been put aside and the sun has arrived to shine with rays off light.

This release is a farewell to the long cold winter, and a celebration for a lighter tomorrow. With longer days and warmer times. It starts with a mellow drone that rings out the darkness, and prepares for the light to arrive. As the darkness turns to light, calm chimes leads through the fields of sounds. Finally, at the end the voice of summer gets clearer and lands in a wave of soft light that fades away.

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Harvest songs by Fähund, part two

Sound-driven society presents the final part in the Harvest songs series that illustrate and hail the advent of autumn. This final part includes the typical progressive wave of repeating sequences which has come to profound the arrangements crafted by Fähund.

This release as the previous has a more amplified processed style, with a warmer and mellow sound. They also include an idea on how to use as few sounds and channels as possible, but at the same time create a wall of sounds with a minimal set of tools. Every sound and loop is carefully placed and tuned to paint landscapes and mindsets, and to craft a harmful progressive slow music experience.

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Harvest songs by Fähund, part one

Sound-driven society is back with a new series of releases from Fähund. This time with a more humble and mellow touch. This series of two releases illustrates the advent of autumn.

Part one consist of two songs, where the first one is a laid back and deep dark monotone drone with a hint of light. The first song slowly takes you to the second, and turns things around slightly and bring back even more light to the darkness. It contains few surprises, but it floats you forward through hazy landscapes and clouded rays of light.

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The winter lake that lays waiting for the early days ending

Sound-driven society proudly presents the last  out of two releases by Fähund, with the a common ode to the lake and the waters. This release is an hymn to the winter lake that lays waiting for the early days ending.

” I find myself wandering away from the shore, further out into the open cold misty landscape. Dark tree lines stretches and frames the frosty mirror, black depths reveals under my feet as gray shades covered with cracks and bruises. The cold wind draws in from the north, sweeping the white powder that covers the surface in silence. Small white hills forms as waves in sections, and the presence of a fox leads across to the end. All I can hear is the sound of the harsh wind as the emptiness surrounds my consciousness with a cold whispering touch.”

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First out of two releases by Fähund with the common ode to water

Sound-driven society proudly presents the first out of two releases by Fähund, with the common ode to the lake and the waters. This release is a hymn to the calm misty summer morning, when the first warm breeze sweeps through the air, and the sun peaks through the hazy clouds waiting to slip through. The water I still, and softly reflects the sky in different shades of gray, surrounded by the richness of the forest borders to keep the silence undisturbed.

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New Fähund release – Wondrous to wander through mists.

Sound-driven society proudly presents the fourth Fähund release 04.0. This time an altered sound process that reveals a collection of liquid sound droplets and crystals suspended in the air at the water surface. Waves that take you to that mesmerizing state that resembling sleep only superficially and marked by a functioning of the individual at a level of awareness other than the ordinary conscious state.

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New ambient drone release by Fähund

Sound-driven society proudly presents 03.0, the third release from Fähund. This two tracks is a tribute to the summer forest. Where tree gathers together and sing in the wind, and picidae drums in the far distance. The sun throws the light through the crowns and you close your eyes and drift away.

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Sound-driven society presents 0b111

Sound-driven society proudly presents 0b111, another act hailing from the dark forests of Småland. 0b111 is an ambient/drone/noise project by Edvin Bärtås. This third SDSR release takes you on a ghastly ride through deep forest, caves full of deep drones and vicious soundscapes.

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Noticed in the local newspaper

For all Swedes there was an article in the local newspaper SMP. You can read the article here.

New release by Fähund

02.0 is the second release by Fähund, a DIY electronica based ambient/drone project. This release features two tracks with a total playing time of 40 minutes. This time taking you on a slightly darker ambient journey, with mantras surrounded by noise and drones. Sounds sweeping over the meadows, sleeping in the lakes, droning through the deep dark forests.

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Welcome

This is the home of the Swedish record label “Sound-driven society”. SDSR focuses on publishing electronic and ambient crafted music in digital & physical forms. Since the first release in 2012, Sound-driven society has been working on releasing more crafted music in various forms to ad to the SDSR catalogue.

All SDSR releases will be published through this site containing covers, information and links to download/purchase sources. This site will also host all information about artist and artist connected to SDSR, and be the main communicating platform for the Sound-driven society. If you want to get in touch with SDSR, use the contact form on the info page.