the WDR Studio for Electronic Music hit the headlines early on

and always a voice cutting through the fog

the minimalists

playing slowly alongside sampled woodwinds and fictile synths

Nicknamed the King of Oud

THE OVERLORDS – Organic? DLP Photobook the WDR Studio for ElectronicEdition of 500 copies, gatefold sleeve & postcard The Overlords is a pioneer electronic project coming from Denmark. Rune Bendixen, Carsten Pedersen and Ian Ion started to work together in the late 80s inspired by Front 242 and Adrian Sherwoods electronic dub. The ever cheaper samplers allowed the band to record their debut album Midnight at the Grooveyard II (1988) and built their own studio The Grooveyard in Copenhagen. Next works started to get