Reykjavík Grapevine - 05.07.2019, Qupperneq 32

Music
The initial lineup for this
year’s Innipúkinn festival—
the only place in Iceland
where you can pound Breezers on a
carpet of fake grass—has been an-
nounced. Performers this year include
Hildur, Between Mountains, Vök, dj.
flugvél og geimskip, Friðrik Dór, Joey
Christ, Moses Hightower, Kælan Mikla,
Jónas Sig, and more. This year’s itera-
tion will also see the festival move to
Grandi, where it will now be hosted
by Bryggjan Brugghús and Messinn.
Tickets are on sale now, priced at
6,990 ISK for the weekend, or 3,990 ISK
for a day.

Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen has
been announced as the new Chief
Conductor and Artistic Director of the
Iceland Symphony Orchestra for the
2020/21 season. Eva will make her
debut with the orchestra at the
symphony’s 70th anniversary concert
in March 2020, with a programme that
will feature works by Mahler and—fit-
tingly for the conductor—Sibelius. Eva
is a specialist in Baltic Sea composers,
and spent the last season as the
principal conductor of the Nordic
Chamber Orchestra, where she
presented a season of German
classical and Romantic repertoire
mixed with composers like Jean
Sibelius, Galina Ustvolskaya and
Peteris Vasks.
Local hardcore boys Une Misère
brought the misery with the release of
their ‘Summer of Misery’ tour schedule,
which will see the band opening for
legendary death metal act Arch Enemy
in Belarus and Russia, and touring
Europe with acts like Decaptiated,
Aborted, Jungle Rob, Thou, and Ingest-
ed. They will also make an appearance
at the Brutal Assault, MetalDays, Traffic
Jam Open Air, and Summer Breeze festi-
vals. Fresh off opening for Lamb of God
in early June, Une Misère is expected to
drop a new music video any day now.
HJC
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NEWS
All Day,
Everyday
Rapper 24/7 is here to stay
Words & Photo: Sigurður Ragnarsson
Musician
Listen to 24/7 on Spotify
“Seplar ljúka,” “Hvað er planið,”
and “Tvöfalt glas.” Three songs.
All hits. Together racking up
over 700,000 plays. The common
denominator? A feature by rapper
24/7.
24/7 (real name Hafþór Sindri)
is, arguably, one of the biggest
stars of the Reykjavík under-
ground, gaining notoriety over
the past year for his smooth,
catchy hooks and lyrical wordplay.
Mainly working in the trap genre,
he’s recently transitioned from
auto-tune to a more clean and
catchy boom bap influenced trap.
A champion of the new Icelandic
hip hop scene, he initially burst
onto the scene with popular
collaborations with rappers like
Birgir Hákon and Yung Nigo Drip-
pin’.
Double glasses
Hafþór got his start releasing his
music on SoundCloud in 2015, only
to later delete it all from the site. “I
just kind of stopped making mu-
sic until Yung Nigo Drippin’ got
me back into it,” Hafþór explains,
sitting back in the CNTMP studio.
“Nigo featured me on his record
‘Plús Hús,’ which blew up. It really
motivated me to pursue making
music again.”
And once he did start making
music again, it was all over. One
of his first songs, and undoubted-
ly the one that landed him on the
map, was “Tvöfalt Glas” (“Double
Glass”) with Yung Nigo Drippin’.
A slimy sounding, hazy lo-fi trap
banger tribute to the lifestyle
which many hip hop artists live,
or rather, have lived, “Tvöfalt Glas”
was born out of the very first ses-
sion between Hafþór and produc-
ers Hlandri and Ízleifur.
“I met Hlandri and Ízleifur at
their studio. They showed me the
beat to the song, and Yung Nigo
and I just kind of blurted out the
hook to it on the spot. We made it
in one session,” he laughs. “And it
kind of sounds like we did.”
The song was a massive suc-
cess, which Hafþór is grateful for,
though he doesn’t necessarily see
himself in the track anymore. “I
have a lot of love for that song,”
Hafþór explains. “But I've matured
a lot since it's release, and I feel
that the song isn't really a good re-
flection of the person I am today.”
Undefinable
The person he is today, Hafþór
finds difficult to define. “I'm not
really a fan of putting labels on
myself. I've been called a gangster
rapper before, which couldn't be
further from the truth,” he laughs.
“I'm just myself, 24/7,” he states
simply.
The artist has been working
day and night on his upcoming
debut album, ‘FM 24/7’ along with
producers BNGRBOY, Ízleifur and
Hlandri. The album is set to come
out later this year.
But while he enjoys what he’s
doing right now, 24/7 does not
plan on staying in the game in-
definitely. ''I'm not counting on
being a 30-year-old rapper, per-
sonally, though I find the thought
a bit amusing,” he says. “I plan
on educating myself more in the
future. I want to study music
management so that I can still be
working around music when I'm
older.”
But whatever the future holds,
Hafþór is currently pursuing rap
full-time. ''Whatever you do, just
follow your dreams,” he says, smil-
ing. “You have to do what makes
you happy.'' And for Hafþór, that
means 24/7.
Watch out, he's a flight risk
Romantic soul-pop duo Une Misère
Early release for good conduct
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