![]() “I grew up in a town with 80,000 people in Reykjavík. “I’ve been DJing since I was a teenager – I just wouldn’t call it that!” she starts, taking a sip of mid-morning coffee. And it still goes both ways: electronic music, and club culture, is still as vital a mainspring for Björk as it ever was. She’s become one of the foremost producers in electronic music. She has inspired a whole generation of producers, artists, musicians, singers, designers, DJs and creative minds. Over the 24 years since then – including eight albums and countless unclassifiable innovations – the world has come to know Björk for her unparalleled, uncompromising pop/art vision, her restless musical spirit and her ability to collaborate with some of the most creative minds in music, film and fashion. The headline ‘Bonkers’ may have focused on the media’s obsession with her otherworldly appearance and idiosyncratic personality, but she was happiest talking about choosing ‘Black Dog’ for a remix, or how Darren Emerson was her favourite DJ. It was the first flush of Björk-mania, the first time the world came under the spell of this incredible, pixie-like force of nature, a former child prodigy raised by hippies (or was it elves?) who seemed to talk in riddles in a sing-song accent unlike anything anyone had ever heard, but backed it up with an album we described as ‘Out there on its own – way way ahead of everything else: an eclectic collection of fiery songs that’s everything you never heard before but always wanted to’. The last time Björk Guðmundsdóttir was on the cover of Mixmag was November 1993, after the release of her first adult solo album ‘Debut’. A bit like the well of creativity inside Björk, the most famous Icelander of them all. Geo-thermal energy supplies much of Iceland’s needs: natural, sustainable, apparently limitless. It’s heat from deep below the surface of the earth, our taxi driver explains. What’s odd, though, is the way steam is rising from parts of the landscape on this chill day. ![]() ![]() With its dramatic volcanic sweeps of slate and granite, eerie, wintry moonscapes, epic waterfalls and ancient glaciers, it’s starred everywhere recently from Game Of Thrones to Prometheus. If not exactly welcoming, the epic, barren, Icelandic landscape does seem strangely familiar.
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