Árni Grétar Jóhannesson passed away on January 3, 2025. Better known under his performing name Futuregrapher, Árni was a mainstay in the Icelandic electronica scene both as an artist and a label operator. He was 41 years old. Árni began making music as a teen and one of his first albums, under the name DJ […]
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“V Ættir” Box Set (2024)
Árni Grétar is best known for his ambient and ambient-adjacent electronica as Futuregrapher. It’s been a decade since I first saw him perform live, set up in a bookstore at an Iceland Airwaves off-venue show during which he combined electronic music with a reading Icelandic poetry, and I’ve remained fascinated listening to him push the […]
DJ Dorrit – “TUN025 – 2003” (2023)
Móatún 7 has been one of Iceland’s most interesting and prolific labels over the last few years. Operated by electronic musician Árni Grétar, aka Futuregrapher, it has put out somewhere in the ballpark of 300 releases over the past five years across formats – digital only, CD, cassette, and vinyl. I have a good friend […]
Plat – “Compulsion” (2004)
When I think back to how we learned about musical artists back in the 1980s and 90s I have to shake my head. It’s amazing anyone who didn’t live in a major city could discover anything outside what was fed to us via mainstream radio, magazines, and MTV. If you were lucky you lived somewhere […]