Lemaitre (band)

Lemaitre
Lemaitre's band members Ketil Jansen and Ulrik Denizou Lund performing on tour
Background information
Origin Oslo, Norway
Genres
Years active 2010 (2010)–present
Labels Astralwerks
Website LemaitreMusic.com
Members
  • Ketil Jansen
  • Ulrik Denizou Lund

Lemaitre (pronounced French: [ləmɛtʁ] ( listen)) is a Norwegian indie electronic duo hailing from Oslo. The duo consists of members Ketil Jansen and Ulrik Denizou Lund,[1] who met originally as schoolmates in Lillehammer, in southeastern Norway.[2] Jansen and Lund came together to form Lemaitre on 20 June 2010.[3] Lemaitre is currently based in Los Angeles, California.[4]

Since the duo's inception in summer 2010,[3] Lemaitre has released a number of EPs, including the Relativity Series: Relativity 1, 2, 3 and Relativity by Nite; The Friendly Sound; and Singularity.[5]

The duo released their seventh EP, 1749, on 29 January 2016[6] and released their first album, Chapter One, on 2 June 2017.

History

2010–2014: Formation and early years

Lemaitre's logo, used in almost every EP made by them as a means of visual identification

During an interview, Lund and Jansen explained that the band is named after Georges Lemaître, a Belgian priest who first proposed the Big Bang Theory and derived the physics concept now referred to as Hubble's Law.[7] In a 2014 music discovery piece with Interview magazine,[8] Jansen further added "Le maitre" means "the master" in French, though the pair were unaware of this when first choosing a name for the project.

Lemaitre's first track was titled "Momentum",[9] now dating 8 years since its initial release. This track was one of two tracks released prior to releasing their debut EP, The Friendly Sound—the other being "Primeval Atom".[10]

Relativity series

Lemaitre is most commonly recognized for their series of EPs: the Relativity Series.[11] This series consists of the following EPs: Relativity 1, Relativity 2, Relativity 3, and Relativity By Nite. The duo was praised for their use of all original samples.[12]

Relativity By Nite was differed from most of Lemaitre's previous EPs in that it was longer in comparison to previous EP releases and almost entirely consisted of unheard remixes and instrumental pieces.[13]

Lemaitre's third EP and second in the Relativity Series, Relativity 2, topped the Canadian charts and US iTunes electronic albums category during May of 2012. The EP went to top charts across a number of countries, placing #3 in Switzerland, #8 in Australia and #10 in France. Worldwide, Relativity 2 charted at #4 in iTunes' Pop category.[14]

Joining Astralwerks

In January 2014, the duo signed to Astralwerks Records: home to notable acts, including Daft Punk, whom Lemaitre has previously referenced as a significant source of inspiration for the group's music style.[15] Consequently, Lemaitre had the opportunity to work on remixes for other Astralwerks artists, such as Porter Robinson. Jansen and Lund are credited and featured on the song "Polygon Dust" from Porter Robinson's album, Worlds.[16][17]

Furthermore, Lemaitre mentioned that the 'choice [to join Astralwerks] felt right', especially given that the label was home to some their own "sonic heroes", namely Daft Punk and The Chemical Brothers.[18]

2014–present: 1749 and Chapter One

On 29 January 2016, the duo released their seventh EP, 1749.[6] The name "1749" was inspired by the home[19] Lemaitre has been living in during their time in Los Angeles—which also serves as a low budget–home studio for the pair. The home was previously owned by famed American rapper and producer Dr. Dre during the 1990s.[20]

Following the release of 1749, Lemaitre embarked on a short 7-city European tour during February, including a stop in their homeland in Oslo, Norway. During this time, the music video for the song "Stepping Stone" featuring artist Mark Johns, a member of Skrillex's OWSLA creative collective, was released on February 18, 2016.[21]

Jansen and Lund have appeared in festivals such as Coachella in April[22][23] and Findings Festival at Norway in the late summer.

On 2 June 2017, the duo released their first album, Chapter One.

Appearances in media

Several of Lemaitre's songs were featured mainstream media adverts. The song "1:18" from Lemaitre's debut EP, The Friendly Sound appeared in Apple's product advert "Designed Together",[24][25] which showcased the then newly released iPhone 5c's fluent integration with the iOS7 mobile operating system. Additionally, on 4 February 2016, Lemaitre's song "Cut To Black" received worldwide attention on Facebook for Facebook's 12th Anniversary, which came to be known as "Friends' Day", a feature that compiled of photos and memories commemorating friendship into user-specific videos.[26][27]

In March 2016,[28] it was announced that Lemaitre, along with other musical acts AlunaGeorge and Broiler, were collaborating with video game Minecraft to "perform a show in the game setting", as a part of Norwegian game conference The Gathering. The event provided users with the unique experience of a concert "simultaneously recreated within the Minecraft world [...] Just like a real concert[.]" This event was considered as the world's "first live Minecraft concert,".[29]

On 4 October 2016, their song "Closer" was played in a video for the newly launched Google Pixel phone.[30]

On April 8&9 2017, their song "Closer" was also being used by Patrouille de France the French aerobatic jet team (similar to the Thunderbirds) during their high speed, supersonic performance[31] at Maxwell AFB, Montgomery Alabama

Discography

Studio albums

Chapter One

No.TitleLength
1."Cut To Black"3:22
2."Closer (feat. Jennie A.)"4:30
3."Continuum"4:48
4."Higher (feat. Maty Noyes)"3:51
5."Blue Shift"4:00
6."Stepping Stone (feat. Mark Johns)"4:16
7."Time To Realize"3:30
8."We Got U (feat. The Knocks)"3:29
9."Last Night On Earth"4:10
10."Playing To Lose (feat. Stanaj)"3:24
11."Strobes Pt.2"3:50
12."High Tide"3:26
13."The End"6:01
14."Playing To Lose (feat. Stanaj) [Coucheron Remix]"3:01

Extended plays (EPs)

The Friendly Sound

No.TitleLength
1."The Friendly Sound"4:04
2."Nishio"3:34
3."Blue Shift"4:01
4."Strobes Pt. 2"3:50
5."1:18"3:49

Relativity 1

No.TitleLength
1."Appreciate"3:23
2."Coffee Table"3:20
3."Sceptics"4:12
4."The End"6:02

Relativity 2

No.TitleLength
1."Keep Close"4:14
2."Time to Realize"3:30
3."Splitting Colors"3:58
4."Steady State"3:09
5."Appreciate (Uppermost Remix)"4:46

Relativity 3

No.TitleLength
1."Continuum"4:47
2."Iron Pyrite"3:39
3."Fiction"3:53
4."Cut to Black"3:21

Relativity By Nite

No.TitleLength
1."Sceptics (Club Mix)"4:30
2."Fiction (Club Mix)"4:29
3."Splitting Colors (Club Mix)"5:48
4."Cut to Black (Instrumental)"3:21
5."Continuum (Fehrplay Remix)"6:54
6."Continuum (Ghost of Venice Remix)"5:31
7."Continuum (Josef Bamba Remix)"6:15
8."Splitting Colors (Louis La Roche Remix)"4:32
9."Fiction (Mullaha Remix)"3:22

Singularity

No.TitleLength
1."High Tide"3:27
2."Wait (feat. LOLO)"4:03
3."Go"3:04
4."All I Need (feat. Chuck Inglish)"3:42

Singularity (Remixed)

No.TitleLength
1."High Tide (Oliver Nelson & Tobtok Remix)"4:05
2."All I Need (Prince Fox Remix) [feat. Chuck Inglish]"2:54
3."All I Need (Nebbra Remix)"3:32
4."Wait (Danrell Remix) [feat. LOLO]"3:34
5."Wait (Lindsay Lowend Remix) [feat. LOLO]"2:42
6."Wait (Elephante Remix) [feat. LOLO]"4:11

1749

No.TitleLength
1."Not Too Late"3:16
2."Stepping Stone (feat. Mark Johns)"4:16
3."Closer (feat. Jennie A)"4:31
4."Day Two"3:59
5."Nishio 2"4:01

Afterglow

No.TitleLength
1."Playing To Lose (feat. Stanaj)"3:24
2."We Got U (feat. The Knocks)"3:30
3."Haze (feat. Phoebe Ryan)"3:55
4."Last Night On Earth"4:12

Non-album singles

Title Duration Artist(s) Ref
"Momentum" 2:21 Lemaitre [32]
"Primeval Atom" 2:26 Lemaitre [33]
"Unclouded Judgment" 3:39 Lemaitre [34]
"Fossil Fuels" 4:10 Lemaitre [35]
"Come Again" 2:14 Lemaitre [36]
"Machine" 3:14 Lemaitre [37]
"Control (feat. Jerry Folk)" 3:02 Lemaitre, Jerry Folk [38]
"Rocket Girl" ft. Betty Who 3:59 Lemaitre, Betty Who [39]
"Big" 4:26 Lemaitre [40]

Remixes

Year Artist Track
2012 Lo-Fi-Fnk "Kissing Taste"
2013 Porter Robinson, Mat Zo "Easy"
Netsky "We Can Only Live Today (Puppy)"
2014 Martin Solveig "Hey Now feat. Kyle"
2015 Uppermost "Angels"
2015 Madeon, Passion Pit "Pay No Mind"

Guest appearances

Title Year Other performer(s) Album
"Excuse Me"[41] 2011 Various Kitsuné Maison Compilation 12: The Good Fun Issue
"Dreamcatcher" 2013 Camo & Krooked Zeitgeist
"Polygon Dust" 2014 Porter Robinson Worlds
"Dancing On The Moon" 2017 Hotel Garuda

Music videos and filmography

Title Year Director(s)
"Unclouded Judgment" 2010 Johannes Greve Muskat (JGM)[42]
"Come Again"
Across the Baltic 2011
"Appreciate" 2012
"Coffee Table"
"Sceptics"
"The End"
"Time to Realize"
"Keep Close"
"Continuum" 2013
"Cut to Black"
"Fiction"
"Wait" 2014
"Closer" 2015
"Closer" [UK Version]
"We Got U" 2016

References

  1. ↑ "BAND MEMBERS: Ketil Jansen and Ulrik Denizou Lund".
  2. ↑ "Well we've both known each other for a while, we went to school together in Lillehammer".
  3. 1 2 "Taken from Facebook: Founded on 20 June 2010".
  4. ↑ "have now relocated to Los Angeles".
  5. ↑ "Lemaitre's discography on iTunes". .
  6. 1 2 "Lemaitre – 1749 EP – out Jan. 29th".
  7. ↑ Cooper, Duncan. "Video: Lemaitre, "Fiction" + Interview". Fader. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  8. ↑ "Discovery: Lemaitre". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  9. ↑ "Lemaitre's track Momentum".
  10. ↑ "The Friendly Sound EP on iTunes".
  11. ↑ "since their Relativity series came out".
  12. ↑ "New Music to Know: Lemaitre Brings Indie-Pop Sensibilities & Some Scientific Theories to the Dance Floor". Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  13. ↑ "Lemaitre's Relativity By Nite EP on iTunes".
  14. ↑ "Charts Information", Retrieved on 30 March 2013.
  15. ↑ "Lemaitre inks Astralwerks US deal".
  16. ↑ "Lemaitre remix of a Porter Robinson track".
  17. ↑ "Lemaitre collaborated with Porter Robinson".
  18. ↑ "The choice felt right, as the label had been home to their sonic heroes; Daft Punk and the Chemical Brothers".
  19. ↑ The title references their current address
  20. ↑ A luxury that surely pleased Dr. Dre when he lived in this same house in 1995
  21. ↑ LemaitreVEVO (2016-02-18), Lemaitre - Stepping Stone ft. Mark Johns, retrieved 2016-10-08
  22. ↑ Simon, Daniel (2016-04-09). "Coachella Day 1: in EDM, Norway meets Los Angeles". The Desert Sun. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  23. ↑ "Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2016, in pictures". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  24. ↑ "soundtrack from electronic band Lemaitre's song "1:18."".
  25. ↑ EveryAppleAd (2013-09-18), Apple iPhone 5c ad - Designed Together (2013), retrieved 2016-10-08
  26. ↑ "Shout out to Facebook for using our track "Cut To Black" in the #FriendsDay video!".
  27. ↑ Pegoraro, Rob (2016-02-05). "Sorry, You're Probably Not As Connected As Facebook Says You Are". Yahoo! Tech. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  28. ↑ "AlunaGeorge, Lemaitre, Brolier Playing First Ever Live Minecraft Concert". Music Times. 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  29. ↑ "Norway to host world's first Minecraft concert". www.thelocal.no. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  30. ↑ Google (2016-10-04), Introducing Pixel, Phone by Google, retrieved 2016-10-05
  31. ↑ http://airshowstuff.com/v4/2016/patrouille-de-france-to-perform-in-united-states-in-2017/
  32. ↑ "Momentum Single on SoundCloud".
  33. ↑ "Primeval Atom Single on SoundCloud".
  34. ↑ "Unclouded Judgment on SoundCloud".
  35. ↑ "Fossil Fuels on SoundCloud".
  36. ↑ "Come Again on SoundCloud".
  37. ↑ "Lemaitre - Machine".
  38. ↑ Control (feat. Jerry Folk), retrieved 2018-06-01
  39. ↑ LemaitreMusic (2018-05-10), Lemaitre - Rocket Girl (Audio) ft. Betty Who, retrieved 2018-06-01
  40. ↑ LemaitreMusic (2018-09-14), Lemaitre - Big, retrieved 2018-09-20
  41. ↑ "Kitsuné Maison Compilation 12: The Good Fun Issue", Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  42. ↑ Johannes Greve Muskat's Vimeo page, "Vimeo".
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