With Loveletter, BORGBORG presents a debut solo album built around introspection, textural depth and subtle repetition. Released on About Repetition, the nine-track work explores a restrained yet persistent sonic language, allowing small details and shifting atmospheres to take shape over time.
The album’s central motif takes on three distinct forms through remixes by LADA, Irakli and Fractal Void. From analogue synthesizer experiments and intuitive sound design to a more sculptural approach to texture and form, each reinterpretation reveals a different dimension of the original while preserving its contemplative character.
We spoke with the three artists about their creative processes, the ideas behind their reinterpretations, and their connections with BORGBORG.
Irakli
How was the process of the remix?
The process always starts with listening to the original track. If something in it inspires me, whether it’s a particular element, an atmosphere, or an emotional quality, then I begin working on a remix.
With this release, it was immediately clear that there were many things I could build on. There were so many beautiful emotions already present in the music. From there, the process becomes a mix of intuition and reflection. Sometimes it’s more emotional, sometimes more rational. After spending time exploring both approaches and allowing them to interact, the final result gradually emerges.
How did you approach creating something unique?
I don’t really think in terms of making something unique. For me, creating is already a unique act. During the remix process, I try not to think about references, and I rarely listen back to the original track once I begin working.
Instead, I give my intuition space and follow wherever it leads.
What was your inspiration?
Inspiration comes from many different places. Most often it’s moods, colors, emotions, or certain atmospheres rather than specific musical references.
I like to think about music in a similar way to sculpture or architecture. Not in a literal sense, but in terms of shaping space, texture, and form. Sometimes a piece feels more sculptural, while at other times it feels closer to poetry.
How did you connect with BORGBORG?
We’ve known each other for several years and have become good friends over time. We understand each other’s artistic approach and way of working, which makes collaboration feel very natural.
Having that mutual understanding and trust creates a foundation, and it makes the creative process more enjoyable.
Fractal Void
How was the process of creating the remix?
It’s always something special to create something new from scratch — to sit in front of a blank sheet of paper, so to speak. Equally exciting, however, is listening to a fellow artist’s arrangement and having the opportunity to present your own perspective on their music.
I focus on the elements that I believe are most important to the artist, the ones that feel essential to the piece, as well as those that resonate with me the most.
How did you approach creating something unique?
I usually bring the sound that speaks to me most strongly in that particular moment into focus and then compose and produce around it, constantly balancing it with all the other elements I’ve chosen to work with. Some parts remain largely unchanged and simply receive new colors and textures.
The overall direction often becomes clear within the first hour. From that point on, it’s usually only a matter of time until the vision I had from the beginning takes shape and becomes audible.
What was your inspiration?
When creating a remix, the primary source of inspiration is always what the artist already offers in the original track.
Sometimes, however, a single element can be so inspiring that it opens the door to an entirely new world. With remixes, there are naturally certain boundaries, because it doesn’t make sense to move too far away from the soul of the original song.
With BORGBORG in particular, my inspiration was to highlight aspects that the artist may not have heard in her own song — to create a new perspective through which she can rediscover and appreciate her composition with fresh ears.
How did you connect with BORGBORG?
We met about twenty years ago in a jazz club. We’ve been close friends and family ever since and have been making music together in both jazz bands and rather electronic music driven projects throughout the years.
LADA ( Dasha Rush & Lars Hemmerling )
How was the process of the remix?
In short. As we received the RMX-Files, Lars had just made some new presets on the Waldorf Microwave. We converted all synth audio files to midi files and were testing around with the new presets of the microwave.
The result was a very nice pad sound progression and we had a basis where we built up the RMX on. As we listen to the arpeggiator line of the track we initially had the thought this line will work perfectly with our Arp Odyssey.
Also we had the indention to change the pace of the piece. The Arp is really one of our favorite synths and Dasha’s first vinyl from a Lithuanian Synth-Pop-Band was produced with the Odyssey.
The Odyssey has a special characteristic especially if you do a little tiny fm-modulation to Oscillator 2 when both Oscillators are synced.
How did you approach creating something unique?
We always like to work with Midi-Files, when we do a RMX. This gives us the opportunity to implement our signature sound and also be flexible for experiments, like here with the beat structure. But in general if you have a listen to our view releases we did, we always try to create something unique and sometimes a piece is not necessarily dedicated for the dancefloor.
We think it is both in our DNA to do music or sound designs which are different to regular functional music dedicated for dance floor use only. What does not mean that we don’t like functionality for the dancefloor. The LADA-Tracks are always filled with a lot of ghostnotes, subtle accentuation and modulations. And as mentioned above this is in our DNA and the essence of the project.
What was your inspiration?
The original track.
How did you connect with BORGBORG?
We met Henning, the Partner of BorgBorg, at the first or second Atonal-Festival in Berlin. We had some exchanges about art projects and Henning introduced us to the work he does with the artist community in Düsseldorf.
Henning invited Lars to participate on a book project of “impersonal figure”. Lars also contributed a piece to the first about repetition release. Since then we are also in contact with BORGBORG as well.
Listen to BORGBORG’s Loveletter, featuring three remixes by Irakli, LADA and Fractal Void.
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