Blue Foundation

Blue Foundation er en musikgruppe dannet i London af Tobias Wilner. 
Det særegne og umiskendelige ved Blue Foundation opstår i mødet mellem de to stærke bagmænd, Bo Rande og Tobias Wilner. De har hver deres indfaldsvinkel til musikaliteten, uden at miste den fælles interesse for at skabe iørefaldende pop-melodier. Blue Foundation har opnået stor international succes med deres drømmende og filmiske lyd. De er specielt kendt for deres sange Eyes on Fire fra Twilight Saga og Sweep fra Michael Manns Miami Vice.
 
Blue Foundation har udgivet seks studiealbum, senest det kritikerroste album Blood Moon fra september 2016 og Silent Dream fra 2019.

Blue Foundation udsendte i efteråret 2016 albummet ”Blood Moon”, som modtog overstrømmende gode anmeldelser. Blandt andet tildelte Soundvenue albummet 5 stjerner under overskriften ”Ultraambitiøst post-pop-udspil”. Gaffa gik også helt op på de høje violiner med fuldt hus - 6 stjerner - under overskriften ”Det tabte findes i atmosfæriske venner”. 

Blood Moon udfolder sig omkring de to frontmænd, deres lydunivers og Tobias Wilners vokal ofte i samklang med prominente kunstnere som Mark Kozelek (Sun Kill Moon), Erika Spring (Au Revoir Simone), Jonas Bjerre (Mew), Sonya Kitchell, Sara Savery (aka Drop the Gun) og Findlay Brown. 

På albummet Life of a Ghost fra 2007 tager Tobias Wilner bandet i en ny og mere dyster retning. Der er referencer til tidlig The Cure, Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Swirlies men de har også dykket dybere ned og udforsket genrer som black metal.

I 2008 optog Tobias Wilner sangen Watch you Sleeping med den amerikanske sangskriver Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon) og daværende medlem Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjærg. Sangen blev udgivet på Tobias Wilners pladeselskab DPC Records.

Discografi

Studiealbummer 
 Blue Foundation aka 33 (April Records 2001)
 Sweep of Days (Virgin 2004)
 Solid Origami collected, reworked and remixed (Pop Group 2006)
 Life of a Ghost (EMI/Astralwerks 2009)
 "In My Mind I Am Free" (Dead People's Choice 2012)
 "In My Mind I Am Free / Reconstructed" (Dead People's Choice 2013)
 Blood Moon (Dead People's Choice 2016)
 Silent Dream (KØN 2019)

EP 
 Dead People's Choice (Dead People's Choice 2007)
 Live In Zhangbei (Dead People's Choice 2015)
 It Begins (Dead People's Choice 2016)
 Live From Brooklyn (Dead People's Choice 2016)
 Eyes On Fire (Re-Work, Remix & Instrumentals) (Dead People's Choice 2016)
 Brother & Sister (Dead People's Choice 2018)

Singler 
 Hollywood & Hide 7" (Moshi Moshi Records 2000)
 Hollywood & Wiseguy 12" (April Records 2000)
 As I Moved On 12" (Virgin 2003)
 End of the Day (Virgin 2004)
 This is Goodbye (Virgin 2005)
 Embers 7" (Jack To Phono Records 2005)
 Crosshair (Virgin 2006)
 Enemy (EMI 2007)
 Eyes on Fire (EMI 2009)
 Watch you Sleeping feat. Mark Kozelek / Dream (3:11PM) (DPC Records 2009)
 Heads on Fire (DPC Records 2011)
 Red Hook (DPC Records 2011)
 Lost (DPC Records 2012)
 Eyes On Fire Re-Recorded (DPC Records 2015)
 Så Længe Jeg Lever (DPC Records 2016)
 Dreams On Fire (DPC Records 2016)
 Lost Girl feat. Jonas Bjerre (DPC Records 2016)
 Watch You Sleeping feat. Mark Kozelek (DPC Records 2016)
 Stay For Christmas (DPC Records 2018)
 Where The End Begins (KØN 2019)
 Shadow (KØN 2019)
 Shadow Sheild Remix (KØN 2019)

Remix 
 Klart der! Jorden Kalder Blue Foundation & Mixologists Remix (2000)
 Mew Symmetry Blue Foundation (2000)
 Fauna Flash Mother Nature Blue Foundation Remix (Compost 2001)
 Jonas Bjerre Window Pane Blue Foundation Remix (PLUK 2011)
 Ghost Society Under The Sun Blue Foundation Remix (DPC 2013)
 Apparatjik Datascroller Blue Foundation Remix (DPC 2013)
 Easy Easy Katana Blue Foundation Remix (Future Archive Recordins 2020)

Opsamlinger 
 Confusion (Compost Records 2003)
 Benetton's Colors: A Nordic Compilation (Irma Records 2003)
 Warp Factor (King Kladze Records/Time Warp 2003)
 Who Shot Jacques Laverne? (Jack To Phono Records 2004)
 We Got Monkeys: Five Years Of Moshi Moshi Records (Moshi Moshi Records 2005)
 Paris mixed by Nick Warren (Global Underground 2007)
 Sequential vol 2. mixed by Hernan Cattaneo (Renainnance 2007)
 Director's Cut: Music from the Films of Michael Mann (Rhino 2007)
 Sirenes (Spectacle Entertainment 2008)
 Michael Moshi's Moshi Mixtape (Moshi Moshi Records 2010)
 Compost Downbeat Selection, Vol. 1 (Compost 2010)
 Sound of Dubstep 3 (Ministry of Sound 2011)
 Together We Are Not Alone (THISTIME 2011)

Udvalgte Soundtracks 
 Drabet (Zentropa/EMI) August 26, 2005
 Miami Vice (Atlantic Recording) July 18, 2006
 Twilight (Chop Shop Records/Atlantic Recording) November 04, 2008
 Normal (Bontonfilm) March 26, 2009
 Tankograd (DPC Records) May 16, 2011

Udvalgte TV-Shows 
 The O.C. – Season 2, Episode 7: The Family Ties, feat. Save This Town by Blue Foundation (Warner Bros. Television/Fox Network) January 6, 2005
 CSI: Miami – feat. End of the Day by Blue Foundation (CBS) 2008
 Anna Pihl – feat. Crosshair by Blue Foundation (Cosmo Film/Danish National TV) 2008
 So You Think You Can Dance – 1 episode, Top 14 Perform feat. Eyes On Fire by Blue Foundation (19 Television/20th Century Fox Television) Jul 1, 2009

Musik for Moderne Dans 
 Overloadlady by Sara Gebran. Musical scores by Tobias Wilner (pre-Blue Foundation). Premiered August 1999
 Hurtdetail by Tim Feldmann. Musical scores by Tobias Wilner (Blue Foundation). Premiered at "Plovdiv Center of Contemporary Art" in Bulgaria, on May 13th 2000.
 Hendrix House by Tim Feldmann. Musical scores by Tobias Wilner (Blue Foundation) and David Linton. Premiered at Pakhus 11 April 22nd 2003
 eXPLORnography by Tim Feldmann. Musical scores by Tobias Wilner (Blue Foundation). May 2005

Medlemmer 
Nuværende
 Tobias Wilner – vokal, bas guitar, guitar, programmering, synthesizer, percussion, produktion, teknik 
 Bo Rande – trumpet, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion, vokal

Tidligere
 Daisuke Kiyasu – vj (2003-2006)
 Anders Bertram – guitar, elektronik, sampling, produktion (2000-2002)
 Tatsuki Oshima – vinyl manipulation (2003-2007)
 Scott Martingell – spoken words (2003-2008)
 Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjærg – vokal (2000-2009)
 Frederik Hantho – spoken words (2000-2002)
 Hans Landgreen – guitar, bas (2009-2010)
 Mathias Hantho – violin, banjo (2009-2010)
 Christoffer Ohlsson – cello (2003-2006)
 Sune Martin – bas (2003-2007)
 Anders Wallin – bas (2007-2008)
 Nikolaj Bundvig – trommer (2006-2007)
 Emil Bernild Ferslev – trommer (2000-2001)
 Lasse Herbst – trommer (2007-2008)

Sideprojekter 
 Ghost Society
 Bichi
 The William Blakes
 Mames Babegenush

Priser 

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| 2005
| Sweep of Days
| Danish Music Awards: Best Urban Album of the year
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| 2005
| Blue Foundation
| Danish Music Awards: Best Act of the year
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| 2005
| Blue Foundation
| Steppeulven (The critics prize): Band of the year
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| 2005
| Blue Foundation
| Steppeulven (The critics prize): Best live act of the year
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| 2005
| Blue Foundation
| Steppeulven (The critics prize): Best producer of the year
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| 2006
| Blue Foundation's "This is Goodbye" (From the film Drabet)
| Robert Awards: Song of the year
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| 2009
| Twilight (soundtrack)  (feat. Blue Foundation "Eyes On Fire")
| American Music Awards of 2009: Favorite Soundtrack
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| 2010
| Twilight (soundtrack) (feat. Blue Foundation "Eyes On Fire")
| Grammy: Best Soundtrack
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| 2017
| ''Blue Foundation'
| Gaffa Prisen: Årets danske elektroniske udgivelse
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Kilder

Eksterne henvisninger 
 Officielt website
 

Musikgrupper fra Danmark
Musikgrupper fra 2000