Under the moniker of Varg2™, Jonas Rönnberg runs a cunning operation.

Covert transmissions, alongside penetrating statements from techno’s core, are stacked adjacent to self-assertive live performances with an agility and depth of focus rarely summoned so instinctively. With a still-rising presence, Rönnberg makes sense of the decadent overdose privy to underground musics at this time. And producing work on his own prolific schedule, his barely controlled chaos isn’t stopping to check that you’ve noticed.

 

Presiding over Stockholm’s Northern Electronics label with Anthony Linell, Rönnberg casts a cryptic shadow from the North over contemporary platforms in club musics as well as the long arc of experimental music practices. The dynamic set of works that comprise the Nordic Flora Series are a keen example of this breadth and are a key of sorts to the artist. This year's Sky City EPs, along with the album 'Evanescence (A Love Letter)', refract expectations and transact damage spectacularly.

 

 

It takes a vandal’s logic of intuition to make this work, let alone make it this thrilling. But if you can break into the penthouse, you may as well stay and coerce the havoc with a bottle of someone else’s champagne in hand. And, yes, you should be suspicious of what you know you haven’t seen—it’s obviously intimidating.