About This Project

tech x copper is an experimental collaboration exploring rhythm, memory, and fractured experience. After years of touring and recording with other acts, Leifur returns with a deeply personal sonic excavation. Built from unfinished ideas, voice notes, and analog synth experiments collected over time. Together with drummer and sound artist Sólrún and co-produced with Howie B this project is about shaping instinctive textures into form.. somewhere between structure and drift.

Digging through old hard drives, some ideas began taking on new forms and new meaning, shifting from fragments into something new. Sounds from the past started framing a moment in time. The debut EP includes contributions from Ásta Fanney (vocals) and marks a new phase for Leifur and Sólrún as collaborators in instinctive, analog-rooted electronic composition.

Bios

Leifur Björns

Leifur Björns is an Icelandic experimental electronic composer, producer and songwriter. He has worked with artists such as Klemens Hannigan, Low Roar and Cheek Mountain Thief.

Born in the UK and raised in Iceland, Leifur is a multi-instrumentalist who grew up playing in local punk and rock bands. His first international collaboration was the concept album Cheek Mountain Thief with Tunng’s Mike Lindsay, released on the UK indie label Full Time Hobby.

Later while working with Lindsay on a Low Roar record, Leifur joined the band and toured extensively across Europe and the US, sharing stages with Ásgeir, Active Child, Hozier and recording with Grammy-winning producer Andrew Scheps in Los Angeles.

His music has since appeared in projects like Death Stranding (Kojima Productions), advertising campaigns for Allstate, and on ABC and MTV. More recently, Leifur has been focused on composition and production whilst based in Iceland.

With tech x copper Leifur steps into new terrain — raw, textural, instinct-driven — blending analog memory with present intuition in close collaboration with Sólrún and Howie B.

solrun

Sólrún Mjöll Kjartansdóttir is an Icelandic drummer and sound artist, active across theatre, recording, and experimental music. A versatile performer, she has worked with artists such as Una Torfa, GDRN, gugusar and Ceasetone. Sólrún is a founding member of FLOTT, a critically acclaimed band awarded at the Icelandic Music Awards for their distinctive style and lyrics. She has performed internationally at festivals such as SXSW and Taste of Iceland, and contributed to music for theatre, film, and TV. With tech x copper, she brings a raw rhythmic intensity and deep textural instinct to the collaboration.
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Collaborators

ÁSTA FANNEY

Vocals
A vital voice in contemporary art, music and poetry, Ásta Fanney is a multidisciplinary sound, performance, and visual artist who represented Iceland at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026. Her unique vocal presence and meticulously crafted soundscapes bring a raw texture and deep intuition to the project.

HOWIE B.

Co-writer, co-producer... Seminal UK producer known for work with Björk, U2, and Tricky. A co-writer and creative anchor in the studio, he brings decades of sonic exploration to tech x copper.

Styrmir Hauks

Styrmir Hauksson is an Icelandic recording engineer, producer, and composer known for his textural approach to sound and detail-rich mixes. With a background in experimental, film and popular music, Styrmir has worked across genres with artists in Iceland and abroad. For tech x copper, he contributes production, arrangements, and mixing, shaping the sonic architecture of the project.

tech x copper

debut EP - album I

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Intro