Trentemøller

The Last Resort

Anders Trentemøller was born on October 16, 1972 in Vordingborg, Denmark, and lives in Copenhagen. He began in indie rock bands in the late 1990s, inspired by English bands like the Smiths, and made electronic 12-inch EPs in 2003 to 2005, including Trentemøller EP and Beta Boy. His debut album, The Last Resort, came out on October 9, 2006 on Poker Flat Recordings, and he won the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix of the Year for 2006. In 2007 he toured with a full band for the first time, with Henrik Vibskov on drums and Mikael Simpson on guitar, played Glastonbury, Roskilde and Melt!, and won Danish Music Awards for electronica release and producer of the year. The Trentemøller Chronicles (October 1, 2007) was a remix set.

He won two Beatport awards in 2008, headlined Roskilde's Orange Stage in 2009 to about 60,000 people, and was nominated for a Grammy for his remix of Franz Ferdinand's "No You Girls". He founded the In My Room label in 2010 to keep creative control, and released Into the Great Wide Yonder (2010), Lost (2013, with Low, Jonny Pierce of the Drums and Kazu Makino), Fixion (September 16, 2016), Obverse (2019), Memoria (2022) and Dreamweaver (September 13, 2024). He played Coachella in 2011, supported Depeche Mode in 2013 and wrote the theme for AMC's Halt and Catch Fire; a documentary, The Science of Fixion, followed in 2017. His cited influences include Siouxsie and the Banshees, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Joy Division and the Cure.