Carbon Based Lifeforms

Carbon Based Lifeforms
Carbon Based Lifeforms performing in 2009
Background information
Origin	Gothenburg, Sweden
Genres	Ambient, downtempo, psybient, chill out
Years active	1996–present
Labels	Ultimae (former) Blood Music (CD, vinyl) Leftfield Records (digital)
Members	Johannes Hedberg Daniel Vadestrid
Website	www.carbonbasedlifeforms.net

Carbon Based Lifeforms is a Swedish electronic music duo. It was formed in Gothenburg in 1996 by Johannes Hedberg and Daniel Vadestrid (né Ringström).

Other projects

In March 2022, Vadestrid announced that he had completed the first draft of a book about the history of the band. Its working title is The Path to Derelicts.

Discography

Studio albums

• The Path (1998, as their previous incarnation Notch)
• Hydroponic Garden (2003)
• World of Sleepers (2006)
• Interloper (2010)
• Twentythree (2011)
• Derelicts (2017)
• Stochastic (2021)

Compilations

• Alt:01 (2016; collection of previously unreleased live tracks and remixes)
• Alt:02 (2020)

Soundtracks

• SteamWorld video game
• Refuge: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2013)

EPs

• Irdial (2008)
• VLA (2011)
• Mos 6581 Remixes (2016)
• Photosynthesis Remixes (2016)
• 20 Minutes (2021)

DJ mixes Regrouped compilations of other artists made by CBL.

• Isolatedmix 23 (2011)

Appearances

Album	Title	Year	Label
Albedo	"Digital Child"	2005	Ultimae Records
Ease Division 3	Endospore	2008	Spiral Trax
Enigmatic Dream	"Epicentre"	2011	RMG Records
Europe	"Vakna"	2015	A Strangely Isolated Place
Fahrenheit Project part 3	"Metrosat 4"	2002	Ultimae Records
Fahrenheit Project part 4	"Epicentre (Second Movement)" "Decompression"	2003
Fahrenheit Project part 5	"T-Rex Echoes"	2005
Future Memories	"Reaktion"	2008	Interchill Records
Visions	"Carbon Based Lifeforms Vision"	2016	Mystic & Quantum

Other websites

• Official website
• Carbon Based Lifeforms at last.fm