Tomas Barfod - Things That Matter Feat. Louise Foo & Sharin Foo

Danish electronic producer Tomas Barfod got his start as the drummer for Copenhagen-based electronic trio WhoMadeWho, whose detached, paranoiac pulsations marked them as peers of bands like the Presets and Hot Chip. As a solo artist, Barfod crafts heady minimal techno that doesn’t exist on the dance floor so much as does in the astral space above it.

his new single “Things That Matter,” Barfod enlisted the Raveonettes’ Sharin Foo and her sister, visual artist and musician Louise Foo. The track is a first taste of Barfod’s upcoming fourth solo full-length, Paloma, which arrives November 3 via Friends of Friends. (Paloma, by the way, is a feminine name derived from the Latin word for “dove,” and also a grapefruit-tequila cocktail.)  * shout out to the Spainies I kicked it with one summer in 2011 for the palomas “Things That Matter”, a propulsive dancefloor number featuring a duet from Louise and Sharin Foo and sparkling, hopeful synth work.