Paddan’s Sigtryggur Baldursson and Birgir Mogensen are lifelong friends from Kópavogur, Iceland, who started as mates on the local football team, then graduated to making music together as teenagers and even later as young men doing time in the DIY collective KUKL, from 1983 - 1986.  Released by London-based Crass, KUKL was populated by survivors of the post-punk scene in Iceland in the early 80s, well documented in the 1982 film “Rock in Reykjavik”. In addition to Birgir and Sigtryggur, it featured Guðlaugur Óttarsson, Einar Melax, Björk and Einar Örn, some of whom would become better known later in outfits like the Sugarcubes and their respective solo work and other collaborations.

Paddan’s Sigtryggur Baldursson and Birgir Mogensen are lifelong friends from Kópavogur, Iceland, who started as mates on the local football team, then graduated to making music together as teenagers and even later as young men doing time in the DIY collective KUKL, from 1983 - 1986.  Released by London-based Crass, KUKL was populated by survivors of the post-punk scene in Iceland in the early 80s, well documented in the 1982 film “Rock in Reykjavik”.

In addition to Birgir and Sigtryggur, it featured Guðlaugur Óttarsson, Einar Melax, Björk and Einar Örn, some of whom would become better known later in outfits like the Sugarcubes and their respective solo work and other collaborations.

Now older and perhaps wiser, Birgir and Sigtryggur inevitably came together again to form Paddan, and “Fluid Time” is their first proper EP. A recording inspired by the very perception of time and space, the songs fill the room as the instrumental tracks pull as much from free-form jazz as they do from the punk experimentalism that informed their youth. 

Recorded, produced and arranged by the pair, Sigtryggur and Birgir play basses, drums, and various other instruments. They are joined by the eminent harmonica and lap steel-wielding Gaukur Davidsson on two tunes, “Vaguely” and “Bug”,  and trumpet maestro Eirikur Orri Ólafsson on “Splash”, not to mention the mixing expertise of Vaccines bassist Arni Hjörvar Árnason on three tunes, “Bug”, “Splash” and “Kokka”, and sound wizard Albert Finnbogason on “Vaguely.  “Fluid Time” was released by Washington DC-based label Lovitt Records, who first met Sigtryggur at the annual Iceland Airwaves festival and bonded over a mutual love of music regardless of genre or decade.