Hird was the alias of Christoffer Berg, a multi-instrumentalist out of Gothenburg. Warm, jazz-flavoured downtempo on Stockholm's Dealers of Nordic Music (DNM), with Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon on vocals. His track 'Burn 2' (4:50) showed up in August 2003 as the B1 on the I Love You My Friends 12-inch EP (DNM, DNMEP004), next to 'Fading Blues' with Nagano singing. Berg went on to be a sought-after producer and sound designer, working with The Knife, Fever Ray and Depeche Mode. And get this: his Gothenburg studio houses one of the very first synthesizers made in Europe.
From the notes for EKHO Sonic Chill #14 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.
Hear Hird on EKHO Sonic Chill #14 · song 4
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The records
Where I played them
“Burn 2”
EKHO Sonic Chill #14 · song 4 · from I Love You My Friends EP
“Keep You Kimi” with Yukimi Nagano
EKHO Sonic Chill #4 · song 6 · from Moving On
