Monthly Archives: April 2005

Tree Wave, cabana ep for free!!!

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Tweet Wow! This is such great and interesting music, and it’s a whole ep for free. Tree Wave’s marvellous Cabana ep is now out as a netlabel release on the internet archive. It’s out on Observatory online’s archive page. The music is very special; all music is made by really old computer stuff, printers and comodore 64 machines…. and Lauren Gray’s beautiful voice. Download the ep, its artwork and enjoy!

Kawaii – norwegian kawaii pop?

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Tweet The term “casio pop” gets a new meaning when the norwegian duo Kawaii play their half-naive synth-pop, – absolutely with a casio-feel… The band is named after another synth, Kawaii, – so will this be kawaii-pop then? Confused? Kawaii released their debut album “if it shines, we have it” on the american label Shelflife records in november 2004, with a mix of male and female vocals over crisp electro-beats, toy keyboards, organs and jazzy guitars. It’s sweet, summery and …

CDOASS-interview

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Tweet Eardrums has interviewed Peter Nilsson, the man who is responsible for CDOASS’ catchy and infectous Basslines. Soundtrack while reading: CDOASS – speak to me So far, 2005 has been a very good year for swedish dancerockfunkpunks CDOASS. They have had a successful tour as supportband for The Hives in Europe. Their single “Speak to me” has been playlisted on MTV and hyped by music magazines all over, including the NME. Their debutalbum “Extra fingers” is close to release, and …

The Lionheart brothers

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Tweet For our foreign readers (and every norwegian who hasn’t heard their music), – we reccommend this band from Trondheim: The Lionheart brothers. They are inspired by the brittish shoegazer scene of the 90s, and sounds like an updated version of MBV or slowdive.Their website includes both mp3s and videos. Here’s a song: The polar dilemma. Two more on their website.

Schtimm

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Tweet North-norwegians Schtimm will release a 3rd single from the album “featuring…” this spring. The track is “IDIOTsong” and a video is under production. The track and video will be available for download on the bands website soon. Here is a track from their latest album “featuring”, and this popsong is featuring Hank von Helvete, the singer in Turbonegro on vocals. Hank is also the singer on “idiotsong”.Schtimm feat Hank – waybackthens More MP3s + videos are available at the …

wan light

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Tweet Labrador has a new release out now, – wan light: “that grim reality” (ep).The ep includes five new tracks, and the label claims that the title song is definitely one of the best songs ever on Labrador. In the labrador newsletter the sound describes like a Swedish version of Galaxie 500 being remixed by Postal Service.Here is an older track:Wan Light: In the heart of Sarah Freeman And we are waiting with excitement for the next labrador releases from …

Momus the brave

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Tweet Momus is a strange fellow who always has made interesting and funny kind of cabaretesque music, – very much based on his intelligent and often biting lyrics. I discovered him in 1988, when he released his fantastic Tender Pervert-album. He is a strange fellow, ok, but he is also a brave fellow. On his website, he has uploaded his latest album “Otto Spooky” in full, – but not as it is released; this is premix versions, – the songs …