Flavor of the week #37

Royksopp
www.myspace.com/royksopp  
http://royksopp.com
( ;D --> Named after a kind of fungi, Röyksopp was formed in 1998 by Norwegians Torbjörn Brundtland and Svein Berge who delivered a new kind of electronica with their debut album Melody A.M. in 2001.
The sound was a big hit with the advertising world and tracks were co-opted for a variety of products including a Apple, an insurance group and broadcasters in the US and the UK.
With their taste for experimentation extending to their videos, they won an MTV Europe award for "Remind Me" from their second album The Understanding.
The band's skills as producers have been utilized with remixes for Beck, Coldplay and Peter Gabriel and they were invited to do a compilation album for the Back To Mine series in 2006.)
Senior
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( ;D --> An introduction to Senior by the band: Junior and Senior have a kinship, in that they represent Röyksopp’s two very different artistic expressions. Junior – with emphasis on vocals, accessible melodies and harmonies, has the energy, the inquisitive temper and confident “hey-ho, let’s go!”-attitude of youth, whereas Senior is the introverted, dwelling and sometimes graceful counterpart – brimfull with dark secrets and distorted memories, insisting “I’m old, I’ve got experince…”. Senior is furthermore an album about age, horses and being subdued – with devils breathing down your neck. Senior was written as a complete set of tracks, each designated to take a specific part in the bigger piece. All individual tracks have been made with the intent of coexisting with the other tracks on the album. Each track is equally as important as its predecessor and successor. We feel that none of the tracks should be regarded outside of this context, ie. separated from the rest of the album. Quite a brave/stupid thing to do in this day & age of iPods and cherrypicking, one might suggest. We couldn’t agree more – hell that’s even probably why we did it.)
The Drug
http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/8357-royksopp-the-drug-mute
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/03/flavor-of-week-11.html
and:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/05/flavor-of-week-22.html


Trakktor
www.myspace.com/trakktor
http://trakktor.se
( ;D --> Swedish Dark Electro/Aggrotech/Techno from "KarlsWoods")
Force Majeure
http://www.trakktor.se/force.html
Promo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZkFGDilAG8&feature=player_embedded#!
(Smör.. -eller hur Pierre ;))


Hurts
www.informationhurts.com
www.myspace.com/ithurts
( ;D --> Debute duo Adam Anderson and Theo Hutchcraft from Manchester delivers interesting a Neo-classical "Synth Sound alá Depeche Mode/elegant machinery.)
Happiness
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/flavor-of-week-25.html


The Residents
www.myspace.com/theresidents
www.residents.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents
( ;D --> Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise -- usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks -- and refusing to grant media interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart, the Residents channelled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of theatrical performance and multimedia interaction.)
Ten Little Piggies
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( ;D --> The Residents have been on quite a creative streak in the first decade of the new millennium, with a bunch of new albums, a pretty extensive reissue campaign, and retrospectives like the Kettles of Fish compilation. And judging from the "futurist compilation" Ten Little Piggies, they aren't slowing down at all. The "Ten Little Piggies" referred to are actually ten different projects that may or may not be completed and/or released (actually, as of the release date in late 2009, a couple of the projects have been released as downloads only and The Ughs! received a physical release as well). It's quite a mix. Several of these projects revisit earlier ones, like the Tweedles and Voice of Midnight instrumentals, which are interesting because those albums were originally so driven by narrative that the music was almost secondary. Apparently, they're also working on a Duck Stab Re-Imagined album, represented here by an almost drum'n'bass-style &"Semolina" and a surprisingly dark take on &"Laughing Song," reduced almost entirely to percussion. There are a couple of soundtrack projects (Strange Culture and Haeckel's Tale) and a couple extensions of the Bunny Boy saga: &"Arkansas" and a live album from the Bunny Boy tour. Perhaps the two best tracks come from the Talking Light project, described as "interpretive storytelling with an interactive electronic score"..."based on a mix of improvisation and scoring." They're both creepy and hilarious in that special Residents way. Will all these projects see the full light of day? Who knows. But Ten Little Piggies is further proof (if you needed any) that the Residents are certainly among the most restlessly creative and productive groups in the history of mankind.)
Animal Lover
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Demons Dance Alone
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/12/flavor-of-week-50.html
and:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/11/flavor-of-week-47.html
( ;( --> RalphAmerica Godby?!)
http://www.ralphamerica.com/
www.residents.com/historical/page85/page90/page91/page91.html
http://residents.com/ralph


Neon Indian
www.myspace.com/neonindian 
( ;D --> Neon Indian is Alan Palomo, the 21-year-old synth-wizard who first created waves as VEGA. After writing a batch of off-the-cuff recordings that weren’t quite right as VEGA songs, Palomo released them as Neon Indian and what started as a careless outlet for ideas too offbeat to fit the VEGA mold has since gone on to define a genre.)
Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed (Dig)
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Psychic Chasms
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Psychic chasms Anoraak-remix
http://soundcloud.com/anoraak/neon-indian-o-psychic-chasms-anoraak-remix

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