This year’s summer compilation is a mixtape comprising 24 tracks by Swedish artists and bands where each track represents one hour of a typical Swedish summer day. I did not mean to patronize or canonize my own country’s music and culture - but with a risk of coming across as, dare I say nationalistic, this [...]

This band has just blown my mind. If I say The Knife meets Animal Collective and you don’t shit your pants, then wait til you hear We Are The World’s music. The above promo pic is absolutely brilliant and so is their haunting tunes of electronic noise, harsh and raw electro beats, vague allusions to [...]

Dan Lissvik a.k.a D. Lissvik, one half of Studio for those who didn’t know, released a solo album last year, for those who didn’t know. It was called 7 Trx + Intermission and was full of exotic atmospheres, minimal disco grooves and hypnotizing instrumental strumming and pummelling on all sorts of instruments. Get it!
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Of course Fever Ray’s debut album can’t recreate the haunting soundscapes of the clash between dream and nightmare of Silent Shout, but it’s nonetheless a suggestive and out-of-this-world experience that shouldn’t be missed this year. Dark, exotic and mysteriously calm, it comes across as rather heartless but not particularly evil either, and that’s what makes [...]

Two popular and quite popular videos right now is of course The Presets‘ If I Know You and Fever Ray’s When I Grow Up.
We’ll see if and when When I Grow Up will get a single release and who will be remixing it. Yes, it’s 2009! I can easily guess that there’s going to be [...]