some friendly info: 8 gr8 bands

Since I'm so lax at providing any info here, I'll quickly jot some awesome artists' names, and where you can find them.  These bands are new, young, and to my knowledge, not mainstream yet.  But they are all very good.

4TRAKZ has a myspace and is a DJ.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGEqDps1gCc

CHRIS KRAWALL has a myspace and is a DJ.  http://soundcloud.com/chriskrawall/curry-und-krawall-live-and

THEATRE OF DISCO has a myspace and is a DJ.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsqgUYjAkgU

TREE WAVE has a myspace and is a BIT band.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKx8bZ5eq8

KAVINSKY has a myspace and is a DJ.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3uszxvNTHk

LOUIS LA ROCHE has a myspace and is a DJ.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdHDU6Olmh0

CRYSTAL CASTLES has a myspace and is a DJ/VOCAL duo.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaRfBNrkIyA

GLASS CANDY has a myspace and is a DJ/VOCAL duo.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNSLAvD-qI

19 - Royksopp

I have a fetish for Nordic Electronica, it seems. Royksopp, The Knife, Bjork, etc, are foreign enough and clean enough that their musical value is much higher in my mind than much of the recycled American pop. Not that Scandinavians are my only fetish. I'm realizing that I also love some Australian music (Theatre of Disco, MGMT), in addition to the obbbbbvious French music scene (Justice, Daft Punk, 4Trakz, etc).

It would really be impossible to choose my favorite Royksopp song, because on Melody AM, The Understanding, and Junior, I have not come across a single track that I dislike. These guys (Royksopp is the duo of Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge, according to Wikipedia) are straight up living legends.

For this time, consider my Royksopp pick to be the band and all its albums, because it would feel wrong to choose one song without carefully considering the wonderful rest of them.

The following songs on JUNIOR are particularly awesome: Happy Up Here, The Girl and the Robot, Vision One, This Must Be It, Royksopp Forever, Miss It So Much, Tricky Tricky, You Don't Have a Clue, Silver Cruiser, True To Life, It's What I Want.

For the unfamiliar, a quick note: that list is every song on the album. It is very close to perfection. You need to look Royksopp up. Now!

Also worth mentioning: the 4th Royksopp album, Senior, should hit stores in 2010, so start saving those pennies up in a jar!


Here's a song to get you started:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Bpx63wkbA