I will be playing music at Pavilion in Oslo one Thursday every month. The downbeat/leftfield/crackleblues ‘club’ will be called Flunkschool, and will take place one Thursday every month. Should be good fun, not Donna Summer and Lipp’s Inc. – but good music. Probably some new Flunk tracks every now and then, too.
The remix album ‘Democracy’ still has November 12 as official digital release. It will be out on CD as well, it turns out. Stay posted for release date.
Here is a brand new remix of ‘Morning Star’ track ‘Blind My Mind’. It’s one of the band’s favourite songs.
Listen to the mix at Kohibs MySpace page – he is one of the guys who did a remix of ‘Morning Star’ as Parliavox a couple of years ago.
And here’s another: An electro mix of ‘Blue Monday’!
Listen to Blue Monday (dkay Remix):
MP3:
More pics from our Bydgoszcz gig here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KBgo5un-zc&html5=True
Someone obviously had a camera on their mobile on our gig in Bydgoszcz on Saturday.
Enjoy – I wouldn’t know the quality, since I tend not to have great enjoyment in watching myself in motion.
The concert was great, though. 700+ people and good fun. Thanks a lot to all our Polish fans. We were really, really impressed!
Sorry about the silence, we’re still here.
Or rather, right now we are in Bydgoszcz in Poland to play at the Low-fi Festival. We play tonight at 9 pm. Should be good fun – it’s been while since we’ve been touring. And we’re excited about playing some of the ‘Personal Stereo’ songs for the first time.
Setlist tonight will be:
Personal Stereo
If We Kiss
Heavenly
Morning Star
Miss World
Play
Sit Down
See You
Diet of Water and Love
Six Seven Times
Haldi
See Thru You
Blind My Mind
Blue Monday
True Faith
We’re playing at the Hala Astoria, details here if you should be interested.
Of other news: The remix album is officially out on November 12.
But you can download the lot on our website.
We’re working on some new tracks as well, going in a quite different direction than before. But it’s hard so say where they’ll end up and when they wil be out.
Here is the tracklist for our remix album. All are from our ‘remix competition’:
01 Personal Stereo (First Man On Mars Remix)
02 If We Kiss (Astrojazz Remix)
03 Personal Stereo (Penny and Ashtray Remix)
04 Diet of Water and Love (Allicorn Smokey Den Remix)
05 Personal Stereo (Wet Cookies Remix)
06 Diet of Water and Love (Rumorse Remix)
07 Personal Stereo (Tomasz Bednarczyk Remix)
08 If We Kiss (Zee’s Chillin’ Remix)
09 Diet of Water and Love (Manu Remix)
10 Personal Stereo (Lume Remix)
11 Personal Stereo (Sagevik Remix)
12 Diet of Water and Love (Lume Remix)
13 Personal Stereo (Ian verone & Jolly Remix)
14 If We Kiss (Do I Get Help Lume Remix)
15 Personal Stereo (Sweet Version by One Man Orchestra)
16 If We Kiss (Howard Maple’s Personal Stereo Mix)
The plan is to release it on iTunes and other digital services at a nice price. All tracks will also be available as free downloads on our website soon, along with the mixes that did not get on the album (for practical reasons we had to limit the number of tracks to squeeze it on one CD, but we would have liked to put them all on the iTunes album).
We will have the release date soon.
We’ve had a ‘remix competition’ going for some months, and the ‘deadline’ was this week. We received more than 20 mixes of Personal Stereo, If We Kiss and Diet of Water and Love, and at least two facts are quite overwhelming:
a) Almost all of them are really, really fresh and interesting sounds, and thankfully a bunch of the mixes also could be described as ‘slightly odd’. A tag we like! :-)
b) The mixes have come from all over – from Norway to Australia and Canada.
First of all, thanks to you all!
We will put together an album of most of the mixes (within the time limits of one CD). It will be released digitally, and hopefully we will be able to make it a totally free album. Have to get back to you on that one (not sure if iTunes etc dig the idea…). We’ve decided to call it Democracy, and the full tracklist will be on our website shortly!
You can listen to most of the mixes via our remix page.
Hope summer’s treating you well!
Just a few words from us – first of all Flunk are artist of the month on Auralgasms.com.
Click the picture above to access their radio.
The Nancy Drew movie featuring our Blue Monday version (it’s also on the soundtrack) premiered in the US in June, on Friday August 10 it’s in the theatres in Norway.
Just realised how the song is used in the movie. Here’s from a review in Newsweek/msnbc.com:
Nancy’s ditched the hybrid and is back in a retro-cool 1959 blue roadster. She also wears outfits cut from vintage Butterick patterns. Yet she does Internet research, listens to Flunk on her iPod and attends ultrahip Hollywood High.
The review in The Domonion Post (New Zealand) is finding the scene slightly annoying:
Even the anachronisms are out of whack in Nancy’s world. This kid drives a beautifully restored Nash Metropolitan, opines that “nothing sounds like vinyl”, and then downloads Flunk’s 2002 Blue Monday remake on to her oft-seen iPod: Product placement is always irritating, but it’s not usually completely nonsensical.
A new mix of Diet of Water and Love has arrived – by Lume (Manchester, UK). Check it out on his MySpace site!