More water and love
Check out a new mix of Diet of Water and Love on the remix page on our ‘official site’. It’s by Rumorse, from Valencia, Spain, but now living in Australia. Nice one!
Or check it out on his MySpace site (player #2!).
Author: Ulf
Some reviews
Here’s a few reviews of Personal Stereo:
XLR8R
Says: One of Norway’s leading exports (next to oil, cosmic disco, and Viking insignia)
musicisart
Says: they maintain their steady structure of sincere and colorful emotion.
CD-Kritik (German)
Says: Personal stereo” ist am schönsten als Gesamtkunstwerk, ein Schatzkästchen mit kleinen, betont unprätentiösen Liedern, die man am liebsten mit dem Kopfhörer, ganz für sich allein, hören möchte.
Personal mix
New add on our remix ‘competition’ page – Personal Stereo goes all new rave rock! It’s by First Man On Mars – check it out on his Myspace site.
Takes the track into totally new territory!
Here comes summer!
The situation is like this: It’s close to midnight, and it’s actually pleasant to sit on the balcony in shorts. Summer has come to Norway, the real thing, with 25 degrees plus, even close to 20 during the night. And we’ve been waiting for this for seven or eight months. Sometimes I can’t believe we’re putting ourselves through all that darkness and cold. But by doing so, we can experience this eruption. I guess.
Anja will be doing her exams next week, then she’s free. And also a doctor if all goes well.
Jo is still taking care of the business of wondering what to do, I guess. And I’m doing my bit of 9-5, but I’m also back in the studio working on some new tracks. A bit of everything, really, but I have this little feeling we’re going to do a new album pretty soon. An under-produced kind of thing. I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but I have this feeling…
And it might be we’ll do a handful of covers. There are some songs I’d love to do – I’m Going Down by Springsteen, maybe a Jesus and Mary Chain (they’re playing in Oslo in August) song (maybe Cherry Came Too), we have a version of New Order‘s Dream Attack which sounds at least half as good as the original… And maybe something Radiohead‘s done – maybe Karma Police. There are also some outtakes from Personal Stereo which really aren’t quite what we usually do, but still killer tracks by any standards.
Daily treats right now: The Funeral by Band of Horses, I’m Going Down by Bruce, the Dntel album.
The general feeling is that I agree with Jarvis Cocker that pop is dead (The Guardian), but I’m not sure if I’m bothered – since there is so much great music from this and past decades. Check out Sugarcubes‘ Life’s Too Good (sounds more fresh than ten years ago, anyway!), Joy Division‘s Unknown Pleasures, Byrne/Eno‘s My Life In the Bush of Ghosts (hard to believe it was released back in 1981), New Order‘s Movement and Power Corruption & Lies (still think it’s the best of the best, (I just heard Peter Hook is coming to Oslo in the autumn to DJ, just down the road) – also I’ve had almost daily rounds of Nirvana‘s In Utero, which suddenly seems much more polished (in the good way) than before, suddenly it’s like pop music. And it feels good…
Oh, well. Charts are dead, maybe, but pop… not!
In the Depeche mode
Please check out depechemodecovers.com, ‘the (al)Most Complete Depeche Mode Cover Versions’ site. Flunk was added last week – and you will find there are quite a few bands who have covered See You before us…
On the Flunk website, a number of remixes from all around the world have been added on our remix page. Check them out, there are some really good ones!
It’s world wide!
The Personal Stereo album is now available world wide. Since our label Beatservice use indie distributors in the various countries there will be shops that don’t have the album in store. But if requested, they should have easy access to our album.
Meanwhile, here’s a link to the official site for the forthcoming Nancy Drew movie featuring our Blue Monday version.
And you can still listen to Personal Stereo on our website!
New album available today
Our new album is now available on iTunes. Buy it here!
We will have a release party at Pavilion in Oslo at 8pm tonight.
Remember that you can listen to the new album as much as you like on the Flunk website.
Remix competition
We have already received one remix after announcing our remix competition this week. We have set August 1 as deadline, knowing that some people in the business of making good music need time to get to it…
But just keep the mixes coming. We’ll put them out on the official Flunk website as they arrive, and some time in the autumn there will be a remix release.
The remix already in was done by Tomasz Bednarczyk from Poland. Listen to his Personal Stereo mix here. Tomasz also has a MySpace site.
You will find audio files and info on the remixes here.
More movie ecstasy
Seems our Blue Monday cover is up for more soundtrack action. This time it will feature in the movie based on the Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting etc) novel Ecstasy. They’re not going to shoot until June, but according to the producers we’re on.
Remix Flunk
We have put out vocal/instrument files from three of the Personal Stereo tracks on our website. Feel free to do a remix. We will definitely put it out if we like it!