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And here’s the remix album

Democracy Sleeve frontDemocracy Sleeve back

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.

Democracy is free. Possibly.

Democracy sleeve

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.

And now, the news…

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.

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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.

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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!

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.

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