Skugge & Stavöstrand - Ängel (12") / humla (LP) / gräns (12")
label . onitor
release date . april/may 2005
Just a tiny reminder for thoose who don't want to miss the releasedate of the first full length of scandinavian's dreamteam at onitor. After a first collaboration in 2004 ("rheinsberger ep") and an intensive bootcamp in sweden last june, johan and mikael are back with an album and two ep's that underline once again that both are not limited to minimal and far away from dogmatism and genre-fixes.
Humla convinces with intelligent percussive structures, well aranged within floating textures of discreetly vocals & electronics and surprises with a clear crystalline sound that seems to reflect the crackling atmosphere at johan’s “Castillo del Diablo”-studio last summer. The result of their straight work: the album "humla" and two EPs "ängel" & "gräns".
"... The tracks come with a huge variety. They are hectic, but still they find their balance to go straight enough to get your booty on the dance floor. You find the often dropped academic dance floor in these tunes,but in a never before experienced hedonistic way. Their compositions lacks all kinds of traditional structure, instead they use an ever going flow of small (and big) changes and developments which takes the songs tounexpected levels, and turns, and flips, and up and down and back again... very fluffy. Imagine a supergroupset-up with Detroit legends like Anthony “shake” shakir and now-a-days-cut-and-twist-houser Herbert – andyou get an impression how the new tracks of Stavöstrand and Skugge sound like. The album “humla” (bumblebee) will be released in the beginning of April. As a appetizer there will be a firstep (“ängel” – Angel, in deed) in the middle of march featuring four tracks from the album. Later on in April onitor will release one more of the album-tracks on vinyl (“gräns”-ep - border) as well as 3 exclusive pieces ... " (promo information)
tracklist
humla (LP)
01 feel my raygun
02 move, run, fly
03 jean's down with it
04 i feel burnt
05 kaolin jam
06 shadow man
07 lonely at the k-mart
08 no cola
09 back to laos
10 blue numbers
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