PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 30 DECEMBER

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ALL MIGHTY WHISPERS - LOVE REVOLUTION
AIMEE MANN - GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMAN
KELLEY STOLTZ - MEMORY COLLECTOR
RAISING THE FAWN - CARBON PAPER
THE ELECTED- NOT GOING HOME/
IRENE - CHRISTMAS ON THE BEACH
MOOSE -THE ONLY MAN IN TOWN
THE HORROR THE HORROR - I LOST MY GIRL TO ALCOHOL
RICHARD BUCKNER - TOWN
POSTPRIOR - SNOW OGRE
FURVIS - TAKE ME BACK
MONSTER MOVIE - VANISHING ACT
DESTROYER - EUROPEAN OILS
OWEN - BAD NEWS
THE LAYAWAYS - O CHRISTMAS TREE

THE LAYAWAYS

ARTIST / BAND: THE LAYAWAYS
SONG (MP3): O CHRISTMAS TREE
ALBUM: CHRISTMAS EP
FILE UNDER: Indie / New Wave / Psychedelic
LABEL: http://www.mysteryfarm.com/
INFO: What would Nirvana have sounded like fronted by Bjork? What would Judas Priest's new album have sounded like if Rob Halford had read "Tuesdays With Morrie" just before going into the studio? How about Ringo Starr produced by Steve Albini?The Layaways don't sound like any of this. Words that have been tossed around to describe us include understated, dreamy, and blissful--none of which describe the aforementioned hypothetical scenarios (except maybe the Halford thing). We've also been compared to the Jesus and Mary Chain, Guided By Voices, George Harrison, Rain Parade, and the Radio Dept.We're based in Chicago and are currently working on our third disc, slated for a fall 2006 release. Please check out the above tunes (all comments are welcome!) and visit http://www.thelayaways.com/ for more free downloads.
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POSTPRIOR

ARTIST / BAND: POSTPRIOR
SONG (MP3): SNOW OGRE
ALBUM: Touched Pilot EP
FILE UNDER: Electro
LABEL: http://www.ghostly.com/
INFO: PostPrior is the duo of Midwest Product main man Ben Mullins and vocalist/wunder-drummer Michael Kuzmanovski (the descendent of circus acrobats – no lie). Blending 80s melancholy with razor-sharp programming and composition skills, the duo craft a totally unique kind of pop with the same finesse and attention to detail that multi-instrumentalist Mullins displayed with his former band. Equal parts catchy, quirky, and epic – and with subject matter ranging from film/TV actor Elliott Gould to George Willig, who scaled the World Trade Center with a set of homemade claws in the late 70s – the PostPrior sound is expansive and ambitious without ever betraying those with an ear for detail and a need to dance.
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IRENE

ARTIST / BAND: IRENE
SONG (MP3): CHRISTMAS ON THE BEACH
ALBUM: Download Single
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Surf
LABEL: http://www.labrador.se/
INFO: Irene grew into a full scale band quite spontaneously in 2005. The members are all friends from the local pub in Gteborg, Sweden. Some songs that Tobias Isaksson (aka Bobby) had written just couldn't wait to be performed live. The dudes that did the first show had so much fun that they wanted to stick around. By the autumn of 2005 Irene was an octet with semi-permanent members. Shortly after that the record label Labrador signed the band. Irene likes to record as much as possible live, in one take, up to six people letting it out in one room. Only the final touch (vocals, trumpets and handclaps etc) is added afterwards. The result is a vivid sound marked by the 60s, Motown soul, girl-groups, American west coast- and contemporary pop. The members of Irene are beach-crooners, punks and next-door nice-guys. All in one.
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AIMEE MANN

ARTIST / BAND: AIMEE MANN
SONG (MP3): GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMAN
ALBUM: One More Drifter In The Snow
FILE UNDER: Rock / Acoustic / Pop
LABEL: Superego
INFO: Aimee Mann and Super Ego Records announce the release of One More Drifter In The Snow, due in stores on October 24, 2006. Reflecting a wide range of emotional tones of the season, Aimee Mann explains that she wanted to create an album that "captures the spooky beauty and mystery that Christmas is." Mann compares her idea of the ..spooky mystery.. to that feeling she used to get from watching the Peanuts Christmas special, where Charlie Brown starts out depressed about the season until the spiritual beauty of Christmas is pointed out. Aimee further recalls "I literally couldn..t sleep all night and at midnight would peer out my window hoping to catch a glimpse of the Christmas star or maybe even Santa, who was this cool ghost who brings you presents."The album features a mixture of classics that every body knows sprinkled with a few originals. Produced by Paul Bryan, the album includes the original song "Calling On Mary" written by Aimee and Paul specifically for the occasion. Aimee also sings the original Michael Penn tune "Christmastime.. and duets with Grant Lee Phillips on their new version of the Dr. Seuss.. children..s classic "You..re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch."
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MUSICHALL 28 DECEMBER

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PETER PAUL - MORE TEKILA (IBREAKS)
KOMA & BONES - MEDIUM COOL (BURRITO)
FREAKS - CREEP (LEE COOMBS REMIX) (ADRIFT)
ALEX METRIC & SICK RICK - SPACE HOPPER (BEATS)
SARAH MCLEOD - HE DOESN'T LOVE YOU (HOOK N SLING REMIX) (RENNAISANCE)
TOM REAL VS THE ROGUE ELEMENT - FEEL MY (CDR / FUNCTIONAL PROMO)
RAPID FEAT MR WHO - RUN (CDR / BURRITO PROMO)
FUTURE FUNK SQUAD - TOWARDS THE SUN (EVIL 9 REMIX) (DEFAULT)
ELITE FORCE - HEART OF DARKNESS (ADRIFT)
ILS - CHERISH (ADAM FREELAND REMIX) (DISTINCTIVE)

PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 24 DECEMBER

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LOVE IS ALL - AGEING HAD NEVER BEEN HIS FRIEND
BOSSANOVA - CALVARY
THE BOOK OF DANIEL - DEADRINGER DEADRINGER
BRYCE AUBREY - SEVEN DAYS
VAGUE ANGELS - THE VAGUE ANGELS OF VAGARY
THE WINNEBAGO ORCHESTRA ACTORS STUDIO
TAKKA TAKKA - WE FEEL SAFER AT NIGHT
GLACIER - NOT ABOUT LOVE SOFT
MATH AND PHYSICS CLUB - DARLING, PLEASE COME HOME
KUNEK - COMA
MICAH WOLF - SELF ESTEEM
BEACHHOUSE - MASTER OF NONE
OVER THE RHINE - ALL I EVER GET FOR CHRISTMAS IS BLUE
SUFJAN STEVENS - THAT WAS THE WORST CHRISTMAS EVER!
BOB EGAN - AN AIRPORT BAR ON CHRISTMAS DAY

BOB EGAN

ARTIST / BAND: BOB EGAN
SONG (MP3): AN AIRPORT BAR ON CHRISTMAS DAY
ALBUM: Glorious Decline
FILE UNDER: Americana / Roots Music / Folk Rock
INFO: It officially started backstage at the Irving Plaza in New York City when Johnny Cash shook my hand and asked if I was the new steel guitar player in Wilco. "Well, I'm not sure Mr. Cash. I've never played full-time in a band and I have this business back in Chicago. I mean they asked me to join but that's a pretty big step, it is a tough business."
He nodded and looked me in the eye, "It can be a hard road but if your heart's in it, it can be a good life."
An hour later as I watched Johnny from side stage I had tears in my eyes from the power of his music. Jeff Tweedy turned to me and said "Are you gonna join this fuckin' band now?"
A month later I sold my business and got on a tour bus for a 2-year ride. That was a decade ago.
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SUFJAN STEVENS Soof-Yon

ARTIST / BAND: SUFJAN STEVENS Soof-Yon
SONG (MP3): THAT WAS THE WORST CHRISTMAS EVER!
ALBUM: Songs For Christmas
FILE UNDER: Folk / Acoustic / Bluegrass
LABEL: http://www.asthmatickitty.com/
INFO: Forget the 50 States. Christmas is a bigger concept. As some of you may or may not know, for the past few years, as a holiday tradition, Sufjan has embarked on an extraordinary experiment to record an annual Christmas EP. It started in 2001, the year of Epiphanies, and continued onward (skipping only 2004), culminating into an odd and idiosyncratic catalog of music that has only existed in the Asthmatic Kitty archives (and on a number of file sharing sites). The recording process took place every December, for one week, usually at home, provoking collaborations with friends, roommates, and musical peers. Armed with a Reader’s Digest Christmas Songbook (and a mug of hot cider) Sufjan & friends concocted a musical fruit cake year after year, implementing every musical instrument they could find lying around the house: banjo, oboe, Casiotone, wood flute, a buzzy guitar, hand claps, sleigh bells,
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OVER THE RHINE

ARTIST / BAND: OVER THE RHINE
SONG (MP3): ALL I EVER GET FOR CHRISTMAS IS BLUE
ALBUM: Snow Angels
FILE UNDER: Americana / Folk
LABEL: Great Speckled Dog
INFO: “We’ve seen the landfill rainbow, we’ve seen the junkyard of love. Baby it’s no place for you and me...”
Over the Rhine borrowed their name from one of Cincinnati’s most colorful and controversial neighborhoods. From its earliest days, the area served as a port-of-entry for immigrants and, over the years, has become a melting pot where people strive to make better lives for themselves. It’s here in this storied neighborhood that Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler first began making their music, somehow imbuing it with the tattered but lovely craftsmanship and sense of history that surrounded them.
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BEACHHOUSE

ARTIST / BAND: BEACHHOUSE
SONG (MP3): MASTER OF NONE
ALBUM: BEACHHOUSE
FILE UNDER: Tropical / Hawaiian / Trance
LABEL: Carpark
INFO: Beach House, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, have been playing music forever, each since childhood in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and France . Beach House formed in the summer, it was very late at night and there was a lot of heat. Their songs start simple and grow organically like tiny skeletons that multiply layers of necessary flesh. In the Beach House world, outside influences have been purely atmospheric. There are many groups and artists that have entranced the duo: Zombies, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, Big Star, Chris Bell, the list goes on; however, there isn't one particular group or artist that Beach House admires more than another. By not forcing the way their songs come to fruition and by allowing all of their ideas to exist and play freely, an otherworldly space is created: organs, slide guitars, reverb, harmony, layers, accidents, echoes and melodies stand by themselves like the ones in everyone's childhood memories.
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MICAH WOLF

ARTIST / BAND: MICAH WOLF
SONG (MP3): SELF ESTEEM
ALBUM: Micah wolf
FILE UNDER: Acoustic / Folk / Indie
LABEL: Blockplane Records
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KUNEK

ARTIST / BAND: KUNEK
SONG (MP3): COMA
ALBUM: Flight Of The Flynns
FILE UNDER: Progressive / Psychedelic / Pop
LABEL: http://www.playtymemusic.com/
INFO: Kunek is a six-person ensemble from Stillwater, Oklahoma. Originally founded as an instrumental project, kunek’s unique perspective on melody and rhythm has grown into a distinctive style of songwriting which pulls together elements of jazz, classical, folk and modern experimental rock. The band is comprised of members; Jesse Tabish (Vocals, Piano, Guitar), Colby Owens (Drums) Jenny Hsu (Cello) Eric Kiner (Guitar, Lapsteel, Keyboards), Jon Mooney (Keyboards, Guitar, Percussion) and Josh Onstott (Bass). Each member acts equally as a cog in this machine that evokes emotion in the listener; be it happiness, sadness, hope, or tranquility. Their music places as much importance on cello and drums as it does on piano or guitar. Listening to kunek, you realize that the pieces fit, and the outcome is inspiring. After playing only a few dates at select clubs, kunek has already been praised by the Oklahoma music press as a “great musical experience for anyone who likes to feel emotion in the music that they listen to.” Their songs have rested securely at the top of the charts in multiple genres for more than a year on http://www.garageband.com/, one of the most reputable websites in the industry for independent music. After playing together for two years, kunek has completed their first album “Flight of the Flynns” produced by Eric Kiner and mixed by Chris Hower at Tribeca Recording, NYC. The album reflects the theory that music is a delicate intersection of science and emotion, moving the listener through melodies that are both solemn, yet also beautifully optimistic. Their music can be organic, dynamic, delicate, buoyant, or ethereal. Regardless of your interpretation, it will move you.
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MATH AND PHYSICS CLUB

ARTIST / BAND: MATH AND PHYSICS CLUB
SONG (MP3): DARLING, PLEASE COME HOME
ALBUM: Math and Physics Club
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop
LABEL: Matinee Recordings
INFO: Math and Physics Club remained mostly a basement project for James (guitar) and Charles (vocals) until the summer of 2004 when they met up with Kevin (drum wizard), who had just moved to Seattle from Boston. By the end of the summer, Saundrah (violin) and Ethan (bass) had also joined the band, and there was an undeniable chemistry at work.
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ARTIST / BAND: GLACIER

ARTIST / BAND: GLACIER
SONG (MP3): NOT ABOUT LOVE SOFT
ALBUM: A Sunny Place for Shady People
FILE UNDER: Progressive / Pop / Psychedelic
LABEL: http://www.staatsakt.de/

INFO: in a time when so called "honest and minimalistic alternative rock" is ever more popular, glacier is doing the complete opposite. the five members grew up in a time when their heroes celebrated untouchable and walls of sounds. this love for the more atmospheric, ethereal and orchestral music is what glacier is trying to revive and often leads them to using the more obscure and almost forgotten sounds of the past. the impossible goal is of course to create a timeless sound out of unmodern and new influences. glacier is not afraid to quote or recycle once sound revolutionary ideas. bands such as elo, pink floyd, spiritualized (spacemen 3) are just as much influences as sonic youth, pulp or radiohead. the result of these influences produce an often melancholic and dark musical structure of many lows and sometimes a few highs. the world through their eyes is seen with an almost nihilistic or outsider view but with enough self reflection to realise that they don't necessarily have the solution but may be the problem themselves. they still try though to achieve a certain cloudiness or distance between reality and fantasy and the music mirrors this by often shifting it's directness or indirectness to the listener. glacier's live show has been known to transfer small clubs into arenas equipped a mobile light show of walls of fog, lasers and most likely the lights left over from the 1973 tour of some forgotten rock dinosaur. they don't wish to be the people next door, but to be an escape for the people next door from our otherwise mundane and very real world.
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TAKKA TAKKA

ARTIST / BAND: TAKKA TAKKA
SONG (MP3): WE FEEL SAFER AT NIGHT
ALBUM: We Feel Safer At Night
FILE UNDER: Indie / Rock / Pop
LABEL: we think we can
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THE WINNEBAGO ORCHESTRA

ARTIST / BAND: THE WINNEBAGO ORCHESTRA
SONG (MP3): ACTORS STUDIO
ALBUM: Fifteen
FILE UNDER: Pop / Folk Rock / Rock
LABEL: http://www.bbisland.de/
INFO: The Winnebago Orchestra were formed in England in 2000/2001. They were originally formed by multi-instrumentalist Spencer Roberts and singer Andy Davies with the introduction of Caroline Trettine as singer an additional guitar in 2004, however Andy has since gone on to pastures new, so Spencer and Caroline along with Lee Beddow, Bob Bowman, Pete Geoghegan and Liz Ralls make up the Orchestra in all its glory.Together they perform a singularly eclectic, yet brilliant blend of melodic English beat poetry and song. After releasing a couple of albums on their own independent Oporto Records in 2002/3, they were snapped up by tuition in 2005.It's impossible to draw comparisons, so no one does!However, their influences range from the melodic pop of The Go Betweens, through to Nick Drake, Love, Fairport Convention, The Velvet Underground right through to Erik Satie and Laurie Anderson, but this provides but a fraction of a guide to their unique musical appeal.Spencer?s unique musical talent, creates sounds and landscapes which act as a cinematic canvas to singer-songwriter and former Blue Aeroplanes guitarist Caroline Trettine. Caroline, a former prot駩 of Billy Bragg, has added an extra dimension to The Winnebago Orchestra with her sensual and folk orientated vocal style. The new music created by The Orchestra has been encapsulated on their new album "Fifteen" on tuition.?Fifteen? was produced by Spencer Roberts and Lee Beddow. The album starts with Get Me, a passionate romp through the past love life of someone close through to the Talking Heads influenced "Love is here with me", there's even a cover of the classic Jazz Butcher tune entitled "Angels", which is like a little beat pop symphony.The result is an eclectic mini masterpiece, sounding, without exception, like no one before them.
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VAGUE ANGELS

ARTIST / BAND: VAGUE ANGELS
SONG (MP3): THE VAGUE ANGELS OF VAGARY
ALBUM: Let's Duke It Out At Kilkenny Katz'
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Experimental / Indie
LABEL: http://www.prettyactivity.com/
INFO: "Vague Angels create harmonically rich, droning textures that basically serve as a backdrop for the vocals, which are the main focus. The lyrics feature a lot of pretty heady stuff, as well as more immediate, vivid poetic images. Chris Leo has the ability to take an everyday or mundane lyric (like "The dust covered everything") and imbue it with a feeling of deep significance, to great effect. I believe that Chris Leo and the Vague Angels often receive comparisons to Lou Reed. I see some lyrical affinity, but what really comes to my mind for conveying what they're doing is Serge Gainsbourg's "Bonnie and Clyde" - a kind of lush, repeating harmonic texture with more or less spoken lyrics and only the suggestion of a verse/chorus/bridge structure." –
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BRYCE AUBREY

ARTIST / BAND: BRYCE AUBREY
SONG (MP3): SEVEN DAYS
ALBUM: Boom Bang City
FILE UNDER: Rock / Indie / Pop
INFO: BEST Out of Area Nominee by Southern California Music Awards 2006. Winners announced February 11thHonourable Mention 2006 Singer/Songwriter AwardsBryce's lyrics are what set him apart from other songwriters. Unique situations told from his wry persepective, combined with unforgettable melodies, will have you humming these tunes. The songs are rocking, the guitar playing is great, and his voice will melt you away. Bryce was struck by the song-writing muse when he was only 14 years old. With some help from a chord book, he taught himself guitar and then later piano. One might say that his lyrics are most strongly influenced by Dylan, his melodies by Springsteen. One can hear the influences of Lou Reed in his style, while some have compared his guitar playing style to Neil Young. As a result, his music is very contemporary yet retains the strong songwriting qualities of the past. . read more from the source...

BOSSANOVA

ARTIST / BAND: BOSSANOVA
SONG (MP3): CALVARY
ALBUM: Hey, Sugar
FILE UNDER: Pop / Funk / New Wave
LABEL: http://www.teenbeat.net/
INFO: FROM CANADA. Sounds like: NEW ORDER PLAYS 'Telstar'. IAN CURTIS SINGS DISCO. THE FEMININE COMPLEX GETS MASCULINE. ONE OF OUR FAVORITE BANDS FINALLY PUTS OUT AN ALBUM!
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LOVE IS ALL

ARTIST / BAND: LOVE IS ALL
SONG (MP3): AGEING HAD NEVER BEEN HIS FRIEND
ALBUM: Nine Times That Same Song
FILE UNDER: Pop / Indie / Punk
LABEL: What's Your Rupture?
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MUSICHALL 21 DECEMBER

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ATOMIC HOOLIGAN - INSIDE OUT (HEY GRAVITY AH REMIX) [BOTCHIT & SCARPER]LUTZENKIRCHEN - KNIGHT MOVES (MEAT KATIE REMIX) [GREAT STUFF RECORDINGS]

ATOMIC HOOLIGAN - SEVEN 10 SPLIT (KLAUS HILL REMIX) [BOTCHIT & SCARPER]DJ QUEST - NO FEAR [CYBERFUNK]

FREESTYLERS FT PENDULUM AND SIRREAL - JUMP N TWIST [AGAINST THE GRAIN]ANGEL FARRINGDON - CRITICAL [WIREFRAME]

RODNEY P - THE NICE UP [RIDDIM KILLA RECORDS]

APHRODITE - LONDON MASSIVE [APHRODITE RECORDINGS]

SUBFOCUS - FLAMENCO [RAM RECORDS]

THE UPBEATS - LE MAMMOTH [HUMAN IMPRINT]

DREADZONE - KING DUB ROCK [FUNCTIONAL]

ALOE BLACC

ARTIST / BAND: ALOE BLACC
SONG (MP3): FIND A WAY
ALBUM: I'm Beautiful 12" single
FILE UNDER: Hip Hop / Soul / R&B
LABEL: http://www.stonesthrow.com/

INFO: So. Cal native Aloe Blacc began his recording career as an MC back in 1995, when he joined up with hip-hop producer Exile to form the mainstay indie rap group, Emanon. A few years later, Aloe would “stow away” on a Lootpack European tour and become fast friends with Oh No – a relationship which led to many fruitful collaborations as a solo artist.
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THE CURTAINS

ARTIST / BAND: THE CURTAINS
SONG (MP3): GO LUCKY
ALBUM: Calamity
FILE UNDER: Indie Pop
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty
INFO: Chris Cohen was given his first drum set at the age of 3. Pictures in the family album also show a plastic mic taped to a floor lamp and connected to nothing? This is when he began in earnest what he is still working on today in The Curtains. Inspired at a young age to form a band, Chris acquired the necessary instruments even though there was no one else around to play with him. It was a lonely time but Chris could pretend, and the discovery of "overdubbing" on a 4-track at the age of 12 gave Chris the impression that he could, by himself, synthesize any band he wanted.read more from the source...

GHOST STORIES

ARTIST / BAND: GHOST STORIES
SONG (MP3): THE MOTIONS
ALBUM: Quixoticism
FILE UNDER: Indie Pop
LABEL: http://sonicboomrecordings.com/
INFO: Ghost Stories is the musical brainchild of Ron Lewis, a bedroom recordist steeped in haunting lo-fi folk, found-sound ambience and epic psych-pop grandeur. Quixoticism, Ghost Stories’ debut, unfolds like a passive-aggressive psych-rock opera.
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SARAH SHANNON

ARTIST / BAND: SARAH SHANNON
SONG (MP3): CITY MORNING SONG
ALBUM: City Morning Song
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop
LABEL: http://www.mintyfresh.com/
INFO: I am Sarah. Some of you might remember me as the lead singer of the semi-lauded indie-pop darlings Velocity Girl. I can't seem to stop singing. I tried. Physically impossible. I made a solo record a few years back that people seemed to like. Some were surprised by the u-turn I took from the sound of VG. I can't say it was intentional, those songs just seemed to boil up and out of me. I have a new record coming out early next year on MintyFresh. I can't tell you how happy I am to be on this label. They are supreme facilitators of superior music and I am honored to be added to their ranks. My newest continues along the lines of the first. I'm still interested in old school pop song writing (Carol King, Carly Simon, Burt B., Smokey R., Randy Newman etc.) and making pretty noises with my throat. My current hero is RUFUS WAINWRIGHT. I'm a sick puppy when it comes to this man. I have listened to Poses so many times that I imagine big broadway production numbers with each of the songs (set, costumes, choreography, I'm not kidding). I worship him like a pagan god (ess). I curtsy deeply at his flip-flopped feet. His voice sends me. The velvety motor that is his vibrato is so bewitching it should be outlawed.I could go on and on.
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HELLO SAFERIDE

ARTIST / BAND: HELLO SAFERIDE
SONG (MP3): VALENTINE'S DAY
ALBUM: My Best Friend (cd single)
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Folk
LABEL: Razzia Records
INFO: a drug addicted small town, don't ask) is songwriter Annika Norlin. She'd been writing songs for most of her life, never aspiring for anyone else to hear them, when she recorded the song "Highschool stalker", about a young girl stalking her crush. "Highschool stalker" was an instant Internet hit with all of your favorite twee elements: handclaps, a Shangri-Las ask-and-tell chorus, a scrunched-up trumpet, and a weak guitar. Hello Saferide immediately got a record deal and her first single, "My best friend", featured the lyrics "Damn, I wish I was a lesbian/so I could fall in love with you." It immediately got radio airplay and had the toughest of tough men crying they, too, wanted to be lesbians. She released her debut album, "Introducing...Hello Saferide", in late September to a massive critical acclaim. "The strength of this album is that there are no weaknesses", wrote one reviewer, while others stated this was the debut of the year - or the diary of their lives.
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PINK NASTY

ARTIST / BAND: PINK NASTY
SONG (MP3): BTK BLUES
ALBUM: Mold The Gold
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Alternative
INFO: 5 Biographical Facts about the singer/songwriter Pink Nasty aka Sara Beck, who is from Wichita, KS, 24 years old and is a SWF. 5. Pink Nasty has just completed her second album, the neurotic pop rock masterpiece Mold the Gold--recorded in Shelbyville, Kentucky by Paul Oldham and Steve Squire in Kansas and Texas. The record was written by Pink and her brother Black Nasty and is really, really great. 'Mold the Gold' is a collection of thirteen off-beat, melodic jams that include the epic suburban-apathy-under-the-looming-threat-of-a-masturbating-serial-killer ballad "BTK Blues", the stunningly dramatic opener "I Don't Know" (complete with reggae breakdown and five Pink Nastys yelping "by by by bye bye bye bye!"), the silly uptempo bubblegum pop of "Take it Back", the ethereal folk beauty of "Golden Smoke", the post coital soul dirge of "Danny", the zippy Spoon rip off "Dirty Soap", the bombastically spooky title track and the over-the-top album closer "Don't Ever Change", her power duet with Bonnie Prince Billy that will no doubt replace "The Time of My Life" as one of musics most enduring ballads. Purchase this seminal LP at www.pinknasty.net 4.5.

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CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH

ARTIST / BAND: CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
SONG (MP3): UNDERWATER (YOU AND ME)
ALBUM: Some Loud Thunder
FILE UNDER: Rock / Indie
LABEL: http://www.wichita-recordings.com/

INFO: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is an American indie rock group based in Brooklyn, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, comprised of Alec Ounsworth, Lee Sargent, Robbie Guertin, Tyler Sargent, and Sean Greenhalgh. Their debut album, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, was self-released in 2005.
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GREENSKEEPERS

ARTIST / BAND: GREENSKEEPERS
SONG (MP3): 15 MINUTES
ALBUM: Polo Club
FILE UNDER: INdie
LABEL: Om Records
INFO: BIO In 1985, director John Hughes started preproduction on Polo Club, an animated feature written by camp legend John Waters about the adventures of four wealthy teenagers experimenting with a diet of Pixy Stix, Quaaludes, and laughing gas. No longer content with appropriating pop-music themes, as he had done to great effect in Sixteen Candles, Hughes decided to commission his first original soundtrack, hiring members of Devo, Japan, and the Psychedelic Furs to write new songs to bridge the gap between Hughes's teenage fairy tales and Waters's twisted narratives.Locked in a Los Angeles warehouse, the supergroup worked on the Polo Club soundtrack for one year, emerging with the finished masters only to discover that Hughes and Waters had been distracted by other projects and canceled the film. Although the guitar-heavy ballad "15 Minutes," a sleazy anthem called "NY Lady," and their trippy cover of Huey Lewis and the News' "I Want a New Drug" had great potential as singles, record labels passed on the projectwho would buy a soundtrack without a movie?Demoralized, they hid the tapes and swore never to speak of the project again. Two decades later, an OM Records employee discovered the soundtrack in an Encino storage locker and convinced Hughes and Waters that, movie or no movie, the world was ready for Polo Club. Since none of the original musicians would admit to their involvement in the project, the label fabricated this lame backstory about a Chicago house crew that traded their drum machines for guitars and reinvented themselves as a wacky, accessible pop group. Polo Club is allegedly their third album, and their best yet.
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THE LEGENDS

ARTIST / BAND: THE LEGENDS
SONG (MP3): PLAY IT FOR TODAY
ALBUM: Play it for today
FILE UNDER:
LABEL: http://www.labrador.se/
INFO: In 2003 and 2004 The Legends received world wide recognition with the hyped debut ”Up against the Legends”. Now The Legends return with an album that is bound to take the world by surprise. ”Public Radio” echoes of the early 80’s and sounds futuristic at the same time. They mix influences from bands like New Order, Felt, Feelies and The Cure with their own pop aesthetics and turn it into something utterly wonderful and new. From the debut to now The Legends have transformed from a 9-piece band to a one-man project. At least officially. The truth is that both ”Up against the Legends” and ”Public Radio” were recorded, written, played and produced by Johan Angergård (also member of Acid House Kings and Club 8). Johan explain: - "When I start recording an album I have a very clear idea of what I want to do and by doing everything myself the album comes out exactly the way I want it to. Involving other people might only blur the vision."
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MONOLITH

ARTIST / BAND: MONOLITH
SONG (MP3): FALLOUT SUNSET
ALBUM: Meet You At The Monolith
FILE UNDER: Rock / Pop
LABEL: http://www.fortunerecords.com/
INFO: The Monolith successfully harken the sounds of Cheap Trick, Beatles, E.L.O., Big Star and more recently, The New Pornographers... Superbly crafted pop arrangements with heart-snagging hooks, bridges & choruses filled with horn sections and strings are merely the icing on the cake."- Aquarius Records
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BLAGARD

ARTIST / BAND: BLAGARD
SONG (MP3): LOSTY
ALBUM: BLANK FACED CLOCKS
FILE UNDER: Rock
INFO: Blag’ard is Joe Taylor and Adam Brinson, guitar, drums, amplifiers, mike stands, microphones, various cords, etc. A two-piece rock band. There they are in Chapel Hill, NC right now. Unless they are not.
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THE DRONES

ARTIST / BAND: THE DRONES
SONG (MP3): I DON'T EVER WANT TO CHANGE

ALBUM: Gala Mill
FILE UNDER: Psychedelic / Punk / 2-step
LABEL: http://atpfestival.com/
INFO: 29/11/06 latest news is......back from the world....got a bunch of shows coming up....check the dates and all that.got a live dvd(live in Madrid, coming out on Munster Records) and two live albums in the works(one is gonna be a show we did in LA-more info on that when we get closer to releasing it...and the other will be stuff from shows in London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney and other places I can't recall right now.).....ummmm....don't hold your breath though...might be a little while yet.....we'll be in australia until april then we'll be back over to the UK for the dirty three's day at the ATP festival (check www.atpfestival.com for the line up cause its fukn nuts.....no joke.) then we're gonna go all thru europe and the US again...for about 3 or 4 months it looks like....its fukn endless.
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SUBURBAN KIDS WITH BIBLICAL NAMES

ARTIST / BAND: SUBURBAN KIDS WITH BIBLICAL NAMES
SONG (MP3): SEEMS TO BE ON MY MIND
ALBUM: #3
FILE UNDER: Hyphy / Tropical / Regional Mexican
LABEL: http://www.mintyfresh.com/
INFO: Suburban Kids with Biblical Names wants to ”turn all the dance floors into a burnings inferno of Ba-ba-ba” to quote the Kids themselves. And mark their words, with songs like “Rent a wreck”, they are destined to do so.read more from the source...

ANDY PARTRIDGE

ARTIST / BAND: ANDY PARTRIDGE
SONG (MP3): SONIC BOOM
ALBUM: fuzzy warbles vol 7
FILE UNDER: Indie Pop
LABEL: http://ape.uk.net/
INFO: Andy Partridge (born Andrew John Partridge, on 11 November 1953, in Valletta, Malta) is a founding member, guitarist and chief songwriter of the new wave band, XTC. He lives in Swindon, Wiltshire, where he was raised.
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ARTIST / BAND: ANDY PARTRIDGE
SONG (MP3): SONIC BOOM
ALBUM: fuzzy warbles vol 7
FILE UNDER: Indie Pop
LABEL: http://ape.uk.net/
INFO: Andy Partridge (born Andrew John Partridge, on 11 November 1953, in Valletta, Malta) is a founding member, guitarist and chief songwriter of the new wave band, XTC. He lives in Swindon, Wiltshire, where he was raised.
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CAGE9

ARTIST / BAND: CAGE9
SONG (MP3): HEARTS AND STARS
ALBUM: El Motivo
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Rock
LABEL: http://www.longlivecrimerecords.com/
INFO: “We're a band that somehow can play on the same bill as hard-core, punk and aggro metal bands and get as much respect as when playing with ‘safe’ rock bands. We play for the kids. We even play for the parents. But we play what we want.” - Evan (singer/guitarist)
The band has gigged with Seether, Buckcherry, Amy Lee of Evanescence, Ice T’s Body Count, Adema, Cheap Trick, James Iha, Godhead, Smile Empty Soul, Authority Zero, Depswa, Spineshank, Cro-mags, Spineshank, Bullets n' Octane, Opiate for the Masses, Maldita Vecindad, Fobia and toured from Europe to the East Coast to Central America.
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PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 17 DECEMBER

RADIO MUZORAMA IS BROADCAST WEEKLY ON RADIO FORTUNA (FM106.9 , TBILISI, GEORGIA)

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CAGE9 - HEARTS AND STARS
ANDY PARTRIDGE - SONIC BOOM
SUBURBAN KIDS WITH BIBLICAL NAMES - SEEMS TO BE ON MY MIND
THE DRONES - I DON'T EVER WANT TO CHANGE
BLAGARD - LOSTY
MONOLITH - FALLOUT SUNSET
THE LEGENDS - PLAY IT FOR TODAY
GREENSKEEPERS - 15 MINUTES
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - UNDERWATER (YOU AND ME)
PINK NASTY - BTK BLUES
HELLO SAFERIDE - VALENTINE'S DAY
SARAH SHANNON - CITY MORNING SONG
GHOST STORIES - THE MOTIONS
THE CURTAINS - GO LUCKY
PACIFIC UV - 50S
ALOE BLACC - FIND A WAY

MUSICHALL 14 DECEMBER

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THE COMPANY - THE REAPER (KOMA & BONES REMIX)
30HZ & VLAD - GET LOW
FATBOY SLIM - CHAMPION SOUND (KRAFTY KUTS REMIX)
PLUMP DJS - ELECTRIC DISCO (D RAMIREZ REMIX)
THE HOT PRESENTS FRANCISING - THE PEOPLE (MADOX IZ IT DISCOFUNK REMIX)
PETER PAUL – REVERENDO
DJ DISTANCE - TRAFFIC
TAYO VS SONZ OF MECHA - REALITY DUB (BACKDRAFT REMIX)
JOURNEYMAN VS BARRCODE - WIKKID BABYLON (DEF INC MIX)
JEAN JACQUES SMOOTHIE FEAT. MC CHICKABOO - MOVING ON
ROOTS DIMENSIONZ - NEGUS NEGAST

PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 10 DECEMBER

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KLAXONS - ATLANTIS TO INTERZONE
EPSILONS - SNAP CRACKLE POP!
THE THERMALS - HERE'S YOUR FUTURE
PROTOTYPES - DÉCIDER
MITCH EASTER - SUDDEN CROWN DROP
TAHITI 80 - CHANGES BORDERLINE REMIX
SOFTLIGHTES - HEART MADE OF SOUND
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI - WISHBONE (FRANC TETAS REMIX)
MATTHEW FRIEDBERGER - DO YOU LIKE BLONDES?
NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB - ICE CREAM
THE EARLY YEARS - ALL ONES & ZEROS
PATRICK WATSON - GIVER
CHRISTIANS & LIONS - SKINNY FISTS
SONYA COTTON - DESERT BLOOM
THE SHINS - PHANTOM LIMB
CAKE ON CAKE - MY MELODY

PROTOTYPES

ARTIST / BAND: PROTOTYPES
SONG (MP3): DÉCIDER
ALBUM: Tout le monde cherche quelque chose à faire
FILE UNDER: Electro / Pop / Other
LABEL: Minty Fresh Records
INFO: PROTOTYPES is a french band located in Paris. Created in 2003 by both members of BOSCO (S. Bodin et F. Marché) and singer/performer BUBBLE STAR (I. Le Doussal), PROTOTYPES makes a joyful and hybrid music, sexily sung in French, mixing altogether the many influences of the band : from electro-pop, 60s rythms, folky guitars and sometimes a punk crunch to add to the equation!
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CAKE ON CAKE

ARTIST / BAND: CAKE ON CAKE
SONG (MP3): MY MELODY
ALBUM: Sun-Chairs EP
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Experimental
LABEL: Desolation Records
INFO: CAKE ON CAKE is the band of 25 years old HELENA SUNDIN. She grew up in a village in the norht of sweden and is currently living in umeå, sweden, were she goes to school studying the fine arts. She has been playing different instruments since childhood and studied classical singing, piano and cello before she changed path. started to record sounds that grew into pop-songs in june 2004. CAKE ON CAKE is a solo-project but friends sometimes helps out on instruments that Helena can not play herself. ANDREAS GABRIELSSON plays the double bass and electric bass. (other people that appear on recordings so far: Micke Svensson - keys, Alex Rayman - guitar, Björn Sundin - trombone, Håkan Persson - steel-pan). HELENA plays, records and produces her music by herself in her studio/house. She uses and array of instrumens including: voices, piano, organ, rhodes, clavinet, metallophone, xylophone, keyboard, guitar, mandoline, flutes (recorder, cat & canary flute), harmonicas, melodica, different percussive instruments + some electronics. CAKE ON CAKE signed to American label DESOLATION RECORDS in 2005, and her debut album "I SEE NO STARS" was released 8 nov 2005. She followed up her debut release with a American tour nov -dec 2005. CAKE ON CAKE will release her second album"I GUESS I WAS DAYDREAMING" in early 2007, and will tour the us again in
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THE SHINS

ARTIST / BAND: THE SHINS
SONG (MP3): PHANTOM LIMB
ALBUM: Wincing The Night Away
FILE UNDER: Indie
LABEL: Sub Pop
INFO: The Shin's debut full-length, 2001's Oh, Inverted World, was a stunner; resoundingly well-received and landing itself on numerous year-end best-of-lists. MOJO placed it at ..14 of the year and commented, "This quartet from Albuquerque, New Mexico captured our hearts this summer with their pristine pop perfection." And, Seattle's The Stranger went even further with, "...a referential, brilliant record which had better blow up, or the world has forgotten what pop music is all about." As far as we're concerned it did blow up - seems there's still some hope for the world and its conception of pop music. Since that first record, singer/songwriter/guitarist James Mercer and drummer Jesse Sandoval moved from Albuquerque to Portland, OR and bassist Neal Langford was replaced with Dave Hernandez (ex-Scared Of Chaka), who played bass on the stand-out track from the first record, "New Slang." Chutes Too Narrow, their heavily anticipated follow-up, was recorded in James' basement home studio, with later mixing assistance from Phil Ek (Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, David Cross, Les Savy Fav, etc.). And, with 10 songs, clocking in at just over 30 minutes, the new record is a brief yet entirely scintillating glimpse at chiming, reflective and perfectly skewed pop innovation.
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SONYA COTTON

ARTIST / BAND: SONYA COTTON
SONG (MP3): DESERT BLOOM
ALBUM: Baltimore Trees
FILE UNDER: Folk
INFO: Sonya Cotton is a musician and artist currently living in Princeton, NJ. She sings songs about love, dogs, birds, large bodies of water, and other mysterious things. Her self-released debut album, Baltimore Trees, features eight original compositions performed with Ernest Christian Kiehne. Come October, Sonya and Chris will begin recording her sophomore album at a cabin in the deep, dark woods, overlooking a beautiful lake, in Connecticut (the Nutmeg State; State Bird: the Robin; State dog: undecided). They’ll be graciously assisted on piano by her brother, Alex Cotton.
Sonya has also contributed harmonies to the songs of Ernest Christian Kiehne, Chris Maher, and the National Lights.
She has a very stubborn but very, very handsome dog, and his name is Lorenzo.
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CHRISTIANS & LIONS

ARTIST / BAND: CHRISTIANS & LIONS
SONG (MP3): SKINNY FISTS
ALBUM: More Songs For Dreamsleepers & The Very Awake
FILE UNDER: Folk / Indie / Crunk
LABEL: ECA Records
INFO: In many ways, it may be most appropriate to say that Christians and Lions started long before all of its members had met each other. Brothers Ben and Sam Potrykus had been playing music and singing together since junior high, but the bands that resulted never quite succeeded in capturing their imagination. It wasn't until Christians and Lions was launched with a month-long US tour in a borrowed station wagon (upright bass strapped to the roof rack and all) that the two felt something important beginning to take shape.
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PATRICK WATSON

ARTIST / BAND: PATRICK WATSON
SONG (MP3): GIVER
ALBUM: CLOSE TO PARADISE
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Electro / Ambient
LABEL: secret city records
INFO: Patrick was born in the California desert in 1979, but was essentially raised in the small town of Hudson, Quebec, just west of Montreal. The youngest in a family full of professional pilots, Patrick was the eccentric black sheep from early on, with his musical career beginning at age seven singing in local churches. He grew up studying classical and jazz piano performance, arrangement, and composition. read more from the source...

THE EARLY YEARS

ARTIST / BAND: THE EARLY YEARS
SONG (MP3): ALL ONES & ZEROS
ALBUM: The Early Years
FILE UNDER: Indie / Alternative / Ambient
LABEL: Beggars Banquet
INFO: The Early Years vision is to create washes of psychedelic guitar noises meshed in with feedback, drones, distortion and wah set against a strong metronomic beat. The Early Years take influences from everywhere, but they remain influences and nothing more. Originality is the key to beauty.
Our debut album was released to strong critical acclaim 25th September 2006 on Beggars Banquet records and is available on-line and in most record stores across the UK. And will be available internationally in the new year.

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NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB

ARTIST / BAND: NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB
SONG (MP3): ICE CREAM
ALBUM: New Young Pony Club
FILE UNDER: New Wave / Electronica / Indie
LABEL: Modular
INFO: “A punk band that’s absorbed good disco, funk & post punk” -NME“A seductive slab of New Order-meets-ESG disco punk- Time Out “Glorious … an amazing band”- The Sunday Times Culture Hot on the heals of previous limited 7” single ‘The Get Go’ New Young Pony Club (NYPC) return with Ice Cream, a sparsely minimal punk funk jerkout that sounds like a distaff version excursion on disco-era Rolling Stones fronted by the Slits’ Ari Up and produced by David Byrne and Brian Eno. read more from the source...

MATTHEW FRIEDBERGER

ARTIST / BAND: MATTHEW FRIEDBERGER
SONG (MP3): DO YOU LIKE BLONDES?
ALBUM: Winter Women / Holy Ghost Language Schoo
FILE UNDER: Experimental / Electro / Rock
LABEL: http://www.859recordings.com/
INFO: Matthew Friedberger is one half of the brother and sister duo The Fiery Furnaces. This is Matt’s first solo release and the first release from the newly formed label 859 Recordings.
The first disc, Winter Women, clocking in at one hour, showcases his strength as a songwriter and features some of the most accessible and infectious pop songs he's ever written. Winter Women is a summer record, full of catchy and un-ironic pop songs.
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ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI

ARTIST / BAND: ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
SONG (MP3): WISHBONE (FRANC TETAS REMIX)
ALBUM: We Died They Remixed
FILE UNDER: Melodramatic Popular Song / Ghettotech / Jungle
LABEL: Bar/None Records
INFO: In Case We Die is not a concept album, but you could liken it to a rock opera. Songs are laced with intense and dramatic twists at every turn. Opera singers bellow. Strings soar. Fireworks explode. Choirs sing out of tune and jungle rhythms come out of nowhere. It isindeed an epic voyage.

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SOFTLIGHTES

ARTIST / BAND: SOFTLIGHTES
SONG (MP3): HEART MADE OF SOUND
ALBUM: Heart Made Of Sound (promo)
FILE UNDER: Indie / Electronica / Folk
LABEL: Modular
INFO: “Musically, we don't know what the end destination is, and I like it that way. Whatever we've created, it wasn't by accident, but it certainly wasn't on purpose. For me that makes music honest,” says Ron Fountenberry, the principle songwriter and unofficial captain of the good ship that is the Softlightes. It’s fitting that Fountenberry references bedrooms when he speaks of the Softlightes’ incandescent and joyfully experimental music—it’s there that he tinkers endlessly with a dizzying array of instruments in search of the perfect melody; a way to channel an equal appreciation for Alvie Singer, Ready Made Magazine, Ali G, Boba Fett, Playstation and Larry David… a way to be real and make someone happy through song.
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TAHITI 80

ARTIST / BAND: TAHITI 80
SONG (MP3): CHANGES BORDERLINE REMIX
ALBUM: Fosbury
FILE UNDER: Indie / Soul / Pop
LABEL: Atmosphériques
INFO: Tahiti 80 is an English-language French pop group formed in 1993 in Rouen, France.
The group's name originates from a slogan on a t-shirt. Their music resembles pop with soul tendencies. They have encountered a fair amount of success in Japan, notably.
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