Sweden
had to be in our top ten, and Club 8 had to be in one of our blog adventures.
Formed in 1995 and consisting of Karolina
Komstedt and Johan Angergård, one curious point about this band is that their
musical career started when they were signed to a Spanish record label (Siesta).
Since then, their thrilling and beautiful pop songs have accompanied us
throughout seven excellent albums. This track was their second single and shows
their most electronic side.
Groove Is In The Heart was an original song, a hit there in the early nighties. The US band Deee-Lite, formed in New York, offers an interesting mixture of funk, house, disco and dance-pop sounds, with wind instruments, guitar and even rap parts. Lady Miss Kier's voice and the funny video totally makes us travel back in time to the colorful sixties.
This
is a cyberpunk week, so it´s a good chance to travel to Brazil (maybe to New Rio
de Janeiro?). There we find Amon Tobin, one of the most interesting and
surprising electronic musicians I have ever enjoyed. When I first listened to
his album “Out from Out Where” in
2002, it really shocked me. All that mixture of sounds and tunes… I could
imagine hundreds of futuristic scenes in my mind, it was an incredible
experience. It was music from a dark future. And future is now.
Texas is a well-known Scottish synhtpop band, everybody has enjoyed more than once their international hits I Don't Want A Lover, Say What You Want, Black Eyed Boy, Summer Son and probably my favourite: Inner Smile. Well, maybe that's not right. Recently I have changed my mine and I prefer a song released as a single in 2005 that should have been paid more attention to. I'm talking about a tender song, a classic and joyful tune full of romance and dressed with Sharleen's elegance (this girl is so cool!). I'm talking about Getaway.