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    Artist: The Crashlanders

    Label: Electric Fantastic Sound

    The Swedish electro trio The Crashlanders is vocalist Erika Nyström and the two brothers Rasmus and Nils Petter Löfstedt on keyboards. The group has its roots in the Möllevången area in Malmö and their music is a mixture of eighties Italo disco and classic Swedish pop. The band has previously released the albums "Mellan nätter & begär" ("Between Nights & Desire") and "Dit konsten aldrig når" ("Where the art never reaches") and from these two records songs have been selected for the first release on the Electric Fantastic Sound label.

    Erika explains it like this: "We picked the best tracks from these albums and let the other ones be. This collection is our way to say So Long to the old times and Hello to the new."

    New material is being recorded and the new yet untitled album is due later this year. It is usually Rasmus that writes the music both other constellations are not uncommon – the vocalist Karin Ohlsson has contributed with both lyrics and vocals on some tracks. One thing has always been important; the feeling of making something personal. Rasmus says "I make a rough sketch of the song that I send to the others to get their input. Erika and Nils Petter makes their passes with the lyrics and then we just send the track back and forth until we're all happy with it. When all the pieces are in place we get together to record the final takes. It can take somewhere between a couple of hours up to three years to complete a track and there has always been a feeling of...