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Pop music's only hope.
- Per Sinding-Larsen, Swedish TV on Alexis mixtape "Välkommen Till Gullmarsplan".
Before La Vida Locash artist Alexis Weak is ready to release his debut album this autumn he releases a five-song farewell to Gullmarsplan, his dear suburb south of Stockholm. The EP Farväl Gullmarsplan features production by La Vida Locash stars Adrian Lux, Kocky and Alexis in-house producer Vittorio Grasso. With lyrical inspiration from hip hop and musical inspiration from techno and house Alexis Weak paints a picture of modern day Sweden. From club bangers like Inne på klubben (featuring Institubes-boss and TTC-member Teki Latex) and Frys ner mig (with Swedish young gun Lorentz on the hook) to the almost painfully personal Disney På Is, Farväl Gullmarsplan is modern Swedish pop music for the end of the decade.
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Fresh off the success with 2008's "Strawberry" La Vida Locash golden boy Adrian Lux returns with this spring's most unexpected love song. His new single "Can't Sleep" takes the expression "dancing with tears in my eyes" to a new level. The bitter sweet "Can't Sleep" places itself somewhere right between the teenage room and the dance floor.
The single also features progressive house track "Club Kid" as a B-side.
The release includes remixes by three of Sweden's hottest producers right now: Tone Diary-boss Markus Schossow, Ali Payami (co-producer of Basshunter and known for his own smash hits "Blade" and "Pictures") and Avicii vs Philgood (Swedish young guns that recently have made remixes for Mr. Roger Sanchez and Dirty South).
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Following the highly successful "4-ever Juvenile" comes "Prison Break", the second single from the album. "Prison Break" also serves as an introduction to Noonie Bao, La Vida Locash latest recruit, who adds vocals to the song. Noonie Bao whose debut album will be out spring 2009 is a young lady from the mountains that will totally revolutionize the term singer-songwriter.
The single release also features a remix by La Vida Locash house boy Adrian Lux that transforms the song from a cute coming of age melody to a suggestive dance floor smash.
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The debut single from swedish wonderkid Adrian Lux on La Vida Locash. The track features bandmembers from indieband Those Dancing Days.
What happened to the summer? Adrian Lux brings you the answer.
"like Lifelike & Alan Braxe" - Justice (FR)
-"This talented young producer will go far!" / Style of eye (Dirty Bird, Pikadoll)
-"It is like super fantastic" / Jean Nipon (Institubes)
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KOCKY'S SECOND ALBUM
For his sophomore offering "Stadium Status", Kocky has retired the Rapclash label. This time the music needs no description. It is just epic danceable pop music exactly so logical it should sound in the spring of 2008. On the album, labels and genres are becoming more and more unimportant. The boundaries between popular - and experimental music slowly fade away into Kocky's "Stadium Status".
The biggest artists do not want to choose between studio perfectionism or pop stardom, and Kocky is always both. In the same way that classic albums such as "Born To Run" , the "White Album" or "Graceland" had their masterplans and great minds behind them, "Stadium Status" tries to be everywhere and everything in the same way. Kocky's second album is the perfect dreamworld from a Swedish artist with sky high ambitions and too big intentions, but at least compare and judge it with that in mind.
The first single "4-Ever Juvenile" stands as melancholic monument of the youth with it's Akon-guitars, soft house beats and with vocals from Daniel Dermes and young UK-rapper Tinchy Stryder. Tracks such as "Oh!", "U never See Me" and "Promise 2 Call" show Kocky's experimental and avantgardistic side - yet at the same time he is always aiming for the dancefloor and the pop charts. Also taken from Great Britain is the smooth r'n'b lover Jocelyn Mathieu, on "Face The Facts" Jocelyn shows us why. Introducing Noonie Bao - the first lady of La Vida Locash - the song "Prison Break" makes you wanna believe in summer again.
Stadium Status may be a sequel, but it is more than just a new chapter in the Kocky saga. It is a whole new book.
"Kocky har en stil lika avig som Zlatans. I love Zlatan och jag gillar Kocky även nu."
4/5 Kristianstadsbladet
"Kocky blandar dansmusikstilar snyggare och mer självsäkert än de flesta" 4/5 CITY
"Ett år senare hörs föreningen mellan hiphop och dansmusik överallt men själv har Kocky tröttnat på rapclash-etiketten. Likafullt drivs " Stadium Status" av samma förväntansfulla energi som debuten. Gästlistan innehåller ingen Timbuktu eller Jens Lekman, som förra gången, men det får bara Kocky själv att skina ännu starkare"
4/5 - Sydsvenskan
”Stadium status” känns ofta som ett strålande dj-set" - AFTONBLADET
"Stadium Status är en grym skiva. Hårda beats, grymma melodier och inte ett uns av det där nervöst moderna som kännetecknar nästan all ny kommersiell elektronisk musik. Det är musik som inte bryr sig om att bli älskad och därför blir den just det" - Mattias Alkberg, Norrbottens Kuriren.
"Sveriges bästa trummor" - Nöjesguiden
"Rena melodier, stilfullt och proffsigt producerat. Men därunder lurar tunga bastrummor, handklapp i perfekt otakt och andra små störningsmoment som lyfter låtarna från radioträsket till pophimlen." - 4/5 Corren
"Melodierna, falsettrösterna och den svulstiga ambitionen som flyter som en flod genom hela skivan, är tacksamt nog ganska lätta att ta till sig." - Helsingborgs Dagblad
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The first single "4-Ever Juvenile" from Kocky's second album "Stadium Status", stands as an melancholic monument of the youth with it's Akon-guitars, soft house beats and with vocals from Daniel Dermes and young UK-rapper Tinchy Stryder.
Also check out the b-side "Stack My Paper Up". Remixes from swedish juvenile rapper Lorentz, Virginia next-to-blow-producer Krames and the famous Norweigan Girls.
