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Meet and Greet is the first single from the upcoming third album by Slaraffenland and it is a perfect song and title for introducing a new chapter in the ever-growing history of the Copenhagen based band.
The b-side of the single is My Bad Ways, which is a very powerful outtake from the album recordings that took place in the studio Mexico City with the successful Danish producer Fridolin.
September the 7th 2009 the entire album will be released. The title is We´re On Your Side and it will be released simultaneously in Europe and USA (via Hometapes). It is without doubt the best and most accessible album by Slaraffenland yet. Rumraket looks forward to make this album available so everybody can fall in love.
Someone who already fell in love is the famed French video artist Vincent Moon. You know him from the many Blogotheque/TakeAwayShows.com videos and his work with bands like Arcade Fire, Beirut, The National and R.E.M. He has been following Slaraffenland for the last two years and for the album release this will culminate with a big collaboration between Slaraffenland and Vincent Moon. More details of this project can be revealed soon.
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With the Step Out Into The Light EP Taxi Taxi! finally returns after their successful debut EP release in 2007. This new digital only EP is a foretaste to their debut album that will be released in the fall of 2009.
The two twin sisters from Stockholm graduated from high School a year ago and are still in their teens, but more than ever is their musical output as mature and on the same level as the international artists they so often are compared to. This EP and the coming album are both tastefully and gently produced by Johan Berthling (Tape, Häpna Records).
More Childish Than In A Long Time starts the EP and this song will also be present on the coming album. The two other tracks are exclusively only available on this release.
The third song on the EP is a cover of the Taxi Taxi! song Belle by the American artist Peter Broderick. Besides being a friend and fan of Taxi Taxi! Peter Broderick has released acclaimed albums on Type, Bella Union, Kning Disk and Erased Tapes
This particulary Taxi Taxi EP is released on Rumraket in collaboration with our good friends and colleagues from Tigerspring.
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a new EP from Danish Slaraffenland! including three new brilliant songs and two cover songs of monumental and legendary songs by Aha and Radiohead! For lovers of eccentric beauty everywhere!
Slaraffenland has traveled the world extensively since the release of their second album Private Cinema last June. They have played concerts around Europe and toured in the US several times - the last US tour was the month long Danish Dynamite Tour with fellow label mates (& owners) Efterklang in May 2008.
And the traveling hasn’t finished at all. Starting September 2008 they will embark on a new tour in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Benelux and France. In relation to the upcoming tour Rumraket is proud to release a new EP by Slaraffenland entitled Sunshine. The release comes in custom designed and printed cardboard covers and features 5 new recordings - among them two covers of legendary and monumental songs by Aha and Radiohead!
The EP starts off with I’m a Machine and The Trick which have been live favorites for the band and audiences since last summer Both songs feature the Slaraffenland trademark gang singing and chanting on top of a foundation of innovative percussion with gritty yet beautiful and constantly changing and effect driven guitar and brass arrangements.
Track 3 on the EP is a cover of the 80 classics Take on Me by Aha and Slaraffenland nails it! You are at no time in doubt that this is Slaraffenland playing and still the original songs stands out clearly. Highly recommended!
Dust is another new promising Slaraffenland song. Years ago this was an instrumental composition, now it has vocals a new arrangement and intriguing lyrics.
A cover of Radioheads legendary Paranoid Android ends this encouraging EP. This cover was also released as part of OKX a tribute to OK Computer compiled by Stereogum.com in the summer of 2007.
The CD version of the EP will be very limited so we suggest getting hold of a physical version as soon as you get the chance. The CD release date is October 7 but it will also be sold at concerts before that date. Sunshine will also be pre-released digitally September 15th 2008. Across the pond in The US and in UK Sunshine will be released by the lovely label Hometapes from Portland, Oregon.
At the end of 2008 Slaraffenland will start recording what will become their yet untitled third full-length album. We highly anticipate that!
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The Odds and Ends single by Canon Blue has been a favorite in the Rumraket office and headphones for a long time! We are very happy to release this extended single with some very good and different remixes included!
Canon Blue - www.myspace.com/canonblue
TURBOWEEKEND:
Turboweekend's take on Odds and Ends is a hauntingly dark and brooding march into the night, complete with a sleazy back beat and moonlight drenched synths to lead the way. This might be the most catchy release on Rumraket ever and its hard to resist. Turboweekend are local heroes in Denmark, but criminally overlooked outside the kingdom - if you like to dance to good and intelligent songs you should investigate.
http://www.myspace.com/turboweekend
VINCENT OLIVER:
An English wunderkind who breathed a second life into Rum Diary. Vincent Oliver recently also contributed to the Efterklang discography with a hilarious and genius remix of Efterklangs Mirador song. Vincent Oliver releases his music on LOAF Records.
http://www.myspace.com/vincentoliver
RIVAL CONSOLES:
This remix of Odds and Ends is the kind that completely turns the original inside out and destroys it to create something new and unique of the scattered parts. Rival Consoles has a new Decadent EP out now on the lovely Erased Tapes Records.
http://www.myspace.com/rivalconsoles
KILL KRINKLE CLUB:
A dream pop duo from Dublin. This remix of Odds and Ends is full of their lo-fi warmth destined to put happy thoughts in your head and a glow in your heart. Kill Krinkle Club claim that they will represent Ireland in the next Eurovision Song Contest.
http://www.myspace.com/killkrinkleclub
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In late summer of 2006 Anna Broensted found a hidden paradise amongst the hills, forests, and lakes in Denmark. There with her friends she moved into an old abandoned village school, and it was here that she began to write the songs for Our Broken Garden’s debut EP.
Anna was soon joined by various talented musician friends and after six months of recording the EP and album were complete. It was at this point that following a chance encounter Anna was offered a boat trip across the Atlantic with two sailors she met via her friends. Without knowing what it would be like to be in the open sea on a 31ft sailboat, she readily agreed. At the same time as the boat set sail the acclaimed producer Ian Caple started mixing the music. It was at this point that Anna began to think that her subconscious had perhaps played a trick on her. The lyrics she had written a year ago were immersed in powerful water symbols, and now she had thrown herself out to the open sea to travel 7000 kilometres. When the boat arrived in Rio de Janeiro two months later the songs had been mixed and were complete.
Atmospheric and hypnotic, Our Broken Garden mix handmade electric sounds with organic instrumentation to create a deeply graceful, down-tempo style of music, with Anna’s angelic vocals as the focal point.
Anna Brønsted is known to many as the singer and piano player of Efterklangs live band.
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Erik Levander has a knack for making majestic and tender pop themes which he heavily confronts with his passion for noise, folk, classical and impro music. With the help of his computer he forms all of it into one big detailed and layered splash of electronica, romantic melodies, discordia, eccentric beauty and gripping drama!
4 years in the making Kondens is a very personal and special album. Halfway through the writing and recording process Erik´s hard-drive crashed and unfortunately there was no backup of his work. Via donations from people all over the world enough money was collected to have the data from the drive restored. Sadly the drive proved to be impossible to restore. The many donators decided not to have their money back but instead to continue as sponsors of the album!
Therefore all of these people deserves a special thanks and mentioning: Carsten Thor Bryld, Anders Søborg Olsen, Carsten Fjølner, Robert Borges, Mads Brauer, Nan Na Hvass, Peter Skibsted, Poul Klemmensen, Christoffer Griebel, Band Ane, Peter Albrechtsen, Manuel Suarez Otero, Martin Møller Jensen, Lise Westzynthius, Sebastian rochford, David Spiers, Nikolaj Phillipsen, Lasse Korsemann Horne, Lasse Sort, Casper Clausen, Rasmus Stolberg, Randi Schmidt, Daniel Smith Nielsen, Haukur Torsteinsson, Daniel Bellah, Simon Toftdahl, Daniel Rasmussen, Anders Svensson, bjarne axelsen, Ian Mackinnon, charlie huguenard, Aksel Anker Henriksen, Morten Jaeger, Olof Adell, Brendan Jaks, Martin Dixon, Hildur Arsælsdottir, Sofia Koutsenko, Tony Ernst, Tobias Hellkvist, Hugh Jones, alice mollica, Sofie Hannibal, Anton Woronczuk, Christian Rohmann, Jackie Nissen Carlsson, Claus Haxholm Jensen, Anthony Felgate, Thomas Husmer, Edda Run Olafsdottir, Malina Terkelsen, Jonathan Go-matsushima, Jesper Duelund, Morten Lindberg, Rasmus Vestervig, The Jaxx Kop Sessions, Emil Salonen, Fredrik Söderström, Asbjørn Skødt, Ellinor Gylling, Henrik Lyck.
