| October 23d update |
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So, hi everyone,
Before announcing the next few releases, I’d like to mention a few things that have happened since Maskindans came out early this year – there’s been a lot of activity among the Maskindans artists…
-Adrian Cox has a new CD out on Ambolthue! 99 Sanger is a project he worked on in the mid-to-late nineties – in fact, it’s a CD with 99 songs on it. Obviously, some very short songs – one friend described it as a sort of synth haiku… It’s a great project, a lovely release and can be ordered from www.ambolthue.com – although I do suppose I shall have a few to sell from my shop as well.
-White Lord Jesus have a documentary out! It’s in Norwegian, but it’s subtitled and a very interesting view too. Watch it here: http://www.vimeo.com/6282455
-Lots of the ‘Maskindans’ bands have Facebook groups or MySpaces up. I’ll update Links as soon as I can get round to it, but off the top of my head, I recommend Facebook groups on WLJ, The Cut and Grå, the Norsk Synth group has a few videos from the Maskindans releaseparty, and on MySpace: Jan Berg (Blue Mathue, Clockwork Orange) has his Aurora project up, Nekropolis (Trygve Mathiesen and Thanasis Zlatanos) are back and have made a lot of new demos this year, Brød & Sirkus, PLX-15 and Mørkelagt Bevegelse have archive material and biogs out and Shit Tapes have a page with an exclusive Headcleaners track among other things.
-Some of the Maskindans bands have had live performances this year, some more are just around the corner: -PLX 15 rock the Nødutgang festival in Bodø on the 23rd. Hey, that's tonight isn't it? Well, if you read this, jump on the next plane to Bodø! -Famlende Forsøk play Høvikodden on October the 25th (at four in the afternoon so be early!). -Horsemen play Blitz the last weekend in November …Meanwhile, rumour has it that Boxbury Beat are going to Germany to play a small club somewhere, sometime, in January… Hommage Records’ next releases areHRLP002 – E-Man, HRLP003 – v/a: The Temptation Tapes, HRCD004 - Nekropolis (previously released in 1982 as Thanasis Zlatanos’ solo debut, this was originally a band featuring Trygve Mathiesen, se his biography elsewhere on hommage.no). I’ll post more info on them asap, I just wanted to wake this webpage up first…
Thanks to everyone who made the Maskindans compilation and releaseparty such an astounding, shocking, amazing success! The response was a lot higher than I had anticipated, to say the very least, and it’s been very rewarding to see how this compilation of songs was received. I hope music fans will be as intrigued by the next few Hommage Records releases!
Thanks,
Øystein Hommage Records |