Your Digital Daily for Monday, July 12, 2010

K-X-P prep debut

Monday, July 12, 2010 in Features by EB Team about Annie

K-X-P prep debut

Optimo’s favorite Finnish Kraut rockers, K-X-P, are soon to drop their self-titled debut album on cult label Smalltown Supersound. Led by Timo Kaukolampi, who is perhaps best known as the producer who helped steer Annie to electro-pop stardom, the trio push a heavily percussive sound, that is driving and on occasion funky, but usually ice cool.

After being invited to play the last Optimo party, and featuring in lasy years JD Twich Synth mix, the band have gained a considerable cult following with their teutonic rhythms and other-worldy, vibe. So other-worldy, that they seem to be sans myspace. How very modern.

Excited? Yes, we are.

Tracklist

01. Elephant Man
02. Mehu Moments
03. 18 Hours (Of Love)
04. Labirynth
05. Aibal Dub
06. Pockets
07. New World
08. Epilogue

EB Exclusive – Physical Therapy remix of SIINAI

Monday, September 19, 2011 in Features

SIINAI make introspective, hazy pop music that oscillates between buzzing electronics, waves of reverb and psychedelic plateaus of blissful ambiance. It’s heady stuff that evokes the Arctic tundra and broken hearts and we cannot seem to get them off the office stereo. So with that in mind, we are very pleased to share an exclusive – more

New Music from K-X-P

Wednesday, September 07, 2011 in Features

We are rather partial to a bit of K-X-P at Electronic Beats. Throbbing riffs and motorik beats are squeezed out of a guitar, a bass, drums and not a lot else, and yet they make a sound that is exactly like something you can lose your shit to in a club. Championed by Glasgow’s Optimo, – more

Catch K-X-P on tour

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 in Features

K-X-P the Finnish three piece groove machine who we reported on last year are about to embark on a whirlwind tour of Europe. Taking in dates in the UK and Ireland, the band have been busy finishing off the mixes on their debut album – the release we reported on last year, has been pushed – more

Dan Haan get Night Shifting

Thursday, December 16, 2010 in Features

Den Haan are the humorously titled electro-synth duo from Scotland (their name means ‘pine cock’ in Dutch) who we think you will be hearing a lot more of next year. Having so far worked with Optimo, Ivan Smagge and Cosmo Vitelli, they have released some killer 12″s on Dissident and Supersoul Recordings and their debut – more