I've been hoping for her "Konichiwa Bitches" track to blow up stateside since i originally heard it in early 2006...
I didn't realize the Snoop remix was "legit" - It was my understanding he was kind of unhappy about it, thinking it was a piss take by some Swedish white girl...maybe I missed a line or two of the story. m On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Andrew Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of non-313 music (re: mentions of Crystal Castles and Four Tet), > I've been thoroughly enjoying the self-titled 4th album from Sweden's > Robyn. > Am telling everybody about it I can (see more below), to be honest. > It has been available since 2005, but has only been out in North America > for the last couple of weeks. Every track is solid; out of 14 tracks, 8 > have > been issued as a single somewhere. One of the official remixes of Snoop > Doog's > recently-mentioned-on-this-list song "Sensual Seducation/Sexual Eruption" > features Robyn on vocals as does Britney Spears' "Piece Of Me", so you > might have already heard her voice. Plus she's sung on tracks for numerous > others including Basement Jaxx. > > Anyway, if you don't know her story, she did 3 albums (since 1997) for > major labels > and struck out on her own with her own Konichiwa label for this new album > after > getting fed up with her majors. She's been writing and performing her own > songs > since she was 13; yes it is pop music, but it with a fresh take on the > music > (producers range from The Knife to Klaus Ahlund to Kleerup) and her > lyrics--again, written by herself--are a twist on the usual pap of Britney, > Christina, et al. Example choruses that the other female pop artists > wouldn't > be able to pull off: "my new favorite thing to do/is wasting > my time with a bum like you"; "I should have seen it coming down/I should > have f*ckin' known"; "who's that girl that you think you love/I know > there's > no such girl". She's known for performing acoustic versions of her dance > songs, too, which you wouldn't see many doing. And she does it very well. > > I'd liken her to Neneh Cherry (a big fave of mine, and there's news Cherry > will have a new album out by the end of the year) before I'd compare her to > Britney, Christina, et al, actually. And she's smart about her remixers: > Drop The Lime does a take on her current single, for example, Jori > Hulkkonen > has done a mix, etc. Her myspace page currently has her newest North > American single, a medley of the 3 remixes of it, a cover of The Police's > "Message In A Bottle", the Snoop Dogg remix she's featured on, and clips > from every track on the album. I could go on and on, but hopefully if you > haven't already heard her material, you'll check these links: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn > http://www.myspace.com/robynmyspace > http://www.robyn.com/ > http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robyn&search_type= > Andrew > > -- > Andrew Duke--sound design/recording/composition/production courses: > http://andrew-duke.com/course.html > > Andrew Duke--Chain Reaction downloadable sound FX samplepack: > http://www.audiobase.com/product/SACR > > Andrew Duke--Consumer vs. User album: > http://www.phthalo.com/cat.php?cat=phth40 > > Andrew Duke--columns/features/commentaries/more: > http://cognitionaudioworks.com/read.html > > http://linkedin.com/in/AndrewDukeCognitionAudioworks > http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew_Duke/852160229 > http://myspace.com/AndrewDuke > http://myspace.com/CognitionAudioworks > > -- "Play more things that make me dance around and less things that make me sit and look miserable in a plastic chair" - Brian Eno Blind faith in bad leadership is not "Patriotism".
