“Hjorten Gal” is a slight but engaging bit of electronic funk by Mighty Mighty (aka Mathias Söderberg of Stockholm).

Hjorten Gal

Just something quick today from the Swedish electronic artist known as xorb and his new ep Tiny Sattelites. “Square Air World” is gloomy electronica with hints of doom and death. It’s perfect for the world we live in that is presently gearing up for a pandemic of unknown origin and vigor.

Square Air World

I also wanted to post today so that I could direct you to Songs:Illinois and the new song from The Bobby Mcgee’s (here). L.O.V.E is a perfect blend of twee and indie pop with a big dose of sarcasm thrown in for good measure. If you have liked any of the Swedish indie pop I’ve posted over the years you will love this.

Fuglesang

Örnsberg is the work of Johan Ragnarsson. His first album, Redlinespotting, will be available in April on the London based label Perfectly Charming Records. This track is off that forthcoming record and it nicely blends anthemic pop with electronic touches.

Every City

The other day I went off on aging pop stars attempting to connect with teens through music that is base and exploitative. The post revolved around a song/video by Oh No Miriam! called “Teenage Love”. Well now here’s another song by a teenager entitled “Teenage Love”. The band in question is basically a 16 year old Stockholm kid that goes by the name of Sandstream. This is the first single by the group (the Myspace page went live 4 days ago) and it is a duet with a mysterious female singer.

The song starts out with a robotic introduction but this is not Daft Punk electro trash. Instead it’s melodious electro-pop with its roots in English dance pop of the 80′s and 90′s (Depeche Mode, Cure, Echo and the Bunneymen etc etc). The duet is one of the elements of the song that sets it apart, the other is the earnest vocals of the male lead singer. Let me know what you think of this in the comments…I’m going to leave this post up for a day or two to let this settle in.

Teenage Love

Don’t let the out of phase intro to “Discoliner” throw you off. When that gives way to actual beats, robotic vocals, and sampled chants of la, la, la, la, la, this song really takes off. This comes off a free digital album called Music For Men from the young Swedish trio Stay Ali and is available from the Italian netlabel Signorafranca here now (makes a nice bookend with that Val Venosta post from yesterday).

Discoliner

All of my carping about the greatness of the Swedish electronic duo Val Venosta has paid off with an exclusive sneak peak of their upcoming EP Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Wolf.

“I Think Billy Wilder Would Like This” expands on the earlier songs of Val Venosta. The robotic synthesized vocals and thumping beats are still present but now the melody is a little more present and the indecipherable chorus is pushed to the front of the song. All in all a great song to get 2009 off on the right foot.

I Think Billy Wilder Would Like This!

P.S. Songs:Illinois is back with an exclusive first listen to a track from the Brooklyn based gypsy punk group Luminscent Orchestrii here.

Ghostpony have sent me another track from what must be their new EP. It’s as funky as the earlier stuff I posted here.

Fake

P.S. I’ve added Metro Jets “Jingle Jangle Christmas” to the Swedesplease Christmas mix.

Sticking with yesterdays theme of experimental electronic music from Sweden, here are a couple short vignettes from Smulton. Check out how the organic (kalimba) or odd percussion sounds mix with the electronic.

Velociped
god morgan
Ending

Just because our “New Faces of Swedish Electronica” week is over it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have more beat heavy Swedish music on Swedesplease. The Stockholm based band MFMB combines electronica beats with shoegaze fuzz and agro vocals. It’s an od mixture and one I haven’t really heard since the UK groups New Model Army or The Damned.

The bands’ new ep is called The Fine Detail and is available as a free download here (updated link – thanks to those who wrote in).

Control
Anthill Man

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