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Add 1 cup of Iceland and a sniff of Sweden; the result? Daniel Oliver’s ‘Dj Blow My Speakers’

December 6, 2012 Iceland, Sweden One comment

Well in all honesty, apart from Of Monsters and Men and this years Icelandic Eurovision participants we haven’t really put a lot of Icelandic pop acts in the limelight. But that’s about to change, because this young man, Daniel Oliver, has caught our attention with what we call, a rather brilliant pop track ‘Dj Blow My Speakers’.

A big Fat pop Bass line? Check! Sexy voice? Check! Catchy? Check! perhaps a sexual reference? check! Pop? Check! We could go on for ages really. but we hope you get the picture and kinda get the idea that you have to hear it.

Daniel’s currently living in Sweden and working together with Jonas von der Burg, who’s previously worked with the likes of September and Alcazar, so no surprise it sounds sooo yummy! And are we glad it’s the first actual single to be released from Daniel in the world. So a big double cheer! We’re expecting big things (including Eurovision), Daniel!

Buy the new single of Icelandic indie folk band ‘Of Monsters and Men’

July 14, 2012 Iceland No comments

Starting off with a solo project, but ending up in a group of six individuals is a rather tough thing to do, and it rarely continues to last but Icelandic indie-folk band ‘Of Monsters and Men’ have only gone forward since they formed in 2009.

A year after forming, they were the winners of Músíktilraunir (English: Music Experiments), an annual music competition held in Reykjavík, Iceland in 2010, giving them the chance to perform at the 2010 Icelanic Airwaves Festival, which eventually landed them their record deal with Record Records at home after a radio station heard them perform ‘Little Talks’ live.

And since that moment, things have gone incredibly well. Not only has ‘Little Things’ been a massive chart success in Iceland, the track found its way internationally, giving the band the chance to sign a worldwide record deal with Universal in order to release their debut album ‘My Head is an Animal’ at the end of 2011.

Now 6 months later, it’s the UK’s turn to fall in love with the sweet, catchy indie folk songs by ‘Of Monsters and Men’. The single, Little Talks, is available for pre-order on Itunes now (click here) and will see its official release August 5. The full album ‘My Head is an Animal’ follows August 13.  Don’t miss out!

Björk’s biophilia remix chapter Vii has arrived.

July 14, 2012 Iceland No comments

Björk’s collaboration with app developers, scientists, writers, inventors, musicians, and instrument makers continues. The unique multimedia exploration of the universe and its physical forces (music, nature & Technology) have arrived onto chapter Vii.

The new chapter sees a further two songs, Mutal Core and Hollow,  from the Biophilia album remixed.  The tracks, remixed by 16-Bit for the occassion,  are available on 12” vinyl as well as CD and digital download. Listen to them below; once again they are rather brilliant.

The Biophilia 10-track album, out now on One Little Indian/Nonesuch Records, is available digitally, in CD format and on vinyl. Additionally, each of the 10 songs also is available as a special feature of the Biophilia App for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

 

björk releases the 6th chapter in the biophilia remix series

June 27, 2012 Daily News, Iceland No comments

björk ‘s latest album ‘Biophilia’ has taken the singer to a whole new level. Not only are the original tracks on the album fantastic but since April 16, the Icelandic singer and her record company have announced a collection of collaborations with several producers, who give their own spin on tracks taken from Biophilia.

The collaborations which are announced every two weeks, have now arrived at chapter six in which Matthew Herberts has taken on the tracks ‘Mutual Core’, ‘Sacrifice’ and ‘Virus’. The result is rather sublime. Listen to them below:

Good news for the björk fans, as all the remix entries in the series are available to buy and will also be made available in a 500-piece limited edition deluxe package designed by m/m with special blue mineral papers and embossed foil lettering consisting of a 12” LP and CD. Double-exciting!

The Biophilia 10-track album, out now on One Little Indian/Nonesuch Records, is available digitally, in CD format and on vinyl. Additionally, each of the 10 songs also is available as a special feature of the Biophilia App for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

ESC 2012: Full televoting split results announced.

June 18, 2012 Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Eurovision, Finland, France, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine No comments

It’s been three weeks since Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Many fans of the event are now in anticipation to find out the split votes between the juries and televoting, announced by the 42 participating broadcasters.

Eurovision.tv has today published the ranking after all 42 broadcasters voted in the final. As expected the televoters and juries agreed on the eventual winner, Sweden, while there was clear disagreement with its runner up Russia. Three of the big five countries Italy, France and Spain have all benefited from the juries as Italy and Spain both made it into the top ten, while France would have ended up with a nil point based on televoting only. A nil points hasn’t occurred occurred in the final since the introduction of the current system in 2004.

Country Combined Televote Jury vote
- # Pts # Pts # Pts
Sweden 1 372 1 343 1 296
Russia 2 259 2 332 11 94
Serbia 3 214 3 211 2 173
Azerbaijan 4 150 5 151 8 118
Albania 5 146 8 106 3 157
Estonia 6 120 12 78 6 152
Turkey 7 112 4 176 22 50
Germany 8 110 6 125 10 98
Italy 9 101 17 56 4 157
Spain 10 97 18 45 5 154
Moldova 11 81 13 75 9 104
F.Y.R.Macedonia 12 71 11 79 17 69
Romania 13 71 7 117 20 53
Lithuania 14 70 14 68 14 82
Cyprus 15 65 15 63 12 85
Ukraine 16 65 20 37 7 125
Greece 17 64 9 89 18 60
Bosnia & Herzegovina 18 55 16 57 15 71
Iceland 19 46 19 39 19 53
Ireland 20 46 10 89 25 14
Malta 21 41 25 10 16 70
Denmark 22 21 23 18 21 51
France 23 21 26 0 13 85
Hungary 24 19 22 20 23 30
United Kingdom 25 12 21 36 26 11
Norway 26 7 24 16 24 24

The results of both semi finals have also been revealed as follows:

Semifinal 1:

Country Combined Televote Jury vote
- # Pts # Pts # Pts
Russia 1 152 1 189 8 75
Albania 2 146 3 131 1 131
Romania 3 120 2 132 5 87
Greece 4 116 5 110 3 103
Moldova 5 100 7 85 2 107
Ireland 6 92 4 116 10 72
Cyprus 7 91 6 99 4 90
Iceland 8 75 8 79 11 70
Denmark 9 63 9 53 6 81
Hungary 10 52 11 39 7 76
Switzerland 11 45 10 49 13 45
Finland 12 41 12 36 12 57
Israel 13 33 16 16 9 72
San Marino 14 31 13 25 14 42
Montenegro 15 20 14 24 16 28
Latvia 16 17 15 18 18 17
Belgium 17 16 18 2 15 38
Austria 18 8 17 15 17 27

Semifinal 2:

Country Combined Televote Jury vote
- # Pts # Pts # Pts
Sweden 1 181 1 180 1 145
Serbia 2 159 2 148 2 141
Lithuania 3 104 3 128 10 55
Estonia 4 100 5 88 4 102
Turkey 5 80 4 114 13 42
Bosnia & Herzegovina 6 77 7 70 6 77
Malta 7 70 11 39 5 97
Ukraine 8 64 17 24 3 109
F.Y.R. Macedonia 9 53 8 63 9 58
Bulgaria 11 45 9 59 17 27
Norway 10 45 6 72 18 25
Croatia 12 42 14 34 7 66
Portugal 13 39 13 37 12 49
Georgia 14 36 18 15 8 62
Belarus 16 35 12 37 11 52
The Netherlands 15 35 10 51 16 31
Slovenia 17 31 16 27 14 40
Slovakia 18 22 15 32 15 40

Source: Escextra.com, Eurovision.tv

Due to Loreen winning the contest for Sweden with ‘Euphoria’ the Eurovision Song Contest is moving to Sweden since it’s victory in 1999 when the Swedish broadcaster hosted the very first contest of the millennium in 2000.

Watch the full recap of this years Eurovision Song Contest Final below

 
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