You may know Erlend Øye from Kings of Convenience. The Berlin-based Norwegian singer has been a huge figure in the electronic music scene for years, but with Whitest Boy Alive, his new project with German DJ Marcin Oez, Erlend's gone the opposite route, creating stripped down rock music without layering, editing or effects. The simple combination of drums, bass, guitar and Erlend's breezy, yet intimate voice create a sound that is both funky and melancholy. A truly original pop band making the simplest sou...   [ read more ]

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This is Erlend Oye writing to you, wanting to introduce Rules by The Whitest Boy Alive. Since we completed Dreams in early 2006 this has happened: Daniel Nentwig joined the band fulltime on Rhodes and Crumar (an italian synthesizer). We have played 120 concerts in Europe and Mexico. And now, emerging from soundchecks and end-of-concert jams has come 11 songs which make up our second long player Rules. It started with 2 months in the end of 2007 in Nayarit, Mexico, at the house of our friend Adrian Meyer De...   [ read more ]

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"In November of 2001, my band Figurine went on a short tour of Germany with Lali Puna. Our label there, Monika, set us up with a driver to get from show to show. She only brought three or four tapes to listen to on the drives, mostly techno. I'd never paid much attention to dancefloor-oriented electronic music, but listening to the same tapes over and over again (especially Kompakt's pop-leaning Total 3 and some 7?s on Parfum) while driving through Germany made a giant impression on me. So this record was ...   [ read more ]

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