That I would enjoy listening to dubstep and drum’n’bass, I wouldn’t have believed a while ago. Not that I dislike these genres in any way, it’s just that my music radar has led me in other directions and that I’ve never really entered this type of music in an interesting way.

But I think that the duo Modual has dragged me into this area somehow now, by blending beautiful pop melodies and a nice jazz-harmonic feeling with the beats. The result is a wonderful, laidback music, soothing and slightly melancholic, with interesting productions.

In September they released the EP “Infinity” and you can listen to this EP, and a former one, on Bandcamp and on Modual’s Soundcloud page. You can also connect with them on Facebook.

Here are two tracks, one from each EP:

Infinity
Deeper Than This

Today I’ll present some electronica with Judge Circuit, a band hailing from Sala. They released a single this fall and are planning on releasing their debut album in the beginning of 2011.

In the song “If You Only” they are visited by another Sala band, Navet (featured yesterday here on Meadowmusic), where Julia Ögren joins in with her vocals.

You can find Judge Circuit on Myspace and on Facebook.

If You Only
Then & Now

Navet is a band that released their debut EP in spring. Four tracks of pop music with a lot of eighties’ vibes. Beautiful melodies, typical beats and synth backgrounds. They have announced a debut album coming out in November, and as a taste of that they released a single some month ago, “A Letter to You”.

Two songs, partly different in style from before, with a beautiful piano ballad as track 2. Listen to the single here below.

Visit Navet at their blog and at Myspace. On Spotify you can listen to the debut EP.

A Letter to You
What I’ve Become (Sjöbo tagning 2)

LCTRISC call their music “Maximal”, which is explained as: “A crazy fusion dance music and garage noise. Guitar riffs cut into pieces in symbiosis with cheap drum samples and midi synths. And a banana shaker.”

Lenny and Leslie form the duo LCTRISC and have found their own way of mixing electronica with rock vibes, crazy playfulness, hooky guitar and synth figures and heavy beats.

“Last Kiss” is their new single, here below also as a video (by Johan Stolpe), a video that won an award recently at Dalarnas Film Festival.

You can follow LCTRISC on Facebook and on Myspace. Here are two tracks:

Last Kiss
Reach the Children (Book of Doom)

Last Kiss:

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Update 18/11

LCTRISC has recently signed with the excellent label Despotz Records, and they will release a remastered version of “Last Kiss” as a first single. I have therefore removed the “Last Kiss”-track for now.
The song is available, though, on a limited vinyl edition.

Art Acoustic is a duo from Göteborg that combine electronica and acoustic guitars with inviting pop melodies. Right now they offer us their first EP, called  “EP #1”.

They move from the modern dance floors to the eighties sound to a more straight electro-acoustic pop and show this in four tracks you can download on their site. You can also meet them on Facebook. Here are two songs:

Lay Your Head
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