Wallenberg is a project that is run by Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson in cooperation with various musicians and artists. Recently the EP “Red In the House of White” was released, and you can listen to a track from the EP here below.

On the surface it can be described as a minimalistic, alternative electronica, where I, without hearing a direct likeness, get associations to Lykke Li. There’s an innocent, naive feeling to it all, where of course also the images, the art and the clothes play a part. The red and the white, check patterns, elephants, some eastern vibes give a feeling of mystique like it’s a riddle I should try to solve somehow.

You can listen to the EP on Wallenberg’s Bandcamp page and on the Myspace page.

White Elephant

Here’s a song from Little Big Adventure, “Happiest Times”, taken from “The Hateful Eye EP”. The video maker Varelsen has also made a special video for the song.

Listen more on Little Big Adventure’s site or on Myspace.

Happiest Times

Happiest Times:

In the eighties the two big musical antipoles were hard rock and synth music. Of course there were loads of other types of music, but it felt like it was important to choose side here, at least for us guys. I chose hard rock.

And it was of course impossible then to admit that you liked a song that contained a lot of synth sounds (seems like we made exceptions for the hard rock bands that used synths…); that would have been embarrasing.

Of course i liked a lot of synth songs anyway, in secrecy, and this music has come to play just as an important role for me as all other music from this era. But now I’ve grown up (eh, maybe not really…), and We & Lisa is a band that reminds me a lot of this period.

The first feeling is Pet Shop Boys, but it’s more basic and original than that. Simpler, not so pompous and with a focus on good melodies, a little like the synth music was in the beginning. And with a dreamy, nice feeling.

You can find We & Lisa on their site and on their Myspace page you can listen to more tracks. Here are a couple of songs.

Under My Protection
Your Indifference

Labbet serves us some soft, cool, laidback electronica. “Excellent music for driving a car or strolling through the park on a Sunday afternoon”, he writes, and I quite agree. Really nice music to listen in the car, driving along a dark night.

The songs below are from the first singel release “I’m Gonna Miss You When You’re Gone”, and on 1980 Records’ site you can also listen to some new tracks with lead vocals by Russell Morgan.

Heart and Soul of a Lion:

I’m Gonna Miss You When You’re Gone

Zucchini Drive released their third album this autumn. The album is called “Shotgun Rules” and oozes of heavy electronica, hip hop and rock, not to mention som really nice pop hooks. I enter a dark and dense soundscape and even if I feel the same vibes there is quite some variation from track to track.

The vocals are excellent and are performed by a range of invited guest artists such as Marina Gasolina, Christy Brewster, M Sayyid, Seraphim et. al.

The albumet is released on the digital music company Marathon of Dope, run by Zucchini Drive together with other artists like Pip Skid and Birdapres from Canada. The idea is to release all music for free. Albums, remixes, videos, instrumental versions and so on will be available for everyone, and with this they hope to spread their music as much as possible and then get support from those who like it.

This means of course that you can download the album “Shotgun Rules” for free and discover a lot more on Marathon of Dope’s site. Read more about Zucchini Drive or visit them on their Myspace page or their Facebook page.

Shotgun Rules (with Marina Gasolina)
Call the Gods back In (with Elissa P)