sweden ii

Oh dear. Initially, this lot looked v promising. Synths, Swedish, sterile-sexy. Just my cup of tea.

Then this happened:

france iii

three steps to heaven:

(i) cup of rooibos tea and a new pack of bensons

(ii) go here and select the rather ace 'skyzophrenie' on the real player

(iii) stare in delirious happiness at the slide show located just below

[not a question of perving, ffs. this is about platonic beauty. art and that. i'm being serious here, good people]

france ii

are you sixteen?

i) if you are english, you will spit, swear, smoke (this bit is good) + go round quoting katherine tate catchphrases

ii) if you are are french, you will do this

japan i

japan: the chrysanthemum kingdom. in pop terms, the big one.

how to go about this? in their own chrysanthemum words, i feel. ok, so they're not *exactly* prettypop-represenatative, but they are authentic + it saves me having to write anything. + no, i am *not* making fun of people who do not speak english. they speak english perfectly. they just choose not to. which is fab.

Spikys Sexy performance Mechanical gimmick Eccentric and destroyed love song. Kitschy Meca rockin' is shot by the anti. A pair restructured from rock and roll scene in 2999 Spikys. Though a digital beat is assumed to be a subject It differs from so-called driving system music. MECA BILLY, MECA ROCKIN', MECA RASTA , and 2980'S POP It of the element was originally united. The ultra sound of the metagalaxy astonishment is thrown. It is a miracle guest player in the show. SLAPPIN' WOODBASS､C It is Ki however and ..acute angle of a preeminent taste.. Srappim'pray is fired at random. In addition, With SEXY DANCE&CHORUS "Woman whom top of Japan Gold suits" That CHIHIRO KOGANEZAKI It blooms all over doubtfully. A digital, analog illicit sexual relations stage is exactly developed. MALI is acting even by the PIANO solo. Classics were made a radical. A high-speed piano of angry waves Coming S tile of ..angry waves.. ..earliness.. Tama Wicked strongest angel in all truth in Eurasia. The distortion is put on love and the desire. Cotocoting was cooked in space. Meca rockin' show that sleeping child also dances. Two of Japan Meca rockin' boundary No.1. SPIKYS!!!!!!! HISTRY The end of 1998 SPIKYS formation. It counts and it doesn't cut. Though the member change is repeated Wicked strongest angel in Eurasia By the MALI joining SPIKYS becomes invulnerability. Sexy performance Ultra voice Mechanical gimmick Eccentric and destroyed love song. In two or more halls Extreme of praise and rejection Science reaction outbreak. Appearance prohibition Warning from public office Coming one after another "Standard style" "Predetermined harmony" "Custom" Anti that dislikes It receives great applause from the audience. In 2006 Guest player It is C in WOODBASS. SEXY DANCING&CHORUS CHIHIRO KOGANEZAKI Cooperation is received drinking. A live performance is further. SPIKYS sharpens packing.

wanna know more? of course you do

france / belgium i

wow

wow

france / uk i

exclusive: early lily allen demo tapes

norway i

goldlog - i'll make you understand

maria solheim - ocean needs water

- are these twee? hmmm, possibly. but twee can mask a lot of things. in any event
(i) twee is ok > good;
(ii) twee is partly why i am here;
(iii) it is sunday morning, twee time

sweden i

- SuperFilthyScandiCandySynthSexTrashPop. but don't get too excited. their other stuff doesn't really match up to this one... pleasingly fuck-awful video...

pjh 4

ok, so pj harvey clones are 10-a-fucking-penny. most = awful.i wont link to them, on 'be nice' principles (come back later, i'll have changed my mind).

anyway, for no good reason, here's 4 stonking female solo acts who may or may not owe a big debt to polly h:

- lysa fina esp. :misundertand: - wow! alanis m with proper venom - agreeably nasty - declined my 'friend' invite. good on her - i mean, fuck knows, i would if i invited me

- ina vag (I kid you not) - :incish rubbish: = polly harsh; :alien: = polly heavenly

- lilie parm no real pollification - french pop classical trippy etc - :lower: is exquisite - what the word :reveries: was invented for. like her lots cos she laughed at my joke.

- ooohh... bollox. have forgot who no. 4 is... damn. didn't log it. could be long search... right well while you wait...my fav page...

ladytron i

classic timeless gorgeous future-proof

finland ii

...we want to make music which can be danced to - we want to make people in a happy mood. therefore melodies and the rhythm are important elements in our music... the retropop sound is comprised of bumbling bass, synthesizer sounds of the eighties, beautiful melodies, deep beats and of course: saila's bright voice.

- the cute as buttons retropop

...i thought this was black metal but instead it was some f*cking bubblegum. bloody soap bubbles come out of my ears when i hear this, for christ's sake!...

- purveyors of the brillbrillbrill go home pandatron

now then: put these two clever quotes together; mix em up; perform the necessary intuitive extrapolations, metatextual readings etc, and god willing you might then have some idea of what i'm on about here. or not... ho hum, my fault not yours

vatican city i

motherfucking hallelujah

...or are should this post have been entitled "isreal [sic, you pedants] i"?

anyway, i've been plastering this trailer all over the internet like a feelgood dose of auro-viral euphoria. i was going to say "like a dose of chlamydia" but they may not have appreciated the analogy. then again... filthy stuff all round. bravo.

discursus a

Great. Blog less than a week old and I am already going off-topic. I think, however, that it's more than justified in these exciting circs.

Basically it's a GTA3 thing. I have met (well, sort of) le compositeur. He is called Pablo from Glasgow (aka The Butch Cassidy Sound System), and he does a nice sideline in cissy struts. Feel free not to give a flying, but this is officially royalty in my book.

Proustian memories of psycho Catalina and that bastard Tenpenny have been awakened... Might have to go for a cruise around Las Venturas now

Right, back to proper stuff tomorrow....

france i

...melon galia...

ok, so they're not really french, but close enough in a schengenny kinda groove. and no, they don't sing in walloon.
at least two puns in the name. that is good. pretty much the perfect incarnation of inventive, bittersweet french pop.

...soko...

or am i the only one not sick of her yet?

...manda-adn...

north-african influence and a nice trippy edge. a lovely fresh sound but voice seems to struggle when pushed. which i kinda like - this ain't puccini, folks, or search for a motherfucking joseph...

finland i

it's a link. in pink. to a very good song:

half of them is in the rather good actuals. from what they say in their blog, they seem to be reliant upon a school recording studio. i presume they're not still *at* school? surely not? i mean, jesus, that would be amazing - 16 yr olds making stuff like this! when i was 16, the only thing i could bash ou...

anyway, back to coffee. the pepsi maxcino is a sort of cappuccino in a pepsi max. it does exactly what it says on the tin. sod vodka-red bull, two cans of pmc and you can do anything. like create a blog about electro pop. thank you pepsi co.

iceland i

the pop capital of iceland is reykjavik

it may also be belfast

or even barcelona

if you know better, then please do feel free to supply a grid reference...

devenir gris et commencer

...from this...

...via this...

...to this, actually...

...which could well be the most perfectly crafted piece of Scandipop since...