Beatservice Records

Due to circumstances outside our control, the Towlines remix EP wasn’t released 14th as it was supposed to. New release date is set to 28th of February.

However, the EP is available already at the Musiconline store:
http://www.beatservice.musiconline.no/shop/displayAlbum.asp?id=40758

And you can listen to the full EP at SoundCloud:
http://soundcloud.com/beatservice/sets/metamorfozy-towlines

Flunk will play an acoustic concert (Anja + Jo) at Bronx Pi Sahne, Istanbul on Saturday March 12. Tickets and info: http://bit.ly/fgb1cN

There are also heavy rumours of a Flunk tour in China in the autumn...!!!

The planned Flunk compilation is put back until next spring, due to Ulf being buzy with his Norwegian language project Folk & Røvere.

Go check out F.A.C.E. (loves you) at the PulsAwards! on saturday!!! In Tromsø! At HT! Also do vote for them as Newcommer of the Year by sending SMS NLNYKOMMER 4 to 2005. (Norway only).

After some technical difficulties at Musiconline, the Beatservice mail order shop is now finally up and running again!

http://www.beatservice.musiconline.no

Here's the plan for the next releases:

30.aug: Frisvold & Lindbæk: Diskoism (BS123CD)
Compilation of remixes done by this dynamic duo, in the disco/balearic style familiar for fans of Rune Lindbæk. An artist album by the lads are planned for 2011 release.

sept tba: Nasra & Gaute: Sound Of Swosh (BS124CD)
Debut album from the collaboration between percussionist Nasra Ali Omar and electro-head Gaute Barlindhaug (of Kolar Goi and Aedena Cycle fame).

oct tba: F.A.C.E.: debut album
Electro-pop galore!!

New singles from Fenomenon and F.A.C.E., and possibly a remix vinyl/digital EP from Kohib are also planned.

Winter/spring 2011:
New album from Fenomenon and Cinque Cento, Flunk compilation...

Some tasters from the forthcoming Frisvold & Lindbæk compilation Diskosim, due 30th. aug!!

Frisvold & Lindbæk: Diskoism - excerpts by beatservice

The Beatservice News Blogg is up an running again!!

Beatservice have recently signed two local artist from the current Tromsø scene. You'll have to wait a little bit more before the second act is revealed, but now it is finally official that Beatservice Records is to release the debut album from Kohib! He has played a few live shows the last years, and his performance on this year's Insomnia Festival convinced the label boss Vidar Hanssen that Kohib was ready for an album release!

More info: http://www.beatservice.no/kohib.asp
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/kohib

Beatservice Records is thrilled to have signed a new artist. That is, he is not exactly a new artist, he has released two albums before on his own label. KongSverre aka Sverre Thorstensen is in a time machine stuck around 1984. He makes beautiful vintage synth-pop with mostly norwegian lyrics. His third album Fugl (bird) is due on Beatservice 14th of sept (12. oct on export), and to tickle the interest of all of you abroad Beatservice fans, we are releasing the english/german Computer Game EP on digital download 28th sept.

More info on KongSverre in english here.
Fugl CD (BS115CD)
Computer Game EP (BS117)

Listen to KongSverre at SoundCloud:

KongSverre: Computer Game by beatservice

KongSverre: Lyder by beatservice

KongSverre: Fugl by beatservice

There is a nice interview with Ulf from Flunk in XLR8R. Read it online here!

You can also read a nice and long interview with Ulf in Ballade. If you read Norwegian, that is...

Fenomenon is making the final touches on their new album. Their fourth album is titled "Soundtracks For Unwritten Scripts", and is due for release in august. Fenomenon is now a trio, making their long time session drummer Ruben Dahl a full member along with the original duo Håvard Rosenberg and Kjetil Ingebretsen. The track "The Song About Dancing" is due for digital single in the summer. A nice slammin' summer tune!

Finally, things are starting to happen again at the Beatservice camp! We have four albums planned for 2009, three new releases, and one re-release.

First one out is a new artist in the Beatservice rooster: The Electones.
Not quite new though, the guys behind The Electones are Jens Petter Nilssen and Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen, which you may know as Xploding Plastix. But The Electones is something quite different. They have been working on this side project since 2002, with two 12"-releases on the British label Inertia in 2002 and 2003. Since then, they have steadily been working on the debut album up until autumn 2008. In the meantime, Inertia has closed down, and Beatservice Records is very happy to release The Electones' debut album "If You'll Be Null, I'll Be Void". An album that can be described as 60's folk meets early electronica with a dose of Lanois...
Release date: 23rd of March (Norway/digital, a bit later on export).
http://www.beatservice.no/release.asp?catno=113

Later in the spring, it is finally time for a new album from Flunk.
Anja, Jo and Ulf have this time left the pop format from the two previous albums. You still get the familiar bitter-sweet pop songs, but the album is darker and more electronic, and rougher beats, a step to the left, with hints back to the debut album. "This Is What You Get" is the title, a quote from the cover song that they have a nice tradition of including.
Release date: 11th of May (world wide & digital)
http://www.beatservice.no/release.asp?catno=116
http://www.beatservice.no/release.asp?catno=114 (Cigarette Burns digital single, released 23rd of March)

In the autumn, we all look forward to a new album from Fenomenon (august). Also in the autumn, Beatservice will release an export/digital version of the second Xploding Plastix "Donca Matic Singalongs".

If you would like to check out the Beatservice releases, Last.FM is the place to go. We are slowly adding more and more from the back catalogue, and all new releases will be featured there weeks before the release. You can already now listen to the new Flunk-single "Common Sense" there, and soon the Electones album will be added.

Also within the spring (possibly May), the Beatservice catalogue will be added to Spotify and Beatport. We have a cool remix EP from Ralph Myerz ready for an exclusive release on Beatport as soon as all the practical details are sorted.

Ralphorama, the debut solo album from Ralph Myerz, have been picked as album of the year by Data Transmission!!!

More info here!

To promote the new album, Ralph Myerz will perform and do interviews on the following Norwegian TV-channels this week:

NRK2 mandag 8.9 kl 22:20: I kveld
TV Norge tirsdag 9.9 kl 18:30: Oslo TV
TV2 onsdag 10.9 06:55: God Morgen Norge

All of the performances will be the track Preason Break featuring Karin Park.

The awaited third album from Xploding Plastix, and the phenomenal "solo" album from Ralph Myerz is finally ready for release! Both albums are released in Norway in the beginning of September in Norway, and in the end of September on export. Actual street date will vary in the various territories,depending on the distributors.

BUT - both albums are now available for pre-orders at the Beatservice store!

More info and order link:

Ralph Myerz: Ralphorama
http://www.beatservice.no/release.asp?catno=109

Xploding Plastix: Treated Timber Resist Rot
http://www.beatservice.no/release.asp?catno=111

Enjoy!

Xploding Plastix are now home again, they have just signed a deal for two new albums on Beatservice Records. In addition, their second album, 'Donca Matic Singalong' will finally be released outside Scandinavia.

Xploding Plastix consists of Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen and Jens Petter Nilsen. Their debut 7" 'Treat Me Mean, I Need The Reputation' (2000) was an instant underground hit, and made way for their debut album 'Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents' (2001). The album quickly became a classic, and is to this date still one of the bestselling Norwegian underground electronica albums.

After the debut, Xploding Plastix left Beatservice Records for the Norwegian branch of the major label Sony, and in 2003 they released the album 'The Donca Matic Singalongs' in Scandinavia. Both of the albums where nominated for Spellemannsprisen (Norwegian Grammy) and the Norwegian Alarm-award.

Since then, they have been busy working with music for short films, movies, and TV- and radio-productions. They have also collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, plus the collaboration project Piston Ltd who released the album Domestic Engine last autumn, and their sideproject The Electones.

Autumn 2008 they are finally ready with a new Xploding Plastix album, released on Beatservice Records. We are looking forward to it!!

Releaseplan:

• Aug/sept 2008: new album
• Autumn 2008 / winter 2009: Donca Matic Singalong (revisited version for eksport and digital download)
• Autumn 2008 / winter 2009 : Devious Dan EP (digital EP with three tracks previously only available on a music video and on the licensed version of Amateur Girlfriend.)
  
  

Three old 12"-ers from the 90's finally available in digital form!

They are now available at the Musiconline store, in max quality 320 kbps. Within a few weeks, they will also be available at iTunes and eMusic.


BS005 Theory: En-Route (originally released 11th of march 1996)
01 En-Route
02 Side F-Ect Pills
http://www.beatservice.musiconline.no/shop/displayAlbum.asp?id=33736

Two techno tracks from Ken Theory, who later collaborated with Nick Sillitoe in the Ultraviolet and AM and the UV projects.


BS007 Implosion: The Vivid Mind EP (originally released 18th of december 1995)
01 The Journey02 Venus Desert03 Minx04 Plasma
http://www.beatservice.musiconline.no/shop/displayAlbum.asp?id=33735

Four techno/trance tracks from Arne Kaupang. After this debut EP, he released further two 12" on the dutch label Emergency Broadcast.


BS008 Pacemaker: Pacemaker EP (originally released 11th of march 1996)
01 Pacemaker02 Airstation 03 Expresso04 Sankra
http://www.beatservice.musiconline.no/shop/displayAlbum.asp?id=33737

Tribal house-ish 4-track EP from a collaboration between newage artist Erik Wøllo and Per Henrik Svalastog from Information.

A quite big pile of back catalogue releases are now finally included at eMusic. There's only a handfull of releases that's missing, and some of the old 12"-ers are still not digitalized.

Check out the full Beatservice catalogue at eMusic here: http://www.emusic.com/label/Beatservice-Phonofile-MP3-Download/145229.html

More info about eMusic at http://www.emusic.com/

eMusic is a subscription based service, where you can download MP3's. For a monthly fee, you can download a certain amount of music each month, choosing from more than 2 million tracks.

If you just want to purchase MP3's of Beatservice music without having a monthly subscription, you can buy them at the Musiconline store http://www.beatservice.musiconline.no/.

Musiconline, who host the digital Beatservice catalogue, have now converted from DRM-protected WMA-files to DRM free MP3 files. This is a more widely accepted format, and the removal of the protection gives you full flexibility when it comes to copying the file between your computer(s), your digital music player, your mobile phone etc. This is a much more user friendly format, and we at Beatservice Records is very happy for this choice!

The files are in top quality bitrate, most of them are in 320 kbps.

Visit the Beatservice store here: http://www.beatservice.musiconline.no/ (if you preffer Norwegian language: http://www.beatservice.musikkonline.no/)

Flunk has been honored as the Auralgasms artist of the Month for August. Flunk be highlighted on Auralgasms.com as well as receive heavy rotation on Auralgasms Radio.

Auralgasms is a web-page for discovery and discussion of "under-appreciated artists", focusing on Dreampop, Brit-pop, Trip-hop, Shoegazing, Indie, Electronica and Alternative Classics. Click on image below to check them out!

The Beatservice catalogue is now finally on eMusic. Most of the new releases are now uploaded, and the back catalogue is coming soon!

eMusic is the world’s largest retailer of independent music, offering more than 2 million tracks. They are a subscription-based service that allows consumers to download music in MP3 format. Check it out here:

Ralph Myerz is having a little break from The Jack Herren Band, and has a solo album planned. Beatservice Records have signed a world wide deal with Mr Myerz. The album is about 80% done, and the title is already set: Ralphorama. It isn’t due until jan/feb 2008, but we can look forward to 3 singles in 2007, all three showcasing the different sides of Ralphorama.

The first single is called My Darling, and is a pop-electronica track with hip-hop beats and sugar sweet vocals from Christine Sandtorv (of Ephemera, also known from other RM&TJHB tracks). This single will be released early summer, and will have remixes from Bent, Rune Lindbæk, Kahuun, Doc L Jnr and more.

The next single is All Night Long, a funky fresh retro-disco-thing, where we can hear Mr Myerz himself doing a nice white-boy-disco-rap, along with female singer Caro. Indeep for the 00’ies!!! This will be released late summer/early autumn.

The third single will be released late autumn/early winter. This is a hip-hop track with contributions from US rappers Devin The Dude (Jay Z, Dr. Dre, Snoop, Tupac etc), along with Kurupt from Dogg Pound, known from a.o. Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle album. Plus Onkl P representing Norway.

The album will also have a few more surprises when it comes to collaborators/guest vocals/rappers. Style wise, the album will also touch into instrumental hip-hop ala Nightmares on Wax, a touch of Berlin-minimalism (!) and some house stuff.

You can listen to some tasters on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/theshakes4ever

Flunk is due with their new album Personal Stereo next month. (on Monday already in Norway!)

But they have now made available soundfiles for three of the tracks on the new album!

Feel free to download and do your own mix, and send it to us. If we like it, we'll release it!

http://www.flunkmusic.com/remix.html

Flunk has just been at Transition Mastering Studios in London and finished the master to their new album Personal Stereo. The album has their trademark melanholic guitar-driven downtempo pop, but this time with a slightly darker, more electronic twist.

Following their tradition of including a cover version, they have now included their take on Depeche Mode's See You (also featured on their download only live EP). The album is due due 23th April, cover artwork and full tracklisting can be found here: http://www.beatservice.no/release.asp?catno=97

Geir Jenssen has added some treats for his fans to his mp3 page. Three of his very first electronic recordings from 1982, Under The Glacier I, Under The Glacier II and De Du Da Da Di are now added here: http://www.biosphere.no/mp3.html - along with other goodies from the archives. For free!

”In This Kiss” with AM and the UV was featured in the first episode of the new US TV series ”Dirt”. The new series is the comeback for Courteney Cox, known from ”Friends”. 3,4 millions american viewers watched the first episode when it recently stared on the US channel FX.

The track is picked from the album "Candy Thunder" released on Beatservice Records in 2004.

Info/mailorder/download:
http://www.beatservice.no/release.asp?catno=72

This winter will see two re-releases on Beatservice Records. First off is the debut album for Sternklang, Freestylespacefunk. The title says it all about what kind of music it is! The album was originally released in 1997, but has been out of print for a while. It has now finally been re-pressed, and is re-released 8th of January.

The second re-release is Biosphere's Cirque. It was originally released by the Danish label April Records in Scandinavia in 2000. It has been out of print for a couple of years, and is now moved over to Beatservice Records for Scandinavia. Geir Jenssen won Spellemannsprisen - Norwegian Grammy - for this album. The new Beatservice version comes with brand new and exclusive artwork, made by Hanne Brockmann based on photos by Geir Jenssen. It is released 29th of January.

Finally, all of the available vinyl goodies from Beatservice is now included in the mail order shop!
We have also reduced the prices for the vinyl releases, to the following prices:
LP 80 NOK (about 9,5 EUR / 13 USD)
12" 40 NOK (about 5 EUR / 6,5 USD)
7" 20 NOK (about 2,5 EUR / 3 USD)

We also have reduce the price for the Beatservice Jukebox DCD to 50 NOK!

There are a few goodies from the archives that now finally are available for mailorder: Slowpho and Flunk's debut album and EP's, Mind over MIDI goodies, the Athome Project 12" with the 17 minute Röyksopp remix etc etc.

You'll find it all here:

http://www.beatservice.musiconline.no/shop/displayAllMerchandise.asp

...but it is also linked at http://www.beatservice.no/bsmo.asp

Enjoy!

The self titled "debut" album from Kolar Goi is featured on the second position on Naked Alien's Treasure Chest list! The album was released on Beatservice in 2003, more info/download/order here.

We are happy to announce that we are re-releasing the Biosphere album Cirque for Scandinavia! The album, that won the Spellemannprisen award (Norwegian Grammy) in the "dance/hip hop" category (!) in 2000, was originally released on April Records, the Danish "sister label" to Beatservice under the VME umbrella.

After a long period of unavailiability in Scandinavia, the album is finally re-released in the end of January 2005. There will be new artwork by Hanne Brochmann.