news:
The new album is out now. You can listen to four tracks from it here on myspace.
The exclusive coffee blend is unfortunately already sold out. We might make some more later on.
Oh, and we also just spent a week recording new songs for an album. Hopefully to be finished soon.
The pre-release of the first of our remix EP 12"s on Kupei Musika is now out. The EP is in digital format only and will be available for purchase from Beatport. It is called "Expanding Universe Part 1", and on it you will find two tracks from the new album, and two beautiful remixes of each track by fellow swede UNAI and shoegaze-techno wizard Jesse Somfay. The UNAI remix you will want to dance and sing to, the one by Jesse Somfay you can dance to if you really want. But at Differnet headquarters we prefer to enjoy it really really loud in a comfy chair, accompanied by a drug of choice. Ours being coffee, which brings us to the second important part of this newsletter.
Our new album will be released on CD by Friendly Noise in Sweden on may 30. It is called "Collapsing Universe" and contains 8 carefully chosen tracks as well as stunning album art by Plans & Design. More info on this and questions regarding related activities will be answered shortly (like: where and how can I get hold of a package of the official Differnet coffee blend?). The album is also scheduled for release in the rest of Europe and the US, but at a later date. As of now this is the only available documentation on the album:
"An apparatus with a sad objective
The average density of this music is enough to stop its expansion so that it begins contracting. Although the end result is unknown, this scenario may allow the beginning to have been immediately preceded by the end of preceding performances: countless swarming bees preceding a sudden urge in the midst of the swarm to bring forth cityscapes and parklands, or a story of love delayed from the viewpoint of exactly that same city in respect to another galaxy. Another idea could be to allow the music of someone else carefully unfold inside the milieu already established. Would that be enough to stop the music from expanding? Probably not. But if instead a song tells us about the future and then presents us with precisely this same vision? That, for sure, would make the apparatus fold in on itself. We may even venture to prevent this fatal dilution by means of a quaquaversal, totalizing insurance, allowing us to manipulate secondary energy sources through the increasing efficacy of information processing. Perhaps not. Perhaps still. If we could just imagine all the things to come as anticipations of the past, as the average density of this music."
In the new issue of swedish music magazine Ondskan, out this week, there is a lenghty piece documenting our meeting and conversation with legendary radio man Kjell Alinge. Not to be missed.
Do not forget to check out the mp3 re-release of our very limited chocolate packaged 3"CD from 2006 at the Friendly Noise page. Even though it does not taste as good as the original at least it's free!
important releases:
Come on and Bring Back the Brjokén Sounds of Yore! (CD, Friendly Noise 2003)
Untitled (CD, Friendly Noise 2005)
The Next Compensation (Double CD-album, Rallye Label, 2005)
old bio from allmusic.com:
"A Swedish trio that started with the new millennium, Differnet had at its start two performers -- Tomas Bóden, general mastermind and arranger with keyboards as his main instrument, and Peter Jackson -- nothing to do with the noted New Zealand film director -- on guitar, flute and vocals. As with many groups of the century's first decade, Differnet's approach was an exploration of the ground between restrained, low-key indie rock and electronic approaches derived from Warp Records and similarly experimental techno labels and performers. Also in common with other bands, Differnet initially eschewed seeking a formal record company in favor of self-released CDRs and mp3 releases via its website, www.differnet.tk With the assistance of some other friends, the group began recorded life with Kabelsalat in 2001, followed later that year with We Are Difference, How Are You?, a further collection of edited improvisations, including the help of Niclas Wiklund on santoor, a Persian/Indian instrument. Style Telegraphique appeared in the summer of 2002, followed later that year by a key EP, Affections, a mostly solo affair by Bóden that also featured the vocals of Anna-Karin Brus, who ended up becoming the third permanent member of the band. The first full effort featuring all three, In Advance of the Broken Sound, appeared the following year. At this point the band had been receiving greater attention beyond their self-release program thanks to an appearance on the Friendly People Making Noise compilation on the Swedish label Friendly Noise -- this was followed by a full album on that label, Come On And Bring Back The Brjokén Sounds Of Yore!, towards the end of 2003. A compilation and overview of the band's various self-released work of the previous two years, it became the trio's first release to earn wider attention outside of its homeland."
