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The Award Show P3 Guld 2011

As has become traditional, I watched the award show P3 Guld, last night with a few good friends. It continues to be one of the only award shows I find worth watching. It's quirky, very Danish, and is about music that is not Beyoncé. Finally, the show consists mainly of a string of good live perfomances and four awards. No fuss. Just the good bits.

The prize for Breakthrough of the Year went to blog-favourites Turboweekend, and I certainly won't complain about that... Though, I believe you can always argue on what level they actually had their breakthrough last year. With the remix of Trouble Is by Joker and Tiësto, they certainly raised some international eyebrows last year. Here's the one by Tiësto:



Talent of Year went to Agnel Obel. Hmmm. Not really my cup of tea, though I can certainly hear the talent, and I appreciate the novel sound. Somewhat too art'y for my taste, I guess. I'd probably have voted for Kellermensch for holding the rock flag high. Here's their Springsteen-like Army Ants:



The Hit of Year - as voted by the listeners - went to Volbeat for Fallen. I am not much for popularity contests, as I seldomly like what the majority likes; but fair enough, Volbeat is party-hardrock, and that's ok by me. The nominees were these 25 songs, including two hits by rising popstar Vinnie Who. After the performance below by Vinnie Who last night I'd have thought it fair that he won at least one award.



Very, very stylish funky pop. I also applaud that he also understands that live music is about giving the audience a show.

The main P3 Guld award went to Fallulah. Ok, I guess. Her performance last night was quite good.



Hmmm, well. Ok, catchy. Well, she can actually sing and it's infinitely more pleasant to listen to than standard American/English pop. But - I was really impressed by Vinnie Who, so I must say that he was my favourite here, as well.

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And finally, tadaaah! My main prize was a great new (for me at least...?) song, performed live by another blog favourite Veto!

The Most Enlightening Thing I've Read About the WikiLeaks Situation

This. By Bruce Sterling, co-father of cyberpunk. Eloquent, long, insightful, and rather sad.

Daft Punk Lives

This deserves a bump of my near-dead blog:

An alluring teaser for the reshoot of Tron - including silly quotes, two-dimensional characters in a 3D-world (isn't this so MineCraft?), and ALL NEW MUSIC FROM DAFT PUNK!



UPDATE: I have now seen, and, in particular, listened to this video at least 25 times this day. So I decided to change my blog-design to celebrate Tron.

Groan. Moan.

Thought I was gone for good, huh?

I'm down, not out. Lots of surrounding bullshit the last few months. Alot. Don't really feel like blogging about that now.

Music is helpful. Radiohead soothes some of the time. Something fresh and tasty like this also does: Eumig and Chinon remixes Ginger Ninja's Sunshine. Aaah. Tasty funky pop. Pleases my vampire soul.

P.s. Right. So I changed the design of my blog to another standard theme for no particular reason. Not creative, I know. Well. That's just how I roll.

Digital Love - of the German Kind

I guess it's been too long, since I last pretended to blog and instead just posted some links to vaguely noteworthy music that others pointed me to.

Well... This time I have the opportunity to play two cards at the same time - the nerd card as well as the indie card; thanks to German indie-punk band Bonaparte and their excellently titled first album "My Horse Likes You". I find the music strangely enchanting, and the lyrics is hysterical.



Incidentally, my new fad is not shared by my fiancée, Lena. She snortingly refers to the tune as Press Play On Tape-like - not a favorable comparison in her vocabulary. Which, of course, instantly leads me to put this little ditty on:

Covers - Followup 2

The meaningless semi-coordinated prancing around. The helmets with plasticky feathers. The shining waldhorns.