Remix Wednesday is back! In the weeks to come I’ll be posting on some Norwegian and Swedish bands and hopefully have a review/re-cap of the Sound of Arrows and Suburban Kids with Biblical Names concert in Stockholm on Jan 30. Good luck with the new semester.

Nightshift - All Night Through (Geyster remix)
^Really, really felling this bass. Funky stuff.
Favretto ft Naan - What’s Your Name (LA Riots Remix)
^And oldie, but goodie. LA Riots always top notch.
Guns N’ Bombs - Riddle Of Steel (Para One Remix)
^Para One turns Riddle of Steel into something danceable.
Moulinex & Xinobi - D.I.S.C.O.Texas Theme (Lapse Remix)
^Hell yes! Listen to this filtered disco awesomeness. DISCO Texas is one of the best labels today.
Astrolabe - Leave The Station (Pelifics Remix)
^Pelifics from none other than Oslo, Norway!

Fever Ray, aka Karin Dreijer Andersson, one half of The Knife, is set to release her debut self-titled album on CD/LP March 24, 2009 on Mute and this week for digital download.

Fever Ray is the title of both project and album. It’s the culmination of work that began in 2007 when Karin and Olof, the brother-sister duo who are The Knife, decided to take time out following a handful of incredible live shows. Their first two albums did well in their Swedish homeland; their third, Silent Shout, went to Number One, won six Swedish Grammys, and underlined their reputation as an act capable of the truly extraordinary and was pronounced the best record of 2006 by Pitchfork.

After having her second child and eight months of productive daydreaming, Karin had a batch of new songs and the raw materials for the production of Fever Ray. Unsure how to get them over the finishing line, she took half to Christoffer Berg (who mixed The Knife’s work) and half to Stockholm production duo Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid. The result is Fever Ray, an album that, while recognizably the work of the same artist, is dramatically different from The Knife.

VIDEO
Fever Ray – If I Had a Heart
MORE
http://www.feverray.com
http://www.myspace.com/feverray
SOURCE: Mute

Best Albums:
1. In Ghost Colors/ Cut Copy
2. Hercules and Love Affair/ Hercules and Love Affair
3. Fleet Foxes/ Fleet Foxes
4. Santogold/ Santogold
5. Saturdays=Youth/ M83
6. Modern Guilt/ Beck
7. Crystal Castes/ Crystal Castles
8. Apocalypso/ The Presets

Best Singles
1. “Blind”/ Hercules and Love Affair
2. “White Winter Hymnal”/ Fleet Foxes
3. “Far Away”/ Cut Copy
4. “Gamma Ray”/ Beck
5. “Walking on a Dream”/ Empire of the Sun
6. “L.E.S. Artistes”/ Santagold
7. “Hearts on Fire”/ Cut Copy
8. “Electric Feel”/ Mgmt
9. “Graveyard Girl”/ M83
10. “American Boy”/ Estelle feat. Kayne West
11. “Back of the Van (Fred Falke Remix)/ Ladyhawke
12. “Day Off”/ Xinobi

Favorite New Artists:
1. Hercules and Love Affair
2. Fleet Foxes
3. Empire of the Sun

Overlooked Artists:
1. Moby
2. The Sound of Arrows
3. Cazals

Big in ‘09:
1. The Postelles
2. Louis La Roche
3. Empire of the Sun
4. Late of the Pier
5. Shazam