Xploding Plastix
| Xploding Plastix | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Oslo , Norway |
| Genre (s) | Downtempo , acid jazz |
| founding | 1999 |
| Website | http://www.xplodingplastix.com/ |
| Founding members | |
| Jens Petter Nilsen Hallvard Hagen |
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Xploding Plastix are a Norwegian DJ duo.
history
The duo was founded in 1999 by Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard Hagen. When they sent their first demo recordings to record publishers a year later , they promptly received offers. Their first single, Treat Me Mean, I Need the Reputation , was released on Beatservice Records in 2000 and caught the attention of the electronic music scene. The 2001 debut album Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents (re-released in 2004 as Amateur Girlfriends ) was a huge success. The group's second album was released on Columbia Records . In 2004 the duo worked with the Kronos Quartet .
The Electones is a side project by Nilsen and Hagen with the singer Rita Augestad.
In 2003 Xploding Plastix were awarded the Spellemann Prize for their EP The Benevolent Volume Lurkings .
Discography
LPs
- Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents (2001, Beatservice)
- The Donka Matic Singalongs (2003, Columbia )
- Treated Timber Resists Rot (2008, Beatservice)
EPs
- Doubletalk (2001, Beatservice)
- Behind the Eightball (2001, Beatservice)
- The Duck and Cover (2003, Palm Beats)
- The Benevolent Volume Lurkings (2003, Columbia)
- The Rebop by Proxy (2005, Palm Beats)
- Devious Dan (2010, Beatservice)
Web links
- Official website of the band
- Xploding Plastix on the Beatservice Records website
- Xploding Plastix at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ David Jeffries: Xploding Plastix Biography. Allmusic , accessed on August 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Bente Kalsnes: Xploding Plastix working with the Kronos Quartet. Listen to Norway, February 19, 2004, accessed August 15, 2015 .
- ↑ The Electones on Racing Juniors' website, accessed August 15, 2015.