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Nouvelle Vague official site

Nouvelle Vague on MySpace

With a name that means "new wave" in English and "bossa nova" in Portuguese, Nouvelle Vague's moniker neatly sums up the group's concept: remaking classic new wave singles with a Brazilian pop twist. Nouvelle Vague is the brainchild of French producers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Prior to this collaboration, Collin played with the trip-hop outfit Ollano; composed film soundtracks such as The Kidnapper's Theme; and released electronic music ranging from club-oriented material for Paper Recordings to more eclectic fare for Fcom and Output Records (under the aliases Avril and Volga Select, respectively). Libaux played with various French pop bands during the '90s and began working with Collin in 1998. For Nouvelle Vague, Collin and Libaux recruited half a dozen French and Brazilian vocalists who were unfamiliar with the original versions of songs like Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and XTC's "Making Plans for Nigel" to ensure that their renditions had their own identity. Nouvelle Vague was released in Europe in 2004 and received U.S. distribution in spring 2005, which coincided with tour dates in locales as far-flung as Shanghai, New York, Los Angeles, and Rio de Janeiro. Nouvelle Vague's second album, A Bande a Part, arrived in summer 2006. The following year, the team returned with Coming Home, a collection of songs from films given the Nouvelle Vague treatment. New Wave, a collection of covers by new wave artists, also arrived in 2007.

Discography:
Nouvelle Vague (Peacefrog, 2004)
Bande à Part (Peacefrog, 2006)
Late Night Tales: Nouvelle Vague (Azuli, 2007)
 

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eat me! home

eat me! on MySpace

Budapest-based elektro group eat me! features a colourful blend of pop, trance and dance music. Ruthless drums and heavy bass, mindblowing synths, groovy loops, jazzy keyboards, fuzzy guitars, ethereal vocals make their soundscapes.
Its musicians come from different genres: Balint Komenczi (sampler, synths, guitar) and Gabor Borosi (keyboards) started on the underground scene playing punk.They were joined by singer Panni Cserepes, drummer Goran Evetovic who plays with different jazz bands, Gergo Nagy who grew up with The Clash and Stones inspired punk'n'roll and established himself in a popular rock band named Kimnowak.
After some changes in the band's line up Panni left the band and Goran was relaced by Feri Bajkai on drums. Feri is a professional drummer playing with several bands and has a sense for groovy beats. After Panni’s departure eat me! worked with several singers: Tunde Szalai was a member for a couple of months, Veronika Harcsa stepped in for two gigs, and Heni Czerovszky recorded a couple of songs with eatme! Now eatme! is working with Orsi Kozma the well known Hungarian pop singer who has a wonderful voice.