Xploding Plastix is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 two-man band playing Electrofunk

Funktronica

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/Big beat

Big beat

Big beat is a term employed since the mid-1990s by the British music press to describe much of the music by artists such as The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, and Propellerheads typically driven by heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns in...

 music with elements of jazz

Jazz

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. Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen (formerly in Norwegian black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Kvist) formed the group in early 1999, and submitted their first demotape in 2000. Their song, "Treat Me Mean, I need the Reputation" became an instant classic when it was released as a 7" on Beatservice Records

Beatservice Records

Beatservice Records is a Tromsø, Norway based record label which releases electronic music. It was started by Vidar Hanssen in 1995, who was dj'ing for a local student radio with the program The Beatservice Radio Show at the time. Beatservice Records have released music ranging from minimalistic...

 in 2000. It was later re-released in 2002 on Hospital Records

Hospital Records

Hospital Records is an independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing Drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of the most well known labels within UK dance music...

 and championed by LTJ Bukem

LTJ Bukem

LTJ Bukem is the stage name used by the drum and bass musician, producer and DJ Danny Williamson . He and his record labels Good Looking and Looking Good Records are most associated with the jazzy, atmospheric side of drum and bass music....

, Coldcut

Coldcut

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, and Grooverider

Grooverider

Grooverider is a British drum and bass DJ.-Biography:Grooverider began his DJing at illegal raves and warehouse parties in the UK in the late 1980s, and rose to prominence with partner Fabio through his sets at nightclub nights such as 'Rage'. Grooverider was also on the London pirate radio...

. Their first album, Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents

Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents

Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents is the debut album of Norwegian two-man band Xploding Plastix, released in 2001, featuring Erik Velldal on double bass and Espen Blystad on piano and organ....

, was released in 2001 on Beatservice, and re-issued in 2004 by Palm Pictures

Palm Pictures

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Since the release of The Donca Matic Singalongs

The Donca Matic Singalongs

The Donca Matic Singalongs is the second album by Norwegian big beat duo Xploding Plastix, released on Columbia Records in 2003. It features guest vocals by Eek-A-Mouse and Sarah Cracknell.-Track listing:#"Donca Matic" - 5:06#"Geigerteller" - 4:22...

album in 2003, they have been busy working with music for short films, movies, and TV- and radio-productions. They have also collaborated with the Kronos Quartet who have performed their three movement composition, The Order of Things: Music for the Kronos Quartet. They have also worked in the collaboration project Piston Ltd who released the album Domestic Engine in 2007. They also have a sideproject The Electones

Electones

The Electones are Norwegian Jazz/Electronic/Pop musicians Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard Hagen , and vocalist Rita Augestad Knudsen. They have released two EPs on the UK Inertia label.-Bio:...

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Xploding Plastix released a new album in September 2008 entitled Treated Timber Resists Rot

Treated Timber Resists Rot

-Track listing:#"Kissed by a Kisser" - 6:46#"Errata" - 4:44#"The Rigamarole Shell Out" - 3:50#"A Rogue Friend is a Wild Beast" - 5:31#"The Cost of Resistance" - 5:27#"Joyous Insolence" - 5:51#"The Full Graft" - 5:11#"Bulldozer Butterfly" - 4:22...

on Beatservice Records. This is to be accompanied by a revisited re-release of The Donca Matic Singalongs which was not originally distributed outside of Scandinavia, and a new EP called Devious Dan featuring tracks from previous music videos.

Discography

• Treat me mean, I need the reputation, 7" (2000)
• Doubletalk, EP 12" (2001)
• Behind the Eightball, EP (2001)
• Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents
  Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents
  Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents is the debut album of Norwegian two-man band Xploding Plastix, released in 2001, featuring Erik Velldal on double bass and Espen Blystad on piano and organ....
  
  , CD/LP (2001)
• Plastic Surgery LP 3 Sampler side A, 12" on Hospital Records NHS42 (2002)
• The Benevolent Volume Lurkings
  The Benevolent Volume Lurkings
  The Benevolent Volume Lurkings is an EP by Norwegian big beat duo Xploding Plastix, released on Columbia Records in 2003. It features a remix by Joseph Nothing.-Track listing:#"Shakedown Shutoff" - 3:47#"The Famous Biting Guy" - 3:45...
  
  , EP (2003)
• The Donca Matic Singalongs
  The Donca Matic Singalongs
  The Donca Matic Singalongs is the second album by Norwegian big beat duo Xploding Plastix, released on Columbia Records in 2003. It features guest vocals by Eek-A-Mouse and Sarah Cracknell.-Track listing:#"Donca Matic" - 5:06#"Geigerteller" - 4:22...
  
  , CD/LP (2003)
• The Rebop By Proxy EP, EP (2004)
• Treated Timber Resists Rot
  Treated Timber Resists Rot
  -Track listing:#"Kissed by a Kisser" - 6:46#"Errata" - 4:44#"The Rigamarole Shell Out" - 3:50#"A Rogue Friend is a Wild Beast" - 5:31#"The Cost of Resistance" - 5:27#"Joyous Insolence" - 5:51#"The Full Graft" - 5:11#"Bulldozer Butterfly" - 4:22...
  
  , CD/LP (2008)
• Devious Dan EP, EP (2010)

External links

• Xploding Plastix Official Site - News, tour dates, etc. High bandwidth/multimedia-intensive