Vacuum (band)

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Name = Vacuum


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Origin = Sweden
Genre = Synthpop, electronic
Years_active = 1996–present
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Current_members = Mattias Lindblom
Anders Wollbeck
Past_members = Alexander Bard
Marina Schiptjenko

Vacuum is the name of a swedish song-writing/production duo consisting of Mattias Lindblom and Anders Wollbeck. They also work together as a pop-group under the same name. As songwriters they have written hits for artists such as Monrose, Tarja Turunen and Rachel Stevens to name a few.

History

Vacuum as a band was formed in 1996 by Anders Wollbeck, Alexander Bard and Mattias Lindblom. At that time it was a symphonic synthpop project featuring Bard, Marina Schiptjenko (formerly of synthpop group Page), and Mattias Lindblom. Anders and Mattias met when Vacuum recorded their first album "The Plutonium Cathedral"". They work out of their studio "Home" situated in central Stockholm, Sweden but are constantly on the move to wherever their work takes them. The original lineup split after the second album when Bard left the band for producing Alcazar. Marina left the band after the third album.

In 2004 Vacuum released their fourth album "Your Whole Life Is Leading Up To This"". It was followed by two singles "Six Billion Voices"" in 06 and "Walk On The Sun"" in 07. Due to high demand as song-writers, Vacuum the band is only active from time to time. The band still enjoys a huge fan-following.

As songwriters they have worked with many artists around the world. In 2007, they've worked with artists such as Garou, Tarja Turunen (I Walk Alone, Die Alive etc), Monrose (What You Don't Know), Cinema Bizarre (Heavensent, Get Off), Edyta Gorniak and many more.

In April 2008 the band released the songs "Know By Now" and "My Friend Misery", a duet with Marcella Detroit of Shakespears Sister on their official myspace site. Vacuum are now collaborating with austrian pianist Michael Zlanabitnig. Know By Now and My Friend Misery is the first release from this collaboration.

Discography

Albums

* "The Plutonium Cathedral" (1997)
* "Seance at the Chaebol" (1998)
* "Culture of Night" (2000, three new songs + two songs with new sound, Russian release only)
* "Culture of Night" (2002, yet another two new songs)
* "Your Whole Life Is Leading Up to This" (2004)
* "Your Whole Life Is Leading Up to This" (2007, five new bonustracks + video, German release only)

ingles

* "I Breathe" (1996)
* "Science of the Sacred" (1997)
* "Pride in My Religion" (1997)
* "Tonnes of Attraction" (1998)
* "Let the Mountain Come to Me" (1998)
* "Icaros" (2000)
* "Starting Where the Story Ended" (2002)
* "Fools Like Me" (2004)
* "They Do It" (2004)
* "The Void" (2005)
* "Six Billion Voices" (2006)
* "Walk On The Sun" (2007)
* "Know By Now/My Friend Misery" (2008)

Members

* Mattias Lindblom — vocals
* Anders Wollbeck — keyboards, guitars, programming

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iITrT1CArHo Know By Now video on YouTube] Video for Know By Now by Vacuum feat. Zlanabitnig
* [http://www.vacuum-people.com Official website Vacuum-People.com]
* [http://www.myspace.com/vacuumpeople Official Vacuum page at MySpace]
* [http://www.vacuum-music.com Russian-English Fansite Vacuum-Music]
* [http://www.myspace.com/mattiaslindblom Mattias at MySpace] MySpace-page of Mattias Lindblom
* [http://blogs.mail.ru/mail/vacuum_people Vacuum on Mail.ru] Vacuum's journal on Mail.ru
* [http://www.liveinternet.ru/community/vacuum-community Vacuum Community LI] Russian V/Community on LiRu
* [http://community.livejournal.com/vacuum_music/ Vacuum Community LJ] Russian Vacuum Community on LiveJournal