Univaque

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Genre = Synthpop
Years_active = 2003–present
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Univaque are a British band based in Sweden that makes happy synthpop with an almost sixties touch to the vocals, but with strong early Depeche Mode influences musicwise.They have recently released their debut album "Lost in a Maze" on SubSpace Communications, produced by two thirds of Elegant Machinery. The name Univaque has a nice futuristic sound to it as well as an interesting origin, Johan Malmgren who read in an Elvis book about an American DJ who called himself that in the fifties. He played lots of different styles of music, and it started what he called the “univaque” style. The band has strong retro influences from "Speak and Spell" kick-drums and Yazoo-esque synth leads, the way it was in the early eighties electropop.

History

Mark Welbourn and Steve Ellam had known each other for a long time when they decided that they would start making music together. Said and done, they started out and shortly after they found Chris Cross who helped out to sort of started to work out stuff on the keyboard. They made some demos, and basically just started with singing the vocals on to a tape, and then putting music to it.From the beginning they were based in London, but when Mark met a Swedish girl, he decided to move to Sweden. This was in 1998, but he had a lot of contact with Swedes before that. Their interest was and basically lies in the fascinating old electropop/synthpop stuff.

Johan Malmgren and Robert Enforsen from classic Swedish synthpop trio Elegant Machinery (Johan is also in S.P.O.C.K and Aaron Sutcliffe and Robert in Hype) have produced the debut album "Lost in a Maze", together with Univaque themselves. Mark and Johan have known each other since the early nineties.

Members

*Zammo
*Mark Welbourn
*Chris Cross

Discography

*Nothing can be saved (February 2004)
*Converted (June 2004)
*Lost in a maze (August 2004)

External links

* [http://www.univaque.com Univaque Homepage]