Xploding Plastix

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Name = Xploding Plastix


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Origin = Oslo, Norway
Genre = Acid jazz, Electrofunk, Big beat
Years_active = 2000–present
Label = Beatservice, Hospital
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URL = [http://www.xplodingplastix.com www.xplodingplastix.com]
Current_members = Jens Petter Nilsen, Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen
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Xploding Plastix is a Norwegian two-man band playing Electrofunk/Big beat music with elements of jazz. Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen (formerly in Norwegian black metal 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 in 2000. It was later re-released in 2002 on Hospital Records and championed by LTJ Bukem, Coldcut, and Grooverider. Their first album, "Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents", was released in 2001 on Beatservice, and re-issued in 2004 by Palm Pictures. [ [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wnfexqqkldje allmusic - Xploding Plastix - Overview ] ]

Since the release of "The Donca Matic Singalongs" album in 2003, they have been busy working with music for short films, movies, and TV- and radio-productions.http://www.beatservice.no/blogg/2008/03/xploding-plastix-back-on-beatservice.html] They have also collaborated with the Kronos Quartet [http://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2004021913105822823987] 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 last autumn. [http://blog.teipu.net/?p=22] They also have a sideproject The Electones. [http://www.racingjunior.com/electones.htm]

Xploding Plastix released a new album in September 2008 entitled "Treated Timber Resists Rot" 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", CD/LP (2001)
*"Plastic Surgery LP 3 Sampler side A", 12" on Hospital Records NHS42 (2002)
*"The Benevolent Volume Lurkings", EP (2003)
*"The Donca Matic Singalongs", CD/LP (2003)
*"The Rebop By Proxy EP", EP (2004)
*"Treated Timber Resists Rot", CD/LP (2008)

References

External links

* [http://www.xplodingplastix.com Xploding Plastix Official Site] - News, tour dates, etc. High bandwidth/multimedia-intensive
*Allmusicguide|id=11:wnfexqqkldje|label=Xploding Plastix
*Discogs artist|artist=Xploding+Plastix
*Last.fm|Xploding+Plastix