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Basshunter "Now You're Gone" Kiss FM Blog

Kiss FM Blog

"Right you nutters! We know there are hard house fans amongst you, so this one's just for you. It's blowing up all over Europe, and is riding high in the mid week charts.

DJ and Cyber Geek Jonas Altberg, aka Basshunter, wrote the European hit in his bedroom. The track, about his love for a girl he met on the internet, captured the hearts of Sweden and it went on to become an instant online phenomenon. It smashed its way to the top of the charts across Scandinavia and within weeks he had become their biggest debut selling artist ever!"

Full piece here

Basshunter "Blasts To The Top" The Sun Online

The main feature on The Sun Online's Music Biz pages;
"BASSHUNTER is set to unseat LEON JACKSON from the top of the charts this weekend – despite having had virtually no national radio play.The track, Now You’re Gone, is a gigantic club smash on the continent and has already been number one in eight European countries. Nevertheless radio bosses at a number of giant stations have refused to playlist the insanely catchy track.
It’s been a run away word-of-mouth success with the video being watched by more than 1 million people on the Internet."

Read the full article here;

Basshunter Digital Spy Review

Digital Spy;
"Basshunter, in case you're wondering, is not a sad middle-aged man who takes his angling hobby a little too seriously. Instead, he's a Swedish DJ/"Cyber Geek" whose new single 'Now You're Gone' has sold over a million ring-tones in Europe. That Crazy Frog must be greener than ever with envy.

Said single is a superior Eurodance thumpathon with more spunk to it than almost everything on the recent Cascada album. With its throbbing trance beats, arms-aloft chorus and pleasing hint of glammy electropop lurking beneath the surface, it conjures up images of a dirty Swedish raver - for the sake of argument, let's call him Sven - dry-humping Alison Goldfrapp's leg. Now that's a music video we'd like to see." Read full review here

Basshunter Hit 40 UK Review

Hit 40 UK;
"We're quite shocked that Basshunter did so well on downloads only last Sunday. Could he be spiralling towards the top this weekend? Well if he does, it'll come as no shock to Mr Basshunter himself, he's already been #1 across Europe.

As you know, we're rather big fans of Swedish music here, but not massively hard house. Basshunter is Swedish so our feelings were all confused, but then we realised something 'Now You're Gone isn't what this song was called in Europe. It was a massive hit called 'Boten Anna' which we got sent last year and had a good old giggle to.

The story is a guy uses a chat channel and on there is a computer 'bot' which keeps the channel safe. Little does he know that she's actually a real life woman who he later meets and falls in love with. It includes classy lyrics like 'She can ban you so hard', 'she get's rid of all our spammers' (!!) and a Scooter-esque 'ARE YOU READY!'. Check it out" Full review here

Basshunter Refresh Daily & Electro Queer Review

Refresh Daily;
"It looks like 2008's first proper Number 1 may come courtesy of Sweden. Basshunter, aka DJ and Cyber Geek Jonas Altberg, wrote this track in his bedroom, published it online where it took off in a big way, first conquering charts in Scandinavia, before moving on to Germany, Belgium and Holland. It is now likely to repeat the success here.

The track is a commercial trance track that just stays the right side of cheesiness, emulating parts of Scooter et al. Somewhere in here is a love song as well, apparently.

Upshot is this is a good commercial track that has to be better than Leon!! Out Now" Full review here

Electroqueer;
"So this little dance track called 'Now You're Gone' by Swedish DJ Jonas Altberg, aka Basshunter is poised to be the UK number one track this weekend as it's already number one in the mid-weeks. I have to say that I am not really a huge fan of one-off throwaway dance tracks like this, but this song is so disgustingly catchy and perfect that I can't stop myself from humming it. It's like the perfect blend of electro with 90's techno mixed in that that isn't over-the-top or annoying. I've been be-bopping around to it's remix package for a few weeks now and the 'Fonzarelli Remix' just happens to be my favourite.

So take a look at the vid-e-o here too - it's kinda cute. Basshunter apparently wrote the song about a girl he met on the internet, how very modern." Full review here

Basshunter Channel 4 Review

Channel 4;
"Although visually aided by a video with some ladies rubbing up against each other in a crowded nightspot, 'Now You're Gone' is not the week's most mentally stimulating release. If lightweight happy-hardcore is your thing, however, then the Basshunter single might give part of your brain a much needed kick" Full review here

Dave Armstrong & Redroche Ft H-Boogie Channel 4 Review

"Mercifully saved from a release in the midst of the pre-Christmas rush, 2007's tail-end floor filler now becomes the first major dance record of 2008. Featuring an earth shaking vocal from Estelle's sister H-Boogie (not her real name) and with both Dave Armstrong and Redroche already known for production on previous commercial dance tracks, 'Love Has Gone' is both the biggest and the happiest record of the new year - Booty Luvnotwithstanding." Full review here

Basshunter Launches Bebo Competition!

To celebrate the release of "Now You're Gone", Basshunter has added a competition to win a Sony Ericsson K800i mobile phone on his Bebo account - more information here.

"Now You're Gone" has passed the 1 million views mark on YouTube, in just one month!

Observer Sport Monthly Endorses Total Fitness Music

The January edition of The Observer Sports Monthly endorses Total Fitness Music!

"The days of trotting along in the gym to one Meatloaf CD are, thankfully, gone. But iPod shuffling isn't much better. A range of downloadable mixes just released by Total Fintness Music is tailored to create a gradually intensifying workout - from 'low impact' Kylie to cardio-pumping club hits. From £4.74 from iTunes"

Archangel On Steve Lamacq

Steve Lamacq played Archangel's "How To Lose Your Best Friend" on his 6 Music show last Wednesday - to listen again, click here - they are after the White Stripes "Conquest" about 38mins into the show

Utah Saints!

Utah Saints are back with a Van She mix of Something Good, coming out Spring 2008 - here's what Popjustice are saying;

Utah Saints Van She mix ready for release: Top 60 chart hit ahoy!!

"Last February we wrote about the (then brand new) Van She mix of 'Something Good', a popular music hit from the 1920s by dance combo Utah Saints. There was a load of waffle along the lines of it being fairly listenable.

We also said something about how good it would be if the remix was released and in two months the remix will indeed hit the shops on Data Records. It's already been Number One on the 'Cool Cuts chart' which is apparently quite a good thing if you make danceable music.."

Read the full piece here

Utah Saints MySpace

Basshunter Enters UK Chart

Basshunter's "Now You're Gone" entered the UK singles chart at 14 yesterday, on digital sales only, without any national radio support. The video also passed the 1million views on YouTube over the weekend and is the 83rd most linked music video in the uk of all time! Basshunter also launched his Bebo account with a competition to win a Sony Ericsson K800i!

Basshunter YouTube Music Page Feature!

A newly uploaded Basshunter interview video is featured on YouTube's Music Homepage!

Tiscali Tips For 2008 : 1. Archangel & 3. Sonny J !!

Tiscali picks their tips for 2008, Archangel are number 1 and Sonny J are number 3!!

Out Of Office "Break Of Dawn 2008"

Sneak preview of the follow up to "Hands Up" from Out Of Office on Frenetic Music;

More Luv For Rush!

More love for Booty Luv's new single "Some Kinda Rush" this time from Channel 4 Music;
"Whoosh, it's the fourth single from ex-Big Brovaz ladies Booty Luv. It's everything you could hope a Booty Luv single (and the first to be written by the girls) to be; a subtle, creeping start which leads into an exhilaratingly bouncy and likeable dance song"

"f Kylie had released this as the first single from her X album, Leona Lewis wouldn't still be number one"

"Some Kinda Rush" is Booty Luv's "Best Ever Single" according to the Digital Spy review today;

"Who'd have thought it, eh? After scoring a succession of disco-pop smashes by essentially waving amyl nitrate under the nostrils of Tweet ('Boogie 2nite'), Luther Vandross ('Shine') and Lucy Pearl ('Don't Mess With My Man'), Booty Luv have released their best ever single with a self-penned song. There's more to Nadia and Cherise, it seems, than the slinkiest stilettos in town.

'Some Kinda Rush' might just be the most thrilling three-and-a-half minutes you'll experience all Christmas. Its turbo-charged bassline surges like 10,000 volts going through your toaster's live wire; the girls coo like they're up to something we wouldn't want to mention on a family-friendly website; and its chorus comes on like a pack of fireworks going off in your head (Don't try this at home, kids!). Honest to goodness, if Kylie had released this as the first single from her X album, Leona Lewis wouldn't still be number one"

More here..

Booty Luv Hit 40 UK - Hot New Hits

"They've got 3 successful cover singles under their belt, but now Booty Luv are releasing something they've written themselves!"
More here

Booty Luv & Peter Gelderblom Must Watch Videos On The Timesonline

Both Booty Luv's "Some Kinda Rush" and Peter Gelderblom's "Waiting 4" feature as must see videos on The Times Online

Booty Luv Mirror Showbuzz Rush!

Booty Luv's "Some Kinda Rush" is this week's soundbed and featured video on The Mirror's Showbuzz video blog.

The music that has driven Chicago's club scene is coming to hip-hop's rescue

Full page Independent piece today in the arts section & and online for Dude N Nem's "Watch My Feet"!

"Juke music, born out of inner-city pockets of Chicago, is the new ferociously hyperactive and electro sound. Now the music has made its way to the UK, thanks to the crossover success of the eccentric Chi-town (or Chicago) duo Dude 'N Nem, whose single "Watch My Feet" has launched the sound into the mainstream. Along with band members Upmost and Trygic's simple rhymes and chant-a-long chorus, the video shows crews doing hip-hop's answer to Irish step-dancing in the dance called Footworkin', whose vigorous leg moves have inspired dozens of self-made YouTube stars to urge us to watch their feet too.

"If you're from Chicago, or anywhere near Chicago, and you haven't heard of Dude 'N Nem by now, you're deaf," declares Trygic. "We're actually getting a lot of love everywhere we go. The song is something new, it's something fresh. It's like every time someone sees it, they're amazed by it."

Read full piece here

Sonny J "Handsfree" Record Of The Day!

"Taken from the forthcoming Sonny J album Disastro, Handsfree proves that Can't Stop Moving wasn't a once off. The album itself is a delightful musical and sample-laden hodge-podge, which means those Go Team comparisons were not without merit. It's an unpredictable, hugely fun record, which we mean as a compliment. Handsfree mixes northern soul and country and comes up with a great pop song. Early plays for this album track from Shaun Keaveny on 6Music and Annie Mac on R1."

The Pangs "Fighterplane" on Annazbell

Another great video feature for The Pangs "Fighterplane" in Annazbell this month as Video Pick Of The Month

BBC Chart Blog Feature On Press Releases

Two of our artists appear on Frazer's Chartblog, in his 3rd installment of "Fun With Press Releases" - both get away lightly, compared to others!

"The run up to Christmas has seen a bumper crop of stuff arrive at ChartBlog Towers, each new thing beautifully wrapped in a jiffy bag, and accompanied by a sheet of A4 with wonderful writing upon it. And as always, I've been keeping a careful record of the wild claims and extravagent exaggerations made by the people whose job it is to try and win sceptical people over to their new (and occasionally iffy) music. Music that they can only represent using the written word."

Sonny J
"The smartest pop album, a sonic Rubik's Cube in a world full of squares."
Nothing wrong with this at all. I mean it's nonsense, but it's entertaining nonsense, and that's good enough for me.

www.sonnyj.co.uk

Archangel
"Its rakish, distorted vocals made people think of the Cure and Bowie after a heavy night and a punch-up"
My money's on Bowie. He didn't get a knife named after him for nothing. Plus he's clearly fitter than Robert Smith and those teeth could really do some damage.

www.myspace.com/archangelmusic

Archangel Interview on Subba Cultcha

Subba Cultcha requested a Q&A interview with Nick after reviewing and giving "Physical Energy" a coveted single of the month back in August..

Q:How did the recording sessions for your new release go?
A: lengthy! I did the whole thing.. pressing record then diving onto the kit to play drums, strap on the bass etc…

Q: What goals did you set yourself before you started recording?
A: Not to become sectioned in the process for having too many personalities..

Q: What do you feel are your own limitations when it comes to creating/writing music?
A: I do everything myself so it can be a very draining process. Never again…

Q: Tell us 3 of your favourite songs from your career and the inspiration behind them?
A: They’re all my favourites! If I had to choose one, it would be How To Lose Your Best Friend because it was the first one I wrote for the album and it set the tone for the rest of the record.. Cheery stuff..

More here

Sonny J & The Popjustice Almighty!

Sonny J are a new entry in the PopJustice Almighty!

"Despite initial appearances, Sonny J is not a one hit wonder. Well strictly speaking Sonny J is till a no-hit wonder but the point is that the whole album is very good indeed.

Sonny J "Handsfree" Popjustice Record Of The Day!

Sonny J's single 'Can't Stop Moving' was, for one reason or another, not the enormous hit single such music publications as the popular website Popjustice were hoping it would be.

However, the Sonny J single was not a one off – there is an entire Sonny J album on the way and it is a little bit amazing.

Here is one such little bit of amazingness from it. It would seem that Sonny J are applying an 'if it isn’t broke don't fix it' policy to their music, would it not.

Nikki Sixx "Rock N Roll Is Inhumane"

Nikki Sixx's interview with The Sun

"ANYONE who has read MOTLEY CRUE’S book The Dirt will know that there are few things the bad boy rockers
didn’t get up to. One of the most memorable parts of that book was the moment bassist NIKKI SIXX flatlines after taking heroin, and then escapes from his hospital bed with everyone still believing he is dead.

Somehow he gets home and leaves an answer machine message on his telephone proclaiming to be from the dead Nikki Sixx - while he goes off to shoot up yet again.

Such rock ‘n' roll incidents may seem darkly hilarious – if a tad hard to believe – but they only skim the surface of a personal drug hell for the bassist which was to take years to kick.

And though the stories may seem hard to swallow at times, Nikki meticulously kept a very real diary of his descent into near insanity, which has now been published under the name of The Heroin Diaries."

Read the full interview here.

Basshunter : Video Stats

Basshunter's "Now You're Gone" has had the biggest reaction of any video we've worked with on YouTube.

In one week its had 162,576 views, and currently has 10 Honours:
Music Category Honours, UK only - by Month:
#17 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Music
#17 - Top Rated (This Month) - Music
#17 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Music
#14 - Top Favourites (This Month) - Music
#19 - Most Linked (This Month) - Music
*Based on all the music videos on YouTube being watched in the UK in the past month

All Category Honours, UK only - by Month:
#41 - Most Viewed (This Month)
#50 - Top Rated (This Month)
#89 - Most Discussed (This Month)
#22 - Top Favourites (This Month)
#56 - Most Linked (This Month)
*Based on all videos on YouTube being watched in the UK in the past month

Honours peaked at 22 honours, including:
2nd most viewed music video of the week in UK
3rd most linked music video of the week in UK
4th rop rated music video of the week in UK
2nd top favourited music video of the week in UK
5th most discussed music video in UK
8th most viewed music video in the world last week
64th top favourited video (of any category) in the world