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Big Wave Riders hail from Helsinki, Finland. They are inspired by waves, echoes and experimental rhythms with an electronic touch. Big Wave Riders are influenced by the music that touched them most when they were teenagers. To quote Big Wave Riders : “Our music is not trying to fit into any certain genre. We make music without mathematics or accurate calculations. The songs are fast, slow, rhythmic and with variety”

Blue Hawaii tells the story of a lush paradise. The way begins ambient and uncertain, but beautiful white shell beaches and carefree sunshine parties await and nourish those travelers with love in their hearts; their peace thus raised above the arguments found along the rocky road. The duo consists of Raph (Braids) and Agor; they use voice, guitars, synths, drum machines, and other electronics to create a kind of tropical-pop with love ache melodies and experimental club rhythms.

Blue Hawaii on Last.fm.

Though he might look like a “tough guy”, Andrew Caddick (aka Jeans Wilder) is really a sensitive boy. For two years now, this former associate of Nathan Williams (Wavves) in the group Fantastic Magic, has delivered tapes and vinyls (including the split-7″s with Best Coast & Jean Paul) with a collection of tracks haunted by summer. During these two years he has also written, recorded and fictionalized this first album: Nice Trash. Pop melancholy for ghost flirts.

French pop heritage is littered with smooth and creamy icons:Gainsbourg, Karen Anne, Adamo and Francois Hardy. Gablé, however, are a completely different kettle de poisson. Wearing their influences on their sleeves – Moldy Peaches, Meat Puppet sand early Sonic Youth, they stick a lovely big lump of absolutely bonkers, stinky musical cheese in the face of suave ancestry. 7 Guitars with a Cloud of Milk, is Gablé’s second album, 18 tracks with song subjects as diverse as group suicide, the state of urban music...