GusGus
GusGus are easily one of the most well known acts in electronic music today with over 500.000 albums sold in their illustrious career.
Don’t call it a comeback but their signing to Kompakt marks a crucial step forward for the band and dare we say their most impressive recordings to date.
24/7, the new Gusgus album, is an overwhelming, multifarious, interwoven and braided musical atmosphere where the listener has to surrender to the music and adhere to the conditions that the music ...
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GusGus
GusGus are easily one of the most well known acts in electronic music today with over 500.000 albums sold in their illustrious career.
Don’t call it a comeback but their signing to Kompakt marks a crucial step forward for the band and dare we say their most impressive recordings to date.
24/7, the new Gusgus album, is an overwhelming, multifarious, interwoven and braided musical atmosphere where the listener has to surrender to the music and adhere to the conditions that the music demands.
24/7 is a wet dream!
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GusGus saw the light of day for the first time in 1995, during a break in the making of the shortcut "Pleasure". Initially GusGus was as a multimedia collective that combined sexually tinged dance music with visual arts and shorts made by the group's members.
A self-titled debut album appeared on their Kjól & Anderson imprint in conjunction with the screening of "Pleasure" and immediately caused a buzz on the scene in their native land. Eventually it's euphoric grooves and sensual beats reached the demanding ears of UK's 4AD Records that signed the band in 1996. By and since the release of their 4AD debut and second album, "Polydistortion", the collective started touring relentlessly to a wide acclaim that has been enforced to this day.
1999 brought the highly acclaimed and anticipated "This Is Normal". By then the group had become celebrated remixers with mixes of fellow native stars Björk and Sigur Rós and also the international ones like Depeche Mode, Pizzicato 5 and Moloko up their sleeves.
Their fourth studio effort, "Attention", featured a new line-up and a new female vocalist, Urður "Earth" Hákonardóttir. Being a foursome GusGus became enormously focused on the thing that made the group known in the first place, the music.
They released their fifth album, Forever, in February/March 2007. Forever brought more streamlined grooves into the sound world of GusGus and anthems like "Need in Me" and "Moss". GusGus maintained a steady presence to the public and their massive following as DJs. “Forever” was released on Pineapple Records and followed by massive touring where the band performed the tour circuit including major festivals like Glastonbury, Split, Creamfields and Benecassim.
Now with their sixth album, “24/7” (available September 14, 2009) they join the Kompakt family.
2009 sees GusGus as a new experience in sound and vision brought forth by Daníel Ágúst, President Bongo and Veiran.
