KALTBLUT-HONK! 03 The Divas

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When Saints Go Machine
When Saints Go Machine
• And not just the ones of the well-known bands like
Efterklang, Trentemøller and Kashmir, but also - or
even more – the so far unknown.
• Is Denmark becoming the land of electronic madness?
• Such a promising release comes from the band with
the rather funny name “When Saints Go Machine”.
• They won the “Talent of the Year” award of the
Danish National Radio.
• 2011 > Release of their first mini-album “Fail forever”.
• These 5 tracks with duration of 17:45 min. definitely
make you want more!
• “Fail Forever” sounds as a hybrid of Empire Of The
Sun and Crystal Castles.
• Very strange and fascinating music if you ask me.
• Nikolaj says: “We wanted to make music that manages
over beyond the borders of Denmark. What do we
do now is pop with a lot of electronics, I would say. “
• The album was mixed by Christoffer Berg, who previously
balanced The Knife’s Deep Cuts and Silent Shout.
• The range of material covered in these 5 tracks
makes their sound extremely hard to pin down.
• Open with a bang. Close with a bang (with some
pretty good parts in the middle). For a mini-album
with only 5 tracks, by my calculation that makes
‘Fail Forever’ pretty darn good.
• Favourite tracks: Fail forever, Pinned, Pick up your
tears and run.
Agoria
• Agoria was the name of a techno-party-series in
Lyon and Sébastien Devaud was a co-organiser.
• Early 90’s > Sébastien Devaud starts Djing with
the pseudonym “Agoria”.
• His Style > almost everything between Detroit-
Techno and Jazz.
• 2000 > The first DJ to get promoted by FAIR,
a fund organisation that supports and promotes
young French musicians.
• 2010 > Agoria found his own label “Infiné”
• 2011 > Release of his label-debut album “Impermanence”
(his third album overall)
• His music influences for this album flowed from
many different directions.
• Sébastien says: “…the result sounds more like me”.
• He managed to found the balance a good album needs.