After the successful trip to Japan in August, the domestic super selling album 'Swish' is now out in record stores all over Japan. It is the third Crunchy record to be released in Japan. Earlier this year both The Tremolo Beer Guts' 'The inebriated sounds of ...' and Superheroes' 'Dancing Casanova' was released though Japanese label Avex, and now it's time for THAU. The album in its Japanese version contains 4 'exclusive for Japan' bonus tracks: namely the casual 'Casual', the catchy 'House no. 35', the grandiose 'Final song' and last and least the instrumental pop tune 'Marvel'. Only 'Marvel' has been released before, when it appeared on the 'Today is Up' free promo single for Denmark only, but a loyal
audience will recognize 'House no. 35'. It was a huge performance success, especially when THAU toured Germany in the mid-90'es.

For the moment being THAU is working on a new album. They started recording in the summer of '99 with Swedish guy Per Sunding (Tambourine Studios, Eggstone and The Tremolo Beer Gut) and it seems to turn out to be their best work yet. The album will not be out before late spring '00 at the earliest, but they promised it's worth waiting for!

 

The new mini-CD 'Johnny and I' is out now (DK-released November 15th '99) and has been in heavy rotation on radio stations all over Denmark. It contains the super single hit 'Johnny and I', featuring Senior known to some people as singer in Junior Senior and the 'no longer existing' Ludo X. The track is a catchy 2 minute pop song, which deserves a long and lasting life. The mini-CD contains 6 tracks all in all, 3 originals and 3 remixes. Track 2 is the warm and harmonic 'Travelling to space', an exclusive track for this release. Track 3 is a synth version of 'Miami', which will appear on the forthcoming album. The three remixes are by Japanese artists Fantastic Plastic Machine and LaB LIFe and the Danish techno-duo Puddu Varano. The latter has remixed the leading track and transformed it into a truely 80'es maxi single verison with slap bass and groovy beats. The LaB LIFe has made a quite humoristic and simplistic version out of 'I touched her legs' and the 'quite as Japanese' Fantastic Plastic Machine aka super hot DJ and hepcat Tomoyuki Tanaka has put together a Beatles pastiche of the remains of the song 'superheroes'.



Superheroes has just finished the last mixing of the new album 'Igloo'. It will be out in DK in early spring.