News editors: Mikael Kahrle & Johan Carlsson

Moby lets you play with "Go"

Dec 27 2006 | By: Mike Whyte (Tokyo, Japan)

Moby, one of the most successful and enduring electronic artists of recent years, recently released "Go - The Very Best of Moby" on V2.

As part of its release, the seminal track "Go" has been offered up for remixing, via Beatport. Full details for how to enter are available from the Beatport site, with decent prizes available for the winning remixes.

The greatest hits album features "New York, New York", a new track recorded with Debbie Harry, alongside all the classic Moby tracks ("Porcelain", "Natural Blues", "Body Rock" et al).

Next year's Sonar fest scheduled

Dec 27 2006 | By: Mike Whyte (Tokyo, Japan)

The next Sonar Advanced Music and Mutlimedia Art festival in Spain has been confirmed for June 14-16, 2007. Further information (artists etc), will be made available as soon as it is known.

Norway's Frost search for the golden pop era

Dec 27 2006 | By: Johan Carlsson (Stockholm, Sweden)

The duo Frost is from Norway and consists of Aggie Peterson and Per Martinsen, and together they make smooth, melodious electropop. Their latest single “Sleepwalker” is a delightful and dreamy pop track with a fat, bouncy bass line.

The single is from the upcoming album album, which they are currently working on. Their mission statement is to search for the lost pop of the golden era when wonder and creativity had as big a place in pop music as pure commerciality and copyism has had in the last decades. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

New moody project from former Lycia founder

Dec 27 2006 | By: Peter Marks (Portland, Oregon, USA)

John Fair, co-founder of the US phenomena Lycia has announced a new project entitled Paper Gods. This new outing is a moodier, symphonic effort from Mr. Fair and only has an EP out currently that is available via the band's MySpace site. Further work will be executed in the near future although no live shows have as yet been announced.

A member of Lycia from their earliest beginnings in 1988, John Fair dropped out of the band around the time of their defining album, 1991's Ionia. Fair returned to the fold briefly during the abortive sessions for Lycia's final album "Empty Space". He is not a member of Lycia for the latest reformation. As to Will Welch's wherabouts, it's pretty much anyone's guess at this time.