Flunk is a Norwegian electronic band consisting of members producer Ulf Nygaard, guitarist Jo Bakke, drummer Erik Ruud, and vocalist Anja Oyen Vister.
The band began as a project between Ulf, and Jo in Oslo, Norway in winter 2000/2001. Beginning as an instrumental and sampled vocal project, they were signed for a track on a compilation by Beatservice Records in winter 2001. On hearing the finished track, label manager Vidar Hanssen signed the unnamed band for a full album.
During early summer 2001, Ulf and Jo recorded most of the album and Anja improvised the vocals. After their vocals, Jo layered the guitars, but it would be a year before the album would be completed and released.
In spring 2002, the band was known as Flunk and they released their first single, a cover of New Order's Blue Monday in April. The track was well received in the UK and was included on numerous compilations in North America and Europe. Later in April, their debut album For Sleepyheads Only was released which garnered great reviews in Norway. With the success of their album, BBC invited them to do a recording session for the Radio 1 show The Blue Room in London. Shortly after Notting Hill Art's Club would become the location to their live debut. In the United States, they became signed to Guidance Recordings.
By summer 2002, raving reviews were being returned by British electronica magazines and in July they played Norway's finest rock festival. In October For Sleepyheads Only was released in the US through Guidance Recordings. By November they played the London Jazz Festival.
Throughout 2003 their debut, For Sleepyheads Only was still being echoed across the globe in staggered releases with special editions released to Russia and Greece. Beatservice Records then went on to release Treat Me Like You Do - For Sleepyheads Only Remixed in June. While their debut continued to make it's way around, the band wasted no time and began work on their second album for the majority of the year, which was recorded in Paris in October.
Their sophomore album, Morning Star was finished in March 2004 and saw a Norwegian release in May while the rest of the world received it in June. In 2005, Play America was released on Beatservice Records which included bonus tracks from the US version of Morning Star along with remixes.
Flunk - All day and all of the night remixes
Tracklist:
1. All Day And All Of The Night (Original)
2. I've Been Waiting All My Life To Leave You (Elektrofant DX-7 Remix)
3. Play (Athome Project Remix)
4. Play (Slowpho Remix)
5. All Day And All Of The Night (Tronso & Nils Noa Remix)
6. Morning Star (Parliavox Remix)
7. All Day And All Of The Night (Tronso & Nils Noa Remix) - Radio Edit
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Flunk - Blue Monday
Tracklist:
1. Blue Monday
2. Eight Days A Freak
3. Blue Monday (Howard Maple Mess Up Mix)
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Flunk - For Sleepyheads Only
Tracklist:
1. I Love Music
2. Blue Monday
3. Miss World
4. Sugar Planet
5. Honey's In Love
6. Magic Potion
7. Your Koolest Smile
8. Kebab Shop 3 Am
9. See Thru You
10. Sunday People (Don't Bang The Drum)
11. Syrupsniph
12. Distortion
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http://rapidshare.com/files/72683517/Flunk_-_For_Sleepyheads_Only.part2.rar |
Flunk - Morning Star
Tracklist:
1. Play
2. Morning Star
3. On My Balcony
4. Spring To Kingdom Come
5. Six Seven Times
6. I've Been Waiting All My Life To Leave You
7. Blind My Mind
8. True Faith
9. Skysong
10. Probably
11. All My Dreams On Hold
12. Everything Is Ending Here
13. Kemikal Girl
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Flunk - On my balcony
Tracklist:
1. On My Balcony
2. True Faith (Live at Hotel de Roubaix, Paris)
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Flunk - Personal Stereo
Tracklist:
1. Personal Stereo
2. Heavenly
3. If We Kiss
4. Haldi
5. Sit Down
6. See You
7. Two Icicles
8. Change My Ways
9. Keep On
10. Diet Of Water and Love
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Flunk - Play America
Tracklist:
1. Play
2. Skysong
3. True Faith (Live Studio Recording)
4. Probably
5. All My Dreams On Hold
6. I've Been Waiting All My Life To Leave You (Elektrofant's DX-7 Remix)
7. Play (Athome Project Kanskjedeterhaplikevel Remix)
8. Play (Slowpho Opp Av Godstolen Remix)
9. All Day And All Of the Night (Tronso & Nils Noa Remix)
10. Morning Star (Parliavox Remix)
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Flunk - Treat Me Like You do
Tracklist:
1. Honey's In Love (Dobbs Remix)
2. Magic Portion (Athome Project Nedi Garasjen Mix)
3. I Love Music (Nils Noa Remix)
4. Magic Portion (Prins Thomas Short Version)
5. See Thru You (The Cinque Cento Remix)
6. Blue Monday (Rune Lindbaek Loves Manchester Mix)
7. Kebab Shop 3 AM (Rune Lindbaek Klubb Kebab Dub)
8. Your Koolest Smile (Innerise Remix)
9. See Thru You (Athome Project Vinterdepresjonsmix)
10. Blue Monday (Jori Hulkkonen Remix #2)
11. Your Koolest Smile (Doc L jnr Rekoolstruction)
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