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2009-05-24: Sos Rescue Operation Episode 1 (1,2 and 3) - Klaus Sverrisson
2009-05-06: NEWSLETTER MAY 2009
+ Summer has arrived +
++ A slight delay for “24/7” - and the first single of the year++
+++ Remix +++
++++ The concert menu for GusGus and President Bongo ++++
+Summer is here+
Summer is here and our boys in Gus-gus are livelier than ever.
This winter the seeds for the “24/7” album were planted in the studio at
Önundarfjordur – and the crop will be harvested and disseminated far afield
this summer. The testing of “24/7” has been gone over tremendously well in the
Icelandic market, despite a national dance of financial crunch in times of
crisis. The result of a remarkable diligence and resilience was obvious at
the two first SRO local Gus-gus performances in Reykjavik and in Akureyri – you could see the perspiration cover the walls, jaws caressing the floors
and all joints squirm and wriggle in amazement and joy !
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++A slight delay for “24/7”’s release date - and the first single++
Our record company has decided to delay the release of “24/7” for about three months, so the album will not be in shops until early September.
However, the first single is due at the end of June. The title will be
“Add this Song.” with remixes from: Patrick Chardronnet Lopazz Klovn Kasper Björke Gluteus Maximus!
+++ Remix+++
As we told you earlier, the Gus-gus group has signed a contract with the outstanding German record company KOMPAKT in Cologne – to a great mutual satisfaction.
The Gus-gus group has recently been busy as bees in remixing; they have always been sought after in the remix field as you know. One of their recent remixes has been a new effort for the aberrant and spunky SNAX from Berlin, “Out of Trouble.” This remix was done in collaboration with Gluteus Maximus, which is a twosome made up of President Bongo and Jack Schidt. On the same record you can also find fantastic remixes by Peaches and Crazy P.
Then there are remixes for Remute and Paul Jackson coming up soon!
2009-04-14: President does Kaffibarinn 18.april 2009
... not since many many days has the president played at the legendary kaffibarinn. with new owners, and a soundsystem, that is about to change. 18.april! be there! long live techno!
2009-04-07: LIVE AT SJALLINN - AKUREYRI
2009-03-27: NEWSLETTER MARCH 2009
Gus-gus: Newsletter – March 2009
+++ A New Publishing House+++
+++ The Date for “24/7” Confirmed +++
+++ Festival Bookings this Summer +++
+++ Concert 20 March 2009+++
We are well into the month of March, as you may have noticed, and that in itself is a good thing, considering that this means that we are one month closer to the release date for “24/7”. The energetic and well groomed multi-media collective Gus-gus has now with diligence, solicitude and scrupulousness reached the point of perfection
of the project – and now we can announce a release date and new label.
New record label: KOMPAKT
You can say that Gus-gus has been under microscopic observation at several respected record companies for a good while. There have been ongoingdiscussions with interested companies who have all shown great interest in “24/7” the Gus-gus threesome definitely knows what they want, and what the requirements are for their band. So they have agreed upon the selection of the company to act as label for “24/7”
The saying goes that a good house is a good omen for its guests and that the location of the house is of great importance. Therefore one can understand the reason for a true and well bred techno-group such as Gus-gus to select a house such as KOMPAKT, the most respected electronic/dance music label of today. The company has its headquarters in Cologne. It is directed with the experienced hands of Michael Mayer, Wolfgang Voigt and Jurgen Paape.
Many people may recall Mayer from his successful concert at Iceland Airwaves last year.
KOMPAKT is known for having created the minimalist Cologne-sound, and their record labels have international music stars such as DJ Koze, The Field, The Orb, Kaito, and other noteworthy artists under their wings. The British music journalist, Simon Reynolds, has written of KOMPAKT that no record company has contributed more to the superior standing of German dance music than KOMPAKT. Reynolds has written several books about music and contributed articles about music to Melody Maker, The Observer, Rolling Stone, The Wire, and other publications.
KOMPAKT has already announced that the company will publish the remix version of the Sigur Rós composition, “Gobbledigook,” as done by Gluteus Maximus (President Bongo and Jack Schidt.)
The Date is Confirmed:
We just got the good news. The release date for “24/7” has been confirmed. The date for “24/7” is the 6th of July 2009.
Festivals and Music Tours this Summer
The coming of the “24/7” will be the cause for international plaudits for sure. The Gus-gus group will first and foremost take part in several music festivals around Europe, to begin with. The group has already been booked for a concert at the Total 10 festival in Cologne and of course the famous Sonar Festival (Kompakt night at Nitsa club) in Barcelona in June, where GusGus will appear alongside stars like Grace Jones, Fever Ray, The Orbital and El Guincho.
GusGus – the continued saga of working men and animals
GusGus, the cosmetic animal, has kept underground as well as on distant
(fishing-)banks for the past few weeks.
GusGus, as you know, is ever searching and plotting, but always returning with a good catch in the stomach, following a well planned search on the analogic fields of Germany´s Bayern as well as in stony and snow-covered mountain areas of Iceland.
GusGus has kept away from daily toss and toil, consumed good and nourishing food, - making complete use of each and every calorie, because GusGus knows very well that in order to work on difficult and demanding projects you need the best raw materials available.
Today´s project is the next studio album, their sixth one. This album has been given the professional name of “24/7”, a name very typical for GusGus. GusGus is, of course, the multimedia band, an audio-visual collective that you could often describe as being a triheaded animal. Some times they remind you of an animal from a different planet or from an adventure tale, and sometimes they are like a gigantic whale that scientists follow to previously unknown, munificent fishing grounds.
It should be obvious that a triheaded animal has three heads – and in this case
their names are Daniel Agust, President Bongo and Veiran. This animal is superior to other animals, because this animal utilizes technical aspects produced by men for men, women, and even children. You see,
GusGus had a Bayern genius build a specially designed analogue modules in a system called Doepfer A-100. The designer who is responsible for the A-100, Dieter Döpfer, has designed similar instruments for the last three scores of years, meeting the special needs of various famous musicians such as GusGus.
The Doepfer-instrument, the A-100, played a major part in GusGus performances last year. The A-100 sound engrossed the membranes of astonished concert and club audiences in the international cities of Reykjavik, Berlin, Moscow and Tokyo – and the reaction from these good people indicated both pleasure and astonishment. With visual memories from these cities, GusGus brought the A-100, a sound system for club performances, their wardrobe, combs and brylcream, to the TANK in Önundarfjordur in Iceland and recorded the spinal support for the “24/7.”
Most of the spinal work is original materials coming from the “intestines” of GusGus. “On the Job” is a phrenetic song of the working man to the unbroken animal called love. Then on “Thin Ice” the bloated donkey goes out on the ice to dance. And on “Add This Song” the listener is encouraged to add - the song in question - to his collection.
The GusGus analogue sound environment has never been better and Daniel Agust´s singing reigns again and thus opens the group´s variability to new heights. As on previous occasions GusGus performs a song
written by Jimi Tenor, the fantastic “Take me Baby” where Jimi is a guest singer. “Hateful” is a pretty familytype song that
GusGus and Aaron-Carl composed together while being on different sides of the Atlantic. GusGus and Aaron-Carl, on one hand, and Jimi Tenor on the other, enjoy a mutual respect and friendship. You can tell from these songs that a further cooperation
between these fine artists would not be a surprise in the future.
GusGus is putting a final touch on “24/7”
Therefore, only a selected few have had the opportunity to listen. But among the lucky ones are record labels, international companies that have shown
their pleasure, enthusiasm and even reverence for the A-100, the animal, and
the whale !
President Bongo and the rumpmuscle.
Rump muscles are important for dancing and President Bongo knows that very well. Therefore the Prez at times likes to tear himself away from the GusGus environment and activate people´s rump muscles along with his friend and colleague Jack Schidt. When working together they call themselves Gluteus Maximus, which is of course the latin name for the muscles of the rump. Gluteus Maximus is a DJ-Producion-Duo that entertains club audiences all over the world. The duo has also engaged themselves with remix for celebrated artists such as
Sigur Rós and the danish Trentemöller, who is one of the foremost contemporary dancemusician. Gluteus Maximus did a remix of Trentemöller´s tune “Miss You” in the fashion of minimalistic monster for the Danish genius. This particular remix is the sixth most downloaded mix from PokerFlat ever!
2008-10-06: Many thanx to dancers and lovers at Hive Club, Zurich (picture)
We played an instrumental set at Hive club in Zurich on Saturday 4.oct.
It is a method for us to fine-tune the new tracks for the studio hours ahead at Tankurinn (Flateyri, W-Iceland).
The Hive Club was well tuned for the night and it was a pleasure extreme to play those 90min! Thanks to all! The recordings of the new album will take place in November and mixing + mastering in beginning of desember! Big love to all!
2008-09-26: Biggi Veiran, Daníel Agúst and President Bongo are GusGus
2008-08-19: Some photos by our lighting designer from Nasa 16.august!
2008-07-29: GusGus á heimavelli!
Fréttatilkynning:
Gus Gus frumflytja nýtt efni á Nasa 16. ágúst nćstkomandi
Ţó ekki hafi mikiđ fariđ fyrir fremstu danssveit Íslands, Gus Gus, uppá síđkastiđ hefur hún alls ekki setiđ auđum höndum. Prímusmótórar sveitarinnar, President Bongo og Biggi Veira, hafa frá áramótum unniđ ađ nýju og rassvöđvastyrkjandi góđmeti fyrir eyru og dansgólf. Ţetta nýja efni mun ađ lokum rata á nćstu breiđskífu sveitarinnar sem kemur út snemma á nćsta ári.
Gus Gus halda sína fyrstu tónleika á heimavelli 16. ágúst nćstkomandi, í daglegu tali kannast almenningur viđ heimavöll sveitarinnar undir nafninu Nasa. Miđar á tónleika ţeirra á heimavellinum hafa iđulega rokiđ út á mettíma og er ekki búist viđ ađ undantekning verđi gerđ á ađ ţessu sinni. Fyrir tónleikana verđur hljóđkerfi stađarins skipt út til ađ uppfylla hljóđkröfur sveitarinnar sem og ađ tónlistin skili sér í fullum gćđum til ađdáenda.
Tónleikaprógrammiđ verđur ađ miklu leyti samansett af nýju efni sem ađ hluta til var flutt á stćrstu tónleikum sveitarinnar hér á landi í Laugardalshöll í júní - annađ efni er splunkunýtt og hefur aldrei heyrst á tónleikum áđur.
Á heimavelli er sveitin aldrei betri og nálćgđin í fyrirrúmi. Miđasala fer í gang á miđi.is innan skamms.
Poland was absolutely gorgeus! :) We had a great time as usual; being it the President dj'ing or the entire band performing live... It's always amazing! Thank you Poland.... Thank you Fairyboy for the picture! :)
2008-06-09: On tour in Poland!
2008-05-19: Poland lovely Poland!!!!!
2008-04-29: Esja
2008-04-10: Carl Cox in Iceland
2008-04-01: .. new album!
yes, it's coming along. no more 5 years only 5 months now!
Dear friends,
GusGus have now officially started working on the 6th studio
album. The first single is scheduled in july and the album in the fall. GusGus has already started booked festivals this summer and an extinsive tour in the fall alongside the release. A name has not been decided for this exciting release but a working title is helping the direction of the music. It will not be revealed for now. Thank you. GusGus.
The tragic theft happend yesterday when a group of people invated the magnificent Aftur store in Reykjavik and stole the last 2 gusgus limited edition (15) overalls. Icelanders... if you happen to see anyone wearing one, please look at them like they are guilty until otherwise proven! We know call for justice and we call out to the people involved in this theft that we want them back!! The President does not tolerate theft of such "minable" thinkers!
If you don't care, click on the photo and party all night long!...
.. but don't wear any stolen goods. The President knows all who already have the gusgus limited edition overalls!
2007-12-19: JON JONSSON PARTY WITH BUSY P + STEED LORD + PRESIDENT BONGO
2007-12-11: Urđur hćttir í GusGus / Earth leaves GusGus
Til ţess er máliđ varđar
Aldamótabjargvćtturinn sem reif GusGus upp úr svađinu, Urđur
Hákonardóttir, hefur ákveđiđ ađ róa á fersk miđ í
tónlistarsköpun sinni. Sönkonan sem sungiđ hefur sig inn
ađ hjartarótum ađdáenda sinna jafnt og félaga í gusgus ćtlar
nú ađ sinna einyrkjaferli sínum og almennum kaffihúsaferđum
í Reykjavík. GusGus međlimir kveđja ţennan samstarfsmann,
vin og ferđafélaga međ tárin í augunum ţann 29.desember á
Nasa. Eins og alţjóđ veit hefur Urđur nú gert 2 plötur međ
GusGus sem fengiđ hafa einróma lof ađdáenda og gagnrýnenda
um allan heim. GusGus óskar dúllunni velfarnađar í leik og
starfi.
Síđustu tónleikar GusGus til kynningar "Forever" plötu
sveitarinnar verđa haldnir á Nasa 29.desember og hefjast kl.
22:00. The Giant Viking show mun sjá um ađ hita leirinn ásamt
Jack Schidt. Forsala er hafin á www.midi.is
To whom it may concern
The millenium equalizer that dragged GusGus out of the gutter,
Earth, has decided to row her boat towards fresh waters. The
singer that has sung herself into the very heart of both fans
and collegues is now gonna concentrate on her solo carreer and
general visits to local coffee houses in Reykjavik city.
GusGus, with teary eyes, will say goodbye to this friend and
colleague the 29. of Desember at Club Nasa.
GusGus is extremely proud to announce that the video for the first single of
"Forever", Moss, is ready. The video is a collaboration btw the
designer of "Forever"
and all Pineapplerecords projects, Miss Linda Lotion
(a.k.a. The First Lady) and GusGus.
It is a story about love. And the importance
of giving your neighbor the love he deserves!
What you give is what you get!!
Enjoy when it hits! HIGH ON LOVE!! F O R E V E R !
Ps. The artwork in this opening frame of the video is by
Gabriela Fridriksdottir and is of Iceland.
Jimi Tenor did us an amazing performance at Sirkus on friay
night... He did not come empty handed to the country but
brought massive support from his two little girls, Pheobe
and Astrid. The mama, Nicole Willis, was touring and
didn't make it but was sorely missed! :)
Big love to the Jimi experience!
2006-12-05: PINE NIGHTS AT SIRKUS FRIDAY AT 21
2006-11-28: Forever getting into mix cd
Andy Cato From Legendary band Groove Armada has Included MOSS on his new
Sessions album for Ministry of Sound
First Track on Disc two.
The chief designer for PineappleRecords and the new gusgus Forever is currently working on the project in Jamaica. Here is a current photograph of Linda at the Long Bay Beach in Jamaica, thinking ... Forever! :)
2006-04-11: TOM CRAFT & PRESIDENT @ SNOWBOMBING MAYRHOFEN WED 05.04.06
2006-03-14: GusGus Live @ Nasa Reykjavik 25.03.2006
Last GusGus live concert 2006! Don't miss it!
Onstage at midnight! We have a pregnant Lady!!
Love
GusGus
2006-03-09: ANNOUNCEMENT!
FOREVER
The 5th Studio album of gusgus is now ready. The title is FOREVER.
The Tracklist has been desided and we are moving forwards with 10 tracks.
Remixers, Savas Pascalidis, Moonbootique, Hermigervill, Sean Danke, Diringer, Martin
Eyerer, Thor, Mr. Negative, International Pony, Dms and
hopefully our Austrian father of fellowship and funk Kurt
Hauenstein aka Supermax have started working on the two most obvious singles.
Forever will be put out on Pineapplerecords, our own record label based in
Reykjavik, no later than June 2006. Our label- and promotion
management company GreatStuff in Munich will be working the
album and it will be distributed by Intergroove worldwide. However
Bad Taste Records will handle all Pineapplerecords products in Iceland
via Intergroove. The Naked Ape will handle all merchandize
products via their upcoming internet site. There you will
be able to buy t'shirts etc very soon.
The follow-up tours for Forever will however not begin until
beginning of october 2006. We have a new member looking the
light of day in the beginning of july. Earth is pregnant.
Please stay online and enjoy more news very soon!
PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT ALL VIDEOS NOW ALSO HAVE FULL QUALITY DOWNLOAD POSSIBILITY!
photos: The Saalbach snowboarding area and the two dogs of business; The Taucher and Buckmaster de la Cruz preparing for the schnitzel
What a great time we had for those two gigs! The Magdeburg gig at the fantastic Prinzz Club was amazing. Beautiful club with a soundsystem to back the enthousiastic dj up all the way! We had great wienershnitzel as well and we were told the best one in Germany! :) Saalbach was no less. The festival Rave on Snow is something else, and we had an oportunity to go snowboarding for two days and of course eat the schnitzel nonstop! hahaha
Last saturday at the Berlin's Sage club was unreal. 5 hours set and alot of sweat. Day after we went and saw Hertha BSC draw with Borussia M'Gladbach 2-2 football. Magnificent stadium to say the least and we got to c 4 goals! :)
2005-11-24: New in town...
... only 3 weeks old visiting the President! This beauty is the first born child of Helgi Hihat, jazzdrummer numero uno, and his lovely wife Elsa! Congratulations! Wow... she's so small!
2005-11-18: Sarajevo Roses and Mtv Exit
What is human trafficking?
Who are the victims?
How are people trafficked?
What happens to victims?
Why should you care?
2005-11-17: Sigurrňs, President Bongo et le Beaujoulais nouveau
Le Presiedent etait allé voir ses amis de Sigurros a L`Elysee Montmartre hier soir ŕ Paris pour un concert trčs puissant. Ca n`est pas la seule raison de ce message car President Bongo est a Paris entre Sarajevo, le Mtv Exit concert contre le traffic des humains, et Cologne, Islandfest le 19 et 20 novembre. PB vas "peut etre" passer dans un bar, Cafe Noir, dans le 2éme, rue Montmartre, avec ses disque demain soir. Ce soir c`est le jour de Beaujoulais nouveau, c`est la FETE! Til hamingju La France! :)
La bouteille tenu par le barman du cafe Montmartre aprés le concert de Sigurros, pour le President et Jonsi, est la premiere ouverte a 00H01. Photo par Boulou.
... One of the "true" moments of life! This one goes down in history! Buckmaster, Kurt Hauenstein aka Supermax and the President... .
2005-09-26: Nasa 24.Sept 2005
photo: Krummi preps Doctor Mistah with some quality eye-liner
The concert last saturday at
NASA
Nasa went down with a blast. The energy around the 909 bassdrum drew together some interesting mixture of people. Namedroppin' .... Krummi, Frosti and Throstur from the band
MINUS. Gunni Tynes and the
MUM
MUM posse. Jakob Frimann Magnusson from
STUDMENN
STUDMENN and all the other techno lovin' rascals you can find in Reykjavik City. All bars were empty within a 50 miles radius of Nasa from 2h00 - 4h00! We had the crowd! Respect!
Krummi: "I'ts a Celebration, Mistah!"
-Maybe someone has photographs to share????- //gusgus
2005-09-26: Mr. Love brings the Love
2005-09-21: Mullets in the culture section! checkit!
2005-09-21: Dont MISS this event! Daniel Agust in London!
Daníel Águst's
(former GusGus singer) first solo performance in ages will be October 5th 2005 in the ICA,
London
He’ll be performing his solo material which is out
One Little Indian Records
We are gonna play a surprise gig in Berlin tonight at a party which Khan, the 1/2 of Captain Comatose, is hosting near Ost Bahnhof.....
Tmorrow we rock the Melt festival... and saturday we will do the dj thing at Monegros in Spain...
Due to the gusgus invasion to Russia, TimeOut decided to announce it with the july cover. This new photograph of gusgus is done by Ari Magg, Icelandic photographer (www.arimagg.com)
Most popular: Haukur Feiti (with smallest smokemachine on earth)
What's that you have on your upperlip? : David Orn Halldorsson
2005-06-29: Tom Selleck 2005
The Tom Selleck Competition will be held at Sirkus, wednesday 29.june at 20h00! Participants are asked to fill out a form at Sirkus no later than 18h00 today! Foreign participants have a narrow window to send in a picture... just today! Please send photographs to "sbk@simnet.is"
2005-06-24: ISLE OF MTV - BERGEN
Gusgus are playing LIVE in Bergen this saturday at the Isle Of MTV party!
2005-06-18: TIME - OUT RUSSIA
Gusgus will be on the cover of "Time-Out" Saint Petersbourg in Russia for the month of july. The coverphoto was shoot here in Iceland by the respected photographer Ari Magg. The hairdresser was Jon Atli, which is by the way doing a project with Bad Taste, the Sugarcubes label, called Hair Doctor and the make-up was done by Oddvar. Stylist was, as usual, super talented Hrafnhildur Gudrunardottir. Above left is Earth being worked on by Oddvar and right we have the Oddvar and Hrafnhildur!
2005-06-09: Lust/Porn out on Beatport.com
For those who can not get a hold of the vinyl of Lust/Porn you can buy the mp3 in top quality (320 kbps) at www.beatport.com
2005-06-01: President and Buckmaster @ Back2Basics 18.06.2005
Gusgus dj´s President Bongo and Buckmaster will be pumpin da floor at the worldfamous Back2Basics club in Leeds, UK the 18th of June!
2005-05-31: ZAGREB - BELGRADE - SKOPJE
Random phone pictures in the culture section!
2005-05-19: CRASH!
hd error
the harddrive for the gusgus.com server crashed on the 17th of may 2005. CIA involvement suspected. the latest backup of the server and the database is from 6.11.2004. all activities on the messageboard, culture items and the calender are lost. we will restore them a.s.a.p.!
the audio-section is being repaired. the albums gusgus, polydistortion and this is normal are on the site. gusgus vs t-world and attention will appear a.s.a.p.!