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Ashbury Heights
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Sweden (2005 – present)
“Ashbury Heights” are a synthpop duo from Sweden consisting of the dynamic singer/producer/songwriter team of Anders Hagström and Kari Berg.
Originally, the duo consisted of Anders Hagström and Yasmine Uhlin. However, she announced her surprise departure from the band in Hamburg at the last concert of the Out Of line festival tour 2008.
Anders and Yazmine met in November 2005 and, upon discovering that they shared the same musical vision, decided to form a band. Their collaboration soon came to fruition with the release of a 9 track demo entitled “Angora Overdrive” after a very intensive month in the studio.
The second four track demo, “Parliament Of Rooks”, which was finished in February 2006, had a more refined sound compared to their first offering. They decided to send it to a few select labels because the reaction they got to the first demo was quite overwhelming. Having sent the demos on Monday, Ashbury Heights was contacted and contracted by German Out Of Line records on Wednesday, only an hour after the label had received the CD. This probably makes Ashbury Heights one of the fastest signings in history. Several other labels expressed an interest in the band, but there was no bidding war as Out of Line moved so quickly.
Although having signed the famous German act “And One” at about the same time as Ashbury Heights, which ate a lot of the labels’ resources, Out of Line wasted no time. The legendary producer John Fryer was brought on board to produce the promotional single “Cry Havoc” in April 2006, something quite unheard of in the world of the electronic underground.
Originally, the duo consisted of Anders Hagström and Yasmine Uhlin. However, she announced her surprise departure from the band in Hamburg at the last concert of the Out Of line festival tour 2008.
Anders and Yazmine met in November 2005 and, upon discovering that they shared the same musical vision, decided to form a band. Their collaboration soon came to fruition with the release of a 9 track demo entitled “Angora Overdrive” after a very intensive month in the studio.
The second four track demo, “Parliament Of Rooks”, which was finished in February 2006, had a more refined sound compared to their first offering. They decided to send it to a few select labels because the reaction they got to the first demo was quite overwhelming. Having sent the demos on Monday, Ashbury Heights was contacted and contracted by German Out Of Line records on Wednesday, only an hour after the label had received the CD. This probably makes Ashbury Heights one of the fastest signings in history. Several other labels expressed an interest in the band, but there was no bidding war as Out of Line moved so quickly.
Although having signed the famous German act “And One” at about the same time as Ashbury Heights, which ate a lot of the labels’ resources, Out of Line wasted no time. The legendary producer John Fryer was brought on board to produce the promotional single “Cry Havoc” in April 2006, something quite unheard of in the world of the electronic underground.
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Morningstar in a Black Car EP
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NachtDigital wrote:
February!
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mtmbuzz wrote:
Is there a date for the new album yet?
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heteroine wrote:
noooooo! in Lithuania :D
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trufasolka wrote:
GIVE A CONCERT IN RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Diego_Mel0 wrote:
Top 10 best band i heard in 2009.
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TakiChisato wrote:
I Paint Nightscapes <3
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x_carlarubio wrote:
<3
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Destinova wrote:
The titles on the backside of the album cover are all written in smallcaps, so it can't be said which letters "should" be captitals or not. However, there is also a four-track promo release of the album, and there Smaller is indeed spelled as "SmAlLer" (http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1659888). Though I have to admit I just tagged it as "Smaller", for the same reasons mentioned below by ayuxx :)
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ayuxx wrote:
To stay consistent with the fact that none of the rest of their songs have odd capitalizations (like you might see with Japanese bands/artists in particular), I just tag it as "Smaller". "SmAlLer" kind of looks like "smailer". Haha
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Synthetic_Engel wrote:
I'm just wondering, what's the correct tag for "Smaller"?? I see on their myspace they have it as "SmAlLeR" :-S
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lokiz_ wrote:
Apaixonante *-*
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MONSTARwill wrote:
luv these two! AWSOME music!!!
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alergic2theblak wrote:
cool synth pop
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Warwick16 wrote:
Illusion rulez
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SaberX wrote:
I guess Ashbury Heights sucks.
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Suwat666 wrote:
meh
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Keznor wrote:
No tracks available to be played here any more :(((
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bubuka666 wrote:
greatly! <3
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thecirc wrote:
Love Ashbury Heights. Too bad Yasmine dropped out. She had that neat melancholic touch to her singing. Let's hope Kari does even better though. Can't wait for the new album. :)
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StarfishRed wrote:
New album; spring 2010.
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VI. Amphi Festival 2010
Tanzbrunnen, Köln, Cologne, Germany
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FeverChild tagged Ashbury Heights with sweden, industrial and futurepop. Thursday evening
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thewishfire tagged Ashbury Heights with synthpop, electronic and darkwave. Monday morning
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