Mutt is off sunning himself in Scotland this week. I seem to be taking on his mantle of reading indie blogs and listening to Swedish Indie Pop. Old Indie Kid, on his blog , who is the proud recipient of a Mutt Ramon CD (which he still hasn't reviewed) has some interesting links which were suprisingly more electronic than I'd expected. I like Naimi (Swedish of course) and her lo-fi electronica. The Bad Animals make the sort of "Home Keyboard" I used to make when all I had access to was a Casiotone and a Yamaha Portasound. I recognised most of the preset auto-accompaniments (I could probably dig up old tapes from the 80s which use the same ones). There was a Yamaha Portasound Disco and a Casiotone Tango (which I used for one of my earliest "hits" - Tango into Nowhere Land. Phoenix could probably sing it for you!). Anyway, they were rubbish. Sorry.
I also found (by digging some more), the Moonbabies , who are the sort of Swedish Indie Fodder that I reckon Mutt might like. However, as I have discovered them and quite like them actually, he will probably hate them now.
To get over his continued Electronic-phobia (still muttering about 2 bands - 1 synth, 1 indie-schmindie), I dug up another of his songs "She couldn't end my dreams" (how indie is that title!), and left some of the guitar on and did an indie-schmindie sort of thing with it. Mutt heard it before taking the High Road (actually on past performance he probably took the low road and is still somewhere near Gretna now). He approved and said that maybe we could just have one band and be eclectic. Wahey! I do need to find the "New Order" control in my sequencer now though and take it down a tad.
