Our fiftieth SpaceScan in 2009 takes us to Iceland and Norway, presenting two very different acts. First up are quartet Foreign Monkeys who dabbles in punchy and aggressive rock’n’punk and they are followed by one man act Proviant Audio aka electro prodigy Mathias Stubø. Read, listen, maybe leave a comment and then have a great weekend.

Foreign Monkeys (ISL)
Formed in 2005 and album debutants this April with ‘n’, Icelandic quartet Foreign Monkeys smack faces and groins with their short, punchy and aggressively to-the-point rock’n’punk and statements like “We hate love songs / We love money, money” (‘Love Song’). Now dig it with me…

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Proviant Audio (NO) (Photo)
In Norway this 17 year-old electro-jazz prodigy Mathias Stubø aka Proviant Audio has been getting quite a lot of wholly deserved attention lately. It’s intelligent, funky and sexy in that “smokey night club” way, sounding like Herbie Hancock and Sly Stone jamming on a laptop.

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WHO DO YOU THINK EVERYBODY SHOULD HEAR?
Although we spend a lot of time out there, we can’t claim to have heard every band on MySpace, so please feel free to recommend bands – Scandinavian, of course – you think everybody deserve to hear. We do reserve the right not to feature your band(s), but we guarantee to check them out. Drop links to: spacescan (a) allscandinavian.com