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The Øresund Space Collective is a totally improvised supergroup with members from many different Danish and Swedish bands; these include The Carpet Knights (Malmö),Siena Root (Stockholm), Mantric Muse (CPH),The Univerzals (CPH), Bland Bladen (SE),ILDHU (CPH), and many others. The band has released 8 CDs (most on Transubstans Records, Sweden) and played in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Holland and Germany in the past 3 years. The bands most recent CD, Slip into the Vortexreached number 23 in the Swedish music chart in 2010. In 2011, the band will once again play concerts in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Belgium and India for the first time.

The band has headlined and played several music festivals around Europe includingKildemose Festival (DK), Slotsskoggen goes Progressive (Göteborg), Space Force 1(Lahti, Finland), Roadburn and others. The band will play at the famous Occultrance Festival in Belgium in July 2011.

ØSC will also release 3 new albums in 2011: Dead Man in Space, Sleeping with the Sunworm and Live at Roadburn 2010 (double vinyl record) with a new company Space Rock Productions (CPH).

The band has built up a dedicated following in the space and psychedelic rock underground outside of Denmark. All the bands concerts are recorded and released to the fans via the Archive.org in the USA. The line up is changing all the time and whoever is available is pulled into play but the most recent line up has been: Mogens – Synthesizer and Hammond, Dr. Space – Synthesizers, Nick – Guitar, Jocke – Bass, PIB – Drums and Magnus- Guitar.

Discography:

Øresund Space Collective (2006)
It’s All About Delay (2006)
The Black Tomato (2007)
Inside Your Head (2008)
Good Planets are Hard to Find (2009)
Dead Man in Space (2010)
Slip into the Vortex (2010)
Entering into the Space Country (2011)
Sleeping with the Sunworm (2011)
Live at Roadburn (2011)

Links:

Øresund Space Collective official website
Øresund Space Collective
Øresund Space Collective on MySpace
Øresund Space Collective on Facebook

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Hotel Wrecking City Traders

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Hotel Wrecking City Traders (HWCT) have been dislodging earwax, busting strings and sticks and blowing minds since 2007.  HWCT are an instrumental noise rock duo with a heavy focus on improvisation and a love of loud volume and the psychedelic.  The band has to date released an EP (2007) a full length album‘Black Yolk’ (2008) and a 7 Inch‘Somer/Wantok’ (2009), all through Bro Fidelity Records (Australia). HWCT’s latest is acollaborative effort – featuring Gary Arce (Yawning Man/Ten East). An offer from Gary that eventuated from HWCT supporting Ten East on tour in Australia in 2009. This will be a strictly limited vinyl pressing (300 copies) which was released in June, 2011 and distributed by Cobraside Distribution in the USA. With a constant touring regime forever in place the band’s presence has grown both in Australia and overseas which has seen them play shows with the likes of: Russian Circles (USA), Thrones (USA), Ten East (USA), Earthless (USA), Om (USA), Black Cobra (USA), Monarch (Fr), Grey Daturas (Aust), Winnebago Deal (UK), The Hard-Ons (Aust), to name but a few…

Ben Wrecker also joined Winnebago Deal (UK) on drums as a last minute stand-in on their debut tour of Australia in 2008 .  Ben Wrecker was also personally invited to play drums by Nick Oliveri (Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age) in his Mondo Generator project in 2010 for a US tour. Hotel Wrecking City Traders are looking into a US tour (Featuring Gary Arce playing 2^nd guitar) tentatively for mid 2012 and will take  in shows with Yawning Man and Fatso Jetson. A recording session is due to take place in California during the tour with legendary producer Scott Reeder (Kyuss, Goatsnake, The Obsessed).

Discography:

EP (2007)
Black Yolk (2008)
Somer/Wantok 7″ (2010)
Hotel Wrecking City Traders & Gary Arce (2011)

Links:

http:://www.hotelwreckingcitytraders.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/hotelwreckingcitytraders
www.myspace.com/hotelwreckingcitytraders
http://www.facebook.com/brofidelityrecords
www.myspace.com/brofidelity
http://www.brofidelity.bigcartel.com