Hanna - Lioness EP

"Lioness" is the debut EP from Hanna aka ex-Cat5 member Hanna Göranson.

Champagne Riot - A friend of a friend

Champagne Riot are streaming a new track at myspace called "A friend of a friend" featuring guest vocals from Christina Roos (ex-Cat5): http://www.myspace.com/champagneriot

Fredrik Carlsson - House (feat. Christina Roos)

Fredrik Carlsson's new single "House", due out June 6 and featuring guest vocals from Christina Roos (Cat5), can now be previewed at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/fredrickcarlsson

Cat5 Warmer Climes mixtapes

The latest Warmer Climes mixtapes feature the ex-gals of Cat5, Christina Roos and Hanna Lovisa.

Kitty & the K - So much for fashion

Kitty & the K's brand new single "So much for fashion" is out now and available as a free download along with two b-side remixes from Zeigeist and Cat5. Go here to download and to see the video: http://www.kittyandthek.com/

Hanna Lovisa (ex-Cat5) to release summer single

Hanna Lovisa (ex-Cat5) will have a new single on Bonjour Recordings this summer. No exact date yet, but probably in July.

Cat5 are currently in the studio working on a new record.

Read a report from last night's Tack!Tack!Tack! show featuring Vapnet and Cat5: [click here]
For another take on the evening, go here: http://hotstufffiles.com/2007/01/23/unshielded-twisted-cables-cat-5-tack-tack-tack
For yet another report, go here: http://acediscovery.blogspot.com/2007/01/cat5.html

Live report: Cat5 + Vapnet @ the Social, London UK 01/22/07

As you may have already noticed, Vapnet will be heading to the UK next week to play Tack!Tack!Tack!. Well, they've also added a few extra dates to the journey:

01/22 - The Social, London w/Cat5 (Tack!Tack!Tack!)
01/23 - The Cellar, Oxford w/Borderville, Jack Harris
01/24 - Nice n' Sleazy, Glasgow (Sounds of Sweden)

Swedish electropop duo Cat5 has a new song up at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/wearecat5

The new Cat5 video for "Drop the bomb" is now online: http://www.dach.se/cat5.mov

Check out the new Cat5 video "Drop the bomb": http://www.dach.se/cat5.mov

Otur
Pepperbox hill
Vapen & Godis

I openly admit to being a pop princess, but even I need to shake my corduroy-clad booty every once in awhile. And this is just the sort of thing that will have me shimmying across the kitchen floor, waving my pot scrubber as if it were one of those goofy glo sticks. "Apart" is especially fantastic. Slip it into the stereo at the next family get-together, and you might even convince your 13-year-old niece that you've got a bit of cool in you yet. Play her "Enough" and you can also feel smug in the knowledge that you're being a good influence by contributing to her sense of female empowerment. You may already know Otur as Emma Bates, one-third of The Lightbulb Project. Her former bandmates Christina Roos and Hanna Göransson went on to form Swedish girl group Cat5, and unsurprisingly the two projects share a similar sound. But there seems to be more substance here than the Cat5 hits of the moment, "Sexy" and "Stretch and bend". A bit too much substance at the end, actually, as she tried to take me somewhere I wasn't prepared to go, at least not without a good hefty supply of chemical stimulants. Overall though, it's a winning blend of DIY electro-pop and ethereal vocals that will not only appeal to the closet dance diva – I suspect the boys will also appreciate the sweet innocence of Emma's honey voice.
- Stacey Shackford

MP3: Otur - Travels right through

Electropop with big house beats is oh-so-hot right now and I'm really not feeling it at all. It's the kind of music that's tailor-made for the dancefloor, not active listening at home. Likewise, it's also very focused on the single, not the album. There's been quite a lot of huge hype tracks, but very few of the artists have been able to follow up with satisfying full-length albums. No surprise really - that's the way this sort of stuff has always been. Proper songwriting skills aren't necessary to heat up the dancefloor. Of course there are exceptions (aren't there always?). Firefox AK is easily my favorite, but after spending a couple weeks with Otur's new album "Pepperbox hill", I can recommend her as well. The record suffers a bit for being a touch too long, but there's enough genuinely good songwriting to make up for it. The song I've posted today is surely just as strong as the first two singles and there's more where that came from. Now let's just wait and see if Otur's (aka Emma Bates) old bandmates Christina Roos and Hanna Göransson from Light Bulb Project will fair as well with the new Cat5 album.

Otur - Travels right through