Download the Le Sport remix of Richard Reagh's "Squirrel man": http://www.reagh.net/downloads/remixes/richard_reagh-squirrel_man-le_sport_remix.mp3

Discobelle is offering up all the various components from Le Sport's latest single "Chemical drugs" for random remixes: http://www.discobelle.net/2006/06/02/remixin-it-up-part-2/

Absolut Noise does yet another quick Q&A session, this time with Le Sport: http://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2006/05/interview-le-sport.html

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:

01. The Knife
02. Tiger Lou
03. Death Cab for Cutie
04. Belle and Sebastian
05. The Radio Dept.
06. Radiohead
07. Kent
08. The Postal Service
09. The Flaming Lips
10. Gnarls Barkley

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
02. Tiger Lou - Nixon
03. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
04. Band of Horses - The Funeral
05. I'm from Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
06. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
07. Le Sport - it's not the end of the world
08. Alarma Man - Doctors, Listeners And Spectators Says Viva The Knife
09. Hell on Wheels - Come On
10. Sambassadeur - Kate

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Lo-Fi-Fnk
Boylife
La Vida Locash

I have to be honest, I wasn't that keen on Lo-Fi-Fnk's debut EP "...and the JFG?" that came out last year. Amid brilliant releases from other Swedish "electro duos", such as The Tough Alliance, Three is a crowd, Cat5, and Le Sport (then known as Eurosport), Lo-Fi-Fnk just didn't cut it. Now, with no new TTA material around, a dissapointing album from TIAC, Cat5's album yet to be released, and an album from Le Sport that's got a lot of great songs although I've heard most of them before - "Boylife" comes as a true saviour. The first half of the album is superior to the second, but that's mainly due to starting off with the two magnificent tracks "City" and "Adore". If you're into any of the bands I mentioned above, you should check this one out as well; it's one of my favourites of the year so far.
- Simon Tagestam

Le Sport
Euro deluxe dance party
Songs I Wish I Had Written

Songs I Wish is one of the best new labels in Sweden right now. Their forté tends to be poppy electronic music, indebted to the 1980s. "Euro deluxe dance party" is the first full-length album released on the label and you may well already be familiar with the hit "Your brother is my only hope", which may also be the greatest pop song released in the last year. Upon first listening to the record, it came across as being too kitsch for my liking with its Italiiano-style house pianos and multi-coloured artwork (heck, they even list DJ Bobo as an influence). However, after putting up with it, I realised that there is very little irony here. It's all the better for it, as "Euro deluxe dance party" is the perfect blend of Pet Shop Boys and New Order. Notable highlights on this are the instrumental wigout "Love train" and the plinky plonky piano-led "Every lovesong" which occasionally veers into mid-eighties Italian style house music. You need this record in your life.
- Nick Levine

Vapnet
Thoméegränd
Hybris

Vapnet's EP "Ge dom våld" was one record that I played to death last year. The EP works as a sort of safety blanket for me nowadays, whenever I feel a bit down or if I just crave a quick fix of good music, I put it on. My hopes for their forthcoming album are obviously insanely high, but if the songs on it are as good as (their latest release) "Thoméegränd" or the ones on "Ge dom våld", it could end up being one of my favourite albums ever. This EP also contains a bunch of remixes (by such prominent acts as Le Sport, Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, etc.) which are fun and interesting, but not as satisfactory as new "proper" songs by Vapnet themselves.
- Simon Tagestam

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:

01. The Knife
02. The Radio Dept.
03. Belle and Sebastian
04. The Concretes
05. José González
06. Radiohead
07. Tiger Lou
08. Death Cab for Cutie
09. The Strokes
10. Håkan Hellström

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. The Concretes - Chosen One
02. The Radio Dept. - The worst taste in music
03. The Knife - Heartbeats
04. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
05. Morrissey - You Have Killed Me
06. Le Sport - it's not the end of the world
07. The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
08. Tiger Lou - The Loyal
09. Band of Horses - The Funeral
10. Khoma - Hyenas

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The video for the latest Le Sport single "It's not the end of the world" is now online: http://www.songsiwish.com/lesport/Itsnottheend.mov
The track comes from the duo's debut full-length "Euro deluxe dance party", out now on Songs I Wish I Had Written.

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:

01. The Knife
02. Belle and Sebastian
03. Death Cab for Cutie
04. The Concretes
05. Radiohead
06. The Strokes
07. Morrissey
08. Tiger Lou
09. Håkan Hellström
10. Mew

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Morrissey - You Have Killed Me
02. José González - Heartbeats
03. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
04. The Radio Dept. - The worst taste in music
05. The Strokes - Heart in a Cage
06. Morrissey - The Youngest Was The Most Loved
07. Le Sport - it's not the end of the world
08. The Concretes - Chosen One
09. The Strokes - You Only Live Once
10. José González - Crosses

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There's already a mash-up of the new Le Sport single: http://kissmakeup.blogspot.com/2006/03/le-sport-tell-no-one-about-tonight.html

Listen to the new Le Sport single "It's not the end of the world": http://www.songsiwish.com/lesport/Itsnottheend.mp3
The 300-copy limited edition CDR also includes the b-sides "Loveboat" and "Euroheart" and is available now via Songs I Wish I Had Written. The debut full-length "Euro deluxe dance party" comes out April 5.

Confirmed tracklist for Montt Mardié's upcoming double EP:

"Valentine"
01. 1969
02. Highschool trauma
03. Audrey Hepburn
04. The family
05. Let's get away from it all (Frank Sinatra cover)

"Chameleon"
01. Fritz Lang's Metropolis - w/Le Sport
02. Hurry home - w/The Legends
03. The loss of love in the romance capital - w/tba
04. My girlfriend is in the Grand Prix finals - w/Mr. Suitcase
05. Castle in the sky - w/tba

In two weeks, Songs I Wish I Had Written will unleash the new Le Sport single "It's not the end of the world", the first taste of what will be their debut full-length album due out in April.

The latest Sophie Rimheden single "Queen of the night" and its remixes by Richard Reagh and Le Sport are now all downloadable in one place: http://www.rimhedenmedia.com/~sophie/srproductions/srp/downloads.html