Happy news! Addi 800 has now opened the doors (well, it's only one door to be honest, and he closes it when he is working) to his spiffy new 5.1 mixing room. We'll post some good pictures from it later, as soon as we find the time to prance around with a good camera. We will probably even have to write a GearPorn™ post about it for the technically inclined.

It's full of shiny state-of-the-art equipment, but none more important than his highly trained and experienced ears. Even we, gearsluts that we are, have to admit that even the best of gear doesn't make good music by itself. We still need humans. And coffee.

All this is great news for the Icelandic music scene that continues relying on Addi's talent on countless projects. But this could also be great news for you if you make music, because from now on you can book Addi for your mixes right here, right now (whenever you read this).

Drop us an email .:here:. for your inquiries, and we'll get back to you with prices and availability. If you always wanted to visit Reykjavík, we'll help you find accommodation, and if you want to work remotely on the internets, that works fine as well. Technology is our friend. Want to try out just one song first? No problem. Just get in touch already...

We are working hard on finishing Toggi's new album, and are happy to report that it's not going to be crap.

As those of you who frequent this site know, we have published some of the songs here, and 3 of them can still be downloaded for absolutely free. But lots of people (two) have asked us to put all the new songs in one place for easier access while you wait for the album.

So here they are. Enjoy, and please share with everybody you know that has ears.

Toggi - Singles by Medialux

If you want more information about the songs, as well as free downloads where applicable, please check out the details here: Take Me Dancing, The Artist, Wonderful, Silly Old Song and I Built This House. Please enjoy responsibly.

To residents outside The Economic Ruins Of Iceland™, all those people appearing in the video are famous local TV stars, not just some random people.

You are here, and you are reading this.
You like good music that you can get for free.
You have heard 2,31 Toggi songs.
Songs with The Boys Choir of Breiðholt in them are likely to become wildly popular.
There is an 83,75% chance that you are going to like this song.
If you don't, there is a 1,44% probability that you like Celine Dion and/or Kenny G.

So, now you know the statistics, time to hear the song, download it for free, and share it with your friends:
Toggi - Take Me Dancing by Medialux

Click .:here:. to download zipped hi-res mp3 with artwork and lyrics for free.

Share! - Please use all social media tools available to you to help us get Toggi's music heard. You can join Toggi on Facebook, but avoid his MySpace site because MySpace sucks. As for Twitter, there is always .:this:. (in Icelandic)

If you want to surf more Toggi stuff on this site, listen to The Artist, Wonderful, Silly Old Song and I Built This House by pressing your pointing device of choice upon the song titles.

Credits:

Music: Toggi, Bjarki Jónsson, Don Pedro, Helgi Egilsson, Hallgrímur Jón Hallgrímsson
Lyrics: Toggi
Toggi: Vocals
Don Pedro: Guitars, programming
Bjarki Jónsson: Rhodes
Helgi Egilsson: Bass
Hallgrímur Jón Hallgrímsson - Drums, Backing Vocals
Ólöf Jara Skagfjörð - Backing Vocals
The Boys Choir of Breiðholt: Heroic Backing Vocals
String Arrangement: Northern Lights Orchestra
Produced and Recorded in Wömbin Studios & Studio Mjöt by Bjarki Jónsson, Don Pedro & Toggi
Mixed and Mastered by Addi 800
Special thanks to Eberg
Artwork Designed by Karitas Pálsdóttir

Well, here is a well deserved news roundup for you from the land of good music, beautiful women, rotten shark and our slightly overeager pet volcano Eyjafjallajökull.

YES, WE WON!
Arnar's great rendition of an Icelandic classic played it's part in securing the award for Best TV Commercial at the Icelandic Advertising Awards. You can check out all the details about said commercial .:here:. Arnar has been locked in the studio composing the music for his first full length feature film. Rest assured you will have more news of that here later.

YES THEY WON!
As we mentioned .:here:. earlier Eberg got 3 nominations for the Icelandic Music Awards. 'Dreamin' by Feldberg won Song Of The Year. Follow Feldberg on Facebook, there is a lot going on there, and you don't want to miss it.

TOGGI NEWS
Toggi has finished writing all lyrics to the new album, and we are overdubbing guitars and working in production as we write this. There should be a new single within weeks, this next one will be upbeat and fun, summer is here after all. Well technically, at least here in Iceland. And what do you know? The new single will be free of charge, right here, just as you like it.

NEW STUDIO & BIG CHANGES AHEAD
This summer we move our operation to a bigger studio, which is being built now. Furthermore it looks as this summer and the following autumn will be a period of changes in many other exciting ways as well.

Addi 800, a long time collaborator and mixing engineer extraordinaire is building a state of the art studio right next to our (as of yet unnamed!) studio. This can only result in great things, and we look forward to have him as a neighbor.

There will be changes in our line-up, new artists are being signed, and others are changing directions. We will also be extending our services to accommodate the wishes of our clients even better. Lots of them wanted post-production and sound design as well as music, and they will get it, as we open our new facilities.

Last but not least, this site, which has had more success than we ever hoped for, will receive a facelift from our favorite webdesigner. Music buyers, directors and ad agencies will now have access to our full library of available music to their projects, and we hope to look and smell better on the web than we already do. Details of these changes will all be revealed here in good time.

WE LIKE YOUR CONTACT
Guys, stay in contact, we love your feedback, we are active on Twitter, have a Fan Page on Facebook for day to day statuses and updates, and a Group on Facebook (where you receive an update to your inbox every time we give away fresh free music)

The photo you see above is a collage of words on this site, made using the brilliant wordle.net. We love it, apart from the fact that boring old MySpace seems to get a better spot than it deserves. Oh well.

Toggi - The Artist by Medialux

Click .:here:. to download zipped hi-res mp3 with artwork and lyrics for free.

Lyrics can also be viewed .:here:.

It goes without saying that if you like the song you should not keep it to yourself. That would be selfish. Please use all social media tools available to you to spread the gospel. And please join Toggi on Facebook, but avoid his MySpace site because MySpace sucks. As for Twitter, there is always .:this:. (in Icelandic)

If you want to surf more Toggi stuff on this site, listen to Wonderful, Silly Old Song and I Built This House by pressing your pointing device of choice upon the song titles.

Credits:

Music: Toggi, Bjarki Jónsson, Don Pedro, Helgi Egilsson, Hallgrímur Jón Hallgrímsson
Lyrics: Toggi
Toggi: Vocals, Backing Vocals
Don Pedro: Guitars
Bjarki Jónsson:  Rhodes
Helgi Egilsson:  Bass
Hallgrímur Jón Hallgrímsson - Drums, Backing Vocals
Ólöf Jara Skagfjörð - Backing Vocals
String Arrangement: Northern Lights Orchestra
Produced and Recorded in Wömbin Studios & Studio Mjöt by Bjarki Jónsson, Don Pedro & Toggi
Mixed and Mastered by Don Pedro & Bjarki Jónsson at Wömbin Studios
Artwork Designed by Karitas Pálsdóttir

As we mentioned .:here:. earlier, Olafur's latest work under the moniker of Stafrænn Hákon is ready for aural consumption. It is called 'Sanitas', released by Darla Records in the US and Happy Prince in Asia.

Now we also have a release date for Iceland by one of our favorite labels, Kimi Records. Or at least a release month. Estimates say 23rd of April, but don't blame us if you catch a cold waiting in a queue outside your record shop of choice. It's an estimate. 

Well. We've ranted about how much we like Sanitas. We've put up streams of 2 of the songs .:here:.. Now it's high time to give you your own copy of Temporality to enjoy wherever and whenever you see fit.

Listen here:
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Like it? Click here to download your free zipped hi-res mp3 copy.

Please share this link if you like the music. If this gets you all warm and fuzzy inside and excited about buying the album, that's fine as well. If you are in Iceland we just told you how. If you live on the internets, click here for an online purchase.

Remember to pay digital respect to the official homepage and the Facebook Fan page, but don't go to the MySpace site, because MySpace sucks. A lot. And check back here. More free music very soon.

Tonight the Icelandic music business celebrates the music achievements of 2009 on television with live music, awards and impressive hairdos. Yep, it's time for The 2010 Icelandic Music Awards.

You might remember that this time last year Toggi and Bjarki snatched the 'Best Song' award, but tonight we are keeping all available body parts crossed for Einar Tönsberg, or Eberg. And we have a good reason to, as he is nominated for 3 important awards.

Feldberg's 'Don't be a stranger' is nominated for Pop album of the Year, 'Dreamin' is nominated for Song of the Year, and Einar himself is nominated as Composer of the Year for his work with Feldberg and Eberg. Not too shabby.

This is a good opportunity to nudge you gently towards Ebergmusic.com, Eberg's FB Fan Page, Feldberg's FB Fan Page and the relative MySpace sites of Eberg and Feldberg. That should keep you busy for a while.

By now of course, you must be curious to hear what it sounds like:
Worm is green - March On! - NLO remix

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Like it? You can check out the other remixes and purchase the March On! EP here, and the full album 'Glow' here.

Nominations for the 2009 Icelandic Advertising Awards or "Lúðurinn" (as we of course call them) are in.

We are happy to have contributed work to four of the nominated projects, and will of course use this opportunity to brag here on the interwebs, so you think we are really cool, and want to work with us. And as always, we hurry to do this while they are still nominations, because 2009 was a good year in advertising in Iceland, and all this work has strong contenders.

Nominated for best TV ad, and best campaign, is Netvarinn for Siminn.

The TV ad was directed by SagaFilm's Samuel and Gunnar for agency ENNEMM. Arnar produced and performed the classic track with great results. You can check out full details here:

Nominated for best work in open catagory is a song, Suzy Thunder's BIG, which we produced for Vodafone and their agency Fíton. More details about the campaign and TV ad here.

The song did well in Icelandic charts and got good airplay, we are still giving it away here, where it has been downloaded over 20.000 times now. YouTube plays are up to almost the same number. We did club remixes as well, and gave them away here. The song hit the youth market spot on, and is still being played in clubs and discos, adding great value to the campaign for Vodafone.

Suzy Thunder - BIG
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We did the sound design for this campaign for Filmus Productions, Hvíta Húsið, Umferðarstofa and VÍS insurance. The spots, aimed at getting people to buckle up, were directed by Guðjón Jónsson. It is nominated in a category for public service commercials.

Finally we produced this radio ad "Kattskar", a clever script nominated for best radio work, for IKEA and their agency Íslenska. Unless you were born on a cold rock in the North-Atlantic you won't understand it though:

IKEA - Kattskar
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All in all, a good start to the day, actually.