Interview with Casiokids at Spinner:
Describe your sound in your own words.
A Danish magazine once called us the perfect hybrid of Duran Duran, Sigur Ros,
and 2Unlimited. We always try to aim for that when working in the
studio. But hey, those were not our own words. So then I would probably
say that we aim to do something between Whighfield and ABBA, yet fail.
How did your band form?
Casiokids started with Feddi and me having fun with edits, mash-ups and
such on our computers in our hometown of Stavanger in the late 90s. We
brought our sessions with us to parties, irritated our friends with
copied CD-Rs and went around town humming shamelessly to our own songs.
Then we put together a band in Bergen some years later with Omar and
Kjetil, which turned into something slightly different -- yet with
Casios involved and, I hope, some humor intact.
What are your musical influences?
Personally, I would mention Simon and Garfunkel, Radiohead, Arthur Russell, Fela Kuti, and New Order.
How did you come up with your band name?
Basically after making my first song ever using my computer in Stavanger
in 1998, I thought of the most horrible name ever, Casiokids, burned
the song out and wrote that on the CD-R. After a while I came to love
that name though, and I truly think it suits our intentions and style as
a group.
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