Xploding Plastix is a Norwegian electronic music duo, consisting of Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen.

Biography

Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen (formerly in Norwegian

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band Kvist) formed the group in early 1999, and submitted their first demotape in 2000. Their song, "Treat Me Mean, I need the Reputation" became an instant classic when it was released as a 7" on

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in 2000. It was later re-released in 2002 on Hospital Records and championed by

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, and Grooverider. Their first album, '' Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents'', was released in 2001 on Beatservice, and re-issued in 2004 by Palm Pictures. Since the release of '' The Donca Matic Singalongs'' album in 2003, they have been busy working with music for short films, movies, and TV- and radio-productions. They have also collaborated with the Kronos Quartet who have performed their three movement composition, ''The Order on Things: Music for the Kronos Quartet''. They have also worked in the collaboration project Piston Ltd who released the album Domestic Engine in 2007. They also have a side project, The Electones. Xploding Plastix released a new album in September 2008 entitled ''

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'' on Beatservice Records. This was accompanied by a revisited re-release of ''The Donca Matic Singalongs'' which was not originally distributed outside of Scandinavia, and a new EP called ''Devious Dan'' featuring tracks from previous music videos.

Honors

*2003:

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in the category Elektronika, for the album '' The Benevolent Volume Lurkings''

Discography

;Albums *2001: '' Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents'', CD/LP (

) *2003: '' The Donca Matic Singalongs'', CD/LP (

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) *2004: ''Amateur Girlfriends'', CD/LP (Palm Beats) *2008: ''

'', CD/LP (Beatservice Records) *2009: ''The Donca Matic Singalongs Revisited'', CD/LP (Beatservice Records) ;Singles and EPs *2000: ''Treat me mean, I need the reputation'', 7" (Beatservice Records) *2001: ''Doubletalk'', EP 12" (Beatservice Records) *2001: ''Behind the Eightball'', EP (Beatservice Records) *2002: ''Plastic Surgery LP 3 Sampler side A'', 12" (Hospital Records NHS42) *2003: '' The Benevolent Volume Lurkings'', EP (Columbia Records) *2003: ''Geigerteller'', Single (

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, Norway) *2004: ''The Rebop By Proxy EP'', EP (Palm Beats) *2010: ''Devious Dan EP'', EP (Beatservice Records)

References

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* - News, tour dates, etc. High bandwidth/multimedia-intensive * * Norwegian musical groups Spellemannprisen winners Musical groups established in 2000 2000 establishments in Norway Acid jazz ensembles {{Norway-band-stub