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Crack open the champagne - We are coming to the UK!!!!!
We are all set for an emotional month this June when we embark upon our biggest UK tour yet aptly named An Emotional Month With Trabant

Our live sets involve various degrees of nudity, copious amounts of champagne and buckets of glitter and we've planned a number of suprises too so all we need now is you guys to come and party with us!
Get yourself to the gigs and show us how you do it!!!!
WARNING; We plan to unleash a cool blast of glamorous, leather-clad electropop decadence upon you Brits in June when we release our throbbing, DAF-esque electropop glacier of a new single, 'The One' (see video below),
'An Emotional Month With Trabant' – UK Tour - See dates above!!
'The One' single - OUT NOW on 12inch and 7inch...
Download all the versions including mixes by The Filthy Dukes, The Black Ghosts, Para One and Williams from:
I-Tunes
Juno
Or get the 12inch and 7inch from:
HMV
'Emotional' Album - Out Now...
Download it now from:
Play Louder
I-Tunes
Or buy the CD from:
HMV
Trabant 'The One'

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Check out the footage of Trabant on London Today (London's News Program)! It's pretty crazy!
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About Trabant...
Trabant's five members come from very different backgrounds in the Reykjavik music scene: One rap producer with the sailors blood pumping; a death metal guru, a crazy in the head champion DJ; a preachers son and the former boyband star.
Together, all these influences explode in the mighty Trabant.
For the past nine years in various guises, Trabant have worked in each others pockets endlessly circulating the Reykjavik music scene.
Long periods of experimentation and isolation within smoke-filled rooms, with cheap vodka and computers equate to a perfectly formed eclectic battle-field sound.
Highly energetic live performances with their reputation proceeding them has lead to somewhat of an excitable following of this Icelandic 5 piece and things are just about to get going.
The small, isolated country of Iceland still remains one of the top favourites when it comes to the production of spunky and innovative rock and kandy coloured, avant-garde pop music. This baby faced volcanic Island sits below the Artic Circle and is as much of an unexplainable beauty as is the band that is native to it.
Trabant can only be explained as a rare treat of loveliness with goodness oozing from every electronic synth and sound that they produce. The boys are extremely more-ish with their quirky and inventive music and their intriguing charm verges on what can only be described as addictive.
With a habit of collecting age old instruments, Trabant resourcefully remain to instill all that is great about impulsive music making. And do you know what???? We love it!.....................

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Member Since: 10/6/2005
Band Website: trabant.is
Band Members:


Viðar H. Gíslasona - Pool loving functionalist and the guitar/bass player of the band.

Ragnar Kjartansson. The singer and the pompous performance artiste; Ragnar has been known to take it to the max. With his good looks and soothing voice, he likes to ride the snake and drink coctails by the beach.

Hlynur A. Vilmarsson (aka The Prince of Darkness). The keyboard master of the team and a heavymetal Benz owner.

Gísli Galdur. The mad scientist of the turntable art. He is also a drummer since early age and has been digging deep in music since he was 1 year old. He also loves swimming pools and the Mumin elves from Finland.

Þorvaldur Gröndal aka Doddi. A son of a preacherman; a former rockabilly drummer and now the electronic drummer of Trabant. Since his first band, Mússólíní, he's travelled trough various music styles. He likes peanutbutter a lot, with jam.


Sounds Like: NOTHING ELSE!
Record Label: Southern Fried Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Emotional - OUT NOW!

Download the whole album from:I-TunesPlay LouderOr buy the CD from:HMV...
Posted by Trabant on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:11:00 PST

Have you seen us play in the UK????

If you have seen the show leave us your comments we would love to know what you think about it!!!!As you know we are having really great time and every day is a whirl wind of new people and parties, s...
Posted by Trabant on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:59:00 PST

Glastonbury!!!!!!

Ok it is official the UK know how too party and we are having an amazing time!The gigs have been brilliant Madame Jojo's was something else and we can't wait to hit Scotland this weekend and Rockness!...
Posted by Trabant on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:09:00 PST

We need your help!!!

The UK tour is amazing and we have a chance of being featured on Radio One.For Jo Whiley's show "In Live Music We Trust" as part of their Gig Review feature and we need your help!!!!!!If you have been...
Posted by Trabant on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:51:00 PST

Come and Party with us in Brighton!!!!

We can't believe it we are finally back in the UK and already loving every minute of it. We are looking forward to meeting all you British Party People at our gigs and this Friday night we will be mee...
Posted by Trabant on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:02:00 PST

Gold Pants

Trabant are coming to the UK this week!!!!We can't wait and promise to keep a Blog to keep you up to date on the mischeif we get up to and the crazy places we party - please come and join us if you ar...
Posted by Trabant on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:17:00 PST

We are coming to the UK!!!!!

Crack open the champagne - We are coming to the UK!!!!!We are all set for an emotional month this June when we embark upon our biggest UK tour yet aptly named An Emotional Month With Trabant Our liv...
Posted by Trabant on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST

VOTE TRABANT!!!!

"Gleðilegt nýtt ár og takk fyrir það gamla....Skellið ykkur nú í netkosningu Hlustendaverðlauna FM 957 og kjósið TRABANT! Ykkar band í blíðu og stríðu!  Takk!!" VOTE HEREAnd for our English speaking...
Posted by Trabant on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:01:00 PST

New Video!!!

We're proud to present the video for our next single "The One" which will be coming out soon on Southern Fried Records. Please let us know what you think of it...Lots more blogs coming soon...Trabantx...
Posted by Trabant on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:41:00 PST

The Player is back!!!!

Hello! Due to popular demand... we have re-installed our Myspace player. To kick things off, you will find our forthcoming single "The One", the excellent Remix by The Filthy Dukes plus 2 more al...
Posted by Trabant on Mon, 08 May 2006 05:08:00 PST