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cArtridge

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About Me

cArtridge is a London-based band fronted by a male/female duo. Formed as an attempt to create atonal pop music whilst at Goldsmiths in New Cross, the band released their first album ‘Cases’ to rave reviews in 2006. The album made it to ‘album of the month’ in the renowned Organ fanzine and was picked up by Radio 1, BBC Newcastle, Resonance FM and Pulserated among others. Their track ‘Fooling Around’ was chosen by Rob Da Bank for the Radio 1 Best of Unsigned Podcast and featured in the top half of last year’s Dandelion Radio Peel Festive Fifty.

cArtridge has appeared at festivals in England and abroad and played venues such as Luminaire, Barfly, Spitz, 93 Feet East and Bush Hall. Recently the band recorded new tracks for a Dandelion Radio session and they are now working on a new album to be released later in 2008.

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Member Since: 10/22/2005
Band Website: cartridgetheband.com
Band Members: Catherine Kontz and Henri Vaxby
Sounds Like: Why not make your mind up yourself - buy the album here! Please do, it'll help pay for the next one...£6.99 including postage.

“This 9 tracker from pan-european group Cartridge is great fun. Mixing up a heap of styles (all played with remarkable assurance and chops), there's elements of jerky, spiky u.s. new wave, mars volta's complex chord blasts, bearsuit / melt banana frantic pop, lush harmonies, avant-rock stylings and hummable tunes. Schizophrenic yes, but rewarding, energetic stuff.” (Rough Trade, April 2006)

“One of the most intriguingly interesting of new London based bands out there right now … A fine sound that bends like Primus dancing with Bjork and gets all left-field art rock as it drags you in. Oh yes, tango away as you do your laundry lullaby. Sunny day Beach Boys all gone off-hinge … Ah yes, and such fine detail as well, a unique and recommended album. This is why we do this Organ thing.” (Organ 158, May 2006)

“Possibly the product of years spent studying the world's entire musical output Cartridge produce bizarre masterful music that positively defies categorisation.... Boldly different and cogent, Cartridge prove that originality doesn't have to come at the expense of a tune. Genius.” (DH/www.manchestermusic.co.uk, January 2006)

“They have as much range in one track as many bands manage in a lifetime. Pop hooks sit alongside the wildly surreal.” (Kabarett Spielraum, April 2006)

“Sounds swell and morph from the paranoid ivory pounding of Dresden Dolls, via the hushed insanity of Bjork, through to swirling psychedelia.” (Spill 25, July 2006)

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New songs - Dandelion Session Tracks

Hi there! We've put up some new songs on our player. It's a couple of tracks we did for Neil Jenkins' show on Dandelion Radio last September. If you missed them, now's your chance to catch up! Make su...
Posted by cArtridge on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:17:00 PST

Cartridge on 'Peel's Festive Fifty

Happy New Year Everyone!! Just to say that we appear on place 21 in the official 2006 Festive Fifty that the Dandelion Radio team are hosting having been asked by John Peel's former Radio 1 ...
Posted by cArtridge on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:00:00 PST

A little bit of what's been going on

So, an eventful summer is nearly over. We had a blast at the festival in Cornwall despite several broken strings and general mayhem, there's been more good reviews and radioplay, we've heard rumours w...
Posted by cArtridge on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:01:00 PST

Some more Cases Reviews

Wednesday June 07, 2006 Rock Reviewsby The Mullah CartridgeCases Artrock is a term that can be lazily misapplied. But for Cartridge -- a band that came together at an art college and are named after...
Posted by cArtridge on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 07:31:00 PST

Cartridge on Radio 1

Next week you can hear us on Radio 1. Yes Yes...Rob da Bank will be playing one of our tracks between 11-1am next Thursday, 1st June, so tune in and hear us alongside other exciting lat...
Posted by cArtridge on Wed, 24 May 2006 03:10:00 PST

Album of the week (Organ)

Our debut album 'Cases' has been reviewed by the Organ website/music-zine/art-station Here it is: 'ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2 CARTRIDGE Cases (Cartridge Music) - One of the most intriguingly interesting of...
Posted by cArtridge on Fri, 19 May 2006 09:59:00 PST

Pulserated.com charts/On air Sunday 14th May 12.00GMT

It's great.... by and by all the indie stations seem to pick up on all things Cartridge...yeahhh....and it's a lot thanks to your votes....you can hear us regularly on the Organ show on Resonance FM, ...
Posted by cArtridge on Fri, 12 May 2006 11:50:00 PST

debut album CASES now available in shops

Our debut album 'Cases' is now available from the following shops: In London:  Rough Trade (Notting Hill and Covent Garden)          ;   ...
Posted by cArtridge on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:51:00 PST

demo of the week in Organ

Our three-track taster made it to demo of the week on the Organ website this week (www.organart.com). Here's also what they wrote about it in the latest issue of the Organ: "Meticulously t...
Posted by cArtridge on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:51:00 PST

Get tickets in advance for the Kabarett Spielraum gig on April 6th (supporting Data Panik)

We're supporting Data Panik (former members of Bis) at the fabulous Kabarett Spielraum Night at the Luminaire on April 6th. Also playing are Gene Serene and The Donald Syndrome. It should be a great f...
Posted by cArtridge on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:28:00 PST