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Music is - People areIt was spring in 2001 and in the middle of Europe. Where I can't remember, probably Hamburg, Naples or Manchester or somewhere like that. Liam and Joe met Claudia and Connie and the four of them decided to make a record as quickly as they could. All the best records they liked were made quickly. They wanted it to be a punk electro reggae country mess, the sound of people with butterfly minds, getting bored quickly, getting excited quickly and all with a terrible urgency. Convening for a week in Munich and a week in London they made an album about the weather, holidays, boyfriends and girlfriends, sailors, the service industry, unrequited love, tom waits, sport, being afraid of going out, murder, record collections and small boats. Then the four of them went their separate ways, only to meet every now and then. The album would be called 'Ice Skating' and would be proceeded by a beautiful double 7" pack, because nobody seemed to make lovely packaging any more. And the band? The band would be called ultrafox...Es war das Fruehjahr 2001 und irgendwo in Mitteleuropa. Ich kann mich nicht mehr genau erinnern wo, moeglicherweise Hamburg, Neapel, Manchester oder sonst wo. Liam und Joe trafen Claudia und Connie und sie beschlossen gemeinsam eine Platte aufzunehmen, so schnell es ihnen moeglich war. Denn alle ihre Lieblingsplatten wurden schnell aufgenommen. Sie wollten dass es klingt wie eine Elektro-, Reggae-, Countrymischung, der Sound von Menschen die Schmetterlinge im Kopf haben, die schnell gelangweilt sind, die schnell begeistert sind, und all das zusammen moeglichst flott. Man arbeitete mal fuer eine Woche in Muenchen und dann wieder eine Woche in London. Sie schrieben ein Album ueber das Wetter, Urlaub, Freunde und Freundinnen, Seemaenner, das Dienstleistungsgewerbe, unerfuellte Liebe, Tom Waits, Sport, sich vor dem Ausgehen fuerchten, Mord, Plattensammlungen und ueber kleine Schiffe. Danach gingen die Vier wieder ihrer Wege, um sich danach nur ab und an wiederzutreffen. Das Album wird 'Ice Skating' heissen und wird begleitet von einer wunderschoenen 7" Doppelplatte, weil es so scheint als ob niemand mehr solch schoene Platten machen wuerde. Und die Band? Die Band bekommt den Namen ultrafox...

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Member Since: 12/14/2005
Band Website: ultrafox.de
Band Members: Connie and Claudia + the mystery men
Influences: ESG, Kraftwerk, Toni Basil, Trio, Falco, Def Leppard, Beach Boys, Rush, Donna Summer, Michael Jackson... and a lot more- that I've forgotten right now!
Sounds Like: Better than you could have ever dreamed of!
Record Label: Loser Friendly Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New song! Risque vs. Ultrafox

Good morning myspace friends! I know I know, it's been too long- but this time I come with some proper news!We've done a co-write with a very talented act called RISQUE based in sunny Spain, which is ...
Posted by Ultrafox on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:18:00 PST

Hot summer, hot hot summer....

Hello my friends, its been a while (dont I start every blog like this?) since my last post, but life had stepped up a gear and trying to keep up with it kept me on my heels for a while. Writing our a...
Posted by Ultrafox on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:31:00 PST

Promises

Dear friends,I'm really sorry, but I still haven't been able to write a new blog. I'm on hols at the mom (I haven't had proper holidays for about 1000 years) and the weather is gorgeous...So please fo...
Posted by Ultrafox on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:20:00 PST

A Saturday afternoon game with friends...

Today's suggestion: Shoe-JengaEvery person has to balance one of their shoes on top of another one's until you either run out of shoes or someone is too clumsy...You might think that this sounds prett...
Posted by Ultrafox on Tue, 16 May 2006 08:32:00 PST

Satellite Navigation strongly recommended!

Hello my dear readers and Happy Easter I know it has been a while, but I was busy sorting out bits and bobs in my life + I got a car. It is such a cute little Golf! Just like the one Ive learnt do dri...
Posted by Ultrafox on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:08:00 PST

The Country of Wintersport and Empty Purses&.

Coming from the south of Germany, I do have a great passion for wintersports and therefore had quite a long face when the winter Olympics finisched 3 weeks ago. But hey, you can always find a way to e...
Posted by Ultrafox on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:05:00 PST

Creepy Crawlies....

I once had a friend who lived in a very old and run down house in the centre of a town. The house was very nice, old floorboards everywhere, loads of spare rooms and the neighbours where shut out by m...
Posted by Ultrafox on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:04:00 PST

What we do...

I bet a lot of you are wondering what's going on with us at the moment. Well, we are basically working on our second album. But as we haven't conquered the universe just yet, each of us has to find ...
Posted by Ultrafox on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:58:00 PST

New Pix!

Hello dear friends, Happy New Year!!!!! just to let you all know that there are some more pix to be viewed and commented by you! Claudia
Posted by Ultrafox on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:13:00 PST