Myspace of the Month: Shed and Sunbird

Couldn't decide between two alternatives for the first Myspace of the Month, so they both get the nod.

First up is the remix page of "French Electro-Pop band", Shed. This trio's music - influenced by the likes of Depeche Mode, Air, Portishead and Morcheeba - is pretty cool, but what really grabbed my attention was this message: "Welcome to this official SHED myspace friends remixes, You can listen some great remixes from friends!! We hope you enjoy them! If you are interested to do remixes of us, just ask us and we could sent to you the separate tracks." Sure beats paying 5 notes to remix Radiohead's 'Nude'!

The other page to check out this month belongs to a young Belgian guy called Adriaan who records as Sunbird. Based in Leuven, his mellifluent electronica reminds me of Royksopp and A Man Called Adam at their finest. "It is found again. What? Eternity! It is the sun mingled with the sea," as Arthur Rimbaud might have said when contemplating a drunken daytrip to the Belgian coast with his lover Paul Verlaine. We tried to book Sunbird to play live at Music Muziek Musique a few months back only to discover that Adriaan had broken his back! Thankfully, he is on the road to recovery (his music sounds like an analgesic, so I'm sure it helped). Sunbird's debut album hits the streets later this month - check it out.