Album of the decade: FPU - Traxxdata

Today is the last day of the 00s, and of the albums from this decade that I have heard, FPU's "Traxxdata" from 2003 was definitely the one that I enjoyed the most. Wonderful harmonies and synths, an extremely consistent electro album with 80s disco influences. The floating cover version of "Crockett's Theme" (from the Miami Vice soundtrack) was the track that first grabbed me, so I post it here (though the sound quality on YouTube is very bad), but it's not even the best track on the album - I listened more to "You Don't Pay My Bills" and "Racer Car", and my favourite was the disco-driven "Waiting For Snow" (with Emmon on guest vocals). Thanks to Alexander Robotnick who played FPU in his DJ sets, without that I would probably have missed it.

Nanna - Buster

"Buster" was the name of a Danish TV series from the 80s about a boy who learned to practice magic. It was shown in Sweden and Norway too and I watched it as a child. I loved the intro song to it so much that my mum helped me to record it onto a tape directly from the TV. (I still have that tape, in the beginning you can hear my mum telling my little brother to be silent.) Anyway, the tape helped me to remember the track into today, and thanks to the fantastic invention known as the Internet, I was able to identify the artist as Nanna and watch her sing it on YouTube. Then I bought the full-length version of the track from iTunes. The song is still extremely beautiful for me and extra kudos go out to the songwriter(s) for the unexpected turn it takes at about 1:30.