Casiokids
Playful Norwegian synth-pop that feels like a vintage toy box come to life. Warm analog grooves and surreal melodies for curious afternoons and neon nights.
Playful Norwegian synth-pop that feels like a vintage toy box come to life. Warm analog grooves and surreal melodies for curious afternoons and neon nights.
Casiokids craft a sound that is simultaneously sophisticated and wonderfully naive. It is the sonic equivalent of finding a box of forgotten cassette tapes in a Scandinavian attic, filled with warm analog synthesizers, bouncy basslines, and snippets of old children's radio programs. Their music breathes with a human touch that is often missing from electronic pop, favoring organic wobbles and hand-played textures over clinical digital perfection.
What truly sets them apart is their 'naivist' approach to songwriting. While the production is layered and often quite complex, the melodies have a nursery-rhyme simplicity that sticks in your brain for days. They manage to bridge the gap between the dancefloor-ready energy of the Bergen electronic scene and a more experimental, art-house sensibility that incorporates shadow puppetry and found-sound collage.
Start with the album 'Topp stemning på lokal bar' to hear their most infectious work. The track 'Fot i hose' is the perfect entry point, showcasing how they can turn a quirky, Norwegian-language synth line into a global indie anthem that feels both exotic and intimately familiar.
Casiokids are a Norwegian synthpop ensemble from Bergen, and Stavanger formed in 2005. The band consists of Ketil Kinden Endresen, Fredrik Øgreid Vogsborg, Omar Johnsen and Kjetil Bjøreid Aabø. Associated musicians are Joachim Amundsen Trana, Eirik Utne, Einar Olsson, Geir Svensson and Snorre Sturla Lyngstad. They are signed with Universal Records in Norway, Polyvinyl Records in North America, Flake Records in Japan, Pop Frenzy in Australia and Moshi Moshi Records for the rest of the world. After releasing the single "Grønt lys i alle ledd / Togens hule" in the United Kingdom, the band was described by NME as "the best thing to come out of Norway since black metal." The band has been compared to fellow Norwegian artists The Whitest Boy Alive, Röyksopp, and Annie. They have released an album named Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar that includes the song "Fot i hose", which was included in the comedy series Friday Night Dinner (as transitional music) and on the soundtrack for the football video game FIFA 10, and listed by the NME as the fourth best new song of the week. They are currently managed by Christopher Wareing. In the summer of 2010 legendary Norwegian pop band a-ha gave away four separate prizes of one million kroner each to Norwegian artists who they felt had the most export potential at that time. Casiokids was one of the recipients along with Susanne Sundfør, Moddi and Shining. In October 2011 the band released their new album Aabenbaringen over Aaskammen in North America, Norway and Japan, with a worldwide release scheduled for January 2012. In November 2011 Casiokids visited Japan for the first time. Casiokids announced their fourth album Tid for Heim on 8 May 2024, their first new material in 13 years.
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