SPEKTRUM - Dont Be Shy

SPEKTRUM
Dont Be Shy

Fun At The Gymkhana Club is the new album from London-based genre-busting four piece, Spektrum.

With one smash debut album Enter The Spektrum released on Germany's
acclaimed Playhouse imprint already tucked under their belt - which saw
the birth of globally-renowned singles Breaker, Freakbox and Kinda New
- Spektrum are back at last. 'Fun at The Gymkhana Club', for UKs
Nonstop Recordings, features singles Horny Pony, 'May Day' and latest
offering and blistering dance floor wobbler, 'Don't Be Shy.

Fun At... exudes the playful elements of Spektrums multifaceted
personality. As well as boasting a tongue-in-cheek title - horseplay
and cheeky hi-jinks taking place within the confines of the Pony Club
establishment - the Gymkhana Club is also a term that refers to world
of colonialism. This new album from Spektrum oozes with alternative
undercurrents - they have stormed the Club and messed up all the codes.
And its up to you to decipher them.

'Fun At... provides an absorbing visual landscape. Opening up with the
marching scenes of 'May Day' - all thigh-high leather boots and tight
uniforms, we then slip into 'Horny Pony - all galloping fillies, whips
and stirrups. Next up is 'Moody Feels Good', a wall-climbing blur of
psychedelia. We then get dragged onto the light-up dance floor with
Dont Be Shy, and pulled straight off into the darker back room antics
of Cedar. Sugar Bowl brings us down a level, lost in clouds and bubbles
everywhere. The Bones is a brisk walk into the realities of daylight
which soon transforms into a confused stagger into the bloodshot sunset
ahead of Cut Me Off. Fit Together take us up into the clouds once more,
hovering over the planet in a moment of reflective glory only to be
brought down sharply, soles of feet firmly hitting the ground, with
Build An Army, which leads us by the hand into The Mirror Man - the
albums final march across the Spektrum landscape. Phew.

While most live bands of 2006 aim to recreate the post-punk sound of
the 'late 70s/early 80s era, Spektrum are set on creating a new,
innovative, sound - which 'Fun At...' is overflowing with. Influences
from the funk, punk and electro are key, but Spektrum never try to
mimic, but rather expand and develop. The styles range from electrofied
punk (May Day), rock with an electro-funk edge (Mirror Man), through to
the British live band' exploration of post-Timbaland R&B (Cut Me
Off, The Bones), through to song-based dance music ('Moody Feels Good',
'Build An Army').

Spektrum are also one of the hottest live acts the UK has to offer. A
contemporary fusion of ESG, Grace Jones and the Slits, they perform all
over the world from Portugal, Paris, New York and Berlin, through to
New Zealand, Australia and, er, Brighton.

Spektrum are Lola Olafisoye, Gabriel Olegavich, Isaac Tucker and Teia Williams.