Style:
Electronic/Pop
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Releases:
Moment of Truth (2001)
Live at Bessastaðir (12T002 - 2003)
Emotional (12T015 - 2005)

Trabant is sexy funky spastic electronic music, with pinches of punky flavor of R&B and pop, making us think of an Icelandic electro tinged version of Prince, with their trabanty noses buried in things mad and skittery. It's like a futuristic funkateer in a high-tech asylum, like German genious scientist Braun & The Mob. Another way of namedropping clarity into this definition is to say that Trabant has a lot in common to Sweden's Lo-Fi-Fnk and The Tough Alliance, it's music made for sweat, neon lights and a world gone wrong.

When Trabant released their critically acclaimed debut "Moment of Truth" in 2001, they gave us a glimpse into the future. Then moving away from its studio-based focus, Trabant has since developed a pompous live attitude. An electronic five piece group playing for their lives, taking it to "eleven" - musically and morally. But first and furthermost Trabant strives to make honest pop music for the people.

Trabant's five members come from very different backgrounds in the Reykjavik scene: One rap producer with sailor's blood pumping in his veins; a death metal guru, a champion turntablist; a rockabilly preacher's son and an over the top performance artist. All these influences explode and out comes the mighty and funny Trabant.

With their new album “Emotional”, Trabant enters a new era, where the stage-bombs will get bigger, the crowds will get wilder and the beasts will run free. There’s no turning back; enter the world of misty love affairs; sweaty beats & free champagne!

Press:

"Emotional is the first Icelandic masterpiece of the year 2005. It's going to be stuck in my player for a very long time.”
- Five stars out of Five,  DV (Iceland)

"Trabant have captured the energy of their live shows, but, much better, they’ve reinvented the groove that early recordings and shows only hinted at ... this will be the release of the summer."
- Worth six beers. Costs four beers. Winner.  The Reykjavík Grapevine (Iceland)

"Emotional is a melancholic pop album with great songs. A magnetic album where love, glitter, gloss and joy take over."
- Fréttablaðið (Iceland)

- Five stars out of Five, Morgunblaðið (Iceland)

"All the emotional scale is taken care of, from the animal aggression to the adventure and glory-sounds of Emotional Meltdown. Trabant is with out a doubt one of Iceland’s greatest bands."
- Guðný Rúnarsdóttir, Vamm (Iceland)

“Ragnar Kjartannson thanked the audience for making him feel like a rockstar. And we could aswell thank Trabant for making us feel like being at a concert with real rockstars. The show was really a great entertainment and at two o’clock the audience walked pleased out in the night.”
Inga Rún Sigurðardóttir, on Trabants release concert in Morgunblaðið, four stars out of five