Anders H - Lead Vocals, Programming, Synthesizers.
Kari Berg - Lead Vocals
Johan Andersson - Live keyboards
Influences
Depeche Mode, DAF, Nitzer Ebb, Covenant, VNV Nation, Happy Mondays, Berlin, John Foxx, Ultravox, Björk, Fischerspooner, Tiga, Daft punk, New Order, The Prodigy, Kate Bush, Chemical Brothers, The Cure, Ladytron, Marilyn Manson, Goldfrapp, Primal Scream, Tears For Fears, Sisters of Mercy, David Bowie, Soft Cell, Marc Almond, The Human League, Nine Inch Nails, The Presets, Gary Numan, Alan Wilder, Peter Gabriel, T.Raumschmiere
Sounds Like
Unique sounding, the best aspects of many bygone genre-greats but definitely with a sound all of their own.
So who are Ashbury Heights you ask? We're just two people who feel that synth pop got treated unfairly at the beginning of the 90's and seek to answer the question: "How would the genre have evolved if it had stayed consistently popular through the 90's and up 'til today?"
We're not an 80's nostalgia group, sure we love those old chestnuts as much as anybody else. But that isn't our purpose. We are about the further development of that unique sound. Linking the past with the now, trying to transport that music through time into our present in a guise that is both faithful to the original ideals and pushing the envelopes of pop music.
Impossible say you? Only time will tell. Time has made the 80's immortal but at the same time conserved it like canned corn. The flavour has remained the same through the decades. What was initially a movement that aspired to push music into the future has become a campy shot of nostalgia for the party generation.
Our intent is to continue where the 80's left off, to develop our sound with the same love of experimentation and futurism that fuelled bands like Kraftwerk, New Order and Depeche Mode and just like them we wont look back but ever forward. Thus our music is intended to share the spirit of synth pop music, but we will never aspire to replicate what has since long come to pass.
We will take said party generation into brave new worlds and let loose the dogs of dance. We will rock in ways no one has rocked before. And we do this because the unknown will always be infinitely more exciting than the past and we live to explore that unknown with the same love of electronics that inspired musicians to expand the horizons of pop decades ago.
So join the party! Everyone's bound for the future anyway and we might as well enjoy the ride!
THE SOUL IS IN THE SOFTWARE (EBM , INDUSTRIAL, DARK ELEKTRO FEST ) EN VIVO :
DIE WITH YOU (MELODIC EBM) SU MUSICA PUEDE SER DESCRITA COMO UNA COMBINACION DE SENTIMIENTOS ENCONTRADOS COMO EL AMOR , DOLOR , SOLEDAD Y TRISTEZA. CON ELEMENTOS ELECTRONICOS DIVERSOS , RITMOS PODEROSOS, BATERIAS DURAS ,ATMOSFERAS LLENAS DE SOLEDAD Y ENCANTO POR LA MUERTE ... UNA DE LAS GRANDES INFLUENCIAS DE LA BANDA ESTA EN SU INTERES POR LA TECNOLOGIA , LOS MUNDOS VIRTUALES ,EL INFINITO DE LA RED , LAS NUEVAS TENDENCIAS FUTURISTAS DEL SIGLO 21 LA NANOTECNOGIA, LOS CYBORGS , LOS EXTROPIANOS, EL POST HUMANISMO DIE WITH YOU ES CONSIDERADO POR MUCHOS COMO LA REVELACION DEL EBM NACIONAL.. LOS INVITAMOS CONOCER MAS DE SU ARTE .... WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DIEWITHYOUOFICIAL
DUAL FORM (HARD ELECTRO ) DEBUT DE ESTE DUO PACEÑO DENTRO DEL HARD ELECTRO , MELODIAS LLENAS DE SENTIMIENTO ,FUERZA Y DINAMISMO ,QUE AHORA SE LANZA CON TEMAS PROPIOS .. LOS INVITAMOS A SER PARTE DE SU DEBUT .. www.myspace.com/dualformoficial
ESPECIALES DE MUSICA
LO MEJOR DE LOS ESTILOS MUSICALES DE LA CULTURA DEL SIGLO XXI ¡¡¡¡¡¡ PARA USTEDES ¡¡¡¡¡ HACKERS, EXTROPIANOS CYBORGS , TERRORITAS CULTURALES , EXTROPIANOS , DIVIDUOS , HUBORGS, ETC LO MEJOR DEL : EBM , INDUSTRIAL, DARK WAVE , NEO FOLK, NOISE ,MARTIAL , ETC
DJS ELEKTRA MANTRUM ESSAG Video set UNA EXQUISITA COMPILACION DE VIDEO CLIPS , CONCIERTOS EN VIVO DE LAS BANDAS MAS REPRESENTATIVAS DE CADA ESTILO.
ESPECIAL DE ARTE OSCURO, MACABRO Y HORROR VIDEOS POST APOCALIPTICOS
EQUINOCCIO PUB SANCHEZ LIMA NO 2191 MIERCOLES 22 DE JULIO 2009 HORAS 20: 30 COVER 10BS 2X10 HASTA LAS 23 HORAS
wuaahhh i cant wait to hear some new sooooongggs ;0; i want to hear kari's voice >0< *impatient* sorry but i wanted to say that for about a half year or something XD (and sorry for bad english >_<") schönen tag noch =D und macht endlich mal fertig XDD viele grüße aus deutschland ^_^
I just had a funny dream with you in it, and I feel obligated to at least give you an outline of what happened :P
-I somehow DROVE to Japan and got lost. -I walked around and ended up in Sweden. -Found Anders; you became my tour guide. -You talked to me about how you were secretly a stock broker, and you didn't want to continue Ashbury Heights because you were getting married and had a kid on the way xD -You wanted to give me your equipment to continue the Ashbury Heights Legacy o.O -You took me to meet Kari. -We found my Mexican friends doing a live show in a supermarket xD -I was leaving and I asked for an autograph, and you wrote "A.H." on my forehead xD
It's less than a month till Mera Luna and I so can't wait!:) I may even skip seeing Zeromancer,just to be in the Hangar in time! I'm overly excited! <3
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