Popular Damage

Dance + Electro + Pop = Popular Damage. Thus was the simple algebra behind the 2007 genesis of the collaborative project between Manchester-born Nadine Raihani and Stephan Hengst. Berlin's indieand post-rock scene was the common denominator which brought these two forces together in their quest perfect the formula for dance-worthy pop music. This quest began with their cracking EP "Top Hits of the USA" written and produced by Nadine in her studio and released in summer 2008 on a net label. Within no time at all, the punchy track "Everybody Got Young" stormed indie radio playlists and grabbed the attention of blogs everywhere. In November of the same year, they put out two unfaithful cover versions of tracks by Tegan and Sara and Digitalism (Popular Damage Assimilations) on their Myspace page, which triggered an incredible hype: the songs popped up all over Berlin radio, getting airplay without even having been released. The icing on the cake came in the form of a big "thumbs up" from Digitalism themselves ("...it's fantastically different and really unique"), who hand-picked the track as one of the winning remixes for their feature Myspace competition, which drew over 1000 entries. The band has been inundated with remix requests and support slot requests: they have already completed remixes for Miss Platnum and Zoot Woman and already toured with The Rakes, Dúné and The Whip to name but a few. The basic maths of last year has been surpassed: Popular Damage has progressed into the realms of staggering physics and chemistry. The result? Explosive sparks and jagged musical detonations which will blow you out of the water. Popular Damage's latest EP "The Royal Fly", out as of Dezember 2009, well and truly raises the bar, featuring a new and re-recorded version of "Everybody Got Young" and remixes of "Everybody Got Young" by Double Dragon & Fukkk Offf, as well as the tracks "Exclusive", "Savvy in Newby" and "Easy Money" (with a remix by Beatshaker & Blender). This, beyond all doubt, is an equation which works.

Reviews:

"..a poppier version of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs crossed with Daftpunk!" - SXSW

"...it's fantastically different and really unique" - Digitalism on Popular Damage's remix of Taken Away

"It's all still stuff you can shake a leg to, like EMF. And so Popular Damage manages to breach the chasm between brightly-coloured electro-punk and the huge pop classics once more. Finally!" - Intro

Links
http://www.myspace.com/populardamage