Datarock

DATAROCK is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album with tracks like "Fa-Fa-Fa" and "Computer Camp Love" by performing the entire record live for the first time since 2005. The album, which achieved phenomenal international success, is also being reissued in an anniversary edition on vinyl.

The DIY debut from 2005 was recorded without a budget and released on their own label, but still managed to rank from 36th on NME's list of the year's albums, 88th on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the year's songs, 12th on Australia's Hottest 100 - and a Spellemann nomination at home. The debut took the band on 1000 concerts in 36 countries around the world - including festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, Reading, and Leeds - and the songs ended up soundtracking everything from Electronic Arts games like FIFA and Sims to TV series like Workaholics and Vampire Diaries - as well as campaigns for Apple, Google, Samsung, and Coca Cola.

In 2009 came the follow-up RED, in 2015 the "live album" The Musical (ft. Stavanger Symphony Orchestra), in 2018 DATAROCK released their critically acclaimed, third studio album Face the Brutality - and in 2023 they released perhaps their strongest album to date with Media Consumption Pyramid.

But the debut album continues to thrive, and the most significant part of the band's over 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify is still driven by this material.

So now, all the songs will finally be performed live by the original duo Fredrik Saroea and Ketil Mosnes with friends for the first time since 2005.

The 20th anniversary is also celebrated with the new concert film DATAROCK In Double Vision, a brief documentary, an extensive international campaign - and a re-mastered, limited edition, pink twelve-inch vinyl version.

YAP Records is also making a number of remixes available on the record DATAROCK DATAROCK (Remixes) ft. everyone from DEVO to Riton to our own Skatebård and Bjørn Torske.

By conveying the absurd story behind this peculiar "no-budget" album from Bergen - and all the unlikely events that have happened with the material internationally since then - YAP Records is also laying the groundwork for new music from DATAROCK, expected as early as next year.