Releasing their long awaited debut album, DDMB's will surely make you sing and shout, dancing your way through the songs. Filled as it is with an abundance of melodious party rock, soulful pop hits bound to become classics and some truly ingenious and memorable lyrics, this mix will be pretty hard to resist for anyone with the slightest love for music. The band, based in their hometown of Lund, Sweden, consists of Gustav Blohm (vocals, guitars), David Lindberg (bass), Lars Diurlin (drums) and David Jonsson-Länne (keyboards, vocals). Having always been more of a live act since the start in 1999, the furiously explosive DDMB gigs have captured ecstatic audiences around Sweden, Finland and Norway for the past few years. A European tour and college radio broadcasting in USA is now establishing the band outside their homeland. Madly in love with their loud, raw and rough sound on stage, it was not until the summer of 2003 that the band felt ready to venture into recording their first real album by putting it "down on disc". It is the magic that came out of that long, hot summer's labor of love that Track1 and Ant Nest Records now proudly present to the world.

Recording as much as possible of the music live was essential for catching the sound and dynamics that the constellation had been seeking for so long in previous recording sessions. Laying down the foundations on a 16-track analogue tape-recorder to capture the warm distortion unable to achieve when using only digital equipment, the band thus undertook their task with the same frenzy as if the scratch built studio had been a live stage, dancing and shouting their way through the songs. Producing the album themselves for total control, they knew what they wanted and was ready to deliver. Building a temporary studio from scratch in the attic of the local educational association Studiofrämjandet, the experiences and contacts made through the years proved vital in getting the necessary gear together and in working condition. With the big interior space looking something like a barn, DDMB settled in with the dust and junk, the sweat pouring down from the heat building up as the merciless summer sun warmed up the tin roof above their heads. Not only being hard on the musicians, the temperature exceeded what was recommendable for the analogue tapes and in a moment of pure genius the band members fearing a total collapse of the whole process and installed a fan next to the recorder, not actually having any effect what so ever on the climate but resulting in some really fun tape fl utter which for example can be enjoyed at the end of "Tennis shoes".

  With surroundings and conditions such as these of course all that could break down did. The tape-recorder fi nally giving up under the pressure, only the local alternative rock band Logh coming to the rescue, lending out their 16-track, avoided utter failure. Water leakage from the ceiling, with pools of rainwater forming on the fl oor over night was another unforeseen problem. The electric gear missed only by half a meter or so the band at last got the feeling that maybe there was some kind of justice after all and that the project could be fi nalised. After adding some beauty marks to the production, like Gustavs outstanding oscillator performance at the improvised end of "I wanna party", the whole studio was packed up and moved to the more vocalist friendly environment of local compulsory school Fäladsgården. There the vocals were laid down, accompanied by some minor additional music (the only exception being the extra drums on "Rock your world" which were recorded with a single SM-57 microphone in the band's rehearsing hall at Mejeriet, Lund). Reinforced by the eminent choir of Johannes Sandkvist and Moa Jonsson-Länne and keeping the up the crazy and good spirit of the previous weeks, at last the fun had come to an end. The result already at this early stage exceeding the bands high expectations. The album was mixed the following fall at the Mission Hall Studio in Sebbarp together with dear friend and sound engineer Kristian Anshelm. Later mastered by Jörgen Tånnander at Euterpe Musica in the spring of 2005, the album now stands completed with long time friend of the band and artist Olof Werngren having done the artwork and design for the package. Containing 11 original DDMB tracks with all the lyrics and music written and arranged by the band, except "Need to get" which originally was written by their friends in the local stoner rock act Kama Sutra, this Ant Nest Records album stands out as a unique testament of the combined entrepreneurship, luck and brilliance that made it all happen