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Colony 5 is today one of Scandinavias most succesful artists on the electronic pop scene! Their technopop with beautiful refrains and electrified dancebeats today have many fans! A new album is on its way and you can get a first taste of whats to come on the new hit single "Plastic World".


Biography

(As published on http://www.colony5.com/ )

1999
Colony 5 is founded by P-O Svensson and Magnus Löfdahl in March.
The whole project is more of a hobby than a serious music band, and the music is more or less influenced by synth pop. After a while the music changes and the sound becomes harder and faster.

2000
C5 appears with the song "Liquid Love" on two compilations: Monument 6 (released by Powerspot / Memento Materia) and Shadow Dancing released by A Diffrent Drum.

2001
Johan Nilsson joins the band in March. In April C5 performes live in a contest called "Quest for Fame". Most of the demo synthbands from Sweden participates in the contest and Colony 5 ends up at second place right after Michigan. In July C5 appears with the song "Stay young" on the Compilation Monument 7 (released by Powerspot / Memento Materia). In August Magnus Löfdahl leaves the band.

2002
Colony 5 releases their first own CD in the form of the EP "Colony 5" followed by the full lenght CD "Lifeline". In the summer of 2002 Magnus Kalnins joins the band and the C5 releases the second single, "Follow Your Heart", with three brand new songs.

2003
On the 31st of March Colony 5 releases their new single "Black" with three new songs on it. It's followed by the second album "Structures" on the 19th of May. On the album there is also a video for the song "Black" and that video got some respectable air-time on Onyx.tv. Colony 5 is also nominated at SAMA as Best Newcomer, but sadly looses to Melody Club.  During the summer Colony 5 plays the big festivals, Arvikafestivalen, Wave Gotik Treffen and M'era Luna. We also appeared on the NBC Giga channel as special guests and did an interview for the program Starsearch on Onyx.tv. The fall is time for more production and a much needed vacation for all. Sadly it also becomes more than a vacation for Johan who leaves the band 1. Nov. P-O and Kalnins keep the name and works on.

2004
2004 was a good year for Colony 5 despite only releasing a singles collection "Colonisation" featuring three new songs (the single was supposed to be a double A-side called "Fate/Accelerate" with Science as a B-side but we opted to released it exclusivly "Colonisation". We visited some new countries (Russia and Mexico for example) but kept the amount of gigs down to concentrate on the new album. But the work we put in to C5 in 2004 won't become visible until the beginning of 2005 when we release the new single "Plastic World" and the album. We've also shot a video for "Plastic World" and will probably shot at least one more from the album. Colony 5 again got nominated for a SAMA award, this time looses out to Statemachine.

2005
Colony 5 has now been a duo for over a year and now it's time for the first real release. The first single "Plastic World" was unleashed in Feb/March, it is taken from the album FIXED which is to be released the 18th of April worldwide. It is a more diverse album than before still within the regulated formula we've worked with since the very beginning of Colony 5. It's dancefloor friendly, melodic and emotional.

2006
2006 is a silent year, the only release is ReFixed which is the FIXED album remixed by Amplifier straight through.
Colony 5 also did not perform so much this year, playing only Arvikafestivalen and some gigs around Norway, Denmark and Germany

2007
And a new album was announced despite several rumors of Colony 5 splitting up or not releasing anything else. It was planned for early that year but this fourth album being their uncompromising, fun album they continued working on it until November and set a early 2008 releasedate instead. The new single “Knives” is being released inside 2007 though. And it's promising an album with heavier sounds, dirtier sound and less commercial melodies, but with the ever present soul of C5 always being there. Colony 5 also changes their GermanyAustriaSwitzerland record company, signing a deal with Infacted Recordings. They also work closely with Epicentre Booking for their shows in mainly Germany.


Line-up

P-O Svensson - Vocals, Music
Magnus Kalnins  - Keys, Lyrics


Photos



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Discography

2002 Colony 5 MCD
2002 Lifeline CD
2002 Follow your heart MCD
2003 Black MCD
2003 Structures CD
2004 Colonisation CD
2004 Fate MCD
2005 Plastic World MCD
2005 Fixed CD
2006 ReFixed CD
2007 Knives MCD
2008 Buried again CD

Tourdates

Tour dates can be found through this link:
http://www.colony5.com/index.php?page=news   


Website


Contact address

General info
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Band members
P-O Svensson - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Magnus Kalnins -

(tour)management
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Record company
Memento Materia
Box 439
551 16 Jonkoping
Sweden
Pho/Fax: +46 36 718 730
Website: http://www.mementomateria.se/
Email: info@ mementomateria.se/
For Germany:
Synthetic Product Records
Lorenz Macke
Postfach 690441
30613 Hannover
Germany
Website: http://www.epopland.de/
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