Katsen - It Hertz!
Katsen are the electronic synth pop duo of Chris Blackburn & Donna Grimaldi.
Their love of electronic pop music is analogue sounds, synthetic sounding drum machines.
The sound is distinctly 1980s synth pop while Donna’s look is more 1950s chic.
Donna and Chris became friends in 2001 while selling clothes at a craft market in Brighton. Donna’s brilliant mixtapes, with their bold collage covers, caught Chris’ attention and fired his imagination.
For for the first time, after playing two-fingered synth in various bands, he’d met someone with the tastes and talents to compliment his own.
Chris: “We’d get together to listen to records and, after exhausting Donna’s extensive and very cool collection, we’d get out my synths and toy keyboards and create our own sound long into the happy night.”
Interrupted only by Donna running away one summer to join the circus, and Chris teaching acting to ballet dancers, Katsen songs began to form, taking cues from 50s chic, 70s krautrock and the sharper edges of 80s pop.
Following on from cameo appearances in compilations such as Bot POP on Happy Robots records and Electronically Yours Vol.1 via Undo/ EMI, It Hertz! is the full-length offspring of Katsen’s eight-year partnership; the love of the square wave and all things Casio.
It Hertz is their 12 track debut album and includes the cover version I’m In Love With a German Film Star; a UK hit single for The Passion in 1981.
Pre-ordering the album
It Hertz! is available now to pre-order on CD in a gatefold digifile with immediate digital download from www.katsen.com
and the opening track on the album, Lets Build A City is available now as a free-download from Thee SPC website.
For more information and to currently hear cover versions German Film Star and the Cure cover version Play For Today visit the Katsen MySpace page.
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