Marina Gasolina

photograph by Julia Corsaro

Ex Bonde do Role front girl Marina Gasolina has teamed up with Swedish kids Maskinen on their latest song and video, 'Dansa Med Vapen', seeing Marina go all voodoo queen on our asses. The currently blond singer venutured into the woods to roll around in the dark somewhere in London, crowned with one of Charlie Le Mindu's wigs from A/W 09 (which Marina lugged all the way up four flights of stairs back up to Charlie's studio while I watched).

It seems quite a few people have gone all cannibalistic in their vids; but unlike Boy Crisis' recent hipster 'sacrifice' video, this one is a little more dirty and a little more naked. Check the Maskinen boys canoe through a jungle river only to be rumbled and taken prisoner by a capoeira dancing tribe somewhere in Sweden (oh the magic of post production), all captured in sepia tones.

From what I gather, the title of thes song means 'dancing with vampires' (though I could be very very wrong here and if I interpret correctly then they've gotten their references a little mixed up in creating the video); and it's a super fun and catchy choon - check the video below:

Edited to add: I stand terribly misinformed, as the song title translated means 'DANCES WITH WEAPONS', innit. Thanks for the Swedish lesson Mattias!

If we could choose just one style for Marina (as in Gasolina , ex-Bonde do Role) I'm afraid we would go for the sweet latin songs that she has just recorded with the cute French singer Soko that was produced by the Swedish duo Radioclit.

'Mum' features a sample from the gracious WAR's 'Low Rider' and has the cutest lyrics about your teenage relationship with your Mum - including the line "Don't blame me If I wake up at 2 / If my life seems shit and I hardly see you". Although not quite the hit you would expect from this team, the song will surely find a sunny place in your MP3 collection.

'Mum' is part of a series of 7"s of unreleased material that the label IHEARTCOMIX is doing with Pure Groove. Each single will be limited to 300 copies, so be fast. The art work was done by Robert Goodin, apparently a comic book sensation.

We were the first ones to show you the Hervé's collaboration with Marina Gasolina 'Baseball Bat' and now it's time to listen to the first remix of the track. If the original was a '90s mix of grunge, industrial with a hint of fidget synths in the background, the High Rankin remix takes the angry vocals and gets them bouncing in the middle of tense fidget synths. The end of the song still reserves space for a classic break with the best take off you could imagine for such track (hint: it features shouts, distorted synths and rock'n'roll drums).

Marina is on fire!

OMG! Marina Gasolina - as in ex Bonde do Rolê - has finally embraced her inner riot grrrl once again! We already knew that she could shout like a crack addict (check Bonde's baile punk songs); and recently she showed that she could actually sing (check Radioclit remixes for Metronomy and Architecture in Helsinki), but now she's showing that she can mix these two talents in a Courtney Love type of way for Hervé's new single 'Baseball Bat'.

As the 20 year cycle rule works, the song is like dark and noisy trip to the '90s. It's an industrial-grunge number sparkled with some fidget synths and will make your ears bleed (seriously, don't listen to this with your headphones!). I also have to point out the haircut; the blasé-I-can-beat-like-a-gorilla-face and the blood red lipstick that she's wearing, because it looks Kat Von D whilst she's PMT-ing. I wouldn't mess with this girl if I were you.

'Baseball Bat'will be released on the 1st June on Cheap Thrills.