Ugress

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Ugress is an electronica project from Bergen, Norway. The man behind this project is Gisle Martens Meyer.

Ugress has released three albums: Resound, released in 2002, climbed to the second place on the official Norwegian chart board.^[1] A second album, Cinematronics, was released two years later. It reached the third place on the same list.^[2]. A third Ugress album titled Unicorn was released on January 28th, 2008.

Ugress means weed in Norwegian (weed as in an unwanted plant and not as in the street name for cannabis).

Ugress's music can be related to other artists as Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers and Propellerheads.^{[citation needed]} Some similarities to Röyksopp have been suggested, but Ugress is described as having a more "dirty" style.^{[citation needed]} Ugress use lots of sample snippets from various artists, movies (preferably old horror movies) and TV shows. Ugress is not the only project of Gisle Martens Meyer, it is actually one of several different projects by Uncanny Planet Records.

[edit] Discography

E-Pipe - limited edition 12" LP (2000)
Ugress Promo EP - limited edition CD (2001)
Loungemeister - limited edition 12" LP (2002)
Resound (2002)
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc - soundtrack to a silent movie - Limited Edition CD (2003)
Cinematronics (2004)
Cowboy Desperado - Promo CD only (2005)
Film Music - Selected Cues 2002-2006 (2006)
Unicorn (2008)

Ugress have also released a number of free EPs, available here:

Sophisticated Wickedness (February 2006)
Retroconnaissance (May 2006)
Kosmonaut (October 2006)
Chromosome Corrupt (September 2007)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Uncanny planet - Homepage of Uncanny Records, "motherpage" of the projects
Journals of GMM - Blog, where updates on all projects and other issues are posted
Gislewiki - a fan-run wiki about Gisle

Sub-projects: