I’m listening again Swedish bands from my youth. There are quite a few that haven’t made the blog and are still fresh in my memory. Stockholm’s Unarmed Enemies is one of them.
I remembered they had a video for their song “Show Me Your Plans“. I was surprised to see that 19 years ago, it was Starsgoneout who had uploaded it to Youtube. She was my colleague (and friend) who helped me write on my blog Mira el Péndulo. Time flies indeed.
Unarmed Enemies was a duo formed by Azi Ashourvan and Jordi Bergstam. They used to have a website but of course it doesn’t exist anymore. They released two records, both on the label Songs I Wish I Had Written. The Malmö label was quite fashionable at the time as they released Le Sport.
The band’s first release was a self-titled “Unarmed Enemies” EP (SIWIHW005) released in 2005. It had five songs, “Missing Out”, “Hustlers Recharged (Wheelcher)”, “Show Me Your Plans” and “Hustlers Recharged (Mr. Suitcase’s Armed Friends-Mix)”. The songs were mastered by Frederik Hellström.
The next year, 2006, saw the release of the CDR single “Show Me Your Plans” (SIWIHW008). The single had 2 tracks, “Show Me Your Plans (Radio Edit)” and “Show Me Your Plans (Le Sport Remix)”. From what I read, due to the video the band had to cut the original version of the song from 5 minutes to 3. That is the radio edit. Then the video, we learn, was recorded partly in Paris. Good life!
Discogs also lists “On Track” as a digital release from 2008 on a label called Kitty Litter MP3 (KLMP302). This one has the title track and a remix of it called “On Track (Mr. Suitcase Derailed Edit)”.
Other than these releases the electropop band had a few songs on compilations. “Missing Out” was included in “Songs I Wish I Had Written” released by that same name label as a promo CDR. Then they had a song called “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” in a 2005 digital compilation called “Euro X-Mas EP”. Lastly their song “Show Me Your Plans” was on the CD comp “Pophopp 2006” released by Dagens Nyheter (DN006). This last one is quite interesting as this was a release by the newspaper Dagens Nyheter and included some great bands like Loveninjas, I’m From Barcelona, Sarto and more.
Now, interestingly enough on Youtube there are more songs by the band. My friend David from Spain has uploaded a cover of The Go-Betweens’ “Going Blind“, “Consume” and “Binging“. I believe these three tracks are unreleased still.
I look for more info about the band members. I find a Soundcloud for Jordi. It hasn’t been updated for a while.He called himself Jordisaurus. I also believe he is a psychologist these days.
And that’s it. That’s what’s online about this duo. Do you remember them?
Then a Soundcloud for the band, last updated 6 years ago. There are quite a few unreleased tracks it seems. There is “Disco” and “Boat” which are new to me.There is also “Waiting for the Happy Ending”.
I see some remixes of the band has done too like one for Mr. Suitcase called “Christmas Leftovers (Unarmed Enemies’ Starving Gourmand Remix)” or one for Le Sport called “I Comes Before U (Unarmed Enemies’ G-Mix)”. And there are more too.
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