The new Desert Planet single "Riot sector 68" is now posted for free download: http://www.desertplanet.com/
As mentioned before, the Finnish bitpop/gamepop group will release their new album "Moonrocks" on March 19 in Finland, April 4 in GAS. Highly recommended!

Finnish bitpop favorites Desert Planet will release their brand new album "Moonrocks" on March 19 at home and on April 8 in GAS via 9pm-records. They describe the record as "more electropunk, more action-game oriented and more science fiction influenced than earlier" and will be unveiling a a free downloadable single on March 7. The group will also be posting a tour movie featuring a collage of footage from their tours these past few years plus a few live tracks and a video for the new track "Green fireballs".

The playlist for this week's radio show:

01. Jan Johansson - Visa från Utanmyra
02. TALK 1
03. Annika Norlin/Säkert! - Generalens visa
04. Don't Be a Stranger - Mon-chi-chi
05. Audionom - In the streets
06. TALK 2
07. Elias and the Wizzkids - Fourth of July
08. C.Aarmé - Golden retriever
09. Kasper Bjørke - Humming song
10. The Carny - Bestseller
11. TALK 3
12. Marybell Katastrophy - Hip
13. Flyphonic - The truth is
14. Universal Poplab - Heart apart (Timo Räisänen acoustic remix)
15. TALK 4
16. E.S.T. - Tuesday wonderland (live)
17. Rigas - Dead like you
18. TALK 5
19. Bröderna Lindgren - En hund som jag
20. Springfactory - Swedish folk highschool
21. Loud Pipes - Don't you ever
22. Sophie Zelmani - To know you
23. TALK 6
24. The State of Floral Beings - Man you owe me
25. Caitlyn - Oh no!
26. The Bombhappies - And at Belle Bed Inn, I told you
27. TALK 7
28. Brick - Call Batman
29. Smalltown - What's going on?
30. Desert Planet - Return of the ninja droids
31. TALK 8
32. Hedningarna - Neidon laulu
33. Dreamboy - What have I done
34. Captain Murphy - Sailor behaviour
35. TALK 9
36. Lemonator - Heart burns
37. The Kissaway Trail - Smother + evil = hurt
38. Johndoe - Rastløs rock'n'roll
39. Lukestar - Shade you hide
40. TALK 10
41. The Fine Arts Showcase - Teenage poetry

Storno.tv interviews IAT bitpop favorites Desert Planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzpsOtJZ5CA

The playlist for this week's radio show:

01. Timo Räisänen - My valentine
02. TALK 1
03. Torpedo - From Russia with love
04. Desert Planet - Breakout button
05. Ebba Grön - Mamma pappa barn
06. TALK 2
07. The End Will Be Kicks - Don Johnson
08. Skywriter - Where both worlds never meet
09. Skull Defekts - The secret
10. TALK 3
11. Tsukimono - Tokyo OEast
12. Kristin Asbjørnsen - Trying to get home
13. Enemy Alliance - Government subsidized ghetto
14. TALK 4
15. The Indecision Alarm - Where every fucking dream is killed
16. Dismember - Soon to be dead
17. Mixtapes & Cellmates - Moments
18. TALK 5
19. Kristofer Åström - All in
20. Pan Sonic - Virta 1
21. Ulver - Of wolf and fear
22. TALK 6
23. Mainliners - Olivia
24. 120 Days - Let me come down
25. Universal Poplab - 60 is the new 40
26. TALK 7
27. Dag Vag - Popitop
28. The Bombettes - Lust is the new black
29. Breach - Big strong boss
30. TALK 8
31. CS Nielsen - Black spots
32. Tape - Sand dunes
33. The Psyke Project - For us to see for us to help
34. TALK 9
35. Cortex - Shark boys die hard
36. Viola - I don't know how to party
37. Don't Be A Stranger - Lonely together
38. TALK 10
39. Broder Daniel - What clowns are we

Last Days of April (SWE), Kashmir (DK), Wulfgang (ICE), Ida Maria (NOR) and Desert Planet (FIN) will each be repping their various countries at the upcoming Polarzoo Festival tour happening in GAS this December. Dates and details: http://www.polarzoofestival.info/

There's some new live footage of IAT faves/"Reader's companion" alumni Desert Planet on YouTube from their recent German tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxjKo9n89Uk

IAT faves Desert Planet, being that they are eager early-adopters of new technology, will make their next release via USB memory stick. Entitled "Aska-Osaka Virtual Highway", it will contain 512mb worth of new music and multimedia as well as contributions from cyberpunk author Kenji Siratori. Read more: http://stick.desertplanet.com

My radio show this week is all about good-time summer jams:

01. TALK 1
02. Junior Senior - Move your feet
03. Tigerbombs - 1000 sparks
04. Säkert! - Vi kommer att dö samtidigt
05. TALK 2
06. Maia Hirasawa - And I found this boy
07. Margaret Berger - Samantha
08. The Knife - Heartbeats
09. The Ark - The worrying kind
10. TALK 3
11. Bamse - Kapten Busters sång
12. Marit Bergman - Adios amigos
13. Last Days of April - Playerin
14. Nic & the Family - Hej Monika
15. TALK 4
16. Basshunter - Boten Anna
17. The Alpine - No I in team
18. Aqua - Barbie girl
19. TALK 5
20. I'm From Barcelona - Treehouse
21. Bertine Zetlitz - 500
22. Eric Prydz vs Floyd - Proper education
23. TALK 6
24. Children of Bodom - Oops, I did it again!
25. Whale - Hobo humpin' slobo babe
26. Kurt Nilsen - She's so high
27. Desert Planet - Return of the ninja droids
28. TALK 7
29. Laakso - Italy vs Helsinki
30. Peter Bjorn and John - Young folks
31. September - Cry for you
32. TALK 8
33. Randy - Summer of bros
34. Ace of Base - All that she wants
35. Sir Eric Beyond and the Avant-Garde - Democracy
36. TALK 9
37. Håkan Hellström - Kann ingen sorg för mig Göteborg
38. Seven Feet Four - Last days of summer
39. Tiger Lou - The war between us (Rupesh Cartel remix)
40. Madrugada - The kids are on high street
41. TALK 10
42. Europe - The final countdown

Download the companion "Summer jam '07" podcast mix right here.

Watch Finnish game/bit-pop masters and longtime IAT faves Desert Planet on German TV: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/9/0,4070,5436713-5,00.html

Finnish favorites Desert Planet will tour Northern Europe again in May:

05/10 - Helsinki Club, Zürich (CH)
05/11 - tba, Fürth (GER)
05/12 - Glashaus, Bayreuth (GER)
05/15 - Morphclub, Bamberg (GER)
05/16 - White Trash, Berlin (GER)
05/18 - Astra-Stube, Hamburg (GER)
05/19 - Treibsand, Lübeck (GER)

Check out the tour microsite here: http://virtual27.nebula.fi/~desertplanetcom/tourmay2007/tourmay2007.htm

Video mix: Peter Bjorn and John, The Lionheart Brothers, Kristofer Åström, Desert Planet, José González, Khoma, more...

Check out a live video of Desert Planet performing their mega-hit "Return of the ninja droids" in Germany on tour last May: http://personal.inet.fi/taide/junttila/desert/tourmay06/Germany_livevideo_2006.htm

Longtime IAT favorites Desert Planet will be touring Germany in May and have posted a brand new mp3 to whet your appetite: http://personal.inet.fi/taide/junttila/desert/tourmay06/index.htm
Dates:

05/11 - Grüner Jäger, Hamburg w/Naomi Sample, The Go Go Ghosts
05/13 - Treibsand, Lübeck w/Räuberhöhle
05/14 - Asta-Wohnzimmer, Lüneburg w/Naomi Sample, The Go Go Ghosts
05/17 - Das Bett, Frankfurt/M
05/18 - K-19, Kassel
05/19 - Bastard Club, Berlin w/Slagsmålsklubben, Überraschungsact
05/20 - Popup Musikmesse, Leipzig

Finnish bit-pop commandos and long-time IAT favorites Desert Planet will have the song "Asteroid hopper" featured on the soundtrack of the upcoming video game documentary "High score" by director Jeremy Hack. The film premieres at SXSW and will also be shown at various festivals throughout the US in 2006. Peep the trailer here: http://www.highscoremovie.com/trailer.html