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may 24th
You are all very welcome to SOUK at Drottninggatan the 30th of may! Mata de Leon enters at 15:00 hrs and will play a nice selection of our own songbook. Shopping opportunity and free admission throughout the day can't keep you away.

Read more here!
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april 1st
I had to try. Some old NASA footage and a couple of hours with final cut made a nice unofficial video for Evolution.

By the way - we are accually shooting a real video at the moment. It involves some dancing, some corny "stockholm-by-night-shots", a preppy thief and a very talented film maker. Be finished soon.
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march 29th
John's Candy, a hipster collective from stockholm we met at the Mishka party, have put their brains together and remixed our dear song 'evolution'.

This is what we are playing at friday night...

Listen here!
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feb 6th
Mata de Leon live at Mosebacke this friday at Svart Hatt Vit Hatt!

Opens at nine and there is another band playing called Wired for Mono. See you all there!

If you ware a black or a white hat you'll get in for a lower price... :)
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feb 5th
Mata de Leon live at Cafe String february 20th!

Stockholms best cafe at Sodermalm also does live music. Mata de Leon is invited and will play some tunes at 7 pm in the basement!
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jan 23rd
This months issue of the swedish music magazine Studio (01-08) features an article about the recording of Mata de Leon's 'Evolution'. The article follows Elof Loelv and Joachim Ekermann's way through the studio recording and mixing in great detail. If you're interested in why the song sounds so great - these seven pages will tell you all about it!

Link to Studio (the downloadable version is not mastered).
Download a mastered version here.
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jan 20th
Dear friends... Our NEW SONG Evolution is now up for grabs!

I know there has been lots of talking and little uploading lately so we're sending you our desperate apologies by giving the song away for free... Visit the consept site below to listen and download.

But for starters let us sweep through the credits. Music & lyrics by Mata de Leon, song recorded by Elof Loelv & Joachim Ekermann at Studio Summa. Mastered by Mats Helgesson at Living Sound (big thanks!).

Visit Evolution site...
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dec 3rd
I woke up Sunday morning with a beautiful hangover and very weird memories. I remember smoke, a lot of smoke and a green techno laser, my pocket was full of free drink-tickets. After a few phone calls I located our gear, apparently it was left behind at the venue. A typical Mata de Leon decision of the night.

It was a great night, a lot of improvisation, but everything turned out quite marvellous after all. We played a cover of the Trentemoller remix of the Royksopp song "What Else Is There" and I think we nailed it, from what I heard. Though I have to excuse myself for the somewhat questionable vocal preformance, let's blame the booze and the sound-guy:)

I hope you all had a great night, 'cause we sure did. In a few days a new song will be released online so come back soon and listen!

Cher!
Oskar
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nov 28th
Some pictures from today with Elof Loelv.
By the way - don't forget the MONKEY BIZZ X MISHKA PARTY on Saturday!


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nov 15th
In January 2007 Mata de Leon released the single 'Gunslinger / Doors and Walls'. Recorded by Elof Loelv, produced by Elof Loelv and Mata de Leon.

Since there has almost been a year from the the release and the fact that there is more tracks o the way we feel we should give you the songs for free. Copy, upload, delete or do whatevery you want with them - just give them a chance.

Gunslinger.mp3
Doors and Walls.mp3
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nov 15th
Our dear companion Siri Magnusdotter took some smokey pictures at Stampen.


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nov 10th
Apparently Mata de Leon is almost. Yea, sounds real weird hu?!

Swedish Myspace channel Almost TV has blogged about Mata here.
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oct 20th
Mata de Leon live @ Stampen, Gamla Stan, nov 7th! Arr: Fightclub.

There will be some bands playing before us. One of them is Pickadoll, you should check them out. Mata love...

On stage 22:00, doors 19:00, 60 kr.
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oct 16th
Winter has arrived to Stockholm and Mata is freezing their asses of. Not from the cold but from the hard work and all long nights rehearsals in a room without heating.

Right now we're prepearing some songs to be recorded, and hopefully released after x-mas. You may have heard them live the latest month, but they'r quite new. I don't know why i told you that, I think I find it funny that most of you haven't heard a single second from us in at least six months. But don't worry... We'll be everywhere soon - in your radio, in your head and in your bed.

...just like this, totally stuck in my brain.
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sept 24th
Grandpa is having a small in-store party featuring Mata de Leon. We'll play two sets at 21' and 22'. Free entrance and free beer! You just can't miss it...

Sodermannagatan, Soder, T-Medborgarplatsen.
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