Arkarna

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So Little Time 03:37 Tools
House On Fire 05:28 Tools
Life Is Free 03:26 Tools
Eat Me 04:06 Tools
Rehab 04:07 Tools
Insecurity 00:00 Tools
Block Capital 04:19 Tools
Insomnia 04:11 Tools
Stoned 04:03 Tools
house of fire (propellerheads mix) 05:56 Tools
Peace of Mind 05:20 Tools
Direct Dubit 04:58 Tools
The Futures Overrated 05:15 Tools
Born Yesterday Part 2 03:04 Tools
Born Yesterday Part 1 04:06 Tools
Skin 04:19 Tools
R U Ready 21:28 Tools
The Future's Overrated 05:15 Tools
Partners in Crime 03:43 Tools
Your Psycho 04:11 Tools
Somebody Else's Song 00:00 Tools
Make Friends 01:11 Tools
Frontal Lobotomy 04:29 Tools
End Psycho 00:55 Tools
House On Fire - BRS Mix 03:24 Tools
Playmaker 04:21 Tools
With Michael Stipe 00:48 Tools
The Future'S Overrated - 7" Mix 04:21 Tools
Futures Overrated 06:50 Tools
House On Fire by Arkarna 03:24 Tools
House on Fire (Propellerheads mix) 00:00 Tools
House On Fire (BRS Mix) 03:25 Tools
House on Fire (Andy Ling's Aryan vocal mix) 00:00 Tools
My Saliva 05:16 Tools
Left Is Best (Rednek Dirty Mix Remix) 04:07 Tools
Left Is Best 03:25 Tools
Strange Creatures 04:13 Tools
Arkarna - So Little Time 05:10 Tools
Born Yesterday - Part One 04:07 Tools
Jangan Salahkan Cinta 04:07 Tools
House Of Fire 00:00 Tools
The Future'S Overrated - Dub Pistols Mix 00:00 Tools
The Futures Overated 06:51 Tools
Future is Overrated 01:59 Tools
House on Fire (Acid Rock mix) 00:00 Tools
Born Yesterday, Pt. 2 03:05 Tools
Born Yesterday - Part Two 03:05 Tools
Born Yesterday, Pt. 1 04:07 Tools
Kebyar-Kebyar 03:48 Tools
3 Draw A Line 03:48 Tools
1 Dead On Arrival (Album version) 04:53 Tools
R.U.Ready 04:07 Tools
Spaced 04:52 Tools
2 Left Is Best 04:45 Tools
6 Skin (2013) 03:34 Tools
R U Ready + House On Fire (Acoustic) 21:33 Tools
House on Fire (Alex Reece's vocal mix) 00:00 Tools
5 All We Have Is Time 04:52 Tools
4 Bottle This Feeling 04:53 Tools
Arkarna - Life Is Free 03:56 Tools
The Futures Over Rated 03:43 Tools
Born Yesterday, Part 1 04:08 Tools
End Phsyco 00:00 Tools
7 Strange Creatures 04:13 Tools
House on Fire (Propellerhead's mix) 00:00 Tools
Born Yesterday, Part 2 03:05 Tools
The Future's Overrated (7" Mix) 03:43 Tools
All We Have Is Time 04:53 Tools
Bottle This Feeling 04:53 Tools
With Micheal Stipe 00:00 Tools
Born Yesterday [part 1] 00:00 Tools
Born Yesterday [part 2] 00:00 Tools
Skin (Peter Rauhofer Club Mix) 00:00 Tools
The Future's Overrated (Arthur Baker Remix) 07:48 Tools
Dead on Arrival 01:27 Tools
Draw A Line 03:48 Tools
house on fire (Break Mix) 00:00 Tools
Left Is Best (Rednek Remix) 04:28 Tools
Skin (2013) 03:35 Tools
Left Is Best (So Called Scumbags Grin Dub) 00:00 Tools
Future's Overrated 03:43 Tools
So Little Time (Original 7" Mix) 03:43 Tools
The Future's Overrated (Evolution's Time Bomb Mix) 03:43 Tools
House On Fire (Alex Reece's Dub Mix) 00:00 Tools
The Future's Overrated (Future Dub) 03:43 Tools
The Futures Overrated (7" Mix) 03:42 Tools
R. U. Ready 21:33 Tools
Left Is Best - Main Mix 04:53 Tools
Eat Me (Album Version) 04:05 Tools
So Little Time (Environmental Science Vocal Mix) 05:45 Tools
The Futures Overrated (DJ Pulse Vocal Mix) 07:05 Tools
House on Fire ["andY Ling's Aryan Vocal Mix"] 04:52 Tools
House On Fire (R U Ready Mix) 04:52 Tools
house on fire (Seven Inch Mix) 00:00 Tools
Arkarna - Rehab 04:09 Tools
Dave 00:00 Tools
Dead On Arrival (Album version) 04:53 Tools
Arkana - So Little Time 00:00 Tools
Arkarna 03:43 Tools
THE FUTURES OVERRATED (arthur baker 7" mix) 04:21 Tools
The Futures Overrated (Dub Pistols No Future Mix) 00:00 Tools
The Futures Overrated (Evolution's Time Bomb Mix) 03:38 Tools
house on fire (Twelve Inch Mix) 04:21 Tools
The Future'S Overrated - Arthur Baker Dub 00:00 Tools
LEFT IS BEST (REDNEK'S VIP MIX) 05:13 Tools
Who Do You Trust? 07:05 Tools
The Future's Overrated (Club 69 Future Dub) 01:16 Tools
Arkarna/Playmaker 04:21 Tools
The Future'S Overrated - Phil Dane And Matt Smith Vocal Mix 03:38 Tools
The Future Soverrated 04:21 Tools
The Future's Overrated (Extended Mix) 04:21 Tools
Left Is Best (Main Mix) 03:38 Tools
The Futures Overrated (Krash's Bullets In Texas Mix) 06:15 Tools
The Future'S Overrated - Arthur Baker Remix 03:38 Tools
House on Fire [BRS Mix] 03:38 Tools
Solittletime 03:38 Tools
The Future's Overrated (Phil Dane And Matt Smith Vocal Mix) 06:14 Tools
Skin (Peter's Unreleased Dub) 06:14 Tools
Seven Inch Mix 03:29 Tools
The Futures Overrated (Original 7" Mix) 06:15 Tools
Somebody Eles's Song 03:29 Tools
Direct Dubit (Arkarna's Dub Mix) 05:20 Tools
born yesterday (part 1) 03:29 Tools
The Future'S Overrated - Extended Mix 00:00 Tools
Play Maker 01:16 Tools
born yesterday (part 2) 06:15 Tools
The Future'S Overrated - Club 69 Dub 06:15 Tools
The Future's Overrated (Amethyst's Past Present and Future Mix) 06:15 Tools
The Futures Overrated (Original 7'' Mix) 05:20 Tools
So Little Time (Environmental Science Bonus Beats) 04:04 Tools
Left Is Best (LaPhonix Remix) 05:20 Tools
The Futures Overrated (Amethyst's Past Present And Future Mix) 00:00 Tools
house on fire (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
So Little Time (Andy Ling Mix) 00:00 Tools
Skin (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Kebyar Kebyar 04:04 Tools
Eat Me (Amirza Amil Mix) 06:43 Tools
Eat Me-Www.Cardorloan.Com 05:20 Tools
The Future's Overrated (Amethyst's Past, Present And Future Mix) 00:00 Tools
House on Fire [break mix] 00:00 Tools
Skin (Paul Daley Needlebliss Mix) 00:00 Tools
Break Mix 00:00 Tools
R U Ready Mix 00:00 Tools
Twelve Inch Mix 00:00 Tools
The Future'S Overrated - Club 69 Vocal Mix 00:00 Tools
So Little Time (Wide Receiver Vocal) 04:04 Tools
Propellerheads Mix 00:00 Tools
The Future's Overrated (Club 69 Dub) 04:04 Tools
Skin [Peter's Unreleased Dub] 00:00 Tools
The Future's Overrated (Arthur Baker Dub) 07:35 Tools
Insecure 05:27 Tools
House On Fire (Andy Lings Aryan Vocal Mix) 12:07 Tools
The Futures Overrated. 06:51 Tools
House On Fire <Propellerhead's Mix> 04:04 Tools
My Make Music 04:04 Tools
The Futures Overrated (Amethyst's Past, Present And Future Mix) 04:04 Tools
7" Mix 04:04 Tools
The Futures Overrated (Original 12" Mix) 04:04 Tools
Original 7" Mix 04:04 Tools
So Little Time Wide Receiver mix 04:04 Tools
So Little Time Environmental Science vocal mix 04:04 Tools
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The momentum has been building for years, but now the time is finally ripe for Arkarna to emerge with a bang back onto the world's stage. Arkarna, An outfit so ahead of their time, that the svengali behind the project, precocious engineering prodigy Ollie Jacobs, has been spending years perfecting his craft, working with the likes with Leftfield (mixing their seminal album Leftism), The Prodigy and Madonna rather than having his own name in lights. His band first hit the scene in 1997 with the critically-acclaimed, platinum-selling debut album Fresh Meat, but after touring the world to thousands of fans, Ollie became disillusioned with the way major labels wanted to mould him, so went underground to make the kind of music that satisfied his soul - albeit for other artists. Fast-forward a decade, and Ollie finally found a collaborator to meet his exacting creative remit in his quest to re-launch the vision for the band. Step forward talented guitarist and songwriter Matt Hart. For the past three years, the pair have hunkered down in their north west London studio and now, they've finally completed the incendiary, ground-breaking album that they know will propel them to the forefront of today's music scene. Yes, Arkarna are back to claim their space on the dancefloor, moshpit and in discerning music lovers' record collections the planet over. No-one else sounds quite like Arkarna. When Ollie and Matt first met, it was electric - literally. Ollie, a programmer and singer, who's been a producer at his dad's Queen's Park studio Rollover since he was 14, was on the lookout for someone to take Arkarna's electro-pop sound to the next level. Then he met Matt, who left a lasting impression in more ways than one. A smalltown West Sussex boy with a big dream, Matt had studied music classically since his childhood, but recovering from a life-threatening bout of illness aged 15, he started playing rock guitar. Later, while studying a degree in music at the prestigious Goldsmiths University in London, he saw an ad for auditions at Rollover, and, ever ambitious, went for it. Matt explains: "When I went to meet Ollie, I was in a rush, it was chucking down with rain, and I didn't put a bin liner on my amplifier. I tried to mop it down when I got there, but when they plugged me in to play, it gave everyone an electric shock. So before I'd even played, I'd electrocuted half the band, haha." Ollie enthuses: "When I saw Matt playing, I knew instantly that he had a magic about him that I needed in my creative journey. We ended up working on high end sessions work together, with the likes of Boyzone. But when I started dreaming up some new Arkarna material, Matt was a natural progression so it just developed from that." Now a genuine song-writing partnership, the self-confessed knobtwiddler and balls-out rocker were a marriage made in heaven and the rest will be electrifying history - but year zero is 2010. Arkarna have already made global inroads over the past few years, soundtracking Levis ads in the States and, right now, they're the sound of one of the biggest-selling alcoholic drinks in Russia. Arkarna's single So Little Time was also the theme tune to Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's TV show in the US of the same name. On top of that, track House On Fire has featured on legendary US comedy Friends, The OC and the soundtrack for movie Batman And Robin - more importantly, they've even been played on the caff stereo in EastEnders... But the past is merely an extra super-powered spring for the turbocharged launchpad that is Arkarna's crowd-pleasing new long player. A bold, cerebral but ultimately rump-moving melange of beat-stoked, tune-drenched, emotionally-charged songs, the new album may be seen by some as their comeback, but in many ways, it sees Arkarna wiping the slate clean, whilst not alienating their vast existing fanbase in Southeast Asia and Australia. Not only that, the catchy-as-swine-flu debut single from their new album has been mastered by the legendary Chris Gehringer from Sterling Sound, who's recently polished releases from the likes of Yeasayer, Rihanna, La Roux, Keisha and 3Oh!3. And that's before you even consider the video, which has been directed by promo geniuses DuckEye, who've previous made videos for the likes of The Fallout Trust, Zero 7, Sigur Ros, and Clayhill - and, without giving too much away, it's set to be a fruity worldwide internet sensation... But back to the new album, and with a public appetite voracious for the likes of Pendulum and Muse, Arkarna's unique take on cinematic, BPM-savvy, electronic, stadium-friendly rock with killer melodies is perfectly timed to explode onto the dancefloors, festivals and arenas across the globe - as Matt explains, "We fall into and cross so many of the genres that are really popular now, but we've still got our own thing going on, we always have. We've got to be true to our sound." Matt elaborates: "The Arkarna sound is so distinct - no-one sounds like us. We've always thought it was important to incorporate a lot of musical flavours from the old stuff, especially, the dance elements, but time moves on and music progresses, it evolves, so it's important that you evolve with it. And that's what we've done." Ollie adds, pertinently: "I think it's what naturally comes out and we sound completely different to anyone else - we're not a copy. It's got history behind it, but it's organic and not contrived. And it gets asses on the dancefloor!" And what of those lyrics? Ollie explains: "They're just about what's going on inside my head, quite insular. They work on different levels though - I like people to take their own meanings from them. Sometimes they're not meant to make sense. But yes, a lot of them are about love, because it's one of those things you can't help writing about because it hurts like a physical thing sometimes and everyone can relate to it." Matt gives us an extra insight: "A lot of it is beneath the surface, you can't take them at face value, they're more cerebral and intelligent, you have to read into them. It's not just cliches - they're more arty, less literal, more abstract. But they're all from experience." Preparations are already underway for the Arkarna live onslaught - for which we can only warn you to limber up or face serious injury. As well as a full-on, aural assault with a full live band, Matt and Ollie are also rehearsing their new set acoustically. Matt elaborates: "It will be quite a big surprise the acoustic stuff, as we're making it completely unique. When it sounds as strong as it does acoustically, it's going to blow everyone away with the full band. You can hide behind so much when it's electronic. It's the meaning of the song and the tunes that ultimately carry it and make it a success." But whether you're experiencing them acoustically, with the full-on live experience or via the new album, all we can say is, get ready for the kind of musical therapy that only Arkarna can provide. Everybody needs it... Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.