Thermostatic - Joy-Toy

Joy-Toy 2007 Edition is the latest edition of Thermostatics debut album of 2005, now including 4 bonus tracks. My first contact with Thermostatic back then was the song "Private Machine" (preview in the tracklist), and I fell in love with it instantly:

This unique combination of celebrated 80s home computer sound (Sidstation at work) and the charismatic voice of singer "Vox", plus Kraftwerk-like vocoder harmonics, drums which could be taken from an old Amiga SoundTracker disk and most of all the power of those amazingly catchy melodies ... Thermostatic is playful synthpop in sweetest perfection.

Listen to the previews in the track list, watch the videos, you'll either get hooked or get headaches :o)

Metal Skin (Gothenburg 2006 live)

Thermostatic are: Vox, TiN, Charlie, DigiDroid (music) + Scipher (graphics)

Thermostatic was founded 2003 in Gothenburg, Sweden, by Vox and Charlie. The track “I Want To Be A Marilyn” was recorded under rather spontaneous circumstances and quickly gained an underground cult-status. A bit later DigiDroid and TiN joined and the duo turned into a quartet. The track “Private Machine” was recorded and stated the characteristics of the nowadays well-established Thermostatic sound. The song wasn’t even finished when it started to draw the attention of DJ’s and club-heads. When it finally landed as a one track CD-R at Christer Björndahl´s (driving force behind Club Spacelab) desk, he was quickly overwhelmed and determined to book the band for his club. In september 2004 the group released an EP containing four songs to offer it to the visitors at the Spacelab gig. A limited edition of 50 copies was created and the band hoped to sell at least 20 pieces… some minutes after the show all 50 copies were sold. The electro-saga continued and Thermostatic was contacted by Wonderland Records, a small label usually releasing independent pop acts and country music(!). This collaboration led to the release of the albums "Joy Toy" (2005) and Humanizer(2008).

Unfortunately Thermostatic decided to turn the engines off in April 2010.