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realPfft’s Backstory

Hello!

Nee-how!

Cześć!

Hej på dig!

Who are these musicians? Music loops genius Mutte Fjutt in Uppsala, Sweden has teamed up with1980’s punk singer Clive Flatenbad to form the Swedish rap duo realPfft. Mutte is a shy guy while Clive is a performer. Mutte began his career as an audio engineer. Clive was a disc jockey who loves to sing. Both function as producers and songwriters.

Satirists, Mutte and Clive’s first two singles — Fake News and Fake News (Mutte’s illegal mix) — poked fun at America’s president. Seven years later, they have branched out, creating rap, hip hop, pop, rock, dance, disco, jazz, funk, fusion and classical tracks. They have never met a sound effect that they didn’t like. Drawing inspiration from 70 years of pop music, these musical dinosaurs call their oeuvre Dino Pop. They have released 140 singles and the album realPfft Does Jazz Funk.

Their female vocals come from girlfriends, loops from Ghosthack in Germany, Text-to-Speech software and nowadays even A.I.     

Their cover art is produced by a geezer named Kuny who, fortunately, doesn’t charge an arm and a leg.

They release their music through the very adept people at TuneCore in Brooklyn, New York. TuneCore distributes realPfft’s tracks to YouTube, Spotify and iTunes plus 30 other online stores and five digital platforms. Thanks to them, realPfft’s music encircles the globe.

Clive’s rather nutty videos owe a great deal to his younger brother Tim who tries to squeeze a laugh out of even the lamest joke.

I am their music publisher, sometime manager and publicist.

Best regards!

Kevin

Classic

Taking his inspiration from Mason Williams’ April 1968 hit song “Classical Gas,” Mutte Fjutt in the Swedish rap duo realPfft has created his own symphonic pop instrumental. It’s a classic.

In 1967, the same Mason Williams created an art installation titled “Bus.” A life-size color photograph of a Greyhound bus in 1:1 scale, this unusually large poster mural measures 10 feet by 36 feet. It consists of 16 sheets of silkscreened billboard paper which three people taped together using double-sided Scotch tape. Williams said it took nine man-hours to tape together each copy. Produced in a numbered, limited edition of 200, each one sold in a specially designed and printed cardboard box.

In celebration of Williams’ concrete art, Kuny, who does realPfft’s cover art, designed, photographed and labeled his “Classic” box, as seen above. Dimensions: 4 inches in height by 5 ½ inches wide by 3 ½ inches deep. Signed prints are available.