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PEPE DELUXÉ – Riding Again, Louder Than Ever
Before their long-awaited Super Sound 25 reissue lands, Finland’s most unpredictable export Pepe Deluxé slam the pedal to the floor with a double-barrelled blast of absurd brilliance: the supercharged double A-side The Ride 2 / Rocket Fuel.
If Super Sound 25 is the party, this is the engine roar that announces it.
The Ride 2
It all began with a lost video.
Back in 1997, a young Finnish trio called Pepe Deluxé shot a music video for their demo track Clint Eastwood Rides Again — a Sabotage-meets-cheap-Finnish-’70s-TV fever dream directed by Miikka Lommi (later of Bomfunk MC’s Freestyler fame).
Budget: five Finnish marks (less than €1). Cast: plenty of friends, including future stars from Husky Rescue and Bomfunk MC’s.
The song evolved into The Ride, featured on Pepe’s debut Super Sound. The video, however, vanished — until now. Recently rediscovered, digitised, and re-released to celebrate the album’s 25th anniversary, it inspired Pepe’s latest evolution: The Ride 2.
Now reborn as a full-blown ’80s stadium-pop-rock anthem, The Ride 2 turns the original’s synth-funk gallop into an over-the-top odyssey of riffs and hooks, soaring double-lead vocals (by Paul Malmström & Charlotta Kerbs) and Mr. Fastfinger’s guitar pyrotechnics.
And because this is Pepe Deluxé 2025, the song naturally comes with a deliriously animated video made entirely by the band — cars instead of cowboys and gangsters, souped-up Volvos out-racing fighter planes and leaping over planets, with physics politely ignored. Their motto: “Death before driving stock”.
Rocket Fuel
On the flip, Rocket Fuel celebrates Finland’s most sacred national ritual: brewing the world’s largest amount of the most questionable coffee, 24/7. Statistically, it’s the happiest country on Earth. Scientifically, it shouldn’t be — six months of darkness, sideways rain, and caffeine jitters, yet everyone’s grinning (inside). Go figure.
Featuring the “Banshee of Boston” Chris Cote on vocals and thunderous double-kick drumming by metal god Kai Hahto (Nightwish), this is a fuzzed-out ode to bad office coffee, life on overdrive, and the eternal Finnish need for “just one more cup.”
Together, The Ride 2 and Rocket Fuel roar in glorious 7” colour vinyl and digital form — the high-octane warm-up to Pepe’s forthcoming album Super Sound 25, landing 28 November 2025 on Catskills Records.
Pepe Deluxé 2025
Helmed by James Spectrum (Helsinki) and Paul Malmström (Brooklyn), Pepe Deluxé remain pop’s most inventive outsiders — a duo for whom excess isn’t a flaw, it’s a worldview.
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The long awaited 6th studio album by Pepe Deluxé.
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The long awaited 6th studio album by Pepe Deluxé.
Pepe Deluxé, aka Finnish-Swedish funkateers James Spectrum and Paul Malmström, drop another AA-single from their forthcoming kaleidoscopic album Comix Sonix (following 21 June, Catskills Records).
On A-side Freedom Flag Pepe Deluxé sing “They try to put us in a box. And then they try to put that box away. No Way!” Creative freedom stands as the main foundational pillar of Pepe Deluxé, alongside eclecticism, coffee, and sausages – the latter featured flying in Freedom Flag’s video by Pepe Deluxé’s Paul Malmström. The song is a playful yet poignant reflection on the dangers of oversimplification and lazy labelling, and as a humorous unexpected twist, another new Pepe track, Earth Boys are Easy, is currently on a TV near you as part of IKEA’s global campaign named – believe it or not – “Box it!”
Freedom Flag boasts a sample by Pepe of the Pepe song which the Prodigy also sampled (Salami Fever) – you follow? Plus, scratches from guest DJ Slow (a former founding-member of Pepe) and a thunderous double bass break by metal legend Kai Hahto, with a banjo and musical spoons further spicing up this funky stew.
The AA-side, From the Mouth of Elmer McCurdy, highlights Pepe Deluxé’s unmatched credentials as the mad hatter inventors of the music world. This time they team up with nearly-as-eccentric creator Bart Hopkin, who boasts a 100+ collection of unique experimental instruments, many of which are showcased on the new album ‘Comix Sonix’. The single includes Bart’s Dansal 3, Slide Rattletine, Moe Flute, Aquaalt, Open TDF and Smoke Paprika; all as peculiar as their names, providing an eclectic backdrop to the song’s incredible true story of the fate of the infamous Oklahoma outlaw. Following his demise at the hands of the sheriff’s posse following a failed train robbery, McCurdy emerged as a coin-eating, roller-skating, US-crisscrossing mummy – with film cameos. Not forgetting a stint where he was painted fluorescent red and suspended from the gallows in an eerie display, only to be discovered by the crew of Six Million Dollar Man, who first mistook him for a dummy. Elmer’s influence even extended to 80’s cartoons, with the creator of Skeletor citing McCurdy as the character’s progenitor. Whew! The song’s title is a reference to a further curiosity, whereby Elmer’s mouth disappeared shortly before his burial. A story as bizarre as Pepé Deluxé’s musical odysseys…
Double AA-single Freedom Flag and From the Mouth of Elmer McCurdy is out 23 April, with Pepe Deluxé’s new long player Comix Sonix following 21 June via Catskills Records.
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The long awaited 5th studio album by Pepe Deluxé.
Hey there, stranger! It’s been too long! Remember us? Pepe Deluxé, those fine purveyors of furious drums and crazy tunes?
Well, we’re back with our first single from our forthcoming, new album “Phantom Cabinet Vol. 1” – it’s called Big Fat Woodpecker, of course. You probably remember it fondly from a half-forgotten dream, waking from your slumber, desperately trying to grasp onto it as it slips through your fingers, wondering where it had gone?
’Big Fat Woodpecker’ (out 28 July 2021), a rampaging, pre-Beatles rock’n’roll goof featuring raucous rhythm’n’blues belter Barrence Whitfield of The Savages (and the only man who can and has! out-screamed The Sonics). Poppy and bouncy on top, sonically multi-layered beneath it features the 1847 invention of Alexander Graham Bell which contains a real human ear cartilage, four Guinness World Records (including “loudest instrument ever constructed”), 9th-century Parisian philosophical instruments: monastery bells saved from the invading Soviet army; and Tolkien’s drum track recorded in a large number of unusual spaces including a moving elevator.
B-side, the off-the-wall-lounge-psych yarn ‘Halls of Kalevala,’ is the musical representation of the mythical Kalevala House. It was recorded by Monkees producer Chip Douglas and narrated by ‘60s synth pioneer Cyrus Faryar (whose studio, whilst we’re compiling weird and wonderful facts, was built by none other than a young Harrison Ford).
Available to stream and download from all good (and evil) services, but also available as a STRICTLY LIMITED 7 Single – when the vinyl finally arrives probably in mid-late August from the good people at Catskills Records!
HAND PRESSED ONE SIDED 7″ GATEFOLD VINYL – STRICTLY LIMITED TO 60 COPIES – INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED AND SIGNED !!!!SOLD OUT!!!! !!!!SOLD OUT!!!! !!!!SOLD OUT!!!! !!!!SOLD OUT!!!!.
320kbs Digital Download of Pepe Deluxé “The Surrealist Woman” and “The Surrealist Woman” (Instrumental)
AIFF Digital Download of Pepe Deluxé “The Surrealist Woman” and “The Surrealist Woman” (Instrumental)
• Official Theme Song for a Graphic Novel adaptation of the Salvador Dalí and The Marx Brothers film “Giraffes On Horseback Salad”
• Limited 60 hand cut 7” with gatefold artwork
• International book tour to support release of the Graphic Novel
• Video directed, filmed and animated by Maria Candia aka Taru N. Hohtonen
• Features Harpo Marx’s original harp and horn
The 7″ is expensive and a weird price because we’re selling them at cost. Yes it’s that bloody expensive to make gatefold, hand pressed vinyl and have it shipped to the UK…we have no business sense. !!!!SOLD OUT!!!! !!!!SOLD OUT!!!! !!!!SOLD OUT!!!! !!!!SOLD OUT!!!!
20th Anniversary celebration! Available in Limited Edition 3 x Coloured vinyl (with download codes) 2 x CD and 320kbs digital download. Includes new tracks from Husky Rescue and Pepe Deluxe. Vinyl includes a surprise.
Husky Rescue are back with their forth release on Catskills with a 2 Disc Special Expanded Edition of their album Long Lost Friend. CD includes additional download code for Instrumentals and videos.
Expanded Edition of the critically acclaimed Queen Of The Wave album. Contains all the tracks from the original Queen Of The Wave and 40+ mins of new music and a comprehensive 69 page digital booklet and artwork.
5/5 ‘outrageous otherworldly magic’ ALBUM OF THE MONTH Artrocker – 4/5 ‘bonkers and brilliant’ Clash – ‘Epic’ Uncut. Available in digipak CD and beautiful gatefold vinyl. RIDCD023
Husky Rescue release a beautiful deluxe edition of their critically acclaimed album Ship of Light. The beautiful physical box set designed by Kustaa Saksi includes 5 new bonus tracks with a separate DVD with live footage and music videos, stems and of course some badges. The digital download includes all the audio tracks, 3 videos and exclusive mp3’s of the live tracks.
* * * * The Guardian * * * * Mojo. The eagerly anticipated third studio album from Husky Rescue ‘Ship Of Light’. Featuring artwork by Kustaa Saksi and the singles We Shall Burn Bright and Sound Of Love.
The new album featuring J-Live, Dionne Charles, Aaron Phiri (Hearin’ Aid), Koaste, Jah Marnyah, Rider Shafique and Benjammin. CD/LP/DL
