Sci-Fi SKANE is a musical collaboration of Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 musicians Thomas Öberg and Jonas Jonasson, members of Swedish rock groups bob hund

Bob hund

bob hund is a seven-piece indie rock band from Sweden. Their music, hard to classify, has been described as "what you might expect if you managed to merge Pere Ubu and Pixies with a touch of Kraftwerk"....

 and Bergman Rock

Bergman Rock

Bergman Rock is the English language alter ego of the Swedish indie band bob hund. In this incarnation, the band has released three singles and two albums. The more recent album, Bonjour Baberiba Pt II, was released on May 4, 2005....

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Sci-Fi SKANE was started in 2005, and the goal was stated as being to "create stupidity and dance".

The word SKANE in the name is regarded as an ironic anglification of Skåne, the area the band originates from.

Sci-fi SKANE's musical style is of the same nature as bob hund's and Bergman Rock's style, but without live drums, and dominated by keyboards and programmed sounds. However, the somewhat ironic tone known from bob hund and Bergman Rock is present both in the music and in the lyrics.

So far Sci-Fi SKANE has released two singles

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

: a cover of Canned Heat

Canned Heat

Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...

's "Going Up The Country

Going Up the Country

"Going Up the Country" is a song performed by the American blues-rock group Canned Heat. It appeared on their album Living the Blues and was also released as a single, reaching #11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, #19 on UK Singles Chart and number one in 25 other countries...

" called "Jag har aldrig bott vid en landsväg" and another song called "Vi kommer försent till bluesen".

The duo's debut album Känslan av att jorden krymper växer (roughly translated: The feeling that the Earth is shrinking is growing/increases) was to be released in Sweden by Silence Records

Silence Records

Silence , is a Swedish record company located outside Koppom, Värmland in Sweden.Silence was started in 1970 in Stockholm and released records by, amongst others: Bo Hansson, Philemon Arthur and the Dung, Samla Mammas Manna, and other progressive rock acts...

 on November 16, 2005, but due to errors in the printing of its phosphorescent

Phosphorescence

Phosphorescence is a specific type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence. Unlike fluorescence, a phosphorescent material does not immediately re-emit the radiation it absorbs. The slower time scales of the re-emission are associated with "forbidden" energy state transitions in quantum...

cover, the release was delayed.