Sofa Surfers is an Austrian band that plays a mixture of rock and electronic music

Electronic music

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 floating between trip-hop, dub

Dub music

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 and acid jazz

Acid jazz

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 chillout music. They have also composed film scores.

Members

• Wolfgang Schlögl ("I-Wolf")
• Markus Kienzl
• Wolfgang Frisch
• Michael Holzgruber

Several guests cooperated on the album Encounters - for example Sensational

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, Oddateee, Jeb Loy Nichols

Jeb Loy Nichols

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, DJ Collage

DJ Collage

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, Lil Desmond Levy, Junior Delgado

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, Dawna Lee, Mark Stewart

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 and MC Santana. On the album called Sofa Surfers sings Mani Obeya.

Discography

• 1997 Transit
• 1999 Cargo
• 2000 Constructions: Remixed & Dubbed
• 2002 Encounters
• 2004 See The Light
• 2005 Sofa Surfers
• 2010 Blindside

Soundtracks:

• 2000 Komm, süßer Tod
  Komm, süßer Tod (film)
  Komm, süßer Tod is a 2000 Austrian darkly humorous crime film based on the novel by Wolf Haas of the same name. It is one of the Brenner detective stories, which tell of the luckless life of ex-policeman and unsuccessful private investigator Simon Brenner, who tramps throughout Austria and...
  
  
• 2004 Silentium
• 2009 Der Knochenmann

External links

• Official website Sofa Surfers
• Review
• Sofa Surfers on Allmusic