| A nine-man artist collective from Reykjavik, Iceland. It started as
a film project in 1995 but gradually expanded to become the future
of Icelandic pop music as well (but to be honest, how many pop acts
from Iceland do you know of except for Bjork/Sugarcubes?). The
name Gus Gus is taken from a movie by Fassbinder and is
apparently a misspelling of couscous.
Gus Gus insists that they're not really a band in the traditional
sense, but a group of people with various skills doing both music and
film. Members are Stefán Árni (artist), Steph (musician, performer),
Magnús Jónsson (songwriter, singer, guitarist), Herr Legowitz
(musician, producer) , Baldur Stefánsson (manager), Daníel Ágúst
(songwriter, singer), Hafdís Huld (singer), Siggi Kjartansson
(songwriter, artist) and Biggi Thórarinsson (musician,
producer). Hafdís is the only girl in the ensemble, and a good ten
years younger than most of the other members.
The music of Gus Gus is a kind of smooth, laid back, pop with
tastefully arranged vocals. It is clearly inspired by techno, but is
as far away from eurodisco as you could get. This is music for
chilling out rather than dancing (although I hear they're
great when performing live).
Apart from releasing about a zillion singles with remixes (too many
to comfortably list here), they have made two full-length CDs:
Polydistortion (1996) and This Is Normal
(1999). Polydistortion is the better of the two.
Profoundly_Slack informs me that the song Anthem is featured in the soundtrack for the movie Pi. I wish I had a chance to see it... | 
