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Quarashi was the rap group from Reykjavik, Iceland. It was comprised of Petite (rattling title Egill Olafur Thorarensen), world health organization was considered by the few to become a lead rapper in the class action, Omar Swarez (Omar Örn Hauksson), world health organization served as a rapper & plug human, & Steini a.k.the. Stoney (Steinar Orri Fjeldsted), world health organization besides served when rapper & ballyhoo human. A quaternary member of the class action was Sölvi Blöndal, world health organization was their producer, keyboardist, percussionist, & drummer. He as well helped in the songwriting run. For survive shows, Quarashi was joined by the guitar player, the bassist (Gaukur Úlfarsson), & the DJ (DJ Magic).
the class action has a fast resulting, especially in their native Iceland. Both of their records (Switchstance, Quarashi, Xeneizes, Kristnihald undir Jökli, Jinx, Guerilla Disco) use sold swell in their fatherland. Quarashi was the rap class action, however it combined elements of rock, techno, & funk into their songs, lending an air of unpredictability in their music. Comparisons to Rage Against The Machine, Eminem, and The Beastie Boys are often heard after discussing Quarashi, however a class action experienced their have unique style that distungished the two from either more celebrated rap/rock groups. Their influences ranged from either Public Enemy (Blöndal says that P.E.'s Fear Of A Black Planet is what inspired him to produce music) to Led Zeppelin, and that may be heard in their songs.
Pre Quarashi Days
Sölvi & Omar met while it were tikes in the period of the protest against the U.S. military base around Iceland. It each played within many different rock, punk, & heavy metal bands, while Steini was the far-famed skater world health organization experienced won many championships. He was likewise the easily-known graffito creative person in the area of Reykjavik. In a period of his period when the drummer for the punk rock band, 2001, Sölvi began to develop the preference for studio production all over band rehersal-style songwriting. He as well wanted to develop different types of music besides industrial rock & punk, so he quit 2001, and began making rap.
At in the area of the equivalent period, Sölvi met Steini at a skate park while he was doing community service for public drunkeness. Them hit it hit, & Stoney joined Sölvi within making hip-hop. Before long, Sölvi invited fellow previous 2001 band member Hössi Olaffson (them got met after it each went to the University Of Iceland) to join his class action.
Originally, Hössi would sing, after Steini would rap, however when Sölvi heard Hössi rap, he decided that his musical organisation would stand 2 rappers. Everthing that was left was the title. Sölvi, Hössi, & Steini decided upon Quarashi, meaning "supernatural", which was Steini's nickname as a skater, & was spray-painted 100% all over a bulwarks & streets around Reykjavik. Quarashi was too a family name of a prophet Muhammad, the author of the Islam religion. So, around 1996, inside the his pickup inside the home within Reykjavik, Iceland, Quarashi was innate.
Quarashi Become Stars In Iceland 1996-1999
Quarashi quickly went to functiin on creating music. In November 29, 1996, it freed their number 1 record, an EP entitled Switchstance, which was freed under Sölvi's have record label, Lax Records. Richard Oddur Haukssin was credited on Switchstance when a quaternary member of Quarashi (when a DJ), however in todays world, he has faded into proportional obsucurity, due to a fact that virtually all fans assume the original Quarashi line-as much as become Sölvi, Hössi, & Steini. Simply D copies were mass produced of the Cinque song disc, however completely D copies were sold inside the week. A EP topped a Icelandic album stock and index charts, caused per popular title track. In todays world, these are uncommon to buy the copy of Switchstance, which is nowadays considered the collector's item. Quarashi was a number 1 rap work to buy major profits within Iceland, and then a require for the class action was high. A Q boys quickly went back to their studio at Bergstaðarstræti, Nýjasta tækni og vísindi to prove my point recording a music that would produce higher their number one album.
A year late, in October 13, 1997, Quarashi freed their self highborn debut album (dubbed "The Egg Album" by fans, due to the fact that an egg appears on the album handle). A album was an quick smash, topping a Icelandic album stock and index charts thanks to its collection of catchy rap songs like "Thunderball", "Catch 22", "Mr. Amber Shades", "Superwoman", & "Framogtilbaka". Unlike Switchstance, Steini & Hössi traded verses in virtually all of the songs, whereas Stoney rapped extra in Switchstance than Hössi. 6,000 copies of "The Egg Album" were manufactured, & 100% 6,000 copies were shortly sold, making a album last gold around Iceland. Rather Switchstance, these are uncommon to buy the copy of Quarashi, however a Video is detected in eBay each now and then.
Quarashi were currently stars in their fatherland, becoming one of Iceland's hottest musical acts, performing sold-out shows tons all over a little united states. Their mix of catchy rap songs fused sustaining rock, funk, & techno, accompanied per smooth, however for instance silly & nonsensical rhymes from either either Hössi & Stoney garnered love from two fans & critics similar. Quarashi toured 100% across Iceland to trend lines a album, including performances when a opening work for each The Fugees and The Prodigy, and then took the brief hiatus from either making music inside 1998.
In October 25, 1999, Quarashi returned using their 2nd album, Xeneizes (known as fallowing a title given to Boca Juniors (an Argentinian association football team) fans). Xeneizes picked higher in which Quarashi left hit, rendering fans additional catchy rap songs fused by having rock, funk, & techno, accompanied per periodically good, periodically silly lyrical stylings (& cantabile talents) of Hössi & Steini. A album too featured favorite appearances by Icelandic rappers Cypher (on the song "Mayday"), & Omar Swarez (on the songs "Punk" & "Stick 'Em Up"), world health organizatiin was non an official member of Quarashi however (he got rapped on occasionally of their songs it used to be that though). Xeneizes wwhen an additional hit album for Quarashi, topping a Icelandic album stock and index charts due to such catchy tunes as "Surreal Rhyme", "Jivin' About", "Model Citizen", "Tambourine Cut", "Show Me What You Can", & "Xeneizes". Many United Kingdom record labels began showing interest within Quarashi, however a class action turned down completely offers. 6,000 copies were mass produced of Xeneizes, & again, tons sold out, making Xeneizes a 2nd Quarashi album to last gold around Iceland.
Quarashi Comes To America- 2000-2002
Quarashi was introduced to the American public in 2002 with the release of Jinx.
Quarashi experienced never specifically ventured to buy the record label in the U.S., & were content by using their profits around Iceland. However per instance Xeneizes was freed, Our contries record labels got began paying attention to the class action. Meanwhile, Omar Swarez officially became a quaternary member of Quarashi, becoming a third rapper in the class action.
Fallowing hearing a Xeneizes album, specifically, a song "Stick 'Em Up" (which, based on data from Sölvi, sounded rather something Limp Bizkit would do), EMI Music Resources contacted Quarashi to perform at a Airwaves Music Festival hosted by EMI inside conjunction by using Flugleiðir within Future York City in the fall of 1999. A class action performed deuce shows to rave reviews. a EMI envoy met by owning Quarashi, & a class action went into a studio to record 6 songs (quartet by using vocals), using the EMI envoy watching the two.
Around February 2000, Quarashi began negotiations using record labels, wrote occasionally recently songs, & performed shows for record executives. In the period of one of people shows at the Just released York City club Brownies, the stage monitor blew higher, about inducing a riot, which added to the appeal of Quarashi in the record executives eyes. In April 27, 2000, it was announced that Quarashi experienced signed a treat using EMI Music Resources, the treat which gave the class action originative control. Before long when, it were signed to independent record label, Period Bomb Recordings.
Eventually, in August 31, 2000, Sölvi Blöndal, Hössi Olafsson, Steini the.k.the. Stoney, & Omar Swarez, otherwise referred to as Quarashi, announced that it got signed by using Sony Music Entertainment Incorporated under a Columbia Records label. A treat was to go for Sise albums, a number 1 of which would exist as produced unitedly by using Cypress Hill DJ, DJ Muggs, and Brendan O' Brien, world health organization was a recording director for the Red Hot Chili Peppers breakthrough hit album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Quarashi moved to what it known as the "crackhouse" around Future York City to make their Western debut album.
When you took a recording of a album, Sölvi Blöndal & Hössi Olafsson produced the soundtrack for the Halldór Laxness play, Kristnihald undir Jökli, which was directed by Bergur Þór Ingólfsson, & ran in the Borgarleikhús in the wintertime of 2001. A album, freed in September 22, 2001, was filled by owning original music mass produced by Sölvi & Hössi, & was freed under a Quarashi title. Exclusively Five hundred copies of Kristnihald undir Jökli were processed, however virtually all of a copies were sold, & in todays world, the Video occurs as rarity. A album fused traditional Icelandic music by using rap, rock, funk, & techno, similar to the more Quarashi albums. As well in a period of a winterinstance of 2001, Quarashi held a concert by using a Icelandic Symphony & the band Botnleðja in the Háskólabíó, which is notable for existence the number 1 time that an Icelandic rap work performed a survive concert by having the Icelandic Symphony.
Quarashi's 1st lone from either their Western debut album, "Stick 'Em Up", was freed inside February 2002 to great deal fanfare. the music streaming, which was a parody of the film Snatch, get in heavily rotation on MTV2, and there was quite bit of hoopla for their next album, which was highborn Jinx.
In the end, in April 9, 2002, Jinx was freed inside United states of america. Jinx was the collection of Little phoebe newly songs ("Mr. Jinx", "Baseline", "Malone Lives", "Copycat", "Weirdo"), & Septet tracks from either Xeneizes ("Stick 'Em Up", "Tarfur", "Transparent Parents", "Xeneizes", "Fuck You Puto", "Dive In", "Bless") that were rerecorded. Hössi & Omar traded verses a virtually all around Jinx, when Stoney played ballyhoo human, & rapped in "Tarfur", "Transparent Parents", & "Xeneizes". A album received mixed reviews. A few critics loved a class action's eclectic mix of rap, rock, funk, & techno. When others saw a class action when ripoffs of additional, more successful rap/rock acts rather a Beastie Boys and Limp Bizkit. Despite "Stick 'Em Up" getting heavily rotatiin on rock radio stations & MTV2, & despite praise from either many critics, Jinx debuted at Total 104 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, and never cracked a Top 10.
Quarashi found a few problems in the period of their period at Columbia Records. For 1, complications in their contract delayed a release of Jinx. Originally scheduled for release within January 2001, a album was rollback to February 2002, then to April 2002, while it was eventually freed.
the second condition Quarashi found was that it were marketed as a rap/rock b&, while it were actually a rap class action that utilized rock & cheesy guitar riffs, funk samples and techno drill in their songs. When Quarashi is seen inside Icel& when unique and originative, inside Us, which has the market filled by owning rap/rock elastic like 311, P.O.D., and Linkin Park, Quarashi was seen as nothing more but a carbon copy, designed to cash in on the slowly declining rap/rock genre. Despite Quarashi stating within many interviews that it were, infact, non a rap/rock b&, it were however considered of these by two critics and the Western public. Because of this point of learn from, & because of Columbia Records' mishandling of a marketing of Quarashi, the class action faltered in the U.S. By November 2002, it was safe to say that Quarashi got fade out into obscurity inside Us.
However, despite non becoming a super popular & massively successful class action that it is within Icel&, Quarashi did call for a few profits and had a few reconigition in the United States. It were apart of ad campaigns for MTV2 & Levi's Online Rising Jeans. Spin Magazine declared Quarashi to become one of a "Bands To Watch" for 2002. A singles from either Jinx, "Stick 'Em Up" & "Mr. Jinx", keep close at h& been utilized when background music around many moving picture trailers and T.V. shows like Two Convenient, Two Furious, Alias, Smallville and commercials for the NBA On TNT. "Tarfur" & "Baseline" appeared inside many PlayStation 2 video games including Amplitude and Transworld Snowboarding, while "Mr. Jinx" was apart of the soundtrack for the bestselling Madden NFL 2003. A music streaming video for "Mr. Jinx" was within regular rotatiin on MTV, MTV2, and Much Music, and wwhen voted as a MTV Viewers Pick for seven days back within September 2002, although a videos would exist as shown in the leash music streaming trend lines for astir Trey months, and so was never shown on any of people trend lines ever once again. "Stick 'Em Up" was nominated for the 2002 MTV Cd Music Award for Right Art Counsel. & mayhap virtually all importantly, Quarashi was the a share of the Vans Warped Tour in the summer of 2002. a Vans Warped Tour occurs as festival/concert tour that showcases mainstream rock acts, and so it was considered a large treat for Quarashi to become apart of the 2002 edition of the road festival/concert tour that went tons on top the U.S.
When the Vans Warped Tour ended, Quarashi began a tour of Japan, where it got better luck within sustaining fans & searching for profits. Japan is exclusively 2nd to Iceland around terms of Quarashi fans, using a Jinx album existence the immense hit in "The Land Of The Rising Sun". A Q boys so traveled to Europe, and then Australia, but were simply moderately successful in people continents.
When spending the summertime & fall of 2002 performing around the world, Quarashi took a break to relax back inside Reykjavik. In the prevent, Jinx ended higher selling to a higher degree 300,000 copies inside United states of america. When this wwhen considered a profits per boys of Quarashi, it was surfed at as a immense disappointment by Sony, as a album failed to produce Quarashi the mega-successful rap/rock class actiin it were banking on. Because of this, rumor began circulating that Quarashi was attend become dropped from either Columbia Records/Time Bomb Recordings. Meanwhile, Hössi Olafsson was growing sick of existence the member of an internationally traveling musical work, & let it exist as known to his fellow Quarashi members that he was mentation of allowing. He besides claimed that he was forgetting training speak Icelandic ascribable existence out of Iceland for hanker periods of period.
Bye Bye Hössi- 2003
So, perfect prior to Christmas 2002, Hössi Olafsson, one of the initiation members of Quarashi, bid farewell to a class action to enroll back into a University Of Icel& sequentially to study a Icelandic language ended again, and for out of the music industry sequentially to lead a normal life. Quarashi announced Hössi's departure in their official messageboard in January Three, 2003. It was a shock to fans that Olafsson, world health organization was lone 23 years old at a instance, would leave a class action good fallowing it freed their number 1 album around America, the number 1 of Sise albums it were supposed to release when existence apart of the Columbia Records label. Still, it shortly accepted a reality that a loveable Hössi, world health organization was considered by a few to exist as a lead singer of Quarashi, was no more, & was virtually all belike gone. All the same, Sölvi vowed that Quarashi wouldn't prevent, & that it would locate the recently rapper to replenish Hössi. Hössi is however at a University Of Iceland as a member of the Class Of 2006. He is however taking part around the Icelandic show biz, appearing in an Icelandic comedy film, & he has besides written many articles for Icelandic newspapers since he left Quarashi.
the okay, Tercet members of Quarashi disappeared under a microwave radar for the 1st half of 2003, when it searched for a freshly rapper. In a period of this period, the hearsay all about Quarashi's first at Columbia Records/Time Bomb Recordings come admittedly when Columbia Records dropped Quarashi from either a label due to the dissatisfactory sales of Jinx. Quarashi popped higher around July 2003 by owning the brand newly song, "Mess It Up", which featured Steini day trading verses by owning underground Icelandic rapper, dependable friend, & member of the Icelandic rap class action, O.North.E., Opee (very title Ólafur Páll). a song was freed lone within Icel&, & was a hit, winning a Icelandic EFFEMM Award for Song Of The Season for 2003, and the EDDA Award for Streaming video Of The Season for 2003. Rumor circulated that Opee would become a newly member of Quarashi, however Opee turned down the spot, saying he wanted to concentrate in O.North.E. He did deuce additional songs using Quarashi, "Orð Morð" featuring legendary Icelandic musician Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, & "Shady Lives", an unreleased track. Opee besides performed by using Quarashi at Menningarnótt (Culture Nighttime) inside Reykjavík within August 2003, prior to running back to O.North.E.
Quarashi disappeared once more in the summertime of 2003, when it continued their research for the replacement for Hössi. So that fall, Sölvi heard the song known as "Straight Execution" from either either an underground rapper from Iceland. A moment Blöndal heard this song, he knew he got discovered a freshly member of Quarashi. Blöndal experienced seen this rapper prior to, when he experienced the been the judge around the freestyle rap competition which this rapper experienced competed within. Sölvi experienced been impressed whenever he heard this rapper freestyle in the competition, & he was impressed whenever he heard this song. Therefore, Sölvi known as a rapper on a phone, & told him he was to become the freshly member of Quarashi. His title is Egill Olafur Thorarensen, however he raps under a title Microscopic single-celled.
Hello Tiny- 2003-2004
Around December 2003, Quarashi opened their low web log, which would help when their official internet site. On a places, it announced that Microscopic single-celled was the freshly member of Quarashi. Diminutive occurs as short 21-season-old world health organization bears the resemblance within each voice & appearance to Eminem, & dresses & acts prefer the toughie which immediately distinguished him from either Hössi's "nerdy" persona. There was mixed reaction to the announcement. the bit of fans refused to assume a Quarashi forswearing Hössi. When others welcomed Microscopic single-celled by having open arms, & were quick for Quarashi's recently healthy. the Q boys went back to act, rehearsing & writing songs in their Reykjavik studio, by having a goal to release an album per prevent of 2004. Anticipatiin wwhen heading high, as Quarashi fans tons above the world wondered whenever a whiten rap class action from either Iceland may however bring the goods by owning a newly rapper on board.
A fans didn't keep close at h& to hold off hanker, notwithstanding, because within January 2004, in their official web site, Quarashi freed a song and streaming video for "Race City", a foremost song recorded by using Microscopic single-celled in the class action. Numbers of fans thought that a song would exist when freed as a foremost individual from either Quarashi's fresh album, however a song was late taken off a album after Sölvi decided that "Race City" didn't reflect a newly counsel Quarashi was ingesting. Nowadays, these are considered by fans to become the song mass produced to introduce Microscopic single-celled to the globe. A song experienced a nature & severity of healthy fans got came to require from either Quarashi, & a video cds featured a average above-a-extraordinary put-on that virtually all Quarashi videos use, except that Microscopic single-celled & his Eminem sounding voice were what was heard a virtually all & non Hössi and his Zach De La Rocha sounding voice. Virtually all Quarashi fans loved a song & streaming video, & a few were at present ready to assume Lilliputian thanks to "Race City".
Around April 2004, Quarashi began recording their next album, their number 1 a single by owning Microscopic single-celled, & their sixth (& what would turn bent become their final) record overall, which was under a working title of "Payback". Around June, it freed a number 1 individual off their freshly album in their official site, "Stun Gun". a song showed a freshly counsel Quarashi wwhen running into, as it featured a harder, additional hip-hop orientated healthy, showing that a Q boys were moving out of the further techno & funk oriented beats of songs past. "Stun Gun" too showed the difference between Microscopic & Hössi while it come to lyrics when Midget's coarse, mean-spirited rhymes were much different than Hössi's relativity composure & silly rhymes that were filled by using popular culture information.
A vary within counsel was met sustaining mixed reviews. A bit of fans despised that a extra hip-hop orientated healthy would produce Quarashi healthy rather Western mainstream rappers, & so, require away their appeal. More fans loved the vary, feeling that fallowing doing quaternary Videos around vii years which got similar sounds, the similar style, & similar lyrics, that it was period for Quarashi to head around a newly counsel. Whether fans liked a changes or even nin, 1 tool it whole agreed on was a fact that Steini should use at times appeared on the album. Steini got chosen does'nt to participate in the fresh Quarashi album sequentially to concentrate on his solo career. Stoney told a fans that possibly though he didn't participate in the album, & was working on the solo Video, that he was however the member of Quarashi.
Guerilla Disco- 2004-2005
In October 14, 2004, Quarashi freed their fifth & final good-length album & sixth record overall, Irregular Disco. It was freed simply within Icel& under Skífan and Dennis Records. A album wwhen met sustaining mostly caring reviews, as fans embraced a fresh healthy & style. Midget rapped a virtually all in Guerilla Disco, sustaining Omar swimming hoopla human in a select few songs, & long term trading verses by using Microscopic in others. As a matter of fact, there were a select few songs on a album in which Omar would play ballyhoo human & trade verses sustaining Microscopic at the equivalent instance. Midget's rhymes impressed fans greatly. Occasionally of the songs in Guerilla Disco were just about lives from either Petite's possess life. E.g. "Stars", which is all about losing the friend, which is what happened to Microscopic prior to he joined Quarashi. Bantam wont to swallow his manager, & he was attend produce the solo album by owning him, however after Microscopic joined Quarashi, he got to say proficient bye to his manager, & their friendly relationship presently vanished. Midget's stories, which were told across his rapping, (the style similar to a bit of Beastie Boys songs on the License To Ailment & ''Paul's Dress shop'' albums) struck a chord by using the fans, & piece a select few fans weren't ready to fully assume Microscopic single-celled good eventually, it can admit that he was the gifted rapper.
Guerilla Disco was a second hit album for Quarashi inside Iceland. 6,000 copies of Guerilla Disco were manufactured, & wholly 6,000 copies were sold around Ten years when its release. A profits of Guerilla Disco proved to Quarashi that the fans were o.k. by owning a further hip-hop orientated healthy, gangsta rap vibration, & additional meaningful lyrics using a bit bit of a Quarashi "edge" added within. It likewise proved to the two that Quarashi fans were o.k. by owning Microscopic existence in the class action. More tracks on the number 1 album using Lilliputian onboard involved "Pro", "Brass Knuckles", & "Dead Man Walking".
Quarashi experienced returned to touring earliest in a season, as a way to develop the fans warmly as much as Microscopic, & as a way to promote Guerilla Disco. A class action performed at an Iceland awards indicate (which was Flyspeck's number 1 survive performance by having a class action) around January 2004, then traveled to Japan once more to perform at a Sonicmania indicate inside Tokyo that February. A Q boys likewise performed when you took an extended weekend around Iceland known as "The Verslunarmanna Helgi", inside which it played gigs at Sauðárkrókur (a village in northern Icel&), and Akureyri (typically known as the capital of northern Iceland). Quarashi besides performed when a opening work for two 50 Cent and The Prodigy, when people deuce popular musical acts traveled to Iceland.
Within November 2004, Quarashi team by using a stars of a popular Popptíví (the MTV of Iceland) T.V. indicate, Seventy Minutes, to produce the song & music videos known as "Crazy Bastard". the streaming video was a parody of many pop, rap, & rock acts rather Britney Spears, & featured a stars of Lxx Minutes rapping, when Omar and Microscopic played plug men. the song & videos became a fan favored, & whilst other copies of Guerilla Disco were mass produced, "Crazy Bastard" was added as a bonus track on the Video.
Within January 2005, it was announced on the official Quarashi site that Quarashi got signed the treat by using Sony Japan to release Guerilla Disco in "The Land Of The Rising Sun". In March Three, 2005, Quarashi freed Guerilla Disco around Japan. the album became a vast hit, on the nature and severity of the lone "Payback", when Quarashi's gargantuan fanbase within Japan come call at droves to choose a album. A album, slightly changed a bit for a Japanese release (the track list is different, & there are besides Deuce remixes & Ii fresh tracks, one of which is "Race City"), peaked at #2 on the Japan Top 40 chart, selling 30,000 copies around its number one year of release. Quarashi took an additional hiatus within Might, allowing fans to question once their next album would exist as freed.
The End Of Quarashi- 2005
In August Five, 2005, Sölvi Blöndal did an locate in the Fréttabltheðið in which he announced that Quarashi experienced broken higher, saying that existence a member of Quarashi wasn't fun any longer. Omar Swarez late confirmed this to become avowedly on a official Quarashi messageboard, saying that he experienced originally designed to quit a class action, however instead, the Q boys decided it was instance to prevent making music together. Quarashi fans completely across the world were brokenhearted fallowing hearing this. When Ix years, half the dozen records, & a bunch of unreleased tracks, Quarashi was those days are gone.
A iv members of Quarashi use go on to wash their have projects. Steini currently lives his instance treating his newborn little one, & is however working in his solo rap album, rapping under a title ca.I. Steini's album dollarfish for release onetime around 2005-2006. Omar Swarez currently writes & draws for an Icelandic comedian book, & is a star of the series of commercial message for Smirnoff Ice beer, sustaining the commercial message existence shown in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Sölvi is however producing music, & is as well intellection of sustaining into directing plays. Little is known of what Microscopic is attend launder nowadays that Quarashi has broken higher, though he could decide to persue the solo career around Iceland.
For the short instance, hearsay circulated that Sölvi Blöndal experienced signed the record treat by having Sony to release Guerilla Disco in the U.S.The. around September 2005. This hwhen been confirmed as treasonably by Omar Swarez on the official Quarashi messageboard.
Band Members
A final Quarashi line-higher wwhen as follows:
Egill Olafur Thorarensen the.k.the. Lilliputian innate January 17, 1984
Omar Örn Hauksson the.k.the. Omar Swarez born January 28, 1975
Steinar Orri Fjeldsted the.k.the. Steini the.k.the. Stoney born July 7, 1976 and
Sölvi Blöndal born January Three, 1975
This was a class action's lineup from either 2003 until their breakup inside 2005. Hössi Olaffson founded a class action by using Sölvi & Steini witharound 1996, & served when one of a rappers, however left in 2002. Egill Olafur Thorarensen replaced Olafsson as a member of the class action within 2003.
Frequent contributors to the band involved:
DJ Magic (DJ)
Bjorn Ingimundarson the.k.the. DJ Dice the.k.the. Q-Rep (DJ)
Richard Oddur Hauksson (DJ)
Smári Tarfur Jósepsson (Guitar player)
Gaukur Úlfarsson (Bassist)
Magga Stína Blöndal (Singer)
Vidar Hákon Gislason (Bassist/Guitarist)
Hrannar Ingimarsson (Keyboardist/Guitarist)
Discography
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