TWICE A MAN

Dan Söderqvist (electric guitar and vocals) and Karl Gasleben (synth and vocals).


early 1980 7" Cosmic Overdose: Observation galen

    Observation galen 1.50/Isolatorer 3.12 (Silence, Zing 108)
Dan Söderqvist (electric guitar, vocals), "Karl Gasleben", (synthesizers, vocals) and Kjell "Regnmakaren" Karlgren (drums). 'Observation galen' was issued on the various artists 2-CD 'NY VÅG 78-82' in 1993 (MNWCD 243-244).

late Feb 1980 LP COSMIC OVERDOSE: DADA KOKO

  1. Investera 4.42 (Söderqvist)
  2. Puppan 3.57 (Ljungström)
  3. Moderna Dadaister 5.55 (Söderqvist) [released on FINAL KOKO as 'Modern DADA']
  4. Saknaden (av trans) 4.32 (K. Gasleben)
  1. 1980-30 5.51 (Söderqvist) [released on DADA KOKO as '80-30']
  2. Vit yta 3.02 (Söderqvist)
  3. Tanten 2.38 (K. Gasleben/Regnmakaren)
  4. Turs 4.27 (Regnmakaren)
  5. Råttan 3.18 (Söderqvist) (Silence SRS 4659)
Recorded Jan-Feb 1980 by Dan Söderqvist, "Karl Gasleben" and Kjell "Regnmakaren" Karlgren. 'Puppan' was issued on the various artists 2-CD 'VILD I SKOGEN' in 1995 (Silence Records, SRSCD 4729/30).

June 1980 7" Cosmic Overdose: To Night

    To Night 3.02 (Söderqvist)/Dead 2.57 (Gasleben/Söderqvist) (Silence, ENG 302)
Dan Söderqvist, "Karl Gasleben".

Oct 1980 MC COSMIC OVERDOSE: FINAL KOKO

  1. Missiles 2.17 (Gasleben/Söderqvist/Cyklon) [released on 4668 as 'Bomber']
  2. Modern DADA 6.24 (Gasleben/Söderqvist) [released on DADA KOKO as 'Moderna Dadaister']
  3. Romantic 5.37 (Gasleben/Söderqvist)
  4. Strip-Tease 2.45 (Gasleben/Söderqvist/Andersson)
  1. Care 2.34 (Gasleben/Söderqvist/Falk)
  2. 80-30 5.39 (Gasleben/Söderqvist) [released on DADA KOKO as '1980-30']
  3. Mainline 2.36 (Gasleben/Söderqvist)
  4. October 4.58 (Gasleben/Söderqvist/Cyklon) [released on 4668 as 'Oktoberfragment']
    (Xenophone Int., COS 001)
Recorded at Silence Studios by Karl Gasleben, Göran Andersson and Dan Söderqvist, with special appearance by Jimmy Cyklon [Thomas Andersson] (A1, A2, B2 & B4), Lars Falk (B1) and RegnMakarn (A2, B2, B3).

March 1981 LP COSMIC OVERDOSE: 4668

  1. Bomber 2.21 [released on FINAL KOKO as 'Missiles']
  2. En av dom 2.31
  3. Android 3.06
  4. Nina Fontanell 4.06
  5. Oktoberfragment 4.35 [released on FINAL KOKO as 'October']
  1. Hissen 4.15
  2. Liten storsint 3.25
  3. Genomskärning 9.05 (Silence SRS 4668)
Dan Söderqvist, "Karl Gasleben", "Jimmy Cyklon" (Thomas Andersson)

According to the promo sheet for 4668, TAM were touring Sweden during the entire of April with KAI MARTIN & STICK. In May there were plans to tour in UK. The Los Angeles based record company 'Greenworld' heard their first LP DADA KOKO, and wanted them to release it with English vocals. TAM wanted to wait, and mixed a 5-track 10" EP in March 1981, scheduled for release in USA in the summer of 1981. It included two tracks each from the two LPs and one previously unreleased (but I have no idea if it was ever released!).


Nov 1982 LP (+CD) MUSIC FOR GIRLS

  1. Move 3.07
  2. Breathe the Air 3.33
  3. Boy 2.55
  4. Battle 3.36
  5. Russian Tractors 4.10
  6. Decay 4.05
  7. In My Mind 3.32
  8. Dance 3.24
  9. Gentlemen 3.24
  10. Threat 4.01 (LP: Silence, SRS 4678; CD: Yellow, 2257-2; reissue CD: SRSCD-4678)
Dan Söderqvist, "Karl Gasleben", Lars Falk.

Feb 1983 MC (+ CD) THE SOUND OF A GOAT IN A ROOM

  1. Room I. 4.53
  2. Goat I. 2.33
  3. Liquid Observations 4.39
  4. Voices 4.39
  5. Killing Angels 3.56
  6. Coffins of Snow 5.17
  7. Goat II. 3.05
  8. Sorrow 5.39
  9. Balloons 4.57
  10. Talking to the Wall 5.34
  11. Goat III. 3.03
  12. Room II. 4.23 (MC: Xenophone Int., COS 003; CD 8 Dec 1997: Yellow, 2266-2)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben. 'Talking to the Wall' is included on the sampler CD 'Night of the Banshee' on the 'Sub Terranean' label. The CD also contains a CD-ROM track.

Oct 1983 Dutch 12" Observation from a Borderland

    Observations from a Borderland/Fear 6.19 (Roadrunner, RR 125520)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben, Jocke Söderqvist.

May? 1984 double cassette compilation FILM NOIR AMERICAN STYLE

Thanks to Robert Schmenger for info. He told me: "It's an early/remixed darker version of "Still in the Air". It appears on the 2 tape collection "Film Noir American Style" compiled in March 84 and released on the "Tapes & Ding Dong Records" label.

May ca 1984 LP (+CD) FROM A NORTHERN SHORE

  1. Collectors of Stones 2.06
  2. Flat Land 4.46
  3. Somewhere in Siberia 4.23
  4. Distant Calls 7.43
  5. Still in the Air 5.01
  6. Here She Comes 6.57
  7. Simple Patterns 5.37
  8. Balloons [remix] 4.45
  9. Fear 6.19 [CD bonus track] (LP: Xenophone Int., XENO 1; CD 1989: Yellow, 2201-2)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben, Jocke Söderqvist.

1984 12" Across the Ocean

    Across the Ocean 7.21//Sorrow 5.27/Only Relief 5.42 (XENO 2)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben, Jocke Söderqvist.

Aug/Sep 1984 MC DAN SÖDERQVIST/KARL GASLEBEN: WATERLAND

  1. Dolphins 6.07
  2. Waterland 4.30
  3. Across the Ocean 7.45 [version]
  4. In the Eye of the Whale 19.27 (Xenophone International, COS 005)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben.

1985 LP SLOW SWIRL

  1. In Thin Air 3.25
  2. Out of Focus 3.28
  3. Observations from a Borderland 5.54
  4. Divided Light 6.08
  5. Large Glass 4.16
  6. Swirl 4.11
  7. Tribal Ways 6.35
  8. Nowhere 6.39 (Xenophone Int., XENO 3)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben, Jocke Söderqvist.

1985 various artists 4-LP SNX - POPULAR MUSIC OF TOMORROW

Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben, Jocke Söderqvist.

1985 7" Girl

    Girl 4.25/Time 4.49 (Xenophone, Xeno 5)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben, Jocke Söderqvist.

28 Feb 1986 Swedish LP WORKS ON YELLOW

  1. Lapwing Territory 4.16
  2. Girl 4.25
  3. Happy Life 4.48
  4. Backward Mode 5.15
  5. Africa 6.54
  6. Details 5.30
  7. Brave New World 4.23
  8. Left 4.23 (Swedish LP 1986: Xenophone Int., Xeno 6)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben.

19 May 1986 German LP WORKS ON YELLOW

  1. Brave New World 5.52 [German version: longer intro and different vocals]
  2. Happy Life 4.48
  3. Backward Mode 5.15
  4. Lapwing Territory 4.16
  5. Back on Venus 3.35
  6. Girl 4.25
  7. Left 4.23
  8. Africa 6.54 (German LP 1986: Yellow, EFA 2206)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben.

(1993) German CD WORKS ON YELLOW

  1. Brave New World 4.23 [Swedish shorter version]
  2. Happy Life 4.48
  3. Lapwing Territory 4.16
  4. Girl 4.25
  5. Back on Venus 3.35
  6. Left 4.23
  7. Backward Mode/Details 10.47
  8. Time 4.49 [CD bonus track]
  9. Africa 6.54 (CD 1993: Yellow, 2206-2)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben (+ Jocke Söderqvist on 4 & 8).

1986 theatre music LP MACBETH

  1. The Crown 4.23
  2. Lady MacBeth 4.07
  3. Banquet 3.31
  4. [The] Murder of Duncan 4.23
  5. Jesterking 2.55
  6. The Witches 3.53
  7. Insanity [Insane] 2.15
  8. Death of Lady MacBeth 5.12
  9. Warmusic 3.40 (Xenophone Int., XENO 7)
Recorded autumn 1985 by Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben and Jocke Söderqvist.

Nov 1986 12" Aqua Marine Drum

    Turbulence Level 4.30/Seaweed Level 7.18//Aqua Marine Level 8.12
    (Xenophone Int., XENO 8)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben.

1986 German LP AQUA MARINE DRUM

  1. Turbulence Level 4.30 (part 1a)
  2. Seeweed Level 7.20 (part 1b)
  3. Aqua Marine Level 8.10 (part 1c)/
  4. Across the Ocean 7.30 (part 2)
  5. Waterland 4.40 (part 3)
  6. Slow Swirl 4.11 (part 4) (EFA 2209/Yellow 9)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben (+ Jocke Söderqvist on 4).

April? 1987 various artists LP GOTHENBURG 86/87

Composed, recorded and mixed 13 Februari 1987, by Karl Gasleben and Dan Söderqvist.

late Sep 1987 various artists LP MY RADIANT MISTRESS

The A-side was engraved 16 Sep 1987, and thew B-side 25 Aug, so I assume it was released in late Sep.

21 March 1988 coll-CD COLLECTION OF STONES

  1. Move 3.12
  2. Decay 4.05
  3. Balloons 4.50
  4. Sorrow 4.14
  5. Collectors of Stones 2.06
  6. Flat Land 4.48
  7. Divided Light 6.13
  8. Observations from a Borderland 5.54
  9. Across the Ocean 7.21
  10. Swirl 4.19
  11. Africa 6.54
  12. Lapwing Territory 4.16
  13. Brave New World 4.18
  14. Black Flowers 5.04 (Yellow, 2216-2)
21 March 1988 LP/CD DRIFTWOOD
  1. Driftwood 4.56
  2. Yellow Flowers 2.48
  3. Girl in Raincoat 2.15
  4. Crane Dance 3.10
  5. Forest 1.42
  6. A Line of Moments 3.00
  7. Early Morning 4.37
  8. Stone and Moor 4.22
  9. Birdland 2.05
  10. Playground 2.51
  11. Kestrel Illusion 3.29
  12. Relapse 1.11 (LP: Xenophone Int., XENO 10; CD: Yellow, 2226-2)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben.

1988 (before Driftwood) various artists MC Res Publika 8 (The Final Issue - Golgata!)

Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben. Swedish cassette in plastic bag with info on the 15 different European artists featured.

1989 7" Skyline Angel

    Skyline Angel 3.47/The Sound Isn’t Organized Yet 4.35 (Radium, RA 061)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben.

Feb 1990 CD/LP THE SOUND ISN'T ORGANIZED YET

  1. Skyline Angel (remix) 6.53
  2. Speed 4.13
  3. Towards the Light 5.51
  4. The Sound Isn’t Organized Yet (remix) 4.40
  5. White Trance 4.55
  6. In Reality We Are Flowers 6.08
  7. Senegal 3.40
  8. Swans 7.11
  9. [no sound!] 1.47
  10. [no sound!] 1.07
  11. Cloud Sky Damage 6.23 [new, slower version] [only on CD]
  12. [no sound!] 0.53 (Swedish CD: Radium, EFA 2247-2/RACD 064; German CD 16 March: Yellow/Indigo 822472)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben.

Feb 1990 theatre music CD/LP A MIDSUMMERNIGHT'S DREAM

  1. The Sun and the Moon 5.53
  2. Athens 2.44
  3. The Wood Is Revealed 4.25
  4. Peaceblossom 2.13
  5. Nature Unbalanced 3.20
  6. Indian Tale 3.12
  7. A Mermaid on a Dolphin's Back 4.00
  8. The Fairies Sing 4.01
  9. The Night's Swift Dragons Cut the Clouds 15.51
  10. In Love with a Monster 2.25
  11. Sensual Overflow 4.40
  12. The Dance of Oberon and Titania 3.12
  13. Pyramus and Thisbe 4.41
  14. Fairies with Burning Trees 7.25 (Radium/MNW, RACD 069)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben.

Sep 1991 CD/LP THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: TRIP

  1. A Space for Love 3.09
  2. Deep Julia Dreaming 5.27
  3. Orange Drive 3.57
  4. Seahorse Valley 4.03
  5. We Are One Forever 5.14
  6. Energy 3.58
  7. Sister of Shiva 5.53
  8. Travelling through You 4.16
  9. Back to the Egg 3.42
  10. People without Gravity 4.56 (Radium/MNW, RACD 84)
Dan Söderqvist, Zac O'Yeah, Peter Davidson, Karl Gasleben.

19 Oct 1992 theatre music CD/LP FIGARO - THORSTEN - EMILIA

  1. Nine Pieces for Virtual Orchestra: 2.44/2.32/0.45/1.25/0.39/0.58/1.39/2.54/7.04 [20.51] [from Figaro, 1992]
  2. Ghosts - The Dance of Emilia 2.58 [from Emilia, 1988]
  3. Seduction in Church 3.04 [from Emilia, 1988]
  4. Marinelli’s Plot 5.35 [from Emilia, 1988]
  5. Conspiracy 1.40 [from Emilia, 1988]
  6. The Death of Emilia 2.47 [from Emilia, 1988]
  7. Troubled by a Fallen Leaf 4.00
  8. The Blue Virgin 3.24 [from Thorsten, 1987]
  9. Chaos Is God’s Neighbour 4.13 [from Thorsten, 1987] (Yellow, 2256)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben.

1 Nov 1993 CD FUNGUS & SPONGE

  1. Chiba Sky 5.32
  2. Strange Delight 5.06
  3. Panther Moderns 6.25
  4. Dorothy 8.47
  5. Reality Built for Two 5.56
  6. Being in Light 6.16
  7. Sheltering Sky 6.02
  8. Shivanayama 6.07
  9. It’s Time to Dream 6.26 (Yellow, 2258-2)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben.

18 March 1994 various artists CD BOUQUET OF DREAMS - VOLUME 2

11 July 1994 CDM Shivanayama
  1. Shivanayama 4.45 [remixed by TAM/Jörgen Larsson]
  2. Shivanayama 6.31 [remixed by TAM/Jörgen Larsson]
  3. Shivanayama 6.24 [remixed by TAM/Jörgen Larsson]
  4. Shivanayama 6.07 [album version]
  5. Chiba Sky 8.25 [remixed by 0-1-11/TAM] (Yellow, 2260-2)
Dec 1995 CD-ROM GARFISH GROUP & TWICE A MAN: A LINE OF MOMENTS
  1. A Line of Moments [an interactive game]
  2. Twice A Man [sound samples, video clips, pictures, biography/discography]
    (Yellow, 2265-3)
Tracks 2-4 from 'INSTRU MENTAL' are included here, but in very different mixes (slower etc).

19 Feb 1996 CD INSTRU MENTAL

  1. Twice a Man Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow [= track 2 on A LINE OF MOMENTS]
  2. Cube 3.29 [from A Line of Moments]
  3. Insect Factory 3.01 [from A Line of Moments]
  4. Path Tunnel 2.58 [from A Line of Moments]
  5. Eastern Seaboard 7.48 [from "Gibson Songs" 1993]
  6. Hem 20.28 [from "Hem", dance performance 1995]
  7. Invocation 6.33 [from "Förr i världen", film 1990]
  8. Underground 4.44 [from "Sommaren", film 1995]
  9. Ocean 7.02 [from "Sommaren", film 1995] (Yellow, 2262-2)
Nov 1997 Magazine+CD ATALANTE VOLYM 2
Included with the Swedish magazine 'Atalante' # 11 (Nov/Dec) 1997, which also contains a 5 page interview with TAM. According to the liner notes, O-akt II was written for a dance and photograph exhibition called 'O' which took place during late summer 1997.

1 Dec 1998 Eurpean PlayStation game ROLL AWAY

Twice a Man did the music for this game. Developed by Game Design Sweden, published by Psygnosis. See http://psx.ign.com/articles/153/153993p1.html

21 May 2002 CD AGRICULTURAL BEAUTY

  1. Dream Holidays and Tours 4.11
  2. Rishikesh 4.01
  3. Noises of India 5.08
  4. Song of the Fruit 5.11
  5. Shanti-shanti 8.16
  6. Your Cinnamon Eyes 7.07
  7. Into a Landscape 8.01
  8. Somebody Sang Your Name 6.05
  9. Within You Without You 5.33
  10. Blue Evening 3.50 (Swedish CD: SW/EDEN SW 22613; German CD 25 Nov 2002: Yellow/Indigo 822672)
Jan 2004 commissioned CD LAUNCH MUSIC 2004
  1. People 4.20
  2. Entirety 3.49
  3. Design 4.06
  4. Ergonomics 4.24
  5. Quality 4.52
  6. Environment 4.20
These six tracks were recorded especially for Kinnarps Möbler (a furniture manufacturer here in Sweden), and this CD was handed out to Kinnarp's VIP customers in connection with the launch of their new furniture series in January 2004. The copyrights belong to Kinnarp and these songs will not be made officially available.

25 Jan 2008 German CD CLOUDS

  1. Opening 1.24
  2. Novemberness 4.17
  3. Solitude 5.03
  4. Mars Is Still Around 5.33
  5. Microhive 6.36
  6. Skylark 4.33
  7. Letters 6.30
  8. Clouds 4.42
  9. Conquerer 5.55
  10. When September Shined 3.25
  11. Shoe 9.55 (Yellow/Indigo 905552)
Dan Söderqvist, Karl Gasleben and Johnny Friberg.


Copyright (c) 1996-09-10 Jonas Wårstad.

Last update 2008-01-16.

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