Sofa Surfers (band)

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The Sofa Surfers at the 2013 Amadeus Austrian Music Award [de] at the Volkstheater in Vienna. Sofa Surfers - Amadeus Awards 2013.jpg
The Sofa Surfers at the 2013 Amadeus Austrian Music Award  [ de ] at the Volkstheater in Vienna.

Sofa Surfers is an Austrian band that plays a mixture of rock and electronic music floating between trip hop, dub and acid jazz. They have also composed film scores.

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Several guests cooperated on the album Encounters - for example Sensational, Oddateee, Jeb Loy Nichols, DJ Collage, Lil Desmond Levy, Junior Delgado, Dawna Lee, Mark Stewart and MC Santana. On the album called Sofa Surfers sings Mani Obeya.

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