Hear Projekta's John and Napoleon IIIrd co-hosting a new radio show on DIY Radio below, including music from When Saints Go Machine, Arthur Russell, Atlas Sound, Future Islands, Zebra and Snake and Blanck Mass, and an interview with David Thomas Broughton.

Have a listen to Napoleon IIIrd's Zebra and Snake remix below. It was premiered by The Line Of Best Fit and made a strong showing in the global Hype Machine chart.

Napoleon IIIrd is currently writing a recording his third album at his new London recording space, Studio NXVI.

Gazelle Twin has a new Tumblr, featuring a flow of images disturbing, interesting and haunting. Get involved with her rich visual world here.

John wrote a conference report on You Are In Control, held in Reykjavík, Iceland, for the Ja Ja Ja music blog.

John wrote a piece on the RVK scene for Drowned In Sound, talking to musician Reykjavík Grapevine editor Haukur Magnusson, Æla frontman Halli Valli and Grímur Atlasson, main man at Airwaves Festival.

Projekta is very happy to announce the addition of UK artist Gazelle Twin, aka Brighton-based artist and musician Elizabeth Walling, to our management roster.

Gazelle Twin has recently signed with 13 Artists for live booking, and will be playing live in London on September 1st - the release party for the debut album The Entire City, which is out now. Further European dates follow, including a hometown show at Brighton's Green Door Store and opening for Planningtorock at Berghain in Berlin.

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See Apparat Organ Quartet in the new episode of Sleepless in Reykjavík. Their section begins at 5m 40s, but the rest is very much worth watching too.

We're happy to announce that two of our acts will be our at German industry events this September.

Napoleon IIIrd will play at Popkomm Live, part of Berlin Music Week. And Apparat Organ Quartet will perform at Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg as part of their forthcoming European tour.

More info on these shows as it comes in.

Napoleon IIIrd at Club NME, KOKO, by Sonny Malhotra

New management agency and music export consultancy PROJEKTA today announces a major new signing in Apparat Organ Quartet. 

This legendary Icelandic electronic ensemble's five members include celebrated composer Jóhann Jóhannsson and four seasoned veterans of Icelandic acts such as Ham and Trabant. 

 The band have been going for over a decade and have a very impressive live history that includes performances at the Pompidou Centre and Central Park in NYC, Roskilde, Pukkelpop, and London's ICA. More recently, they headlined the prestigious NASA venue in front of a capacity crowd atIceland Airwaves 2010.

The band are about to release their second studio album Pólýfónía via Danish label Crunchy Frog, and plans are in motion to unleash their incendiary live show across Europe later in 2011.

This May, PROJEKTA and Tallinn Music Week collaborated in bringing two Estonian bands over to the UK for their debut gigs on British soil. Kreatiivmootor and Multiphonic Rodent played at the Brainlove Festival at Brixton Windmill on May 28th, alongside established UK bands like Meursault, Napoleon IIIrd, Bear Driver and David Thomas Broughton. See John from Projekta/Brainlove and Roomet Jakapi from Kreatiivmootor interviewed in a short film about the event below.

Read reviews of the inaugural Reykjavik Music Mess festival in the current issues of Clash, Mojo and The Fly (below). There's also an "In Photos" feature online over at Drowned In Sound.

Napoleon IIIrd has announced his next London show at Brainlove Festival on May 28th. He'll perform his latest album "Christiania" in it's entirety with a full live band. This comes after a busy year that's seen tours of the UK, Ireland, Spain and Norway, with dates for Popkomm Live in Berlin and Tanned Tin festival in Castellon.

"Christiania" will be released throughout Europe in Autumn 2011, on Brainlove Records via Cargo Distribution.

PROJEKTA will be helping out our friends at Popkomm down at The Great Escape this May 12th. They will host a brunch showcase above Audio from noon, with performances from four very exciting new bands: Retro Stefson (Iceland), Lucy Swann (Norway), Iiris (Estonia) and Dry The RIver (UK). Get in touch with John or Vas or pop over to the Facebook event for more info.

PROJEKTA is proud to be working with Tallinn Music Week in a pilot exchange programme between musicians from the UK and Estonia. The aim is to help build bridges between like-minded musicians and organisations in different countries, and allow interesting, creative bands to cross-pollinate with their overseas counterparts, and gain a valuable foothold in a new territory.

Kreatiivmootor and Multiphonic Rodent will come over to the UK on May 28th and 29th, to play at Brainlove Festival, and spend a day doing interviews, live sessions and photographs with key UK media, producers and music makers. At a later date, a return trip will be made with UK artists travelling out to Estonia to introduce themselves in Tallinn.

The resulting films and content will be documented and linked from here: stay tuned, or if you’re in London, come to the show!

These last few weeks, John has been working on some UK press for the inaugural Reykjavík Music Mess festival, held at NASA, Sódóma and the Nordic House this weekend, and headlined by Deerhunter. The festival released a free 16-track download compilation to promote the bands on the programme via our favourite newspaper The Reykjavik Grapevine, using a cover photograph taken by Vas. See the photo, check out the lineup and grab the music here.

Here is PROJEKTA’s John Rogers (centre) at Tallinn Music Week, taking part in the Check My Demo panel with Alex from Fat Cat, Nick Hobbs, Jesper from SPOT Festival, and Joe Porn from Music Glue. The panel was mentioned as a highlight in Clash Magazine’s festival review. PROJEKTA‘s Vas wrote up for The Line Of Best Fit this week. Read the piece here. John blogged for The Fly here.

PROJEKTA‘s Vas talked to EU Observer this week, along with Efterklang‘s Rasmus Stolberg and IMPALA chair Helen Smith, on the EU Digital Agenda and copyright enforcement. You can read the piece here.

We’re VERY excited about this. Popkommlive presents Napoleon IIIrd at the Berlin Music Week launch party at Lido, Berlin on 6th April. (invitations are restricted to those participating in BMW/Popkomm).

PROJEKTA's ethereal Icelandic ensemble Rökkurró embark on European mini-tour consisting of dates in UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.

13 April - Windmill, Brixton (UK) 
14 April - Queen of Hoxton, London (UK)
16 April - Botanique, Brussels (BE) 
17 April - Arenbergschouwburg, Antwerp (BE) 
18 April - Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL) 
19 April - Café Video, Ghent (BE) 
20 April - Sinkkastenartsclub, Frankfurt (D) 
21 April - Engelsburg, Erfurt (D) 

Vas & John both attended by:Larm in Oslo this week. Vas wrote it up for The Line Of Best Fit, which you can read here, and John blogged the festival for The Fly, which you can read here.

Rökkurró's 'Í Annan Heim' has just been released in Japan on Rallye Label - also responsible for putting out albums by artists like Au Revoir Simone, The Whitest Boy Alive, Klaxons, Joy Formidable, Teenagers, and amiina. 

PROJEKTA‘s Vas traveled to the Dutch city of Groningen in order to cover Europe’s biggest music showcase for Clash Magazine. You can read his review here.

PROJEKTA act FILM opened the 11th edition of Iceland Airwaves in a packed Nasa – the festival’s main stage – earning them a mention in Morgunblaðið, Iceland’s biggest newspaper.

The Icelandic media reported on FILM:

‘If you’ve for some reason been looking for your ideal Greek post-punk band, this is it. Makes you think of a more bleak sounding Aphrodite’s Child-era Vangelis and reassures you that Greece is still churning out good music. Cause they’re all about being the birthplace of Western civilization and stuff.’ Reykjavik Grapevine – Faktory, Thursday

‘Funny how an artist can convince you their music is good just by the way they move to it…. Film’s music revealed itself to be both cerebral and grippingly physical, like a less melancholy Blonde Redhead, with a more jolting, danceable beat—sonic waves breaking against an eager crowd.’ Reykjavik Grapevine – Nasa, Wednesday

‘The band’s mix of disco beats and surf style guitar licks and post-punk angles could warm the hearts of any music-fan.’ IceNews – Gogoyoko Showcase, Thursday

PROJEKTA act FILM collaborated with Rökkurró’s lead singer Hildur Kristín Stefánsdóttir on ‘Harmur Fuglsins’. The track was remixed by reputable Icelandic act FM Belfast and was released on Kimi Records and Inner Ear (7” single & digital).

More info on the Kimi Records website.

PROJEKTA attended Iceland’s creative industries’ conference You Are In Control in Reykjavik last weekend. John was in a panel discussion entitled Creatives Connecting With Consumers, moderated by Reykjavik Grapevine editor Haukur S Magnússon. Vas reviewed the event for Wired.co.uk - you can read his piece here.

PROJEKTA‘s Vas conducted an in-depth research on the Danish music scene on behalf ofThe Line Of Best Fitand interviewed among others Trentemøller, Mew‘s Jonas Bjerre, Efterklang‘s Rasmus Stolberg and Fallulah. You can read the full feature here.

The report was published on the Music Export Denmark website.

PROJEKTA‘s Vas talked to BBC 6music along with Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Þór Birgisson about the Icelandic music scene after the economic collapse.

You can listen to the full interview below:

PROJEKTA’s Vas travelled to Iceland on behalf of Drowned In Sound in order to see how the economic crisis and what followed has affected the music scene. He interviewed among others Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Þór Birgisson and partner Alex Somers, record labels Smekkleysa and 12 Tónar and Reykjavik Grapevine editor Haukur S Magnússon. You can read the piece here.