YOUNG ASPIRING PROFESSIONALS

Young Aspiring Professionals (YAP) was started in Bergen, Norway, during the autumn 2004, when Datarock founders Fredrik Saroea and Ketil Mosnes were in the process of finishing their band's debut album. They figured (as many artists before them) that if you wanna do something properly, you might as well do it youself, and with help from the independent distro company VME the first YAP release (a re-release of Datarock's EP 'Computer Camp Love') became a reality early 2005.
Apart from obviously releasing Datarock's own material, YAP has a vision of helping other bands that somehow share the same DIY-philosophy and create exiting and original music within the wide genres of pop and rock. The label's first non-Datarock signing was a Bergen-based punk/new wave trio called Quasimojo; a trio who combined the raw power of punkrock with the more intricate sides of bands like Talking Heads and B52's. Soon after signing Quasimojo, YAP also started working with another, much more establised band: instrumental hard rock pioneers NOXAGT.
Datarock's debut album 'Datarock Datarock' , Quasimojo's debut EP 'Gettin'up'n'goin'ova' and NOXAGT's third album 'Noxagt' all recieved critical acclaim in Norway. 2006 saw YAP re-releasing 'Datarock Datarock' abroad through VME's distro partners, and an international re-release of Quasimojo is coming up soon. NOXAGT was a Norway only-event, as the album was licenced from the American label Load (Lightning Bolt, Usaisamonster etc..), which did the international release.
The latest release from YAP was the single-release of Datarock's cult hit 'Fa-Fa-Fa'. It was released as 7", 12", CD-s and digitally, and features remixes by Hip Hop godess Princess Superstar, new British electronica wonders Shakes and Norwegian house godfather Bjørn Torske