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Johan Renck is a Swedish musician (under the stage name Stakka Bo) and music video director. Since 1999, he has directed music videos for a number of artists including Kylie Minogue (Love At First Sight), Madonna (Nothing Really Matters and Hung up), Robbie Williams (Tripping), New Order (Crystal and Krafty), The Streets (Dry your eyes) and Beyoncé (Me, Myself and I). Stakka Bo scored a hit in 1993/1994 with the song Here We Go from the debut album Supermarket. This song has been featured on an episode of "Beavis and Butt-head" although Beavis thought it was Ace of Base. Stakka...

Takka Takka is a foursome indie rock band from Brooklyn and Queens. Singer-guitarist-keyboardist Gabe Levine says their name comes from "writing songs about war, and it's a painting about war, with machine guns going, 'TAKKA TAKKA.'" Other band members are Conrad Doucette, Damion Jurrens, and JP Jones. They cite their influences as: the Kinks, Orange Juice (sometimes Orange Julius), Pavement, Lou Reed, Zombies, Johnny Cash, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Magnetic Fields, Brian Eno, REM, Bob Dylan, and OMD. .

Kärtsy Hatakka & Kimmo Kajasto are the Finnish composers of Max Payne and Max Payne 2 game soundtracks. Their atmospheric instrumental tunes perfectly fit the games which are both dark and noir-style. Music in those games is a great background to the history of an introverted protagonist and his metaphoric soliloqies. .