David Olof Peter Pagmar (born 16 September 1983) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He has also performed as Montt Mardié and Monty. As Montt Mardié, he has released three full-length albums as well as various singles on the Swedish record label Hybris. He signed to the Taiwanese label Silent Agreement, as well as the UK label Ruffa Lane in 2007. May 2009 saw the release of his first UK release, Introducing...the Best Of. His first released studio album was

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in 2005. In late 2009, he started to perform as Monty.

History

David Pagmar was raised in Stockholm, Sweden. His debut release was the single/ EP ''Highschool Drama'', released on 14 October 2005. This was shortly followed by his debut full-length album ''

'', released on 7 October 2005. One single developed from ''Drama'', ''New York'', released on 20 April 2006. He then released an EP entitled ''Science'' on 18 May 2006. Mardié would later reuse some of the tracks from ''Science'' for his second full-length album, '' Clocks/Pretender'', released on 18 April 2007. ''Clocks/Pretender'' was a double album, one disc containing Montt Mardié tracks and the other collaborations with other musicians. Mardié announced he was working on a new album in early 2008. In the same blog post, Mardié explained he was in the middle of re-recording old songs for his first UK release. He revealed the title "''Introducing... the best of Montt Mardié''" to be official, joking that if he had gotten his way it would have been called "Death". ''Introducing... the best of Montt Mardié'' was released in May 2009 to positive reviews. The album's first single ''Set Sail Tomorrow'' was released in mid-2008, going straight to the NME-radio A-list. The single was put on the H&M instore radio from July 2 for a month, going out to 1,200 stores across 23 countries. The single also helped Mardié become Rookie Of The Week on BBC 6music, and he was placed on the "Out in the City" top of the hot list. Mardié's third Swedish album was finally released in April 2009. '' Skaizerkite'' unveiled twelve new tracks and introduced a cleaner and larger sound to Mardié's distinct pop-style, featuring collaborations with Hanna Lovisa and Andreas Mattsson (whom he had previously worked with on ''Clocks/Pretender''). On 15 May 2009 he uploaded the track ''We Are All The Pirate Bay'' onto

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tracker specifying "It's free and nobody will ever have to pay for it". This came after the provisional outcome of The Pirate Bay trial. The track was released using the Creative Commons license the song was up freely to be remixed and re-appropriated and many interpretations was made by fans and other artists such as Shorthand Phonetics which included a radically different version on their Creative Commons release " Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating Value".

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Singles/EPs

References

External links

Montt Mardié on Last.fm
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