René Munk Thalund (born 20 November 1971) is the

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in the Danish band

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. In addition to his participation in Nephew, he has worked in the

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genre. In the '90s, he worked with Carsten Heller and Jesper Birk to release electronic music under the name Shanks.dk. The trio were signed under the influential label of

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. Thalund was behind a remix of one of Nephew's own songs, creating the Nephew Nightlife Remix of Police Bells & Church Sirens, as well as "Allein Alene", Nephew's remix of "Allein Allein" by

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band

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. and Nephew's remix of

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In addition, he mixed songs for a number of Nephew's afterparties from autumn 2009 to spring 2010. Thalund appeared in the live line-up with the Danish band

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for their reunion gigs in October 2017.

References

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