Lindstrom 8/10 in Vice Magazine
Lindstrøm upcoming live dates
26.01 Rumenia, Bukuresti, The Gang Club
28.01 Italiy, Perugia, Red Zone Club
11.02 Switerzerland, Geneve, Antigel Festival
17.02 Germany, Berlin, Watergate
18.02 Norway, Oslo, Sunkissed
25.02 UK, London, Scala
03.03 Holland, Amsterdam, Trouw
28.04 France, Paris, Social Club
09.04 Austria, Mayrhofen, Snowbombing
20.04 Russia, Dom Beat, St Petersburg
21.04 Russia, Moscow, Solyanka
05.05 Sweden, Stockholm, Debaser
Hear DJ Harvey’s remix of Bjørn Torske
Check out DJ Harvey’s great remix of Bjørn Torske’s Nitten Nitti track. The remix is taken from the Bjørn Torske – Oppkok 12″ – that is out now. You can buy it from Phonica, Piccadilly and Juno among others.
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Langt Fra Afrika (Todd Terje’s Enda Lengre Miks) (Fra Afrika Altså)
Side B
2. Nitten Nitti (Harvey’s Not Normal Mix)
3. Slitte Sko (Crimea X Remix)
Bjørn Torske – Nitten Nitti (Harvey´s Not Normal Mix) by smalltownsupersound
Hear Todd Terje’s Inspector Norse
Todd Terje’s great new 12″ – Its The Arps – is out now digitally and on 12″. You can among others buy it from Phonica , Piccadilly and Juno. We have also made a Soundcloud stream for you to listen to the amazing Inspector Norse. Enjoy!
TODD TERJE – Inspector Norse by smalltownsupersound
Roxy Music remixed by Todd Terje and Lindstrøm
From Fact Magazine:
Roxy Music go under the disco scalpels of Todd Terje and Lindstrom & Prins Thomas for a new deluxe 12″ release from The Vinyl Factory.
Following on from their series of Bryan Ferry solo records, VF Editions now present remixes of two of Roxy’s most iconic tracks. Todd Terje, whose ‘Ragysh’ was for many one of 2011′s finest singles, presents an epic, dub-touched and powerfully grooving take on perennial dancefloor shaker ‘Love Is The Drug’, while Lindstrom and Prins Thomas reunite for a suitably blissed-out Balearic version of ‘Avalon’.
Pressed on 180-gram heavweight vinyl, the 12″ boasts exclusive cover, inner sleeve and label artwork based on the originals.
Todd Terje announces new EP + listen to new track
January 4, 2012Comments Off
The EP will be out on 12″ and digital the 16th of January. You can read more at Pitchfork here.
Please welcome: It’s The Arps! Oslo’s magic music maker Todd Terje has already gained a wunderkind like reputation for his gentle yet potent productions (we won’t mention the “E” word here) on labels like Full Pupp, Permanent Vacation or Running Back on top of being one of the best remixers money can buy (Shit Robot, Bryan Ferry, Dølle Jølle et cetera et cetera). What is there left for him to do? Establish a label of his own! “It’s The Arps” is the starting signal for Olsen. And what a splendid one it is. Created from scratch and solely on the mythical synthesizer ARP 2600 (check
www.letsnerd.com for help), it features four tracks (reads instant classics) that couldn’t be a better follow-up to his 2011 super hit EP “Ragysh”. Towering over the assortment is the laser crime scene called “Inspector Norse”. Defying genres and blinkers, this is finest goose bumps dance music that makes you whistle along, laughing and crying all at the same time – but the rest isn’t half bad either. The short, but sweet “Myggsommer” gives away Terje’s secret love for quirky exotika, whereas “Swing Star Pt 1” and its brother have a (balearic) brilliance and witchery to them that is rarely found nowadays. Powered by Smalltown Supersound and housed in a beautiful sleeve courtesy of Bendik Kaltenborn (www.benkalt.no). 100% Arp 2600 and 200% Todd Terje!”
TODD TERJE – Swing Star (pt 1) by smalltownsupersound
Lindstrom on MTV Hive’s Most Anticipated Albums Of 2012 list
January 2, 2012Comments Off
Lindstrøm’s upcoming Six Cups Of Rebel (out 6th of February) is on MTV Hive’s most anticipated album of 2012 list. You can read more about the list here. And this is what they say:
The mono-monikered Norwegian electronica producer may be most widely known for his remixes (for LCD Soundsystem, Glasser, Franz Ferdinand and others) and his collaborations. His last major opus was 2010’s sexy space-disco collaboration with singer Christabelle, Real Life is No Cool, and before that he had success with two albums that he made with Prins Thomas. But Hans-Peter Lindström is going it alone on his next album. Due February 6 via Smalltown Supersound, Six Cups of Rebel isn’t just Lindström’s return to solo music-making — his last lone effort was 2008’s Where You Go, I Go — it also represents his vocal debut.
ARP New Years 2012 mix
January 1, 2012Comments Off
SET THE TONE /// NEW YEARS 2012 MIX
COMPILED by Alexis GEORGOPOULOS & Frank LYON
You can get the mix here.
SIDE A
EDDIE HOOPER Pass It On 1980
PIERRE-ALAIN DAHAN & SLIM PEZIN Neo Rhythmiques 1976
THE JELLIES The Conversation 1979
THE POOL Jamaica Running 1983
HAROUMI HOSONO Sports Men 1982
STEEL AN SKIN Afro Punk Reggae (Dub) 1979
THE TIMES Confiance 1990
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Thousand Knives 1978
BOB CHANCE Jungle Talk 1980
LOS DADDY’S Momento Enamorado 2009
GLASS CANDY Beautiful Object 2011
ORANGE JUICE I Just Can’t Help Myself 1981
SATURN EA1 Conrad 1977
DISCLOSURE I Love… That You Know 2011
SIDE B
MALA RODRIGUEZ La Niña 2003
DJ NATE My Heart 2010
STEFFI Yours (feat.Virginia) 2011
HOT CHOCOLATE I Just Love What You’re Doing 1978
OMAR S Here’s Your Trance, Now Dance 2011
BENOIT & SERGIO Walk and Talk 2011
REBOLLEDO Positivísimo 2011
SIDE C
PHIL LYNOTT One Wish 1985
VIRGO FOUR Let The Music Play 1987
NICOLAS JAAR Work It 2011
CLAMS CASINO Natural 2011
ROCKFORD KABINE Al Signor Lorenzo N. 2007
SONOKO Cheri Cheri 1987
KEVIN PEEK Highland In The Sun 1978
THE DURUTTI COLUMN Otis 1989
GABOR SZABO Ferris Wheel 1968
New Diskjokke mix
December 2, 2011Comments Off
Check out Diskjokke`s hardcore promo mix
flavours of the time
Tracklist
01 Storm Queen – It Goes On (vox)
02 Lazaro Casanova – Mhm, Yeah Yeah
03 Lazersonic & Zak Frost – E Box
04 Slok – Boys
05 Daniel Bortz – Can’t Sleep At Night
06 Max Chapman – Don’t Go
07 Jonas Rathsman – Tobago
08 Noir – We2
09 Florian Meindl – Rebirth feat. Ricardo Phillips
10 The Persuader – Slussen(Go Dub Mix)
11 DJ T. feat Khan – Leavin’ Me (Clockwork Remix)
12 Cevin Fisher – The Seance
13 Volta Bureau – Alley Cat
diskJokke hardcore promomix December 2011 by diskJokke
Corporate Sucks Still Rock t-shirt
November 28, 2011Comments Off
Smalltown Supersound & Robotee presents:
“Corporate Sucks Still Rock” Tees in 3 different colors. The design is printed on American Apparel unisex t-shirts. Girls may prefer to order one size smaller, or the Jersey model. Design: Kim Hiorthøy. Click here to order and see sizes and colours.
Razika – Vondt I Hjertet – the video
November 23, 2011Comments Off
Razika – Vondt i Hjertet from Razika Razika on Vimeo.
Kieran Hebden and Mats Gustafsson interview for Fader Magazine
November 18, 2011Comments Off
Check out this great Beat Construction interview that Fader Magazine did with Kieran Hebden and Mats Gustafsson here.
Preview: This story will appear in FADER #77, on stands soon. Live at the South Bank is out this week from Small Town Superjazz.
Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden gets a reaction out of Mats Gustafsson and the late Steve Reid.
Like any true sampling whiz, Kieran Hebden thinks of his collaborators as reactive ingredients. “I love when you get musicians that play really free all the time to work with other musicians that do more groove-based stuff,” says the free-thinking British electronic producer who records as Four Tet. Hebden is on the phone from Brooklyn, recalling the 2009 London festival gig that united him with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson (the really free guy) and drummer Steve Reid (the groove-based one), the same show that’s out now on the two-disc set Live at the South Bank. Hearing the record’s ecstatic marriage of dance music and free jazz strategies, it’s easy to understand Hebden’s excitement. It’s doubly so knowing the moment can’t be replicated: Reid passed away in 2010 at age 66. His ’60s and ’70s résumé—including work with James Brown and Fela Kuti as well as cult-hero jazz expressionists like Charles Tyler—is impressive. But the drummer died at the top of his game. It was Reid’s collaborations with Hebden that brought him the widest recognition. On a series of joyously exploratory records, kicked off by 2006’s The Exchange Session Vol. 1, Reid added a human heartbeat to Four Tet’s lush sample-based collages.
For the ’09 concert heard on Live at the South Bank, the organizers of London’s Meltdown festival had asked Hebden, whose duo with Reid was by then a known quantity, to tweak the formula. Hebden immediately thought to rope in Gustafsson, since it was the Swedish saxophonist’s paint-peeling duos with Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love that had first given him the idea to seek out his own percussive counterpart. It was a smart move. Think of Gustafsson as an aural irritant, the guy the pros (Sonic Youth or The Ex, say) call when they’re looking for a dose of pure punk-jazz grit. If the Hebden/Reid hook-up had lacked anything up to that point, it was raw aggression, and Gustafsson was happy to fill that void.
First, though, he waited. Before the South Bank gig, the only parameter the three players established was that Hebden and Reid would begin with a duet. “I was sitting onstage listening to them, and it was so freakin’ good!” says the saxophonist, speaking from a Lyon hotel room. “I don’t know how long, but it was quite a long wait until I started playing. In a way, I didn’t want the job.”
As you can hear on Live at the South Bank, Gustafsson takes his rightful place after about 20 minutes, unleashing angry-elephant brays over Hebden and Reid’s rumbling groove. As the set progresses, the players swap roles. The saxophonist triggers Reid’s still-sharp free jazz chops, and in turn takes rhythmic cues from Hebden’s body-moving sample riffs. Hebden, meanwhile, sends out clouds of bubbling static. By the finale, “The Sun Never Sets” (a piece first heard on Hebden and Reid’s 2007 album, Tongues), each player engages equally with rhythm and noise, yielding a teeming psych-jazz hymn that Sun Ra would’ve killed for. As abstract as the music gets, the rapturous applause that follows doesn’t come as a surprise.
Hebden stresses that this kind of response is what he and Reid were after all along. “The idea was to bring people together,” he says. “When we did shows, we didn’t want to do seated venues. People were standing, and ideally, we’d hit a point where they’d be dancing. Steve wasn’t that inspired by doing super-academic things; he was more of a raver, I think.”
Gustafsson is no dance music nut, but he relished the listener-friendly coherence of the Hebden/Reid collaboration. “I do so much abstract improvisation and noise-related music,” says the saxophonist. “So in a way, it’s more of a challenge to join something that has such a clear structure, and a harmonic center and melodic material. There’s been a lot of situations when I’ve been a little too uncomfortable with the material, and then it’s better just to shut up, but with Kieran and Steve, I never had the feeling that I should shut up.” Hebden is clearly thrilled at the brazenness his guest displays on Live at the South Bank. “Steve holds down this steady, tribal rhythm, and Mats doesn’t just play polite pop lines,” he asserts. “He’s screeching away in total madness the whole time.”
Two plus years on from the show, Gustafsson is in the grip of a different emotion. “He was such a sweet man,” he says, reminiscing about a pre-gig chat with Reid. “It felt so easy to just sit and hang next to each other. It’s just so sad that we can’t play together again.” Hank Shteamer
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Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid/Mats Gustafsson: 8,0 Pitchfork review
November 18, 2011Comments Off
The most vital document of Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and drummer Steve Reid’s five-year partnership is this performance as a one-time trio with Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson recorded 10 months before the 66-year-old Reid died of throat cancer.
Read the whole review here.
Lindstrøm: Six Cups Of Rebel (6. February 2012)
November 11, 2011Comments Off
Lindstrøm – Six Cups Of Rebel – CD/2XLP (releasedate 6. February)
Bio by Rob Young
Five… four… three… two… one…
With the latest album from dance producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, Norway’s latest entry in the space race has been launched out of the wooded outskirts of Oslo. Six Cups Of Rebel, Lindstrøm’s fourth solo album, is a super-sized cosmic disco rocket that burns up a galaxy of eclectic influences in its wake, from Bach to Deep Purple, from Prog rock and arpeggiator disco to Acid House, while sounding sleek and utterly contemporary. He may worship at the temple of godlike European DJs from the 80s like Daniele Baldelli and Beppe Loda, but the relentless, occasionally monumental scale of Six Cups Of Rebel has the power to move mountains all by itself.
From the opening “No Release” – a five-minute coitus interruptus of cascading cathedral organ – to the pumping Detroit pistons of “Call Me Anytime” and the wah-wah stabs and fizzing 808 basslines of the title track, Six Cups Of Rebel acts like a star map of Lindstrøm’s own voyage to the outer limits of electronic music. When he holds back, as on the ten-minute “Hina”, it’s only to let rip with added propulsion, like a satellite using a planet’s orbit to push it to the next level.
In the Lindstrøm discography stretching back to 2003, albums tend to be a small interruption in a constant stream of remixes and 12”s (including one, under the anonymous moniker Six Cups Of Rebel, on the Feedelity label in 2005). He forms part of a constellation of Nordic producers that includes Diskjokke, Todd Terje and Bjørn Torske, Prins Thomas, He also regularly collaborates with fellow Norwegian space disco wizard Prins Thomas, whose self-titled album received much acclaim last year.
But is the ‘cosmic disco’ label a medallion or a millstone? “If ‘cosmic’ means music without any limits, I don’t mind being discussed in these terms,” says Lindstrøm. “I guess my definition of ‘cosmic’ comes from listening to mixtapes from Daniele Baldelli, Beppe Loda and other ‘cosmic’ DJs. And what is typical of the music that these tapes consist of, is a wide range of diversity, both in musical style, sound and genre. I leave it to other people to label/tag my music this or that, but it’s true that these legendary tapes has been a massive inspiration for me over the years. I really believe in mixing up everything, and having no respect for the traditional way of doing things.”
One major innovation on Six Cups Of Rebel is the use of vocals, a first for Lindstrøm. On “De Javu” it mutters about “that feeling that you’ve been here before” – an uncanny sensation that echoes his own music. There’s “Magik”, with its eccentric falsetto call and response, and the sarcastic laughter in “Six Cups Of Rebel”.
Lindstrøm: “I have to admit that the decision of including vocals has been with mixed feelings. I’m no vocalist, but I wanted to include my own voice this time. I’ve been trying out different approaches on how the inclusion of vocals would sound ‘right’ for the music. In the end, I decided that everything was allowed, including pitching, stretching and all kinds of voice-processing and manipulation. The vocals here isn’t the most important element, but just another part of the music, as important as the cowbell, the ARP Solina string synthesizer or the free-running arpeggios. Lyrically, I’ve been more interested in repeating mantras, simple repeating sentences without any other meaning than what’s being actual said or sung. Might sound stupid for others, but makes perfect sense to me.”
Unusually for a dance album, it’s introduced with a grand swell of mighty church organ, an aching tension-builder that refuses drop th beat for a tantaslising five minutes. “I initially planned to do this live in a church somewhere,” says Lindstrøm, “but I really like that semi-natural feeling you get when combining MIDI-organs together as one big-sounding artificial church organ. So I ended up doing it in my studio instead.”
He cites the likes of Jon Lord, whose gnarly organs gave so much classical flavour to the early Deep Purple. “I wanted to give the opening track that ‘larger than life’ feeling, similar to how I remember those old Heavy Metal albums from my youth. And nothing is larger than a church organ…”
“Quiet Place” is the album’s other major curveball: an eccentric club banger that pleads, “All I want is a quiet place to live”… Not the normal sentiments of a man who spends much of his life rocking international dancefloors. “It’s just a simple desire to live somewhere quiet,” he says. “Nothing fancy. In fact, I do have a cabin in the woods just outside of Oslo that’s being used for recreation, and growing of vegetables and fruit trees. And I don’t find that too weird for a dance track. I mean, who hasn’t been to a disco, dancing to boring music, wishing for someplace else? I do that all the time.”
In fact, for an audio astronaut, this music’s maker is surprisingly down to earth, a family man turning out his music from a factory floor-type existence. “Well, I don’t believe in sitting up all night drinking and waiting for that special moment of inspiration. I’m working every day at the studio, nine to four, and I’m totally happy with a straight lifestyle. Being away on tour for more than four days makes me uncomfortable and grumpy. In fact I usually get homesick before I leave home. I love Mondays, and discovering that everything is just as I left it on Friday afternoon…”
It’s not rocket science: Six Cups Of Rebel might just be the finest dance record of 2011.
