Saks&Teip

Here’s a couple of mixes for the festive season. First we start with this mix by Bosco. 80’s hits, moombahton edits of Central Norway’s dearest christmassong and a rather brutal remix of that little Canadian muppet as well as some other surprises:

After that a mix I did some years ago. I used a couple of cassettes as well as vinyl and digital files, so what I couldn’t do with beatmatching I had to compensate with tons of FX:

You might be aware of this new subgenre within electronic dance music called Moombahton. It came out as the result of a happy accident when Dj Dave Nada played slowed down “dutch house” amidst Reggaeton during a school skipping party of one of his younger relatives.

Within the last couple of years that experiment have spawned a lot of subgenres within the style, but the point is that house sounds just a bit better at 105-115 bpm..

So here I’ll share a couple of my works:

This is a very fresh track, inspired by the sounds of cheap secondhand keyboards:

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Riot Factory records just released a new single by Trondheim’s 80’s fetishists Amish 82 from their album There’s A Solitude Of Space

The release includes a live recording of the track Hollywood as well as remixes by various (mainly) Trondheim based producers.

The Flux Trax “Trønderhouse” remix changes the 80’s synth pop references of the original into an imaginary early 90’s club house remix of bands such as U2. You can hear the result here:

Other remixes of Hollywood are by Bartin and an rather amazing dark deep house remix by this guy. It also contains a remix of Crocodile by Auto Laser.

The release can be bought here

This was meant to be a re-edit of Patrice Rushen’s classic “Forget me nots” which later was interpolated in “Men in black” by Will Smith. I increased the tempo a bit and emphasized the short breakdown before the sax solo on the original. But when I started adding more elements from a half-serious recording session at Nidaros Studio it went another direction. So the result is a mash-up with the thematically linked “Recuerdame” by Flux Trax (which might be released soon). Extra guitar-licks by Håkon Aaltvedt (Tuna Laguna) and pump-organ chords by yours truely. I also used a recording of a Yamaha electric organ Rhythm Box on this one. To find out what the added drumbreak is taken from:

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Here’s a reedit of a track I found on Stiff Record’s Akron compilation, together with some great contributions by bands such as The Waitresses and Terraplane as well as a nice mid-tempo soul track by Rachel Sweet.

Chi-Pig was a trio consisting of Deborah Smith, Richard Roberts and Susan Schmidt, who named themselves after a BBQ restaurant in Akron. They released one album, “Miami” which you can buy here.

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12 August - TIRC/Café Edgar/Studentersamfundet Trondheim

If Trondheim had been Norway’s capital again the public transportation around here might have been sufficiently built to enable me to do a DJ gig at Brønnøysund tomorrow the 16th..

nevermind

A song for the average Joe, Ola Nordmann, Medel Svensson etc.

You can hear the original here (Gjennomsnittsmann):

http://www.levvalivet.no/wp-content/themes/levvalivet/album_ramp.php

This is perhaps Norway’s most successful rock artist ever (and I posted one of his better known tracks a bit earlier), coming from the port-town of Namsos a bit further north from here. He got first known as a member of the 70’s prog-rock band Prudence together with accordeon maniac Terje Tysland (to me all Vallenatos sounds a lot like Terje Tysland)

This type of rock music sung with a central-norwegian dialect became known as “Trønderrock” and although it was popular in the 70’s and 80’s I guess the ironically inclined Oslo-hipsters found it a bit too daft during the 90’s. But who gives a shit about their opinion anyways, but yeah there were a period when his records sucked a bit. However this is from what I guess was his young and rebellious phase as can read from the album cover and title.

I also recommend the track “Alle, men..” which to me sounds like a Norwegian take on Ian Dury, sleazy punk-funk-disco about porn mags appearently.

One of his previous albums, “Lirekassa” also contain the disco gem “Haindelsmann” (The salesman or rather Pusherman):

http://www.levvalivet.no/wp-content/themes/levvalivet/album_lirekassa.php

Since you’ve had enough patience to read this far I’ve got one reward for you here