Todd Terje: "Snooze 4 Love" (masterpiece alert)

From the B-side of his recent "Ragysh" 12"... This is really pretty freaking amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQx5EAfirhc

Love this track!

amazing track ! everyone i've played it for loves it. there is a beatless version not on the vinyl floating around digitally. A-side is huge as well, been playing it at my club night a lot.

can't get enough of this one either. one of my favorite tracks all year, maybe even my favorite outright

reminds me of oni ayhun's oar 3b

which means i love it obvs

yeah this is so amazing - i love the a-side "ragysh" too, the way it just keeps rolling over you in waves

A++
a-side wasn't striking me and then I got a couple of minutes in and was like 'uh huh'

It's totally textbook and totally great. Ragysh is great as well.

Oh for sure, the A-side is totally immaculate as well and I love it. His synths just sound so ridiculously good, so tactile.

weepy rushy hangover alert

I have to stop putting off listening to this! (and I bought the 12" like 4 weeks ago!)

if any 12 this year deserves it's own thread it's this one. both 'ragysh' and 'snooze 4 love' almost clinical in their perfection. 'bonysh' popped up on my ipod the other day and sounded like a great club tool also.

I thought he had stopped making new music?

i like this a lot but its not striking me the way it is some ppl i guess

xp i thought he stopped making edits to focus on new music?

ah okay.

so what sound is this reinterpreting? i'm guessing early warp? lfo, black dog, etc? what else should i look for new and old that's like this?

this doesn't sound like early LFO to me at all. this sounds so clean and so much less ravey. it's very pretty though. reminds me a bit of 'dinamo' by nathan fake

this is way more nu disco ish to me

than warp i mean

what nu disco sounds like this tho? maybe it's just that particular type of synthesizer that's coding as something different for me, but it does seems a lot less immediate than most nu disco

i guess it reminds me a bit of the dfa remix of "rise" by delia & gavin (not sure if that's nu disco either tho)

what i was saying was more of a question than a statement. i want to know what sound the main synth line (not the rhythms) is referencing. to me, this and oar3b seem like they're trying to sound like early warp or early detroit stuff, but i don't know those things that well to know.

Oar3b is much more warp-y, specifically Black Dog. With this one the similarity is there but more like B12 in the melodies, i think.

snooze is quite b-12y, that is, Ragyish is more like Lindstrom than anything else although there's maybe a little Jedi Knights in there.

what nu disco sounds like this tho? maybe it's just that particular type of synthesizer that's coding as something different for me, but it does seems a lot less immediate than most nu disco

IDGI, this sounds like pretty straight-down-the-line nu-balearic to me, albeit perfectly executed and very lovely indeed.

it sort of reminds me of stuff by Lawrence, a bit? somewhere between the autumn-evening-calm of 'somebody told me' and the endless bubbles of the superpitcher rmx of 'along the wire'.

A Superpitcher remix of Snoove 4 Love would be amazing actually, kinda thinking in the style of his Iridum remix.

It's driving me crazy how the portamento only kicks in on the top 2 notes of the arpeggio. Or maybe he's just put the two notes really close together and not quantized them. But it's a sound that is both jarring and yet slightly exciting, like, I listen out for it every time to see if I can work it out. Manages to be both expected and unexpected. Clever.

Oh this is nice. Thanks y'all for keeping this bumped until I finally got around to listening.

It's driving me crazy how the portamento only kicks in on the top 2 notes of the arpeggio. Or maybe he's just put the two notes really close together and not quantized them. But it's a sound that is both jarring and yet slightly exciting, like, I listen out for it every time to see if I can work it out. Manages to be both expected and unexpected. Clever.

That's my favourite thing about it - I think it's intended as more of an acciaccatura, but it's really evocative.

afaict that is what I know as a "grace note"?

What language are you all suddenly speaking.

They're just ever so slightly too *off* to be proper grace notes, but it's the slight off-ness of them that makes them such ear candy. And I miss them when the song settles down to its cosmic juggernaut groove, and it's so exciting when they pop back up mid kosmische groove. So more-ish.

Ha ha, we need Owen in here to explain the proper difference between grace notes, acciaccaturas and appoggiaturae.

I'm still trying to work out if there's a portamento or not. it's delicious.

Grace note is kinda the umbrella term, I just wanted to write "acciaccatura" because it's such a pleasing word.

i only REALLY understood it when i danced to it at a party. and only when i couldn't put my finger on what it 'is' (trainspotting as self defense etc), i realized this is a proper unclassic dance anthem (of 'knights of the jaguar' proportions), but in EXTREME slow motion. it's totally fucking with temporality, i think. it's almost like it has managed to exist only through creating a loophole through time, escaping a nanosecond before the canon of the dance has completely closed.

on this note, let's recall terje's 'eurodans' -- which compared to this sounds a bit amateurish, but still unabashedly euphoric. it produced one of my favorite youtube moments, which still sends immediate party shivers down my spine (00:36):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOr-XoMDzi0

They're just ever so slightly too *off* to be proper grace notes

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, June 6, 2011 9:46 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

this isnt a thing. they are grace notes, an acciaccatura is a kind of grace note afaik

How do you pronounce this guy's name?

like kanye, but more elided

that's helpful! thx

When he was on Beats in Space, Tim was pronouncing it as Todd Terry but I guess it's more like Teh-yee?

well, it's a pun on Todd Terry obv

you pronounce it

'Todd-Terry-But-Not-THE-Todd-Terry'

I asked this years ago and nobody responded. :(

I was actually thinking about this yesterday and: Because the Swedish Google translator voice says "tear-yeh," combined with the fact that his track "Terjelator" goes "it's time for the tear-yeh-lator" has led me to conclude this is the correct pronunciation.

Also: Seeing him in two days!

terje is norwegian!

Ach! Don't know why I thought he was Swedish (for some reason I thought he specifically was of a different nationality than lindstrom et al). I think it must have been the Ace of Base cover.

It's pronounced exactly like the Norwegian google translate bot pronounces it.

And there's a link to this in one of the comments:

http://bandtrace.com/Monica+Tornell/track/Svensk+sas

https://youtu.be/JU1wGIom92A

:p

https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/bump-maloso-radio

im kinda not into this. which is a first bc i basically have died at so many of his songs, but im shrugging at this one.

Yeah, feels like Lindstrøm took the Terje torch and ran with it on his new single.

im kinda not into this. which is a first bc i basically have died at so many of his songs, but im shrugging at this one.

You should consider yourself fortunate, because I'm cringing at it. You listen to shit like this and you realise what a lucky escape it was that he didn't get time to properly finish the album.

sounds pretty fun to me. intrigued to hear the YMO / Martin Denny cover.

enough with the corny cover songs!

http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/beranek-dra-te-haelvete-todd-terje-olsen-records/136562

"Hot off the Olsen press comes Dansbar #1, the first in a brand new series aiming to shine some much needed light on the lost history of Norway's disco underground. First in the firing line is Beranek's mad capped morality tale, 'Dra Te Hælvete', a mislaid classic much loved by the most adventurous DJs in the Scandinavian circuit."

Here's a corny video for a corny cover song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5YOOSl287Y

Another track, YMO cover this time

https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/todd-terje-the-olsens-firecracker-radio-edit

I did not like that YMO cover much.

remember when Terje was exciting?

:(

I'm one of the people who wasn't disappointed with the album in the slightest, but I'm really struggling to care about what he does anymore. These new songs aren't the direction I wanted him to go in.

yeah, I don't get it either.

His remix catalogue is so great he should work on having his band perform them live. This new stuff is just terrible.

Imagine seeing his band play this live - would be epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE3qtcaKpg8

New remix from the Ola Kvernberg reissue on his Olsen label

https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/mechanical-fair-todd-terje-remix

https://www.pbvinyl.com/collections/entire-pbv-collection/products/ola-kvernberg-the-mechanical-fair?variant=27752794625

is that Kvernberg remix available yet? I've been refreshing Amazon, Beatport, Junodownload, etc since the Soundcloud link says it's available today, but none of them have it available for sale yet.

(also I had never heard of Ola Kvernberg prior to Terje's involvement, but I listened to Mechanical Bull [the album] and it is in fact quite good)

New record:

https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/sets/todd-terje-jungelknugen

it didn't rock my world although seeing him live a week or two ago did

That Four Tet remix is a decent banger. Wouldn't be surprised if I hear it at every party I go to for the next 8 months.

wow i want to go to parties where they play todd terje records

Four Tet remix came up on Spotify. It's good. I don't go to parties, though.

There's really no stopping our Todd. That's a banger. As far as I can see only the remixes are available to buy, not the original...

Is there even an original?

Bendik Kaltenborn described the original as "forthcoming" or similar when posting the cover art on instagram earlier

New single tomorrow:

http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=97369

Whoa I was just thinking abt him yesterday and wondering wen we'd hear new music

i hope he's done with the (snooze alert) phase he's been in

Sounds good from here at least

https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/sets/maskindans/

oh for the sun to rise on a tropical beach party with a Ned

I like it

xpost -- There are far worse fates.

Snooze 4 Love

contains one of my favorite hemiolas ever! :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om_SnnIgvms

i may never understand how we don't occupy a universe in which "q" is commonly acknowledged as among his best

Did this guy just retire or something? The really excellent new Prins Thomas record is making me pine for Terje. He was completely untouchable for a good four or five years there. It's now been six years since he's dropped something. Is he a family man now on a farm or something? Is he secretly composing his "Ram"? Is he the next Vashti Bunyan and will emerge from his small village in 20 years to drop a masterclass in disco again?

In my fantasy world alternative timeline Roisin Murphy and Terje collaborate emerge with the greatest dance record of all time and its success brings upon a chain reaction that develops into world peace. No I'm actually sober as I write this, just deeply nostalgic atm

Yeah he pretty much dropped off the face of the earth. I've also been a bit baffled by this, so after digging awhile back I found a reddit thread asking the same question from a couple of years ago and this was an answer: "Someone asked him whether he has any new music coming soon on his Instagram recently. He said 'nope' :( really broke my heart."

his ambition was to make enough £s so he didn't have to do any more music related activities and i guess he succeeded.

it's only album time once

more like odd, barelje

*cries*

Think he just DJs these days:

https://ra.co/dj/toddterje

i'm surprised. he really dislikes it.

Lol, just checked his FB page and he's literally posted on there this week for the first time in over two years (links to upcoming DJ sets)

i'm surprised. he really dislikes it.

Any kind of performing. But hopefully was just a phase.

dunno if this is old or new or what but reggae inspector norse alert:

https://cruisic.bandcamp.com/album/inspector-norse-remixes

same crew who did the jazz version of 808 state pacific