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

it didn't do as epically well as honkytonk/saloon/mechanical piano - claude bolling etc

i started a thread

its here

this is a good record i would like to buy it but i don't know what it is

There s/b more threads like this, just about hot songs people are into. I feel like it used to happen more often, back in the old days, but now everything's relegated to artist-specific or rolling-genre threads.

As an old-timer who took a break from, like, '04 pretty much to a few months ago, it's interesting to read this. I like the rolling-genre threads in principle, but it feels as if they often get commandeered by a few folks that are far more knowledgeable about the genre than most others, and I think others get scared off a little from posting (at least, I know this has happened to me). The occasional "I'm really feeling this" thread feels much more inviting...

Also, I'm usually either reading ILM on my phone while I'm "on the road" or while I'm home working (in which case my stereo is on), and the constant stream of YouTubes on the rolling-genre threads is never really something I can make use of. (Ironic, I suppose, that I started this thread then with a YouTube.)

Also I find dutifully clicking through endless Youtube clips on an ILM thread to be a really joyless way of listening to music, but that might just be me.

^^^^otm

Although it happens plenty, I wouldn't say ILM is my main avenue for discovering music, either. For me, it's always been about the discourse on here, the people and their thoughts and personalities. When those rolling-genre threads evolve into long strings of YouTubes with no commentary, that aspect of it is totally lost. I do understand why it happens; there's so much music coming at us from all corners at all times today, it's hard to really sit down and spend time even listening to--much less thinking about or discussing--any one thing, but I have to admit that I fear the FB-style "likes this"-ification of the discourse.

this song is my new alarm clock. great wake up jam.

snooze button 4 love

you know, i had underrated this, but it's all about context: in the dixon live at robert johnson mix, which slowly builds up to this as the last track, it sounds like the best thing ever

Dixon claims the last two tracks on his mix were a mistake and if he could do it over again, he wouldn't use Snooze 4 Love or the one that preceeds it. It does sound great as the closer of the mix though.

has everyone checked out Todd's blog? http://letsnerd.com/

interviews with james murphy and mogan geist so far.

oooooooh new track is rather amazing

http://www.smalltownsupersound.com/2012/01/04/todd-terje-announced-ep-listen-track/

i'm keen

That's magnificent. First great track of the year!

Inspector Norse is indeed awesome. Been waiting for this to get a release since hearing it on this great mix from Todd last year:

Todd Terje @ Evening Standard July 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlppzRyllLE&feature=player_embedded

Hahahaha NO WAY is there a Todd Terje track called 'Inspector Norse'.

the guy's called todd terje, wordplay shouldn't surprise you ;)

Inspector Norse. Brilliant

Loving that new track!

laser crime scene !

Hahahaha NO WAY is there a Todd Terje track called 'Inspector Norse'.

― Matt DC, Friday, January 6, 2012 10:04 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Errr. I don't get it... please to explain?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8epiy_UcRKs

just ordered the new ep! stoked!

Clips of all tracks here:
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/ToddTerje-ItsTheArpsEP-OlsenSmalltownSupersound-80509.html

Inspector Norse is awesome. Didn't get into Swing Star as much but I gotta try to get that EP I think.

"inspector norse" goes pretty hard

alright this song is the shit

haha is any of the press release true?

Terje Olsen is the grandson of the legendary astromechanic Jens Olsen, arguably the greatest clockmaker who ever lived. Although Jens was a Dane, his family eventually relocated to the remote Antarctic island Bouvetøya (Bouvet Island in English), where Terje’s father studied the mating rituals of the seal. It was a strange existence. “We only lived there for a few years,” recalls Terje, “And there was nothing to do other than hunt seals or work on my grandfather’s clocks. It gave me a thirst for mechanics which I brought into music when I built my own synthesisers. And a love of seal products.” Terje refuses to wear any coat not made out of seal and has the largest collection of penguin-skin hats in the world.

He returned to live in a remote Norwegian island. “When you live in a population of only 300 people, you learn to amuse yourself,” laughs Terje. “But something strange happened: Kraftwerk came to record the local seals. It was odd having these four Germans, but in return for studio time I showed them several seal curing techniques.” While Kraftwerk’s opera We Are The Seals still lies unused, it inspired Terje to build his first synthesizer.

That is a fantastic press release.

The switch-up midway through Inspector Norse is just :D

http://oobly.com/tech/wp-content/uploads/seal-clapping-tcdisrupt-animation-techcrunch-photo-pic.gifhttp://oobly.com/tech/wp-content/uploads/seal-clapping-tcdisrupt-animation-techcrunch-photo-pic.gifhttp://oobly.com/tech/wp-content/uploads/seal-clapping-tcdisrupt-animation-techcrunch-photo-pic.gif

So it turns out Swing Star is pretty fantastic too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q3mBLobKnk

hey got a question for digital DJs out there (guess this thread is as good as any) ... is Juno Download always way cheaper than Beatport?? "It's the Arps" is like $10 on Beatport for the full EP on 320 MP3s and only $4.50 on Juno. Just curious if that is typical.

I was surprised by that as well.

I'm usually a vinyl guy but have been dabbling in Traktor for the last year or so (and they give you a free gift certificate at Beatport to start you off so that's where I've been going for dance music MP3s)

beatport is usually more expensive than other sites ime

the popularity of beatport has always baffled me, besides the traktor gift certificate are there does it have any other selling pts?

DJHistory do Wavs

http://www.djhistory.com/shop/release/its-the-arps

£5.99 for Its The Arps

Inspector Norse on nonstop repeat for the past week, basically

it's better than Snooze 4 Love imo. the big buildup-release part is so euphoric.

Also think Inspector Norse is better than Snooze 4 Love, though my fav bit is right after the buildup release, at 4.07 where the filter closes

the first seconds of inspector norse always bring a smile to my face. can't remember the last time a song did that to me

relentlessly upbeat even by his own standards, he's playing homoelectric next week, v psyched

dope

Don't get me wrong, I love Inspector Norse and find it really jubilant, but it's not too far away from my personal twee border--a little too close to goofy. Whereas Snooze 4 Love is more restrained and austere, and feels like it has more depth.

I'm not sure I've got the hang of these tracks yet. They're quite fun, but I think I'd need to hear them in a dancefloor situation to truly appreciate them.

Yeah, I love Inspector Norse, especially that weird moment about 3:35 or where he goes to another chord, the filters kick in and it goes to a whole nother level, like the camera goes shift-tilt ... or that moment in the Capsule "World of Fantasy" video where they take off. It's a great track - but Snooze 4 Love has something kind of sublime that raises it above almost everything else I've heard in the past year.

xpost: I think you have to see it like an italo track (which it basically is). that the greatness lies in the fun-ness and "goofiness" of it.

otm

Good point re: Italo, and I feel that--the bouncy octave-jumping synth bass in particular. I suppose my Italo preferences run more to the super-moody, "night"-themed, desperation-and-longing stuff more than the overtly goofy stuff... Still an awesome track (and the B-side of the 12" is nothing to sneeze at either).

seeing him tonight for the first time. he was just in our local wrecka stow too!

is it just me or does track 2 on arps, "myggsommer," sound like a martin denny/exotica track?