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

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

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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?

I think Norse is fun and easy to mix into. I can think of many tracks that's perfect to be mixed with it. Also one of those tracks that's perfect for changing the dynamic/direction of a set.

i wish norse was 20 minutes long

It actually is a bit short

^^ yes

would love an album of Terje jamming out in this style

yeah i love love love "inspector norse"

what is the joke in the title

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm107062937/inspector-morse-wolvercote-tongue-john-thaw-dvd-cover-art.jpg

what is that thing

It's a British tv institution

i thought it was some kind of inspector gadget joke :(

it can be if you want it to, imo

the length is perfect for me.

"Inspector Norse" tore the roof off of Trouw tonight at Nuno dos Santos/Patrice Bäumel's new clubnight. Fantastic to hear it on a great soundsystem surrounded by hundreds of excited dancers!

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

― willem, Friday, 6 January 2012 10:44 (4 weeks ago) Bookmark

omg i'm so stupid i never got this. i just assumed that was his name.