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

every day the bar gets lowered. Yesterday the former secretary of defense said a monkey was smarter than Barack Obama.

No I mean it's weird to see Ferry called reprehensible for being a mild Tory (and I doubt a lifelong one) with a pro-hunting son. He's not exactly Ted Nugent.

The Johnny & Mary cover's weak though.

The Ramones cover of the Sonny Bono written Needles and Pins as produced by convicted murder Phil Spector pretty much destroys the idea of me giving a fuck what the personal politics of an artist might be. ~ rolls eyes ~

Alfonso Muskedunder is next-level

This album is making me so happy right now. Can't wait to own it in just over a week.

Yeah I'm underwhelmed but not really surprised given that the strongest stuff here has previously been released and the best new track is the one they leaked.

i like the palmer cover a lot, dunno why it's so poorly received here

Complete album stream for those of us who recycle, follow speed limits, don't steal, and aren't music journalists.

listening now

I like the expansive quality of the opening tracks. Clearly not designed for the dancefloor, but enjoyable nonetheless.

they sound like they belong in the sewers level of a final fantasy game

I like the expansive quality of the opening tracks.

this is like saying "this sounds like electronic music to me!" but the opening five minutes of this record reminds me of '80s klaus schulze

if you say so, don't really get a Klaus Schulze vibe, but whatever

so yeah never mind!

electronic music you say?

sounds like High Llamas meets "Midnight Cowboy" meets Umberto to me

please note I have no idea whta i'm talking about

70s library music/ morricone vibe.

srsly, tho, is Strandbar the greatest thing ever recorded ever for all time

b/c it feels like it right now

it's a great track, but when it came up in the stream, I was a little bummed that the new stuff had ended.

I knew it and Norse, but that's about it, so I'm good

intro track and many other synthy bits on this make me feel like i'm in a hot tub

a hot tub in space

He should've done the score for the Cosmos reboot.

I'm all about space hot tubs

if i hosted cosmos my spaceship of the imagination would definitely have several hot tubs

http://dvdmedia.ign.com/dvd/image/BUCK_ROGERS-17_1102984127.jpg

Buck Rogers.

Alternatively, why not fly through the cosmos in a jacuzzi?

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d2/d8/78/d2d878af6b27d27be87cf0511c6872e8.jpg

Interesting interview over on FACT:

http://www.factmag.com/2014/04/03/its-a-stupid-title-todd-terje-talks-new-album-monkey-island-and-djing-in-just-his-socks/

Your debut album is called It’s Album Time. No one will argue with that. The time seems ripe.

It’s a stupid title, a joke, of course. I could also have gone for It’s Money Time or It’s Bestseller Time. I’ve always had a thing for jokes like these.

lols

its p remarkable that he's become so successful using a moniker thats an eye-rolling pun

it's remarkable how many people apparently have no idea it's a pun!

a victory for dumb jokes or a failure?

someone should explain it to me

maybe i'm mispronouncing his name in my head

Yeah idgi either

Yeah idgi either

― xelab, Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:25 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Terry

ah, thank you. wow great

One thing I've never been sure of, is "Terje" pronounced the same as "Terry" or is there a somewhat different Norwegian twist to it?

http://translate.google.com/#no/en/todd%20terje

http://www.wcml.org.uk/silo/images/audio-clip-symbol-black_40x34.jpg

One thing I've never been sure of, is "Terje" pronounced the same as "Terry" or is there a somewhat different Norwegian twist to it?

― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Thursday, April 3, 2014 12:37 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i pronounce it as "tear-yay" (first part rhyming with "pear") but that could be completely wrong

lol on the phone last week with a friend who's reviewing album I kept saying TERJAY and he kept pronouncing it correctly and I felt like an ass when I hung up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df2wgFSsY_I

(the first 30 seconds or so)

have u revised yr view of inspector norse as 'cheesy dance music that is also boring'

Yeah, it took a while to grow on me. I probably still prefer the earlier edits though.

norse / whateverest 4 lyfe, especially that portamento part in the middle

ws into a million pieces

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/todd-terje-interview-4.3.2014.jpg

Me too and I usually don't find my people all that sexy.