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

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

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link

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

lex pretend, Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link

a victory for dumb jokes or a failure?

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link

someone should explain it to me

markers, Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link

maybe i'm mispronouncing his name in my head

markers, Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link

Yeah idgi either

xelab, Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link

Yeah idgi either

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

an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link

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

ciderpress, Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link

ah, thank you. wow great

markers, Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link

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, 3 April 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link

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

le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 3 April 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link

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.

Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 April 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link

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

how's life, Thursday, 3 April 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link

(the first 30 seconds or so)

how's life, Thursday, 3 April 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link

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

a respected member of the hip-hop criticism community (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 April 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link

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

how's life, Thursday, 3 April 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link

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

a respected member of the hip-hop criticism community (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link

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

Eric H., Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link

Plus, I'm convinced he's like my eighth cousin.

Eric H., Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link

hearty beard + makes great dance music + total goofball sense of humor = omgggg

also, cute smile!!!

funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link

actually iirc before I deleted it my Scruff profile read "Todd Terje's hand in marriage" under "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR"

funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link

Todd Terrier (as in the dog) would probably be the closest pronounciation-wise. Definitely more of a yay than a jay at the end there.

longneck, Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link

this beard madness must stop

i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link

i've had a beard for almost all of the time between, like, mid-2005 and now

markers, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link

a victory for dumb jokes or a failure?

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha as the subsequent million posts proved, it's just weird that so few have heard of todd terry!

lex pretend, Friday, 4 April 2014 06:42 (ten years ago) link

(i mean, so few people who have heard of todd terje, ie are into dance music, have not heard of house legend todd terry)

lex pretend, Friday, 4 April 2014 06:42 (ten years ago) link

I don't think it is a case of being ignorant of Todd Terry I mean as well as being a legend he dented the charts with bat mobile, just incredulity that someone would attempt such a crap pun for a moniker.

xelab, Friday, 4 April 2014 06:51 (ten years ago) link

I think it's brill

, Friday, 4 April 2014 06:52 (ten years ago) link

It isn't that bad I suppose, I just meant goofy humour in dance music is such a rarity is probably why the pun wasn't understood by some.

xelab, Friday, 4 April 2014 07:01 (ten years ago) link

This album gets better with additional listens but skip the the Ferry track every time. It's either really bad or I'm missing something...

skip, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link

the ferry track is good and i never skip it

ciderpress, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link

ferry track is great but i'm not sure i'd stan hard for it, i could see it getting overplayed v quickly. funny tho that ferry was going to record it regardless and terje just sorta took what he could get and threw it on the album

hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link

yeah it sounds out of place because it's more like a Ferry track that Todd Terje co-produced. but it's good. a pleasant little island on the album.

coops all on coops tbh (crüt), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link

yeah i think it definitely works well within the album's sequencing/flow. also excited for husky-voiced ferry to start releasing things, is he singing like this on his current tour?

hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link

According to the Guardian review this week, Terje has gone on the record as saying he didn't actually get a chance to finish the album and it does show.

Matt DC, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link

can't ask for any extensions when it's album time

hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 4 April 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkZl7ahIUAABoyA.png

Merdeyeux, Friday, 4 April 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link

haha that's great, a little skeptical terje is in fact dance music's most reluctant superstar

balls, Friday, 4 April 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link

yeah, I'm not sure by what definition he's a superstar and he doesn't seem particularly reluctant...

skip, Friday, 4 April 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link

nice Scream Tracker shoutout in the FACT piece!

also the 1983 Open University presenter look up there just gave me... strange feelings

the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 4 April 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link

It looks like a 90s macworld article

brimstead, Friday, 4 April 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link

Minus the big arp. Maybe an ironic "our sound cards burn rubber" 90s ad

brimstead, Friday, 4 April 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link

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

Congratulations! And my condolences. (Sanpaku) wrote this at 2014-03-31 16:24:15.000

Missed this! Regardless, my mp3s downloaded from Amazon this morning and I'm listening right now. I love the Bryan Ferry thing, although I have to admit I really don't know his other stuff other than Avalon. I especially like the synths that come in after "Runnin' around..." I agree that the early part of the album would benefit from a 73 degree day. It s definitely a harsh contrast with the chilly gloom outside, but I bet I'll be jamming it pretty hard this summer.

take a piece of mr. baxter's hand (how's life), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 10:13 (ten years ago) link

Alfonso Muskedunder is kind of goofy but I really like it.

Matt DC wrote this at 2014-03-26 21:24:53.000

Will be used to score a funny cats compilation video by years end.

take a piece of mr. baxter's hand (how's life), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 10:18 (ten years ago) link

up on spotify in the US as of this morning

nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 12:55 (ten years ago) link

Along with "single versions" of the Preben duo.

Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:18 (ten years ago) link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/todd-terje-brings-laughs-to-his-ecstatic-dance-floor-tunes-on-its-album-time/2014/04/07/7446150a-bb49-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html

Talking about music:

“House and techno DJs — they’re some of the most serious musicians around,” the 32-year-old Norwegian producer says. “The music I really like has a humorous edge to it, and I feel like humor comes when artists have some success. They have the energy to do something funny.”

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link

"Svensk Sås" should have been titled "Sås all over me"

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link


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