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

It looks like a 90s macworld article

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

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.

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.

up on spotify in the US as of this morning

Along with "single versions" of the Preben duo.

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.”

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

What am I hearing in the Swing Star tracks? Is it "Love On A Real Train" on part 1? I'm also getting some themes in part 2 that remind me of the stuff that CFCF sampled on Continent. Not sure what it is though.

I'm loving this album btw. I wasn't quite as hot on the Arps, Snooze 4 Love, etc, as you guys were, but I think that Album is very tight. I generally prefer lush, expansive sounds, and this album is certainly lush and expansive.

I don't think the name is too groanworthy. It might be in the hands of a less chill musician, but Terje codes as so pleasantly nonchalant and cool that the Todd Terry riff shouldn't be taken as some kind of overwrought witticism. If anything I think it's a gentle shoutout more than an ironic appropriation. Terje doesn't seem like the type to mock.

Number 21 in the mid week UK album charts at the moment. Had no idea how this was going to sell.

seems weird that people would love the album and not be keen on the singles, all the productions under his name feel very much of a piece. i mean 3/4 of it's the arps shows up on the album! it's not like this is one of those situations where a producer makes an album with a vastly different tone than the singles (ie: nico jaar, james blake, etc)

kinda love the johnny and mary remake. the music seems uninspired to me, maybe given my memory of the upbeat original. i did like the billowy synths that come in at about the 1:30 mark. and, of course, the nostalgic link this draws in my mind to the original elevates it for me.

but it's ferry's voice that sells it. he has a resigned, sad, gravelly voice that sounds like the way bill murray sounded when murray sang ferry's more than this in lost in translation.

I didn't dislike the singles at all. I just felt a little wanting listening to them, not through any defect of the music itself but perhaps more that it was a little too light, that it ended so soon. I think the weightiness of the album format suits Terje. His music has a pleasantly light quality that might manifest a little on the wispy side in single and EP form. Giving him an album medium balances things out nicely.

some ppl just needed it to be album time

i listened to this earlier today, but i'll need to listen to it a bunch more before i have an opinion

It sucks! Sucks the teat of awesomeness, that is.

classic octobeard

To redeem the download from my vinyl copy I just had to go to toddterjesawesomedownloadpage. Love this guy.

Had my first walk in the sun listening to this album today. It sounded so great. My favourite moment on the album right now is Strandbar going into Delorean Dynamite, it's such a great switch.

oh yeah, that's definitely a highlight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnMAc1Nns7E

good video!

love it

even from listening to it as background music at the office, the hooks and textures from this album have burrowed into my skull.

i love this album.

was going nuts today trying to figure out what 70s funk or jazz or kraut song was stuck in my head. just now realized it's "Preben Goes To Acapulco"

find myself disproportionately loving the intro track

^ totally! that intro track is tight, i want an extended, explosion-less version

Good album but I'm itching now to re-edit it, resequence it and fvck with the tracklisting. (Really doesn't need Norse on the end as an encore, f'rinstance. OTOH, Myggsommer could have fitted in well.) What the hell happened to Ferry's voice? :'(

I got the Rough Trade bonus disk too - there's a slightly longer version of Svensk Sås, which doesn't improve any for the lengthening. Otherwise, just different edits - nice to haves but not essential - and a version of J & M sans Ferry.

I wish he would have tried a little harder with the drums on a couple of tracks on the album. the synths sound great.

Just got a vinyl copy of the album as a birthday gift from my mother-in-law

cool m-i-l

True, though tbh, she didn't just randomly pick it out for me

i rescind my comments, fuck your unimaginative m-i-l

Hey now, let's not go overboard

Wasn't familiar with his work. Loving the album and the silliness of sounds/cover art/title

I have now twice mowed the lawn while blasting this album from the porch. Excellent lawn-mowing music, if you're curious.

stop speaking in metaphor

My lawn is not metaphorical. But that, too.

Todd Terje/Todd Terry

I only noticed that yesterday

i listened to this album while watching the '80s sex comedy spring break with the sound turned off this weekend and it worked very well

also good for making bread and butter pudding to (as I did last night)

oh cool i was wondering

i wrote a computer program with it. good album for that.

while it was playing i mean. i didn't use the album to write the program.

I converted Terje's arpeggios into hexadecimal code and found that I had created full sentient artificial intelligence

I manipulate where the moving objects (Todd Terje) are located or where they despawn, then I swap the item in Terje's mouth with a flying ?-block (thus the yellow glitched shell) and using a glitch (stunning) to spawn a sprite which isn't used by Terje and since it tries to jump to the sprite routine location, it indexes everything wrong and jumps to a place I manipulated earlier with the sprites (OAM) and because of the P-Switch it jumps to controller registers and from there the arbitrary code execution is started.

This album sure is a snooze, alright

i "did it" to this album of songs

sent in your college application?

i wrote a program to mow the lawn with this album

YSI? It rained here last night.