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

I thought he had stopped making new music?

i like this a lot but its not striking me the way it is some ppl i guess

xp i thought he stopped making edits to focus on new music?

ah okay.

so what sound is this reinterpreting? i'm guessing early warp? lfo, black dog, etc? what else should i look for new and old that's like this?

this doesn't sound like early LFO to me at all. this sounds so clean and so much less ravey. it's very pretty though. reminds me a bit of 'dinamo' by nathan fake

this is way more nu disco ish to me

than warp i mean

what nu disco sounds like this tho? maybe it's just that particular type of synthesizer that's coding as something different for me, but it does seems a lot less immediate than most nu disco

i guess it reminds me a bit of the dfa remix of "rise" by delia & gavin (not sure if that's nu disco either tho)

what i was saying was more of a question than a statement. i want to know what sound the main synth line (not the rhythms) is referencing. to me, this and oar3b seem like they're trying to sound like early warp or early detroit stuff, but i don't know those things that well to know.

Oar3b is much more warp-y, specifically Black Dog. With this one the similarity is there but more like B12 in the melodies, i think.

snooze is quite b-12y, that is, Ragyish is more like Lindstrom than anything else although there's maybe a little Jedi Knights in there.

what nu disco sounds like this tho? maybe it's just that particular type of synthesizer that's coding as something different for me, but it does seems a lot less immediate than most nu disco

IDGI, this sounds like pretty straight-down-the-line nu-balearic to me, albeit perfectly executed and very lovely indeed.

it sort of reminds me of stuff by Lawrence, a bit? somewhere between the autumn-evening-calm of 'somebody told me' and the endless bubbles of the superpitcher rmx of 'along the wire'.

A Superpitcher remix of Snoove 4 Love would be amazing actually, kinda thinking in the style of his Iridum remix.

It's driving me crazy how the portamento only kicks in on the top 2 notes of the arpeggio. Or maybe he's just put the two notes really close together and not quantized them. But it's a sound that is both jarring and yet slightly exciting, like, I listen out for it every time to see if I can work it out. Manages to be both expected and unexpected. Clever.

Oh this is nice. Thanks y'all for keeping this bumped until I finally got around to listening.

It's driving me crazy how the portamento only kicks in on the top 2 notes of the arpeggio. Or maybe he's just put the two notes really close together and not quantized them. But it's a sound that is both jarring and yet slightly exciting, like, I listen out for it every time to see if I can work it out. Manages to be both expected and unexpected. Clever.

That's my favourite thing about it - I think it's intended as more of an acciaccatura, but it's really evocative.

afaict that is what I know as a "grace note"?

What language are you all suddenly speaking.

They're just ever so slightly too *off* to be proper grace notes, but it's the slight off-ness of them that makes them such ear candy. And I miss them when the song settles down to its cosmic juggernaut groove, and it's so exciting when they pop back up mid kosmische groove. So more-ish.

Ha ha, we need Owen in here to explain the proper difference between grace notes, acciaccaturas and appoggiaturae.

I'm still trying to work out if there's a portamento or not. it's delicious.

Grace note is kinda the umbrella term, I just wanted to write "acciaccatura" because it's such a pleasing word.

i only REALLY understood it when i danced to it at a party. and only when i couldn't put my finger on what it 'is' (trainspotting as self defense etc), i realized this is a proper unclassic dance anthem (of 'knights of the jaguar' proportions), but in EXTREME slow motion. it's totally fucking with temporality, i think. it's almost like it has managed to exist only through creating a loophole through time, escaping a nanosecond before the canon of the dance has completely closed.

on this note, let's recall terje's 'eurodans' -- which compared to this sounds a bit amateurish, but still unabashedly euphoric. it produced one of my favorite youtube moments, which still sends immediate party shivers down my spine (00:36):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOr-XoMDzi0

They're just ever so slightly too *off* to be proper grace notes

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, June 6, 2011 9:46 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

this isnt a thing. they are grace notes, an acciaccatura is a kind of grace note afaik

How do you pronounce this guy's name?

like kanye, but more elided

that's helpful! thx

When he was on Beats in Space, Tim was pronouncing it as Todd Terry but I guess it's more like Teh-yee?

well, it's a pun on Todd Terry obv

you pronounce it

'Todd-Terry-But-Not-THE-Todd-Terry'

I asked this years ago and nobody responded. :(

I was actually thinking about this yesterday and: Because the Swedish Google translator voice says "tear-yeh," combined with the fact that his track "Terjelator" goes "it's time for the tear-yeh-lator" has led me to conclude this is the correct pronunciation.

Also: Seeing him in two days!

terje is norwegian!

Ach! Don't know why I thought he was Swedish (for some reason I thought he specifically was of a different nationality than lindstrom et al). I think it must have been the Ace of Base cover.

It's pronounced exactly like the Norwegian google translate bot pronounces it.

i played Snooze 4 Love out for the first time last nite. it was at my hotel lobby lounge/bar gig as it was emptying out and there were only a few couples huddled on sofas in dark corners, it was really, really nice. i think i'd only listened to it once before that and then went back to the other two joints on the 12" but i've been listening to it all day today.

related: earlier in the nite, i was playing Todd Todd Terje's "Kul I Pul" and a cocktail waitress came up to me and said "CAN YOU BURN A CD OF THE SONG YOU ARE PLAYING RIGHT NOW"

turns out that a Moroccan Prince is staying at the hotel for a whole month with his 20-person entourage and the hotel staff is bending over backwards waiting on him hand and foot. and i guess dude wanted a copy of that song, i burned him a cd and wrote TODD TERJE - "KUL I PUL" on it and handed it to the cocktail waitress who thanked me profusely.

yo Todd if you get flown to Morocco and put up in a royal palace for a few weeks, you're welcome!!

on this note, let's recall terje's 'eurodans' -- which compared to this sounds a bit amateurish, but still unabashedly euphoric. it produced one of my favorite youtube moments, which still sends immediate party shivers down my spine (00:36):

youtube.com/watch?v=bOr-XoMDzi0

― cuteforce, Monday, June 6, 2011 12:30 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

yo this is fucking awesome^^

oops that should be quoted not bolded

that might eclipse this as my favorite shitty-cellphone-camera-shot-of-a-dj-dropping-a-track-and-people-going-apeshit youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uVUT9sxX_s

do we have a thread for that?

BTW I finally identified what that Prince edit is:

http://soundcloud.com/iamrobd/prince-i-wanna-be-your-lover-dimitri-from-paris-edit

You can grab it here btw: http://www.dothepantsdance.com/blog/item/187-prince-i-wanna-be-your-lover-dimitri-from-paris-re-edit

tim if u find an mp3 of that w/ a bitrate higher than 160 holler @ me

xpost hmmmm will check that 1

ok yeah thats the version i have :-[

yo http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1733021-02.htm

wtf is this dimitri from stoke on trent shit

thanks tho just sayin!

Oh no, he's in Chicago right now and I just heard this!

Like, I missed it!

where did he play?

I'm one of the people who wasn't disappointed with the album in the slightest, but I'm really struggling to care about what he does anymore. These new songs aren't the direction I wanted him to go in.

yeah, I don't get it either.

His remix catalogue is so great he should work on having his band perform them live. This new stuff is just terrible.

Imagine seeing his band play this live - would be epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE3qtcaKpg8

New remix from the Ola Kvernberg reissue on his Olsen label

https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/mechanical-fair-todd-terje-remix

https://www.pbvinyl.com/collections/entire-pbv-collection/products/ola-kvernberg-the-mechanical-fair?variant=27752794625

is that Kvernberg remix available yet? I've been refreshing Amazon, Beatport, Junodownload, etc since the Soundcloud link says it's available today, but none of them have it available for sale yet.

(also I had never heard of Ola Kvernberg prior to Terje's involvement, but I listened to Mechanical Bull [the album] and it is in fact quite good)

New record:

https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/sets/todd-terje-jungelknugen

it didn't rock my world although seeing him live a week or two ago did

That Four Tet remix is a decent banger. Wouldn't be surprised if I hear it at every party I go to for the next 8 months.

wow i want to go to parties where they play todd terje records

Four Tet remix came up on Spotify. It's good. I don't go to parties, though.

There's really no stopping our Todd. That's a banger. As far as I can see only the remixes are available to buy, not the original...

Is there even an original?

Bendik Kaltenborn described the original as "forthcoming" or similar when posting the cover art on instagram earlier

New single tomorrow:

http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=97369

Whoa I was just thinking abt him yesterday and wondering wen we'd hear new music

i hope he's done with the (snooze alert) phase he's been in

Sounds good from here at least

https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/sets/maskindans/

oh for the sun to rise on a tropical beach party with a Ned

I like it

xpost -- There are far worse fates.

Snooze 4 Love

contains one of my favorite hemiolas ever! :

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

i may never understand how we don't occupy a universe in which "q" is commonly acknowledged as among his best

Did this guy just retire or something? The really excellent new Prins Thomas record is making me pine for Terje. He was completely untouchable for a good four or five years there. It's now been six years since he's dropped something. Is he a family man now on a farm or something? Is he secretly composing his "Ram"? Is he the next Vashti Bunyan and will emerge from his small village in 20 years to drop a masterclass in disco again?

In my fantasy world alternative timeline Roisin Murphy and Terje collaborate emerge with the greatest dance record of all time and its success brings upon a chain reaction that develops into world peace. No I'm actually sober as I write this, just deeply nostalgic atm

Yeah he pretty much dropped off the face of the earth. I've also been a bit baffled by this, so after digging awhile back I found a reddit thread asking the same question from a couple of years ago and this was an answer: "Someone asked him whether he has any new music coming soon on his Instagram recently. He said 'nope' :( really broke my heart."

his ambition was to make enough £s so he didn't have to do any more music related activities and i guess he succeeded.

it's only album time once

more like odd, barelje

*cries*

Think he just DJs these days:

https://ra.co/dj/toddterje

i'm surprised. he really dislikes it.

Lol, just checked his FB page and he's literally posted on there this week for the first time in over two years (links to upcoming DJ sets)

i'm surprised. he really dislikes it.

Any kind of performing. But hopefully was just a phase.

dunno if this is old or new or what but reggae inspector norse alert:

https://cruisic.bandcamp.com/album/inspector-norse-remixes

same crew who did the jazz version of 808 state pacific