Here we go all Norwegian once more, with Nils of Ella Guru marking the weirdest spots on the mellifluous map of Norway. Hurrah. Here’s the podcast feed.
お楽しみに！ Hope you enjoy.. Don’t let that first track scare you off. And do read the explanation for the selections, you get brownie points for that too.
tracklist
darkthrone – transilvanian hunger
as my last mixtape was titled ‘I hate black metal’, I found it only suitable to open this one with my favourite black metal track, my favourite norwegian blackmetal track that is, my all-favourite would have to be ‘Rivfader’, by finnish ‘Finntroll’, known as the blackmetalband even people who hate blackmetal love. But this is norwegian, one of the pioneer bands I’ve been told…I think their bass player got murdered by some blackmetal/devilworshipping/churburning/nazi-guy back in the nineties, though I might be wrong, maybe it was the bass player in Mayhem…I honestly don’t know…anyway, I kinda like this song. I cut it quite early though, you’re not missing much really, it goes on like that for another four minutes or so…and I apologise for the poor sound-quality, blame it on the guy who gave me the mp3…
side brok – likandes kar
Norways best hip-hop act I would say. They’re a funny bunch. And as I remember it when they first came, I didn’t really give a damn then, didn’t even like rap, many people sort of wrote them of as just a funny bunch, singing in their weird local dialect of Ørsta, or is it Volda…I’m not sure…But listening to their albums now they stand out as a personal favourite…they’re not only funny, they’re also damn good.
eiko – to macrocosm
eiko, ah…I love her.
she is by far the coolest woman I’ve ever seen on a stage, or anywhere else for that matter.
though, I’m not really sure how norwegian she really is…I think she might actually be from switzerland or something…but she is somehow norway-affiliated, I think…I don’t know, I don’t care…
She could scare the shit out of you, using a laptop and a microphone…
monomen – divide divide
making a desperate attempt of escaping the haunting world of Eiko, with some catchy tunes from synth-pop-hipsters Monomen…
kjøtt – metamorfose
Kjøtt (Meat) was one of the leading acts of the norwegian punk-scene…largely overrated in my opinion, but some of their songs aren’t to bad…like this one…
The drummer later founded one of the most popular bands in the country during the eighties and early nineties, Raga Rockers, they’re actually quite good. Some other members of Kjøtt continued making music in a rather horrible new-wave band called ‘Cirkus modern’… really utterly horrible…
hiss – sirkel (im kreis)
Found it in this record store I used to work in…I have no idea what it is…have seen one of the names on it credited as producer for something, but can’t remember where…if anyone know anything about this band, please let me know…
PapaFahr – Welcome to Odessa
Heh…I just had to ad this. Papafahr is an old local singer-songwriter (I have no idea how old he actually is…somewhere between fifty and one hundred I would guess, but he could very well be somewhere between twentyfive and onehundredandfifty). You can sometimes see him playing the streets in trondheim, some times, as on this recording, backed by myself on drums and percussion, and Marcellius from the rather brilliant band Spring Collection on bass. When we recorded this the bass player was heavily influenced by this christian country record which was lying around in the studio kitchen…he doesn’t normally play like this…it sounds good though, great song, smells of summer, sun, cold beer, pretty girls and all things nice…
Fra Lippo Lippi – Out of the ruins
Fra Lippo Lippi is best known for having been famous in the Philippines. But before they started making dreary eighties popmusic (though their hit single ‘Shouldn’t have to be like that’, is quite catchy), they were portrayed as beeing a norwegian Joy Divison…heh…at least it sounds as if they really tried to be, hard.
On this album, ‘in silence’, from 1981, they sound more like New Orders first album ‘Movement’ though. I think they made some EP’s before this (I ain’t got an internet connection at my place, so I can’t check up any facts, unfortunately).
Domestic Duck – super cool
Norways best ‘krautrock’ band perhaps…I don’t really know anything about them…this guy up in the fourth floor in my building knows them though, and apparantly they don’t play much…too bad…
Motorpsycho – wearing your smell
When you go to a indie-rock gig with a local band in trondheim, you can usually classify them by referring to a particular Motorpsycho-album. Their status as Norways greatest indieband is undisputed, at least here in Trondheim. I really can’t think of any others worth mentioning. Choosing one song from their vast and varied back-catalogue is one very ungrateful task…I chose this one…I don’t know why…
Manna – Vi vil ikke ha mer krig
‘People who don’t like reggae are essentially bad people, I don’t trust them’ – I said that, or so I’m told…I don’t know if I can stand for it though, I know of at least two people I like who don’t like reggae-music…and just recently my dad got into dub, at the age of 54.
G.O.D.S. – Trondheim
These guys can get anyone from six to sixty and far beyond to dance. masters of crowd control. this song, a hommage to the town we live in; ‘sun, summer and snow, that’s trondheim you know’…or something like that.
Dog & Sky – Hammer
this was the first band I really dug after moving in to town…ah, imagining Matt, singer of D&S, in a slightly oversized suit making a tiny jump clinching his eyes yelling kiss me!, man, I could’ve kissed him right there…but that was another song, at some other gig, some other time… according to the cover booklet the singer of the band ‘det glade vanvidd’ plays hammer in this song, but I’ve not been able to dechipher where. I could watch the drummer for hours, love her style, and she’s so good, I almost find it provoking(I’m a drummer myself), she must be a jazzer or something, wich reminds me of…
PELbO – the star
…Pelbo, whom someone somehow have given the honour of havin’ made tuba sexy…that’s absurd, when was tuba not sexy? all bass is sexy. If someone who knows the band by any chance hear this mixtape, they might wonder what happened to the final part…well, I’ll tell you what. It sucks. I hate it. So I cut it. I’m sorry guys. Everything you her on the recordings the also do live, looping of vocals, putting on effects and such.
Chilsmissebarna – Gregor Samsa ain’t dead
heh…me and the percussionist in my band once took initiative for a spontanious rehersal, but noone else were available, and also we didn’t have keys to the bandroom, so we went back to my place, shared one pathetic bottle of bear, and started making sounds with whatever stuff we could find in my room, a vacuum cleaner, a guitar flight case, a recordplayer etc. That was the beginning of Chillsmissebarna. The band who managed to chase just about every participant of a friends birthdayparty arranged at my place, playing on vacuumcleaner, casserolles and guitarfeedback, everyone fleed into the kitchen or to the toilets…at the other of the two gigs of our career we started fighting out of frustration of the fact that none of us knew what we were doing, or maybe because we were bored, rolling around in the dirt, einar tore my shirt…this australian guy with a barbercue said he really liked it…
Babi Jar – Babi Jar
a friend of mine popped in, asked me ‘what are you doing?’, I told him what I was doing, ‘oh’, he said, ‘I’ve got some stuff you could use’, and brought me a usb-stick with music. this one was the only one to sneak through the needle’s eye this time.
120 days – come out (come down, fade out, be gone)
so hip it almost makes you sick, but that doesn’t keep them from being good, does it? I don’t know. I have a disease that makes me unable to listen to music, at least modern music, without immideatly coming up with a bunch of references, whom the band I’m listening to never really can live up to, in my eyes. It sucks really, prevents me of liking a lot of music that’s probably not really to bad, it’s just that this other band from the sixties or seventies or eighties, was better…there’s always some other band…
123 – Graveyard paradise
but let’s forget all that and enjoy this sixties beauty. Dylanesque you say? Yeah…but please don’t ruin it by reminding me. Actually the sickness is only contaminous for music made after y2000. This is ripped from an original seven inch my aunt gave me, real worn…listen to the scratching…
eashfa 