Elektrodyssé used to be Nuteq’s special marathon (12 hours!) Dj set at Landmark, covering more or less the history of electronic music as channeled through his head and turntables. Some truly epic listening, and some pretty daring pee breaks in the middle of it. In podcast form however, he has been kind enough to squeeze it down to 2×2 hours. A breeze, then.

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EDIT monday 22.04.13:
iTunes is taking its sweet time updating the podcast database, so it’ll probably be a few hours before it shows up in there. You can stream and download all you want from right here in the meantime.

Holy macaroni, guys. It’s Record Store Day™. Since it’s a special occasion, we thought we should celebrate it by bringing you something that will last forever: A .zip containing a lot of mp3-s that can be hard to get hold of. This collection brings together a lot of rarities, b-sides, demos and remixes that will have absolutely no part in ever making sense of what we do. But we like all the tracks in here. And we hope you will appreciate this. Hey, some of the songs on here deserve more than taking part in a “statement” against the vinylmania that stopped being exclusive to the DIY- and indie-community that needed the attention and now works as another excuse to make “Rumours”-deluxe edition vinyl.

From Wikipedia, “Record Store Day 2008”:

“Unofficial Ambassadors: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo of Metallica. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day 2008 at Rasputin Music in Mountain View on April 19, 2008. They signed autographs for 500 fans, 100 of which were MetClubmembers. Non Metclub members had to wear red numbered wristbands while the Metclub members wore blue ones. Metallica in conjunction with Rasputin Music gave away free t-shirts sized small to extra-large to all of the fans that got their autographs.”

Without further ado:

NABOVARSEL RECORD STORE DAY COLLECTION
featuring: The demo that made us sign Verdensrommet, some cool Machine Birds remixes, weird stuff from Ill Tariq, Teknopoly’s Scoundrel Days-sounding pop gem, a lot of amazing Put Your Hands Up For Neo-Tokyo, the personal therapy-pop from Advanced Language, a 16-year-old called Astral Trip, and a Broken Social Scene-referencing tune from the ever so mysterious Burning God Little. Romskip & Planeter with a demo he made in 2002. ACTION THE MAN. Oh and a loop from the anonymous Terreng. And not forgetting Njaals breakout-single “Crush”. We also found a drum & bass track from 2002 featuring Chris Holm. And one of the original gangsters from Nabovarsel: Movee with his “Trouble Double”.

Let’s get to it, guys:

DOWNLOAD IT HERE, GUYS: http://nabovarselsuger.no/NABOVARSELRECORDSTOREDAY.zip [Remember to click "Save as"]

Geez. Hope you enjoy. And feel free to do like André 3000 says: Spread.

P.S. Big thanks to our friends in http://powerblytt.com/ for giving us permission to use “Crush”.

So we thought we should do a small round up of Nabovarsels presence on different social media. So here are the links to the platforms that we actually bother updating.

Lets start in some sort of order based on the updating:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nabovarsel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nabovarselberg1

Soundcloud:

Label profile: https://soundcloud.com/nabovarsel
Repost / Reblog: https://soundcloud.com/nbvrsl-bgo

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/NABOVARSELBERGEN

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/nabovarsel/
(New) Myspace: https://new.myspace.com/nabovarselbergen

Any tips to what we should check out would be greatly appreciated. Apart from Instagram, we kinda already know that.

UPDATE 11:56 AM:

Ok, so this post gave Emilio bad conscience and we now have an Instagram-profile as well: http://instagram.com/nabovarsel/

After initially surfacing on Hopa & Bones’s A-Level imprint in ’96, Kjetil Sagstad, aka “K” or “Polar”, notched up a tally of releases on several labels, developing a trademark sound in beats and progressive drum & bass, earning him comparisons to Carl Craig, among others. His beats and eclectic approach to british dance music quickly identified him as being placed awkwardly – and brilliantly – somewhere between the legacy of early Scandinavian electronic music (think Biosphere, Ismistik and Aedena Cycle) and the future of british electro and drum & bass.

Kjetil was always the odd one out. Those were the days of genre-puritanism. You either did this or you did that. That’s at least how it felt like, growing up in Bergen, Norway. You weren’t in London where surely you could have been exposed to all kinds of music and aesthetic playfulness. No. You were in in a 250,000-city on the west coast of non-EU member Norway trying to get hold of records and magazines and you had to make a gigantic effort just so you wouldn’t get stuck in one of the many genre-trenches. And for many years, that was exactly what I did. Because that was how the record labels worked. That was how the distributors worked. One genre. Maximum two styles. Three producers: One opinion. Those were the days. I shudder when I think about it. Not like now, where genre-hopping is as common among producers as it is among the electronic music listener. That goes for me too, I hope. Which is why I again have started to look back at what K/Polar/Jeff Dam (lets just call him kpolar now) released in just a couple of years between 1999 and 2003.

In hindsight the kpolar tracks suprise me to this day in how the songs foresee the sense of groove and the type of playfulness we hear today. The dancefloor-friendly beats mixed with interesting harmonies and textures, not unlike the style we hear in artists and labels such as Hessle Audio, Apple Pips and Hyperdub. Let’s call it The St. Holdings-continuum. It may be a just another funny hypothesis, but I think that if enough time passes then things come around to where you were at some point. Is the time finally ready for a wider kpolar-appreciation?

Originally from Bergen, on the West Coast of Norway, kpolar was baptized by a small rave scene and was early exposed to intense early breakbeat and techno. In the early 1990s he quit school to pursue a sonic education. After his Dad nicked his gear off him as penance for his non-orthodox scholarly aspirations, kpolar used his mate Teebee’s PC to make tunes. After developing contact with Moving Shadow and Rugged Vinyl, kpolar released Jazzassins ‘Compass’ for R&S Records in 1997.

Releases followed on Beatservice and Moving Shadow, his track was snapped up by the likes of Gilles Peterson, Amon Tobin, Matrix, Laurent Garnier and Fabio, and highlighted the direction of Polar’s venture into glacial soundscapes and haunting programming. The mini-LP ’37 Degrees and Falling’ followed, with the influence of kpolar’s home environment of Norway ever present in his sound, and planting him firmly on the musical map with intense atmospherics and powerful beat arrangements. There are many good drum & bass tracks on this release. “Optifunk” is one that seemed to go well everywhere with ravey chords and some dirty bass-synth notes heating up the funk. A favorite of mine from ’37 Degrees and Falling’ is “One of a Kind”, a track that features ping-pong sounds left and right juxtaposed with eerie riffs and atmospherics over a clinical and subtle beat.

Singles ‘Mind Of A Killer’, ‘Skydiver’, and ’5am’, released throughout 2000, illustrated the irrevocable, irreversible slide back from the thaw, heading into numbing yet taut K-hole serenity. 2001 saw the release of the acclaimed ‘Still Moving’ album, achieving support and recognition from a wide spectrum of scenes, not just from within drum & bass.

One of my own personal favorites from this album is the funky, ravey electro-track ‘Nascent Dream’. I haven’t quite figured out the time signature here. Is it a 5/4? Or perhaps it is a 7/8? But that’s not important. It’s just an added bonus for the attentive listener. Oh, and also that makes it “difficult” for DJ-s to play in the clubs, apparently. That’s the kind of obstacle that today gets celebrated by ones in the know, but that in the early noughties actually hindered you in reaching out to a wider audience. Or so it seemed. Good thing we have hindsight, right?

The ‘White Chambers’ EP was released in December ’01: this was three cuts of deep, downtempo electronica. Moody, emotional and brooding – like a film noir soundtrack infused with hip hop and drum & bass – the tracks were lifted from the CD version of ‘Still Moving’ and created waves throughout the electronic world, with Polar being hailed as “Kruder & Dorfmeister on an iceberg” (Seven Magazine). It also featured a remix by Ian Simmons aka Journeyman.

Having this 12″ in my possession was one of my secret weapons when I started DJ-ing. I was a young, snotty kid with no real reason to play in clubs or parties and this immediately placed me at opening slots in Bergen. Luckily for me I soon met Espen Horne and the guys who ran Miles Ahead (now replaced by a strip club). A club that had an alternative music profile. Playing “White Walls” immediately followed by “White Chambers” (the two atmospheric instrumental hip-hop tracks melded into each other anyway) gave me 10 minutes of a great, cinematic tune that built energy and gave me enough time to shake off my nervousness.

In 2002, kpolar relocated to San Francisco while working on his 3rd solo album ‘Out of the Blue’. Tragically this would be his last for the next 6 years due to a hearing injury. That same year also saw Polar releases on Metaformal, Breakbeat Science, Thermal Recordings, Fenetik, FAT! and his own label Subtitles Music, founded together with childhood friend Dj Teebee.

kpolar suffered from reduced hearing, Hyperacusis and Tinnitus as a result of a hearing injury he originally got in 1999. In 2002 it took an unexpected turn for the worse, and he was left unable to spend any time in the studio. He left the administration of Subtitles to partner Teebee in 2003, and disappeared from the drum & bass scene.

A couple of years later an album surfaced on Warm Communications, displaying a mature drum & bass-style filled with texture and atmosphere. Polar was again the odd one out. But the downtempo “Static” stands out in this collection of tunes, with it’s beautiful harmonies and sci-fi feel that still renders appropriate. Would it be a sign to come? Five years has passed, and we’re still waiting…

Sources: Wikipedia, Discogs, Certificate 18-s old webpage.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kpolarofficial
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kpolar
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/kpolarofficial

04.04: Hulen, Bergen
05.04: U82, Bergen (All Ages Concert)
12.04: Revolver, Oslo
13.04: Sort og Blå Scene, Porsgrunn
20.04: Samfundet, Trondheim

If you need something to convince you, then perhaps we can tell you that they are booked for a MAJOR Norwegian festival, after convincing at by:Larm this year. It will be announced soon. They have also done this brilliant music video with the talented Vetle Vongraven helming it as a director. See it here:

Yeah man.

Once again DJ NuTeQ returns to ElektrOdysse by special request courtesy of Nabovarsel. In his own words the mix is comprised of “[...] what I’ve basically been listening to and spinning the most this past year, both new and old tracks”. Special shout outs to my people at Nabovarsel, Ninja Tune, BBE, Tokyo Dawn, Lovemonk, Nice & Nasty, LabInst, Biophon, Definition Of iLL and Draug Media!!”

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Mixen e “blodmastra” førr klubb og høyttalera, så blæst denne høyt i stua! BASS.

TRACKLIST:

DJ Vadim “Hide N Seek”
Lorn “Ghosst”
AraabMuzik “Bass”
Africa Hitech “Out In the Streets”
Africa Hitech “Do U Wanna Fight”
AMB “Loco Boogie”
Orbital “Distractions”
Two Fingers “Vengeance Rhythm (Koan Sound Remix)”
Flying Lotus “Getting There (feat. Niki Randa)”
Shuttle “Wake Up”
Orbital “Tension”
Kankick “Say (Slugabed Ruined It)”
Julien Dyne “Creebin”
Letherette “Wecko”
Lapalux “Quartz”
The Qemists “Dem Na Like Me (King Cannibal Remix)”
Mux Mool “01 Death 9000″
Lapalux “Forgetting And Learning Again (Ft. Kerry Leatham)”
Martino “Reasons (Sigg Buggz Remix)”
Chocolate Weasel “Music for Body Lockers (Reworked From Shatners Bassoon)”
Eddie C “My Woman (Wolf Mix)”
Hurts “Stay (Groove Armada Remix)”
Op:L Bastards “Sinulle (For You)”
Electro Wayne & The Funk Empire “Life Is Cold (Instrumental)”
Gesaffelstein “Viol”
Tom Opdahl “Pinepulse”
Tom Opdahl “Dark Little Something”
Nachklangmusik & Phasen “3 (Carlos Nilmmns Remix)”
Iori “Magnetic”
Leonid “Mora”
Aril Brikha “Setting Sun”
FaltyDL “Hardcourage”
Orbital “2 Deep”
Comfort Fit “Ask The Devil feat. Howard Marks (Atjazz Alternative Remix)”
Syntax Erik “Keep it Deep (Deep right now)”
KRL “Remember Donny (Greymatter Remix)”
Wagon Cookin “All The Night feat. Gabriela Smith”
Vindahl “Sometimes”
K’bonus “Strength”
Moodymann “Got 2 Make It (Dub)”
Ricky Sinz “You (Michael Lovatt’s More Wood Remix)”
Blaktroniks “Nothing (Opolopo Tweak)”
Ramboiage “Lisboa”
Coloma “Transparent”
Nachklangmusik “One Small Step (Noraj Cure remix)”
Saftronic “U Spend My Time”
Silvercity Bob “Night Of The Frog”
Portformat “Where Do I Belong feat. Amalia”
Nachklangmusik & Phasen “Autumn Nights”
Martyn “We Are You In The Future (Redshape Remix)”
Raffertie “One Track Mind”
Objekt “Cactus”
Wiley “I’m Skanking (The 2 Bears Remix)”
Ashley Beedle “Run The Track”
Ashley Beedle “Only You”
Nachklangmusik “One Small Step (Pseudonym remix)”
Mouse on Mars “Frosch”
Echonoise “Cellar”
Elephunk “Movimento”
Octave One & Ann Saunderson “Blackwater (Alter Ego Vocal Mix)”
DJ Bone “Shut The Lights Off”
Truenoys “Stand Up”
My Dry Wet Mess “Austere Coincidences”
Slugabed “Rockin U Featuring Leon Ware”
Vision “Rise of Green”
Roses Gabor “Stars”
Andreas Tilliander “Medication”
Two Fingers “Razoback”
Hector Ferreyra Y Su Conjunto “A Caballo (DJ Still Life edit)”
DJ Q “Dibby Dibby Sound ”
Bang On! “Fars Yer Whop (DJ Q Remix)”
Souldrop “Your Love”
DJ Kentaro “Kikkake (Reso Remix)”
Araabmuzik “AT2″
Slugabed “Mountains Come Out Of The Sky”
Slugabed “I Dreamt I Could Skateboard Really Well”
Africa Hitech “93 Million Miles”
Deco Child “Pray”

CC: 100
Aldersgrense: 20år
Dørene åpner: 22:00

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INTERTWINE (APOLLO RECORDS)
Intertwine er Tarjei Ekelund og haltende melodier baconsurret i rare lyder, trompeter, trommemaskiner, funky basslinjer, resonans og klang- Et ensomt soveromsprosjekt unnfanget og forkastet i Larvik i 2006 før det ble pustet liv i på ny, fem år senere, på et annet soverom i Trondheim. Diamond Club lanserte førstesingelen “So What” 3. september. Urørt skriver: “Funky bass, klangfull elektronika og sval og leken produksjon preger Intertwines “So What”. Soveromsprosjektet sender tankene til Destroyer og Washed Out – og er definitivt klar for en ny arena.”.

Nå har Intertwine signert platekontrakt med Apollo Records, søster-labelen til R&S Records.
Det anerkjente labelet er kjent for å ha signert artister som James Blake, Aphex Twin og Biosphere.

Intertwine mottok strålende kritikk etter By:larm: http://p3.no/musikk/euforisk-ro/

Denne kvelden vier vi også litt ekstra plass til Tobii, som har laget mye fet deep house og som definitivt får deg til å danse til det du ikke tør å spille selv. Han har også laget denne:

So Machine Birds have a 7″ out with “Time” on the A-side and “One Last Try” on the B-side. This is the ONLY way to officially own “One Last Try”. So get it while it’s hot here: http://robotbutikken.no/butikk/musikk/time/ where you can order your own physical copy directly to your home.

Also, they have a new single out. It’s called “Because It’s Easy” and it’s an amazing piece of electro pop:

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