Oslo, Norway's largest city and capital, boasts a history of more than 1000 years and is known as being the most expensive city in the world even ahead of Tokyo. The city is home to the new disco wave from the likes of Todd Terje, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas.
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Full Pupp |
Born and raised in the Norwegian village of Mjondalen Todd Terje belongs to the royal dynasty of contemporary disco. Since his teenage years he has bustled disco research together with his close friends Prins Thomas and Hans-Peter Lindstrøm. What followed...
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Thomas Moen Hermansen better knowns as Prins Thomas is responsible for a swag of eclectic space disco sounds emanating from his homeland, Norway. For sure more than an insider tip he gained highest respect in recent times as a producer, DJ, remixer and...
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Raised on country and western music in the outskirts of the Norwegian oil town Stavanger, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm now lives in Oslo, from where he is making contemporary disco often lined up with his friend Prins Thomas and/or Todd Terje and is running his Feedelity label.
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Norwegian Jaga Jazzist is certainly an exceptional project - a band of around 10 members they are a force when experienced live, and their acclaimed albums on the mighty Ninja Tune label throw everything from jazz, to disco, prog rock and afro beat into...
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Oslo remains a fertile ground for neo-disco sounds, with Joachim Dyrdahl a.k.a. DiskJokke being the latest producer to join the ranks of Lindstrøm, Prins Thomas and Todd Terje as Norway's most prominent representatives of the style. His releases on Full Pupp and Luna Flicks have so far steered clear of cosmic krautrock experiments...
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Deaf Center is the project of Miasmah label-owner Erik K Skodvin (a.k.a. Svarte Greiner) and Otto Totland. Old school friends, their first collaboration work was 2004's 'Neon City' EP, followed by the album 'Pale Ravine' the following year, both released...
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