Look, this man really needs no introduction. He is literally king of the edit. Hands down. Heck, even Prins Thomas gives him the full approval: “He’s doing it properly; I haven’t heard one shit edit by him. He is one of the very few disco producers that has the potential and knowledge that’s required to become a successful producer over-ground. He is trained and he can play any instrument you throw at him. He gets his guitar in the studio, quickly tunes it and an hour later he is playing it and recording tracks” (from an interview I did with Mr. Thomas a while back). Terje Olsen, best known as Todd Terje, part of the top cosmic/disco Norwegian Gods (along with Prins Thomas, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, et al.) is not to be missed. Just your luck, the man himself is touring the whole of Ausland, playing a handful of shows which are as follows:
10/09/2010: Humm & Move Pres. Todd Terje at The Manor (Per)
11/092010: Lick It Pres. Todd Terje at Bar Soma (Bris)
16/09/2010: Adult Arts Club Pres. Todd Terje at Sugar (Ade)
17/09/2010: Children Of Realness Feat. Todd Terje at Roxanne Parlour (Melb)
18/09/2010: Adult Disco featuring Todd Terje at Civic Underground (Syd)
And if you arn’t familiar with Mr. Terje, then this little bio from Outlar is a good start:
“Following a string of celebrated releases leaning on everything from kitschy euro sounds to deep funk and latin jazz, the relatively new to the scene Todd Terje has already made his mark within dance music circuits. Gems such as the cheese monster “Eurodans” and the latin disco-fuelled edit of Jacko’s “Can’t Help it” under his Tangoterje edit-moniker instantly made industry types and clubbers alike go bananas, and whatever the 25 year old Norwegian puts his fingers on, it always comes out with that crucial blend of musicality and playfulness.
Growing up in the rural village of Mjøndalen, dance music influences were scarce, and no, there was never any Diskoklubb there. Not a lot of obscure disco or acid house in his milk either. However, during the early/mid nineties dance culture sneaked it way into even the most remote parts of Norway, thanks to the popularity of acts like The Prodigy and national radio stations filling prime time slots with underground jocks Olle Abstract and Pål “Strangefruit” Nyhus. On the more personal level, Terje’s sister was a close friend of the late Tore “Erot” Kroknes, and the tapes she brought home to the young Terje became a major source of inspiration. Playing around in his early teens on a crap PC together with his mate Dølle Jølle, Terje made his first attempts on house and jungle, which they played from cassette tapes on junior high school-dances. Maybe too young for old music back then, Terje reckoned that disco was all a bit silly – until Bjørn Torske’s “Sexy Disco” caught his ears in 1999.
Training to become a pianist Terje enrolled at a local music school, but to his disappointment there wasn’t much jazz being taught there. Gradually leaving the musical career path, he later moved on to studying physics at the University of Oslo. Although not longer aspiring to become a pianist, he was by no means over music. In 2001 Terje got in touch with Prins Thomas, who was at the time working at HS Records in Oslo. Thomas soon recognized his potential, and helped pushing Terje in the right directions. Oslo is a small place where like minded folks tend to join forces, and with his thorough musical understanding and nerdy like interest in old and new records spanning from that new Idjut Boys 12” to experimental synth bands very few of us have ever heard of, he soon became one of the key players on the Oslo electronic disco scene. Besides working on his own projects, Terje’s played on some of Prins Thomas’ tracks, and not to mention his remix of the Lindstrøm 12” “Another Station”.
Is it house, funk, techno or disco? Terje is speaks of catchy rhythms, dubby sounds, dreamy synth layers, cinematic moods, a playful approach and searching for that one nerve when asked to describe his music, and the resistance to being pigeonholed is obvious. His next ambition is to make a concept album ala Voyage’s first “around-the-world” release, if he can find time between other projects, studies and DJ gigs. Terje has already played around Europe, and is looking forward to gigs in Japan and NYC this summer. “I both like playing big room/macho style, but at the same time it’s the girls I play for really. So I guess it’s a mixture of high octane, leather homo-disco done up with mambo, coconuts and lipstick”. Definitely one to look out for.”
Now, onto the details of the Melbourne gig, which receives our huge tick of approval (hence, why we are supporting it). We are also honored to be supporting Terje on the DJ side of things as well. Here’s the blurb:
“Children of Realness launches Melbourne’s latest on-again, off-again mobile throwdown Friday September 17th, welcoming the Norwegian disco wunderkind & king of the edit TODD TERJE!!!
We can only imagine how thrilled Todd is to be our first guest! An enormous task, as he will be setting the bar for every joker that comes after. Also raising bars we have Melbourne’s finest disco freak-show this side of the Yarra – the fabulous XCAMPF…IREX will be in full effect bending minds in an effort to bring performance art back to the dancefloor, and in a Melbourne, possibly world first we are excited to announce the first NO MUSIC SIDEROOM. That’s right, we here at C.O.R. know how much you love the sound of your own voice so give those vocal chords a workout without all that noisey music for you to yell above, take a seat, meet a new friend, do some business, have a drink, relax, be your own talkback DJ!! In an effort to discourage the ever growing trend of talking/texting on the dance floor we are being proactive and have set aside a whole room for which you can sit in, mingle, make out, find your way back out of that hole you’ve been in since Todd dropped his Chic edit and back into the altered reality that is Children of Realness.”
And the lineup is as follows:
TOOD TERJE / OTOLOGIC / ANDEE FROST / POST PERCY / FRANCIS CHANG/MIKE GUERRIERI / WAVES @ NIGHT DJ’S / MARCO POLO
And some links: Facebook event page – purchase tickets online at Moshtix (tickets are $25)
If you want some tickets but can’t deal with online shenanigans, contact the blog and we can work something out.
Now, onto the music. There is a huge pack of edits/remixes that Terje has done floating around the interwebs. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to find them, just go with it and Google. But here are some of his stuff randomly picked by my preferred media player of choice and uploaded for you guys to wack onto your preferred media player of choice.
MP3: George Shearing – Aquarius (Todd Terje Tangoterje Re-Edit)
MP3: Andreas Vollenweider – Belladonna (Todd Terje Re-Edit)
MP3: Rolling Stones – Under My Dub (Todd Terje Remix)
MP3: Alicia Keys – You Don’t Know My Moonflowers (Todd Terje Edit)
MP3: Wham – Club Tropicana (Todd Terje Edit)
MP3: Giorgio Moroder – Utopia (Todd Terje Edit)
And this one, will always be a favourite of mine. So powerful.
MP3: Dolle Jolle – Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje’s Extra Doll Mix)
See you on the dance-floor.
If Moombahton is your thing then this new mix by Serbian DJ Neki Stranac will make you go totally bananas (you gon be be like ‘yo sweet baby jezus what is this madness’). With so many good moombahton being produced these days it’s hard to keep up but these edits by Neki Stranac will probably solve all your moombahton needs for this week.
