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Band of Horses

Mathies — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:47:46 +0000

So the story goes: Njal proposed to Elin at a Band of Horses show in Oslo earlier this year. When the Bride and Groom heard that Band of Horses was to play at a festival in Tromsø on the same day of their wedding, they contacted the band and told them their story. With all the coincidences surrounding the wedding, the band decided to surprise the couple. Having not heard from the band at all and accepted that the opportunity passed, Band of Horses showed up minutes after landing in Tromsø to play Marry Song at the ceremony.

Now isn’t that something to tell your grandchildren?

I saw Band of Horses at Roskilde Festival a couple of years ago, and their performance left me with the impression that these guys genuinely enjoy making other people happy with their music. And just when you thought they couldn’t get any cooler, they pull this stunt.

Torsdagsklubben // Kasper Bjørke

Mathies — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:07:38 +0000

Vesterå, 25.02.2010

More photos at nitusind.nu and Flickr.

The Heavy

Mathies — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:08:37 +0000

Studenterhuset, 12.02.2010

- my review for nitusind.nu (in Danish)

Birdy Nam Nam + F.U.K.T.

Mathies — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:22:23 +0000

On Friday night, I shot some photos at the Birdy Nam Nam DJ set + F.U.K.T. live set at Studenterhuset. You can see the outcome over at nitusind.nu (where you can also read a small review) and at my Flickr photostream.

Mock-up Rave

Mathies — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:10:45 +0000

On Friday, I went North to Frederikshavn and shot some photos at the Atrap music festival. The line-up was pretty amazing and you could/should wonder what great names like Bjørn Svin and Albertslund Terrorkorps were doing in the deserted parts of North Jutland on a Friday night in April. Nevertheless, it was an insane night – Bjørn Svin amazed everybody with some hardcore techno, Fagget Fairys mashed-up a lot of popular music and fed their horse, while ATK finished off by slapping everybody in the face with their trashcore electro. In total, indeed worth the trip to Frederikshavn!

Missing out on football

Mathies — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:26:37 +0000

Not that it’s something I like to do or do on purpose, but this Thursday I’ll unfortunately miss out on AaB’s first leg in the UEFA Cup against Manchester City.

Fortunately, I’ll be spending the night at Studenterhuset – first enjoying a presentation of the Pioneers album, which I wrote about recently and afterwards covering a concert with the groovy Swedish dudes, Dungen, in both words and pictures.

If you’re in the neighbourhood, stop by and join me in ignoring the fact that I/you/we might miss a sensational victory or the end of a tremendous European adventure by the local heroes.

On the behalf of Labelkollektiv Distribution and LJUD , I’ll be bringing a fresh box of Pioneers records and selling them during the night!

ATK ATRAP Teaser

Mathies — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:29:04 +0000

The guys in Albertlund Terror Korps made this the cool trailer for the up-coming ATRAP night of mayhem in April at Maskinhallen in Frederikshavn.

Read more about ATRAP and Facebook attend it, if you like.

It’s all about the Danish electronic music

Mathies — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:32:19 +0000

I’ve wanted to write this post for about a week and finally I have the time to sit down and do it! Two days ago, on Saturday 21st of February, the Århus-based LJUD released a very important piece of Danish music history, Pioneers – The Beginning of Danish Electronic Music (link in Danish). The release is a compilation of some of the earliest electronic recordings and contains music by electronic legends Else Marie Pade, Jørgen Plaetner, Bent Lorentzen, Gunner Møller Pedersen, Fuzzy, Svend Nielsen and Svend Christiansen.

For many years, I have been interested in exploring more of the early stuff like Plaetner and Else Marie Pade, but haven’t been able to do so in a very structured manner. Now I have some of the best stuff digitalised by the LJUD guys and compiled on the two-cd release.

Furthermore, the enclosed booklet contains a great read-through of early Danish electronic music and interviews with all the involved artists, except from Jørgen Plaetner, who passed away in 2002. Here’s a link to a page dedicated to Plaetner’s music (still in Danish, hopefully you’ll be able to navigate). He was indeed a true legend!

If you would like to read an extensive work on electronic music, while listening to the Danish pioneers and flicking through a nice booklet perhaps, you should have a look an the Danish book Filtreringer by Henrik Marstal and Henriette Moos. While in Danish, it does not only cover Danish electronic music, but also a wide variety of electronic genres and is indeed a thorough historical piece of work.

To stick to the modern-day context, I would also like to write a few lines about Glöggerne, who have managed to impress me at least a couple of times last year both at Platform4 and the Student House.

Well, I better stop for now; I believe to have shared my recommendations of electronic music and the like for some time. Now, the single most important thing for you to do, is to make sure to track down your copy of Pioneers – The Beginning of Danish Electronic Music at your local record dealer! Thanks to all hard-working people at LJUD making this record a reality and working hard to ensure that the public is given the opportunity to get hold of some of Danish musical history’s most important work!

Kloster welcomed in the Labelkollektiv Distribution family

Mathies — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:09:44 +0000

One of my favourite Danish artists Kloster is now officially a part of the Labelkollektiv Distribution with his release of “Do Not Be Afraid” on vinyl. It’s even possible to get hold of another Kloster record over at Washington Inc. Records, plus there is a release party for ‘Do Not Be Afraid’ in Copenhagen coming up!

Ambient podcast

Mathies — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:18:02 +0000

Places that man has forgotten…icy landscapes…fields of flowers covered eternally with ice… Icebergs colliding amongst themselves…

The boreal dawn that shines upon silent white valleys in the Great Northern lands…an explorer lost among the Antarctic glaciers looking for the way home…

The cold and silent night that falls upon the glacial valleys… creatures that look for shelter from the Great Northern cold… Glacial Movements is a label born to describe and spread these thoughts/images through sound.

Go get the latest podcast from Herlev Bibliotek (Herlev Library) and enjoy cool and winterish ambient sounds in your headphones!

Playlist

Invert (intro) (00:00)
Kunstner: Gridlock
Album: Formless
Label: Hymen Records
Genre: ambient

New horizons (03:04)
Kunstner: Netherworld
Album: Mørketid
Label: Glacial Movements
Genre: ambient

Mørketid (11:44)
Kunstner: Netherworld
Album: Mørketid
Genre: ambient

Thin light (23:47)
Kunstner: Rapoon
Album: Timefrost
Label: Glacial Movements
Genre: ambient

Ice whispers (29:50)
Kunstner: Rapoon
Album: Timefrost
Label: Glacial Movements
Genre: ambient

An aerial view (34:58)
Kunstner: Oophoi
Album: An Aerial View
Label: Glacial Movements
Genre: ambient