TOTEM 9000 is a monthly event starting out this December at 1000Fryd in Aalborg. Chiefs of selected cultural venues will travel to unknown territory (other venues) in Aalborg and initiate a debate about the development of cultural life in Aalborg. At this first event, Mads Mulvad and Lars Hellerup from the Student House will travel to 1000Fryd and partake in a night of interviews and debate about the current status and future of alternative culture in Aalborg.

In 2011, TOTEM 9000 will travel – with new chiefs leading the way every time – between venues in town. I participate as a part of nitusind.nu and by helping out with “chief photo shoots” for coming events. Not long ago I posted a photo of Mads and Lars, and various photos from that day (and the many to come) will be used for creative press material for the TOTEM 9000 events.

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Now the entire Daytrotter session library is available on your iPhone and iPod Touch. You’ll get not only the music but our session feature articles and original artwork too. Browse by new sessions, most played, or search for your favorite artist.

I love it! Go get it.

Ra Ra Riot, Caribou and The Drums are some of my favourite recent sessions, but I could go on diggin’ through that archive for months! I look forward to the session with Efterklang!

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!