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Studenterhuset // 25.02.2010

I think I could probably attend a concert with Lorenzo Woodrose every weekend for a very long time. He’s a brilliant musician, knows how to jam out and is the man behind some of the most amazing lyrics of newer Danish rock history. Read a small review of last night’s concert over at nitusind.nu (in Danish, sorry).

Somebody elses past on my wall in a picture frame I’ve found
My life’s a dead end destiny but I’m stuck in here and now
Mr. Clock is still hanging around, making that awful sound
Countdown to breakdown

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!

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!

Last Thursday, Transformator hosted and nitusind.nu arranged the local annual air guitar championship! In a packed room – and with people turned down at the entrance – the atmosphere was great and it was indeed quite an experience! You can read my Danish review and see some pictures (everybody understand those) of the night over at nitusind.nu. Furthermore, I’ve uploaded a more extensive gallery of the night at my Flickr site.