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It’s been quite a weekend at Studenterhuset for Scandinavian rock music and I have had the pleasure of covering a lot of it for nitusind.nu! On Thursday night, I had the pleasure of attending a presentation of the history of Danish electronic music by a couple of very guys. It was related to the release of “Pioneers – The Beginning of Danish Electronic Music”, which I wrote a blog post on a couple of weeks ago. Afterwards, I attended a concert with Swedish Dungen and the Copenhagen rockers in The Setting Son – they made it quite a night! You can read the review here and see my photos here and at my Flickr site.

On Friday I was back in business once again, covering a concert with Danish rock darling Sune Wagner. You can read my review of the concert here and see some photos here and also at my Flickr site.

At another personal level, my weekend has booked by sweet little Charlie – the newest addition to the family. A cute little fella that likes snoop around our apartment and pee all over the place. He’s very well behaving even though he’s only two months old. In about a week and a half, Sara’s leaving for a stay at University of Oregon, so for a couple of months it’ll be only him and me – I’m quite excited about how that’ll turn out :) I’ll make sure to keep you posted on his life! For the these past couple of first days, his days have consisted of a lot of sleeping. He’s probably tired from all the new impressions and smells in his new environment…

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!

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!