Debut Trentemøller Album: The Last Resort

Hey Boys and Girls! My name is Anders Trentemoller, and I live in Copenhagen, Denmark. I am composing, producing and remixing, most of the time, under my last name Trentemoller. I have just finished my debut album, and it will hit the streets in september 2006! It's called The Last Resort. The album will show a new side of me for most of you. It's a very personal album, made not for the dancefloor but for all you dreamers, lovers and spacers out there. I'm so proud and happy about it, and I hope you will like it too. On the CD you can also find a bonus- CD with nearly all my singles released on Pokerflat and Audiomatique. PLUS there will be a vinyl editon with most of the tracks from the album for the vinyl junkies too! Recently: check out my remix of The Knife 'We share our mother's health'! It's out now!

The track 'Missing You' on his Myspace is very atmospheric and beautiful but I can't help but the rest of that profile makes me suspect the album in general is going to go all Tiefschwarz/Nathan Fake. In other words, hamfisted attempt at making 'proper music' while deliberately avoiding what he's actually good at, ie whacking out amazing chunky slabs of dirty house music.

I don't have a good feeling about this.

I should really learn to proofread first.

The album will show a new side of me for most of you.

-- is like "electronic artist album kiss of death," isn't it?

bonus disc will still probably be worth it ....

maybe there should be a rule along the lines of "house and techno artists only allowed to make albums which are compilations of their singles, unless they are called ellen allien"

When I interviewed Trentemoller by e-mail (he was very snooty actually, worse than Superpitcher b/c at least Superpitcher's schtick was novel) he said he was using a lot of live instruments on the album. THE FEAR!

01 take me into your skin
02 vamp
03 evil dub
04 always something better
05 while the cold winter waiting
06 nightwalker
07 like two strangers
08 the very last resort
09 snowflake
10 chameleon
11 into the trees (serenetti part 3)
12 moan
13 miss you

the bonus cd:

01 always something better (vocal version ft richard davis)
02 moan (vocal version ft ane trolle)
03 physical fraction
04 polar shift
05 chameleon
06 sunstroke
07 always something better (trentemøller rmx)
08 nam nam
09 killer kat
10 rykketid
11 prana

I'm keeping an open mind about this, but half-expecting another "Movements" let-down too.

i hate the concept of indietronica, i don't want to like it, but i cannot gwet around the fact that my top 3 albums of 2006 so far are ellen allien & apparat, the knife and junior boys.

I'm not sure if Ellen Allien & Apparat will even make my top ten Lex! I do like it heaps but I'm pretty much with Susan (I think) that it still feels more like an amazing side-project than a 'real' EA album much of the time. But then there's a thread for this ... and this isn't it. fin.

Lex is there any way you can get a copy of this to me if I promise to give you Body Language 2 back?

note to admins: search function can't seem to handle special characters, as it turns up nothing for "trentemøller" (which is why i titled my aborted thread w/ multiple spellings, might wanna add "trentemoller" and "trentemoeller" into this thread title....)

my favorite TMOEUILLR track is still "minimal fox"

it's by no means a dancefloor album, and my praise is less "best thing evah" than "thank god it's not as soul-crushingly awful as the tiefschwarz album", but still, it really is very good!

I agree, "Minimal Fox" is really good! It should be on the bonus.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=16254

OH MY GOD listen to this!!! It's so great!! Esp. considering parts of Windowlicker are SUCH great dancefloor material while other parts aren't.

i like it though! reminds me of Calla and Senking and there are good dub techno bits in it

i predict an 8.7 Pitchfork rating

Don't forget this Tim - do us proud!

*ducks*

i haven't heard this but seriously people.. "techno albums"? come on now.

It's not being anti-movements actually, it's the nature of your enjoyment of villalobos and related stuff. I'm not being critical!

remember orbital?

orbital aren't techno anyway, fuck you talkin about??

Is that possible? Wow...

i thought this was going to be CIF but now you all have me exciting

? Do you mean explaining my comment w/r/t Villalobos?

To further elaborate: I get the sense that all of you like minimalism most when it's bypassed electro-house entirely - more of an unbroken line from the older microhouse.

You and Trees both like Animal Collective too, yeah? Which makes sense. Villalobos = freaky folk music, kinda.

This is reasonably true! I have issues with Animal Collective tho'

I possibly even prefer many of the tracks (big, fun, hooky!) mentioned on that Haircut House thread to a lot of Electrohouse that seems to wash over me somehow. But it's not at all easy to navigate through the cheese (everyone has their limit!) in that area either...

I still haven't got round to seeking out those hookier electrohouse mixes (or trad stuff I asked about on that other thread) so not exactly laying down any permanent boundaries on my tastes here. I feel quite a n00b when it comes to "House" which isn't minimal- or late 80's-early 90's pop-rave stuff or odd tracks I've come across accidentally via techno :Z

-- The Lex

haha! I just realised I meant "not sure" about top THREE ffs. I've hardly heard that many albums, and certainly not great ones, this year either!

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And I think I like Trentemoller's recent original (single) tracks better than his remixes right now (the Knife one never really took off for me) -- in fact Vamp on this record is one of my fave parts about it

I'm not sure if I like it, on the whole, yet.

Ronan the "dub element" being discussed is over-emphasised in this thread. I think you will dislike this record, at least the first disc.

Except perhaps "In The Trees (Serenetti Pt 3)" which I have in a live Trentemoller set and which sounds awesome and quite compulsive in that context. Those drums!

I'm surprised that there aren't more attempts to compromise b/w the dancefloor and the atmospherics on the first disc - a few tracks like "Prana" or "The Forest" wouldn't have gone astray surely.

I know I do. Bring back Air! At least they had some tunes...

His Essential Mix was selected as the best one of the year on BBC1, there's a new 12" on the way with Moan (Trentemoller remix) on it (see http://www.myspace.com/trentemoeller for a sample and http://www.youtube.com/v/XKOVsRSv5bw for a great live version.

Who were the others?

I'd say analogies with Radiohead are unfair, as the latter sound weak and reedy in comparison. The Last Resort is one of the most expansive downbeat records I've heard in a while (Lindstrøm apart) and is definitely thicker and more menacing than the Burial album (which I also like a lot).

My god, the live show rules. I've seen them at the Pukkelpop festival last Saturday and it was just incredible. Don't miss, if you have the chance.

best album i've heard in awhile

Wow, this is lovely. One of those albums you can tell the artist has absolutely slaved over.

I gave this one final listen before selling it back last week. I got it the week it came out and had great expectations and it just wasn't what I wanted or needed. Honestly, the last three tracks (on the cd) are great and for me they would've made an exceptional 12", but that's about it for me on this one. Tim F way, way OTM upthread when he said: "This is so post-rock. It's like if the recent Bark Psychosis comeback had been all ostentatiously futurist rather than sub-Mogwai."