From the B-side of his recent "Ragysh" 12"... This is really pretty freaking amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQx5EAfirhc
― Clarke B., Thursday, 2 June 2011 23:45 (fourteen years ago)
Love this track!
― dsb, Friday, 3 June 2011 01:11 (thirteen years ago)
amazing track ! everyone i've played it for loves it. there is a beatless version not on the vinyl floating around digitally. A-side is huge as well, been playing it at my club night a lot.
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Friday, 3 June 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago)
can't get enough of this one either. one of my favorite tracks all year, maybe even my favorite outright
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 3 June 2011 05:14 (thirteen years ago)
reminds me of oni ayhun's oar 3b
― jaxon, Friday, 3 June 2011 05:40 (thirteen years ago)
which means i love it obvs
yeah this is so amazing - i love the a-side "ragysh" too, the way it just keeps rolling over you in waves
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Friday, 3 June 2011 06:02 (thirteen years ago)
A++a-side wasn't striking me and then I got a couple of minutes in and was like 'uh huh'
― owenf, Friday, 3 June 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago)
It's totally textbook and totally great. Ragysh is great as well.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 June 2011 08:56 (thirteen years ago)
Oh for sure, the A-side is totally immaculate as well and I love it. His synths just sound so ridiculously good, so tactile.
― Clarke B., Friday, 3 June 2011 12:54 (thirteen years ago)
weepy rushy hangover alert
― straightola, Friday, 3 June 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago)
I have to stop putting off listening to this! (and I bought the 12" like 4 weeks ago!)
― EDB, Friday, 3 June 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago)
if any 12 this year deserves it's own thread it's this one. both 'ragysh' and 'snooze 4 love' almost clinical in their perfection. 'bonysh' popped up on my ipod the other day and sounded like a great club tool also.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Friday, 3 June 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago)
I thought he had stopped making new music?
― skip, Friday, 3 June 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago)
i like this a lot but its not striking me the way it is some ppl i guess
― lebroner (D-40), Friday, 3 June 2011 21:12 (thirteen years ago)
xp i thought he stopped making edits to focus on new music?
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 3 June 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago)
ah okay.
― skip, Friday, 3 June 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago)
so what sound is this reinterpreting? i'm guessing early warp? lfo, black dog, etc? what else should i look for new and old that's like this?
― jaxon, Saturday, 4 June 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago)
this doesn't sound like early LFO to me at all. this sounds so clean and so much less ravey. it's very pretty though. reminds me a bit of 'dinamo' by nathan fake
― geeta, Sunday, 5 June 2011 03:04 (thirteen years ago)
this is way more nu disco ish to me
― lebroner (D-40), Sunday, 5 June 2011 08:29 (thirteen years ago)
than warp i mean
what nu disco sounds like this tho? maybe it's just that particular type of synthesizer that's coding as something different for me, but it does seems a lot less immediate than most nu disco
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 5 June 2011 08:45 (thirteen years ago)
i guess it reminds me a bit of the dfa remix of "rise" by delia & gavin (not sure if that's nu disco either tho)
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 5 June 2011 08:51 (thirteen years ago)
what i was saying was more of a question than a statement. i want to know what sound the main synth line (not the rhythms) is referencing. to me, this and oar3b seem like they're trying to sound like early warp or early detroit stuff, but i don't know those things that well to know.
― jaxon, Sunday, 5 June 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago)
Oar3b is much more warp-y, specifically Black Dog. With this one the similarity is there but more like B12 in the melodies, i think.
― jed_, Sunday, 5 June 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago)
snooze is quite b-12y, that is, Ragyish is more like Lindstrom than anything else although there's maybe a little Jedi Knights in there.
― jed_, Sunday, 5 June 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago)
IDGI, this sounds like pretty straight-down-the-line nu-balearic to me, albeit perfectly executed and very lovely indeed.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:19 (thirteen years ago)
it sort of reminds me of stuff by Lawrence, a bit? somewhere between the autumn-evening-calm of 'somebody told me' and the endless bubbles of the superpitcher rmx of 'along the wire'.
― d(▽_▽)b (c sharp major), Monday, 6 June 2011 09:27 (thirteen years ago)
A Superpitcher remix of Snoove 4 Love would be amazing actually, kinda thinking in the style of his Iridum remix.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:29 (thirteen years ago)
It's driving me crazy how the portamento only kicks in on the top 2 notes of the arpeggio. Or maybe he's just put the two notes really close together and not quantized them. But it's a sound that is both jarring and yet slightly exciting, like, I listen out for it every time to see if I can work it out. Manages to be both expected and unexpected. Clever.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:33 (thirteen years ago)
Oh this is nice. Thanks y'all for keeping this bumped until I finally got around to listening.
― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Monday, 6 June 2011 09:35 (thirteen years ago)
That's my favourite thing about it - I think it's intended as more of an acciaccatura, but it's really evocative.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:39 (thirteen years ago)
afaict that is what I know as a "grace note"?
― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Monday, 6 June 2011 09:44 (thirteen years ago)
What language are you all suddenly speaking.
― Tim F, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:45 (thirteen years ago)
They're just ever so slightly too *off* to be proper grace notes, but it's the slight off-ness of them that makes them such ear candy. And I miss them when the song settles down to its cosmic juggernaut groove, and it's so exciting when they pop back up mid kosmische groove. So more-ish.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:46 (thirteen years ago)
Ha ha, we need Owen in here to explain the proper difference between grace notes, acciaccaturas and appoggiaturae.
I'm still trying to work out if there's a portamento or not. it's delicious.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:48 (thirteen years ago)
Grace note is kinda the umbrella term, I just wanted to write "acciaccatura" because it's such a pleasing word.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:54 (thirteen years ago)
i only REALLY understood it when i danced to it at a party. and only when i couldn't put my finger on what it 'is' (trainspotting as self defense etc), i realized this is a proper unclassic dance anthem (of 'knights of the jaguar' proportions), but in EXTREME slow motion. it's totally fucking with temporality, i think. it's almost like it has managed to exist only through creating a loophole through time, escaping a nanosecond before the canon of the dance has completely closed.
on this note, let's recall terje's 'eurodans' -- which compared to this sounds a bit amateurish, but still unabashedly euphoric. it produced one of my favorite youtube moments, which still sends immediate party shivers down my spine (00:36):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOr-XoMDzi0
― cuteforce, Monday, 6 June 2011 10:30 (thirteen years ago)
They're just ever so slightly too *off* to be proper grace notes
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, June 6, 2011 9:46 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
this isnt a thing. they are grace notes, an acciaccatura is a kind of grace note afaik
― lebroner (D-40), Monday, 6 June 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago)
How do you pronounce this guy's name?
― bed bath and beyoncé (The Reverend), Thursday, 14 July 2011 04:59 (thirteen years ago)
like kanye, but more elided
― puke of hurl (sic), Thursday, 14 July 2011 05:06 (thirteen years ago)
that's helpful! thx
― bed bath and beyoncé (The Reverend), Thursday, 14 July 2011 05:34 (thirteen years ago)
When he was on Beats in Space, Tim was pronouncing it as Todd Terry but I guess it's more like Teh-yee?
― groovypanda, Thursday, 14 July 2011 09:39 (thirteen years ago)
well, it's a pun on Todd Terry obv
― puke of hurl (sic), Thursday, 14 July 2011 09:52 (thirteen years ago)
you pronounce it
'Todd-Terry-But-Not-THE-Todd-Terry'
― owenf, Thursday, 14 July 2011 12:46 (thirteen years ago)
I asked this years ago and nobody responded. :(
I was actually thinking about this yesterday and: Because the Swedish Google translator voice says "tear-yeh," combined with the fact that his track "Terjelator" goes "it's time for the tear-yeh-lator" has led me to conclude this is the correct pronunciation.
― EDB, Thursday, 14 July 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago)
Also: Seeing him in two days!
terje is norwegian!
― max, Thursday, 14 July 2011 13:28 (thirteen years ago)
Ach! Don't know why I thought he was Swedish (for some reason I thought he specifically was of a different nationality than lindstrom et al). I think it must have been the Ace of Base cover.
― EDB, Thursday, 14 July 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago)
It's pronounced exactly like the Norwegian google translate bot pronounces it.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 14 July 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago)
And there's a link to this in one of the comments:
http://bandtrace.com/Monica+Tornell/track/Svensk+sas
― groovypanda, Friday, 5 February 2016 12:02 (nine years ago)
https://youtu.be/JU1wGIom92A
:p
― • (sleepingbag), Monday, 28 March 2016 15:52 (nine years ago)
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/bump-maloso-radio
― groovypanda, Thursday, 28 April 2016 19:05 (nine years ago)
im kinda not into this. which is a first bc i basically have died at so many of his songs, but im shrugging at this one.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Friday, 29 April 2016 04:45 (nine years ago)
Yeah, feels like Lindstrøm took the Terje torch and ran with it on his new single.
― octobeard, Saturday, 30 April 2016 06:26 (nine years ago)
You should consider yourself fortunate, because I'm cringing at it. You listen to shit like this and you realise what a lucky escape it was that he didn't get time to properly finish the album.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 April 2016 07:52 (nine years ago)
sounds pretty fun to me. intrigued to hear the YMO / Martin Denny cover.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 30 April 2016 12:28 (nine years ago)
enough with the corny cover songs!
― ejemplo (crüt), Saturday, 30 April 2016 15:16 (nine years ago)
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/beranek-dra-te-haelvete-todd-terje-olsen-records/136562
"Hot off the Olsen press comes Dansbar #1, the first in a brand new series aiming to shine some much needed light on the lost history of Norway's disco underground. First in the firing line is Beranek's mad capped morality tale, 'Dra Te Hælvete', a mislaid classic much loved by the most adventurous DJs in the Scandinavian circuit."
― groovypanda, Monday, 9 May 2016 12:14 (nine years ago)
Here's a corny video for a corny cover song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5YOOSl287Y
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 10:16 (nine years ago)
Another track, YMO cover this time
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/todd-terje-the-olsens-firecracker-radio-edit
― groovypanda, Friday, 20 May 2016 20:34 (nine years ago)
I did not like that YMO cover much.
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 21 May 2016 16:01 (nine years ago)
remember when Terje was exciting?
:(
― “Play shuffle board and drink bear!” (seandalai), Saturday, 21 May 2016 23:52 (nine years ago)
I'm one of the people who wasn't disappointed with the album in the slightest, but I'm really struggling to care about what he does anymore. These new songs aren't the direction I wanted him to go in.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 22 May 2016 00:45 (nine years ago)
yeah, I don't get it either.
― skip, Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:18 (nine years ago)
His remix catalogue is so great he should work on having his band perform them live. This new stuff is just terrible.
Imagine seeing his band play this live - would be epichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE3qtcaKpg8
― mickcsmith (micarl), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:35 (nine years ago)
New remix from the Ola Kvernberg reissue on his Olsen label
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/mechanical-fair-todd-terje-remix
https://www.pbvinyl.com/collections/entire-pbv-collection/products/ola-kvernberg-the-mechanical-fair?variant=27752794625
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 10:10 (eight years ago)
is that Kvernberg remix available yet? I've been refreshing Amazon, Beatport, Junodownload, etc since the Soundcloud link says it's available today, but none of them have it available for sale yet.
― thos beads (jamescobo), Thursday, 10 November 2016 18:31 (eight years ago)
(also I had never heard of Ola Kvernberg prior to Terje's involvement, but I listened to Mechanical Bull [the album] and it is in fact quite good)
― thos beads (jamescobo), Thursday, 10 November 2016 18:37 (eight years ago)
New record:
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/sets/todd-terje-jungelknugen
― groovypanda, Saturday, 25 February 2017 21:50 (eight years ago)
it didn't rock my world although seeing him live a week or two ago did
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Sunday, 26 February 2017 02:45 (eight years ago)
That Four Tet remix is a decent banger. Wouldn't be surprised if I hear it at every party I go to for the next 8 months.
― Chantilly Bass, Sunday, 26 February 2017 21:31 (eight years ago)
wow i want to go to parties where they play todd terje records
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 27 February 2017 15:18 (eight years ago)
Four Tet remix came up on Spotify. It's good. I don't go to parties, though.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 27 February 2017 16:56 (eight years ago)
There's really no stopping our Todd. That's a banger. As far as I can see only the remixes are available to buy, not the original...
― the article don, Monday, 27 February 2017 20:00 (eight years ago)
Is there even an original?
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:01 (eight years ago)
Bendik Kaltenborn described the original as "forthcoming" or similar when posting the cover art on instagram earlier
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:26 (eight years ago)
New single tomorrow:
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=97369
― groovypanda, Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:06 (eight years ago)
Whoa I was just thinking abt him yesterday and wondering wen we'd hear new music
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:38 (eight years ago)
i hope he's done with the (snooze alert) phase he's been in
― just another (diamonddave85), Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:50 (eight years ago)
Sounds good from here at least
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/sets/maskindans/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 June 2017 13:15 (eight years ago)
oh for the sun to rise on a tropical beach party with a Ned
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 2 June 2017 16:26 (eight years ago)
I like it
― nxd, Friday, 2 June 2017 18:20 (eight years ago)
xpost -- There are far worse fates.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 June 2017 01:45 (seven years ago)
Snooze 4 Love
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 August 2017 03:52 (seven years ago)
contains one of my favorite hemiolas ever! :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om_SnnIgvms
i may never understand how we don't occupy a universe in which "q" is commonly acknowledged as among his best
― dyl, Saturday, 25 January 2020 07:24 (five years ago)
Did this guy just retire or something? The really excellent new Prins Thomas record is making me pine for Terje. He was completely untouchable for a good four or five years there. It's now been six years since he's dropped something. Is he a family man now on a farm or something? Is he secretly composing his "Ram"? Is he the next Vashti Bunyan and will emerge from his small village in 20 years to drop a masterclass in disco again?
― octobeard, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 17:52 (three years ago)
In my fantasy world alternative timeline Roisin Murphy and Terje collaborate emerge with the greatest dance record of all time and its success brings upon a chain reaction that develops into world peace. No I'm actually sober as I write this, just deeply nostalgic atm
― octobeard, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 17:55 (three years ago)
Yeah he pretty much dropped off the face of the earth. I've also been a bit baffled by this, so after digging awhile back I found a reddit thread asking the same question from a couple of years ago and this was an answer: "Someone asked him whether he has any new music coming soon on his Instagram recently. He said 'nope' :( really broke my heart."
― Evan, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 18:12 (three years ago)
his ambition was to make enough £s so he didn't have to do any more music related activities and i guess he succeeded.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 18:29 (three years ago)
it's only album time once
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 18:40 (three years ago)
more like odd, barelje
― class project pat (m bison), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 19:00 (three years ago)
*cries*
― octobeard, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 06:15 (three years ago)
Think he just DJs these days:
https://ra.co/dj/toddterje
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 09:34 (three years ago)
i'm surprised. he really dislikes it.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 12:13 (three years ago)
Lol, just checked his FB page and he's literally posted on there this week for the first time in over two years (links to upcoming DJ sets)
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 18:56 (three years ago)
― brisk money (lukas), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 00:58 (three years ago)
Any kind of performing. But hopefully was just a phase.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:10 (three years ago)
dunno if this is old or new or what but reggae inspector norse alert:
https://cruisic.bandcamp.com/album/inspector-norse-remixes
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 22 April 2024 13:12 (one year ago)
same crew who did the jazz version of 808 state pacific
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 22 April 2024 13:13 (one year ago)