Goodnight…

Words are needless.

Orchestral music played as black metal on electronic instruments and then cut up on a computer

F***ed up title, I know. But it’s actually my best attempt to describe what the Norwegian band Ulver is doing.

First a black metal band, then an electronica act, then noise/glitch geeks, then sound track composers and now a full blown music freak show. Avantgarde? You bet. And cool as hell (not a great metaphor, to be honest). However, Ulver plays tomorrow night in Aarhus at Voxhall – and I’ll be there enjoying every minute.

Digital Versicolor And A Fist Fight

Saw the movie Bronson recently and loved it! It’s made by Nicolas Winding Refn (who is Denmarks best director, in my opinion).

One of the songs from the film’s soundtrack stuck with me. It’s a synthy 80′es track called Digital Versicolor by the duo Glass Candy from their latest record Beat Box.

Sample from a new song

Here’s a little sample from a new song I’m working on.

Things are pointing backwards in time. But going backwards rarely means ending up where you started. The sound of my newly aquired drum machine is of course smeared all over the sample.

Enjoy.

Best Music of 2009

Thought I’d share a personal Best Music of 2009 list. I’m gonna do it different than how it’s normally done though. I don’t care if the record was released in 2009 or not… good music isn’t about release dates. So this is more like a top 5 of the music I’ve enjoyed the most in 2009 (in random order):

Earth – The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull


The Antlers – Hospice


Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind

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Martin Hall – Relief


The Ink Spots – The Ink Spots

New gear

Just parked this beauty in the garage – a Roland R-5 Human Rythm Composer.

Another Synesthesia review

The always nice folks at Undertoner recently reviewed the latest member of the oh-so-slowly-growing Polarforsker discography.

A very thorough review and a 3/6 rating. I really like how it’s compared to a 12 week abortion of Tunng’s Mother’s Daughter And Other Songs. Mission complete!

Read the review here! (in danish)

First Synesthesia review

Apparently I’m boring! (review in Danish)

3/6 stars from Gaffa. The highlight of the review is definitely the ambiguous sub headline: “When is it boring in a boring way?

Synesthesia EP

Released autumn 2009 on cd-r in 40 copies, signed & numbered.
15 minutes of crunchy, handplayed electronica/indietronica.
Still available. Contact me if you’re interested…

1. Atlas (4:20)
2. Retur (2:43)
3. Anomaloskop (0:45)
4. Ockham/Occam (3:40)
5. Krigsfeber (3:57)

Download as .zip (5 tracks + cover art)

The Forest Is Dead / The Forest Lives Forever EP

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Released autumn 2006 on cd-r in 50 copies, signed & numbered.
22 minutes of dreamy, glitchy electronica/indietronica.
Still available. Buy it from CD Baby or contact me if you’re interested…

1. Brise
2. RW&RW
3. If Jesus Died For Me, I Must Live Forever
4. Zürich
5. Mono I Stereo

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    Polarforsker is a Danish electronic musician.