Polarforsker http://www.polarforsker.com Electronic music for lonesome polar bears Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:46:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Dabke dabke http://www.polarforsker.com/dabke-dabke/ http://www.polarforsker.com/dabke-dabke/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:46:23 +0000 admin http://www.polarforsker.com/?p=42

This guy is really cool. Yeah, I’m serious. Check out Omar Souleymans latest album Jazeera Nights for some serious Arabian grooves and teasipping psychedelica.

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The movie itself is spectacular, but absolutely not a crowd pleaser. Very arty. As the protagonist is a mute viking thrall (played by Mads Mikkelsen) the dialogue does very little to move the film forward. Instead it heavily relies on the crisp photography to tell the story… but what really struck me is how well the the music fits every scene, displaying the emotions of the main character.

The music is written by Peter Peter (of Sort Sol fame) and Peter Kyed (of Svartbag)

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]]> http://www.polarforsker.com/goodnight/feed/ 0 Black metal played on electronic instruments as folk music and then cut up on a computer http://www.polarforsker.com/orchestral-music-played-as-black-metal-on-electronic-instruments-and-then-cut-up-on-a-computer/ http://www.polarforsker.com/orchestral-music-played-as-black-metal-on-electronic-instruments-and-then-cut-up-on-a-computer/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:42:34 +0000 admin http://www.polarforsker.com/?p=33 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, but it fits). Ulver plays tomorrow night in Aarhus at Voxhall – and I’ll be there enjoying every minute.

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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.

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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.

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Earth – The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull


The Antlers – Hospice


Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind

martinhall-relief

Martin Hall – Relief


The Ink Spots – The Ink Spots

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

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