▲ NIGHTFLIGHT: Todd Terje (Full Pupp, Norway) This Friday (1 Viewer)

[Night Flight]

Button Factory | Friday 12th September | Doors 11pm | €15/€10 with a flyer before 12.30am

Hello there,
We kicked off September with our sister club Shock hosting Skull Juice & Rory Phillips to rapturous reception last week and we're back this Friday with the Nordic disco warrior! Todd Terje.

Taking in everything from kitschy euro sounds to deep funk and house grooves. Terje has already made his mark within dance music circuits. Gems such as 'Eurodans' and the latin disco-fuelled edit of Jacko's 'I Can't Help It' (under his Tangoterje edit-moniker) Todd Terje along with acts like Prins Thomas, Diskjokke and Lindstrom, has helped make disco cool again!

Growing up in the rural village of Mjøndalen, dance music influences were scarce, and no, there was never any Diskoklubb there. Not a lot of obscure disco or acid house in his milk either. However, during the early/mid nineties dance culture sneaked it way into even the most remote parts of Norway, thanks to the popularity of acts like The Prodigy and national radio stations filling prime time slots with underground jocks Olle Abstract and Pål “Strangefruit” Nyhus.

Playing around in his early teens on a crap PC he made his first attempts on house and jungle, which they played from cassette tapes on junior high school-dances. From there Todd developed his own unique production methods & sound.

Training to become a pianist Terje enrolled at a local music school, but to his disappointment there wasn’t much jazz being taught there. Gradually leaving the musical career path, he later moved on to studying physics at the University of Oslo. Although not longer aspiring to become a pianist, he was by no means over music. In 2001 Terje got in touch with Prins Thomas, who was at the time working at HS Records in Oslo. Thomas soon recognized his potential, and helped pushing Terje in the right directions. Oslo is a small place where like minded folks tend to join forces, and with his thorough musical understanding and nerdy like interest in old and new records spanning from that new Idjut Boys 12” to experimental synth bands very few of us have ever heard of, he soon became one of the key players on the Oslo electronic disco scene. Besides working on his own projects, Terje’s played on some of Prins Thomas’ tracks, and not to mention his remix of the Lindstrøm 12” “Another Station”.

Is it house, funk, techno or disco? Terje is speaks of catchy rhythms, dubby sounds, dreamy synth layers, cinematic moods, a playful approach and searching for that one nerve when asked to describe his music, and the resistance to being pigeonholed is obvious. His next ambition is to make a concept album ala Voyage’s first “around-the-world” release, if he can find time between other projects, studies and DJ gigs. Terje says “I both like playing big room/macho style, but at the same time it’s the girls I play for really. So I guess it’s a mixture of high octane, leather homo-disco done up with mambo, coconuts and lipstick”. Definitely one to look out for this Friday at Button Factory!

Support comes from New York's Eamonn Harkin

▲ NIGHTFLIGHT inbound (no delays expected)

Aeroplane,
Prins Thomas,
Steve Bug,
Black Devil Disco Club
+ more to be announced

 

[Skrankio-X]

Mm, his version of that Canned Heat song (On the Road Again?) is so far off the hook it's gone all the way around the world and is now back onto the hook! or something. Those upcoming gigs are also not on any hooks.