[Dynagroove] party time!!

[jon lastra]

Ok so it's that time again for another topshelf boogie my friends,
this one is a collaboration with the homies from love(break). Here at
topshelfs head quarters are very excited about this night and ready to
rage hard. Fresh talent coming at you straight from Oslo,Norway!! So
don't sleep on this one people... Please feel free to forward, re post
or what ever you have to do to spread the word!!!!


Love(break) and topshelf recs
Saturday August 25th

with
Todd Terje aka tangoterje /full pupp/ norway
Jdisco aka summer lover /topshel recs/ los angeles
Redfin /love(break)/ los angeles
Peter Brigs /love(break)/ los angeles

$10 all night long
Check out www.lovebreak.net, www.topshelfrecs.com for more info or
call 323/957/4717

Read below suckas!!!


Following a string of celebrated releases leaning on everything from
kitschy euro sounds to deep funk and latin jazz, the relatively new to
the scene Todd Terje has already made his mark within dance music
circuits. Gems such as the cheese monster "Eurodans" and the latin
disco-fuelled edit of Jacko's "Can't Help it" under his Tangoterje
edit-moniker instantly made industry types and clubbers alike go
bananas, and whatever the 25 year old Norwegian puts his fingers on,
it always comes out with that crucial blend of musicality and
playfulness.

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. On the
more personal level, Terje's sister was a close friend of the late
Tore "Erot" Kroknes, and the tapes she brought home to the young Terje
became a major source of inspiration. Playing around in his early
teens on a crap PC together with his mate Dølle Jølle, Terje made his
first attempts on house and jungle, which they played from cassette
tapes on junior high school-dances. Maybe too young for old music back
then, Terje reckoned that disco was all a bit silly - until Bjørn
Torske's "Sexy Disco" caught his ears in 1999.

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
has already played around Europe, and is looking forward to gigs in
Japan and NYC this summer. "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.

See you on the dance floor!!!

JDisc aka summer lover!!

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