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10 of the best: Scandinavian disco | Musique Non Stop

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

10 of the best: Scandinavian disco

With Todd Terje's album setting danceniks' trousers alight, we cast our beady eye over the best Scandi dance


Many Scandinavian disco tracks employ a classic trope of their 70s forebears: the bass line that hops between the same note two octaves apart, a swinging metronome over which funk is draped. And none do so with quite as much enthusiasm as this, which dials up the speed of the bass line until it's almost ska paced. It lays the groundwork for an energetic, rather naive melody that becomes increasingly frantic as it bounces around, only to find comfort again in the final refrain this puppyish charm has made it the scene's biggest hit. Terje repeated the trick to only slightly less brilliant effect on the singles Strandbar, Lanzarote and Spiral, and his just-released debut LP, It's Album Time, is also full of zany energy.


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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian

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