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Spouting a cryptically convoluted cosmology that’s just as daffy and inscrutable as their genre-defying prog-disco concoctions, Norway’s Mungolian Plane Set pull their aesthetic cues from extraterrestrials, shamanic mysticism, and medieval Eurasian warlords, and their musical ones from left-field jazz, schlock exotica, cheesy ambient trance, Balearic electronica, and factors beyond. Fundamentally …

Mental Overdrive may be the main single moniker of Per Martinsen, among Norway’s many prolific and important techno musicians. His paths have got ranged from hardcore rave techno to radiant space-disco, and he’s often maintained a wholesome balance of laughter and braininess. Dynamic since 1990, he started his career launching …

Norway’s Kim Hiorthøcon is definitely a multi-faceted designer whose work offers included painting, illustration, graphical design, film, pictures, and writing furthermore his music, which is definitely primarily electronic-based. In virtually any provided field of innovative effort, and certainly in his musical explorations, he will defy conventions and rigid meanings, acquiring …

Getting started as a comparatively unknown body in the Norwegian dance underground, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm experienced perhaps one of the most spectacular success stories of any Norwegian producer or artist. Beginning his very own label, Feedelity, in 2002, Lindstrøm released some extremely acclaimed EPs and 12″ singles on the next couple …

Norwegian house and techno producer Bjørn Torske started tinkering with digital music in the past due ’80s in his hometown of Tromsø. As an adolescent he was motivated by various other Tromsø musicians, specifically Geir Jenssen, the musical prodigy afterwards to be referred to as ambient pioneer Biosphere. Torske began …

Jochem Paap, aka Speedy J, is really a Rotterdam-based techno musician whose polished mixture of melodious electro-pop having a harder, more Detroit-fueled advantage has been being among the most highly-praised of post-rave Western techno. The Dutch rep in Richie “Plastikman” Hawtin’s In addition 8 label, Paap was similarly well-known like …