Disco Sunday #19: Skatebard
This is Skatebard, and these are his own words, as I cannot top them:
“Skatebård rarely leaves the house. Once a year he tries to get out, but concedes he is still a freak; immersed in Italian disco and electronic aural tinkering day and night. He used to skateboard a lot, and listen to skateclothes-wearing hardcore and punk bands. But due to the unevenness of the tarmac in his native north-western Norwegian village, he started rummaging in the pine woods with his trusty walkman instead; spools filled with Detroit techno. A combination somehow formative of much of the cutting edge Norwegian electronic music of the young millennium.”
“Disco Nonstop” is one of my favorite early-in-the-night-before-unleashing-the-bangers tracks to DJ. You will adore its slow, hardcore synthiness, as if Black Sabbath or The Melvins had synths and synares instead of guitars.
MP3: “Disco Nonstop” – Skatebard
MP3: “Love Attack” – Skatebard
Coast on over to Skatebard’s Myspace to check out his Datarock remix and links to buy lots of his tracks on Beatport. Also RCRD LBL has an exclusive on his remix of Simian Mobile Disco’s “Hustler.” And last but not least he’s created a Facebook music profile.
Speaking of Scandanavian disco, this is literally my favorite song ever:
MP3: “Summer Night City” – ABBA
ABBAsite dot com
If you agree, you should hear what an In Flagranti-ish band from Brooklyn called Black Russians did with that song (and many more: I recognize about 8 different samples including Hall and Oates) in this excellently-titled unreleased track:
MP3: “Tom Cruise is a Gay Scientologist” – Black Russians
Black Russians’ Myspace
xx,
Baron von Luxxury is my Fake Name
Great Scandi post. I love skatebard.
Thanks man, glad to do right by a vrai Scandi! I loved that hott country mixx you posted recently btw.
xx
bvl
the link on “love attack” is wrong
anyway. good post
Oops! Thanks for the heads up.
I fixed the link, double checked it, and fired our intern mercilessly in front of the entire Disco Sunday division division of the DiscoWorkout staff (not to mention her family, who were visiting the office at the time.)
So you can be sure it *won’t happen again.*
you’re such a tyrant! shoot! she was so fucking good at making my coffee.