10 Mar 2011 — Tonje Thilesen
During the past month, I've been working on a little mixtape project that saw the light of day by the nice folks
over at The 405 earlier today. As I'm leaving for a three-month long trip in Asia in a couple of hours, this is therefore my last contribution to NFOP in quite a while, and with that in mind,
Omstart was born.
Omstart (in Norwegian meaning 'restart') is most of all a tribute to Norwegian music, consisting of everything from
A-ha to
Casiokids, remixed, chopped 'n' screwed by some of our favourite DIY producers and musicians around the world, opening up with the splendid
In Lieu remix of Beach House's
Norway, which is the only exception (geographically speaking) to what is entirely a line-up of original tracks by Norwegian bands and artists. Secondly, the mixtape is also a tribute to the electronic/ambient genre. For instance, the name
Omstart is originally taken from a track with the same name by the Japanese experimental/ambient artist
Cornelius, featuring Erlend Øye and Eirik Bøe of Kings Of Convenience on vocals; drifting away into unknown landscapes of Norwegian woods or the great mountains of Okayama. It is also a fine reminder that the borders between our continents are slowly being erased (musically speaking), with the otherwise 'unnoticeable' countries such as Norway or Denmark no longer being considered 'dry deserts' within the fast-growing music scene. Let's break the barriers, y'all.
Giving the artists pretty much free guidelines (other than the obvious theme; the contribution needing to be a remix or a cover of something with relevance to Norway),
Persona La Ave decided to put a personal touch on
Einar Stray's amazingly beautiful
Chiaroscuro, Australia's
Guerre dove into the more unknown corners of
Urørt and cooked up his own remix of
P.E.R's
Ensom Nebula, Pierre of Paris based electronic trio
sayCeT contributed a dreamy ambient piece of Casiokids'
Fot i Hose, Oslo resident
Proviant Audio with a remix of
Honeytraps, DannielRadall from Mexico with a glitchy electronic remix of A-ha's
Blue Sky, Macklin Underdown with a remix of
Bendik's utterly beautiful
Bare Du — while
Yojimbo Billions on the other hand decided to take the challenge a bit further by sampling fragments of
Ballad Of Revolt, a
classical
symphony
written by the Norwegian composer Harald Sæverud (1897-1992).
This has been an incredibly exciting year so far, and all though I'm taking a break from NFOP for a while to focus on traveling, don't you worry: I'll be back before you even know it. Also, a huge thanks to everyone who contributed!
UPDATE: Please note that the In Lieu remix that you'll find in the .zip file linked below is unfortunately
not the final version of the track. However, you can download the right version within the single tracks listed below (the first one, duh!). Sorry for the inconvenience.
[DOWNLOAD]
Tracklist:
01.
Beach House - Norway (In Lieu Remix)
02.
P.E.R - Ensom Nebula (Guerre Remix)
03.
Casiokids - Fot i Hose (sayCeT Remix)
04.
A-ha - Blue Sky (DannielRadall Remix)
05.
Einar Stray - Chiaroscuro (Persona La Ave Remix)
06.
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (Time Wharp Remix)
07.
Honeytraps - Crepuscular Creatures (Proviant Audio Remix)
08.
Bendik - Bare Du (Macklin Underdown Remix)
09.
Yojimbo Billions - Fragments of Harald Sæverud's Ballad Of Revolt
Photography/artwork: Tonje Thilesen
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