Chills from Norway: Erlend Øye

You may be cool, but you're not Erlend Øye cool. More known for his pop-folk duo with Eirik Glambek Bøe, Kings of Convenience, Erlend (born in Bergen, Norway) nevertheless has produced a lot of solo work, as well as taking on a side project, The Whitest Boy Alive while living in Berlin. This post, however, deals with his contribution to DJ-Kicks CD series. Wikipedia tells me DJ-Kicks started in 1995 and since then has seen some big-name contributors, such as Kruder & Dorfmeister and Thievery Corporation. Erlend's DJ-Kicks album is not new (2004) but it is my favourite, so I thought I'd share. I mean, it's got Phoenix, Avenue D, The Rapture, Röyksopp, and an amazing remix of Cornelius's "Drop" - what more could you ever need?

Enjoy
Erlend Øye - DJ-Kicks

or, download aforementioned song: Cornelius - Drop (KoC remix)

Cornelius

Ugh. Late nights during exams are not so much the good. Oh wait, actually they're totally worth it.

This is for the dude with the mask at Foamo

CORNELIUS from borntofilm on Vimeo.

If only I had a mask, I could be a superstar DJ too. Also, why aren't shows here like that? I do really have to go to Europe to see good electro with people who know something about what they're hearing? Stuff like this:

I'm A Rope (Yuksek Remix) - Tommy Sparks

or kinda funky disco-esque tunes like this new Cut Copy remix:

Far Away (Damn Arms Remix) - Cut Copy

are hard to come by here. Maybe I should move to New York. Or Toronto...only for the wider music scene. Ideally people here would get their collective musical shit together and stop wiling out on crappy tunes, promoting a negative Montreal electro/house reputation...

Until then,
Enjoy