Biography
Norway is a bit of an unusual country. If you fancy a flatbrød and decide to take your bike to the nearest bakery, you often leave before dawn and only get home when Bløkken starts, with Björn Crabbé, around 6:30 in the evening on Norwegian television. A whole day of cycling, then later you either become a cycling champion or you get infected by heavy melancholy attacks and then there is nothing else to do but write pitch-black thrillers, or you go into music. Those who opt for the latter have two choices in Norway: either you don a dark suit with fearsome bullet belts and spew extreme metal, expressing your love for Mr. Beelzebub. Or you color the soundtrack of your melancholy using electronics and synthesizers. It is that stile that Messrs. Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland - together RÖYKSOPP - once chose as an outlet. And before you can recite the Norwegian alphabet backwards, the guys had already made a classic, “Melody A.M.,” in 2001. A launch that could count, and their rocket around the world never landed after that. Many more records, EPs , mix records, collaborations, 12inches and singles have followed since then - could they even list them themselves without less than two helplines? - and once they get on stage they don't go home before the last spectator heads for the dance floor. To this very own festival the gentlemen come to deliver for the first time in Belgium one of their celebrated DJ sets, after Massive Attack's concert. Be realistic, it's not like you want to go home immediately after the latter so then you'd better be immersed for an hour and a half in the finest and hottest electronic sounds you'll hear this summer. Where. Grøte Kaai, 9160 Løkeren. When. Saturday, August 10.