Let your heart run along to the rhythm of the song

[petronia]

I briefly considered actually making a folder in my music directory named "Bergen", until I realised that to be logically consistent I'd have to make "Manchester" as well, let alone "Montreal". And supposing I get real cute: "Oran", "Cologne", "Okinawa"... Possibly I just like mp3s because I'm physically inept and there's no chance of wobbly stacks of digital music files falling over on me as I'm trying to get them into order.

Just got home after dinner with Justin. Thus no concert report yet (and no 2000-word track-by-track review of Waiting For The Sirens' Call. ...I'm kidding. I think.) But here's a couple of tracks from Versus, the KoC remix album I bought at the concert, and the most worthwhile 20$ I've dropped on a CD in ages. I like most of the Versus versions better than the originals on Quiet Is The New Loud, an opinion that's 110% preexisting genre bias as the remixers' touch was generally very light (Ladytron by far the most heavyhanded).

Kings of Convenience - I Don't Know What I Can Save You From (Röyksopp Remix)

This mix "features the recording of wind from the top of Sandviksfjellet,**" according to the booklet. I wouldn't have noticed otherwise, but I've mostly been listening to the album on my mp3 player as I scampered about town today, and would have mistaken any wind sounds coming through my earphones for the snowstorm concurrently taking place all around me ahaha. Which actually sums up my thing for Röyksopp, KoC and (to an extent, given that Röyksopp did a lot of her production) Annie in a nutshell: it's mood music created in and thus almost accidentally for a Northern city. Refer Brian Eno's definition of "ambient". It stands up to repeated listening not because I love it per se, but because it blends perfectly with my environment. Not the fan soundtrack of my life, but the actual instrumental bgm. (I didn't just make that up either, I've thought it about Melody AM for years.)

Erot vs. Kings of Convenience - Gold for the Price of Silver

Not from QITNL. The liner notes say: this was originally an instrumental track that dj Erot aka Tore Kroknes released on Svek Records (thanks!). We made lyrics and melodies, and then the three of us rearranged and recorded it at Tinnitus Lydstudio in Bergen, March 2000. Previously released on the Tellé Records compilation that was released worldwide through Wall of Sound.

(Versus is dedicated in memoriam Tore Kroknes, who is Annie's tragically dead boyfriend of course. This is my favorite song on the album.)

If it takes control
Of your body and soul
Embrace it
If it makes you cry
Or leaves you wondering why
Don't turn around, face it

But do turn cold
If they promise you gold
For the price of silver
If it's chemically made
By people you hate
Pinch your arm, see if you're still there

Everything you want is what I've got to give you
You just have to let yourself come with me now
Everything you want is what I've got to give you
There's no time to hesitate, come with me now
Let's go and watch the sun rise
Over London Bridge, over Golden Gate

Let your heart
Run along to the rhythm of the song


** What do you mean, where's Sandviksfjellet? Do you expect me to know everything? Just like my sister!

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[solaas.livejournal.com]

** What do you mean, where's Sandkviksfjellet? Do you expect me to know everything? Just like my sister!

Don't worry. Most Norwegians don't know where it is either, so you're on good company. (I had to Google for it, and its just outside Bergen. And it's spelt "Sandviksfjelleet". ^^;;;)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks. I'll go and correct it. XD;;

[serendip.livejournal.com]

hee *downloads* fanks, cherie