You could never accuse Todd Terje of rushing giddily into the business of making an album: the prosaically titled It's Album Time arrives a full 10 years after the release of his first single. A lot ...

Disco may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Scandinavia — although to fans of dance music, Norway is as well known for its disco producers as it is for its Viking lore. This ...

Norwegian guitarist and composer Terje Rypdal, tone poet of the Fender Stratocaster, was born in Oslo in 1947. The son of a military conductor and clarinettist, Rypdal began piano lessons aged five ...

Starter offers introductions to artists, scenes, styles, or labels of the past, plus a playlist. Nearing a decade on from his earliest singles, Norway’s Terje Olsen is finally readying his debut ...

Scandinavia's electronic disco scene of the past decade or so has been especially fruitful, not least because of Terje Olsen, who records as Todd Terje. (The moniker is a tribute to the New York house ...

After a string of acclaimed disco re-edits and being sampled by Robbie Williams, the Norwegian synth wizard explains why some songs on his debut album are 'ridiculously stupid' The final notes of Todd ...

Norwegian guitar icon Terje Rypdal surfaced more than three decades ago as a new guitar voice, but he strode out of the fields of rock music, not jazz. He was influenced a great deal by the electronic ...

Todd Terje has shared a new track, “Maskindans.” A “cover version” of a dance tune by a similar name from the early 1980s, Terje reworked the track and also recruited the original artist, Det Gylne ...

Terje is currently - fall 2013 - working on his new album with Jeff Lorber and Jimmy Haslip. It is expected to be another slammin' production building on the tradition of Urban Vacation, the previous ...

Terje Gewelt was born June 8, 1960 in Oslo, Norway and grew up in Larvik, a small town on the southeastern coast. He started playing guitar at the age of 10, switched to electric bass at 14 and added ...

You don't need to know that Vossabyrgg means literally "Vossa Brew" to recognize this homage to the late trumpeter Miles Davis. From the first notes of "Ghostdancing"—which quotes directly from ...