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OYA FESTIVAL DOWNLOAD: Lindstrøm - The Long Way Home (Prins Thomas Edit)

Posted 8/8/2008 10:32 AM by Samuel Duke

Tags: electronica, disco, oya festival, Samuel Duke

If disco is, at its core, escapist music, then the tracks that Hans-Peter Lindstrøm creates provide one colorful and expansive place to do so. With shrill, decaying synths and layers upon layers of echo, Lindstrøm’s music is a journey into the vast, snow-capped fields of northern Norway, where the sun only sets for a few hours in the summer and the winter is spent mostly in darkness. His tunes weave trails and paths between these sunny pastures and endless dark caves, the sounds building and building patiently until the crescendo pops and you’re left listening in utter reverie.

Lindstrøm’s sprawling, three-track debut full-length, Where You Go I Go Too, comes out August 19 on Smalltown Supersound, and in support he’ll be playing “laptop live” gigs around festivals and clubs in Europe this summer, including a stop earlier this week in his adopted hometown of Oslo for the Oya Festival. Today we’ve got Prins Thomas’s edit of WYGIGT’s “The Long Way Home” for download, where the fellow Norwegian cosmic kingpin condenses an original sixteen minute epic into a steady, five-minute disco-house thumper. Watch for the breakdown’s serene eighties keyboards and laser squelches about two minutes in, you’ll be drifting off into space soon thereafter.

Sounds like: Todd Terje, Idjut Boys, early hours at Studio 54

Download: Lindstrøm - The Long Way Home (Prins Thomas Edit)

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