99 Minutes #1

A new initiative from MIC Norway: a brand new webcast featuring one of Norway’s most respected music journalists and DJs; Guttorm Andreasen aka DJ99 and a carefully selected playlist offering some of the country’s finest.

17.05.2010 | By: - Ed.

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Diversity
Featuring tracks from acts Datarock, Fjorden Baby!, Serena Maneesh, Årabrot and Diskjokke as well as an exclusive interview with Jaga Jazzist’s Martin Horntvedt, the latest offering from MIC Norway and renowned radio host DJ 99 is ’99 minutes’; a new series of webcasts that gives you a unique cross-section Norway’s multi-faceted music scene.

In celebration of one of the Norwegian music scene’s strongest traits; its diversity and cross-pollination between genres and styles; DJ 99, aka Guttorm Andreasen, has put together a veritable smorgasbord of tracks that range from cutting-edge electronica to traditional acoustic folk music, jazz and indie.

The first instalment in a long series, the inaugural edition of ’99 minutes’ features tracks by Datarock, Fjorden Baby!, Serena Maneesh, Årabrot, Elephant9, Jaga Jazzist, Diskjokke and Unni Løvlid Ensemble to name a few of the playlist’s strong names.

Exclusive Jaga Jazzist interview

Joining DJ 99 in the studio is also Jaga Jazzist member, exceptional drummer, as well as noted producer and composer Martin Horntveth:

Few DJs can rival Andreasen’s ability to blend styles and genres as witnessed by the programme’s seamless transition from vintage electronica courtesy of Sternklang, to traditional folk by fiddle master Gjermund Larsen and Hovedøen Social Club’s Scandi-Cuban salsa, Sami electronic melancholy by Niko Valkeapää as well as Side Brok’s weird Western-Norwegian dialect-tinged rhymes.

Playlist:

ARTIST	TITLE	ALBUM	CD#
Children and Corpse Playing in the Streets	My Tiny	Honey, I'm Home!	Children and Corpse Records
Fjorden Baby!	Anorektisk Utopi	Fjorden Baby!	Opplett 003
Unni Løvlid Ensemble	Mørketid	Rites	Grappa GRCD4223
Sternklang	The Herb	Neolounge	Beatservice BSCD023
Ras Nas	Sina Makosa	Dar-es-Salaam	KonPrp RNCD0801
Elephant9	Hardcore Orientale	Walk the Nile	Rune Grammofon RCD 2095
Hovedøen Social Club	Hun er forelska i lærer'n	!Que Vva Noruega!	CAT.CCD 034
Diskjokke/Lykke Li	Everybody but me	Diskjokke Discolated Remixes 2007-08	Smalltown Supersound STS168CD
Jaga Jazzist	Prognissekongen	One-Armed Bandit	Universal 2726084
Jaga Jazzist	Music! Dance! Drama!	One-Armed Bandit	Universal 2726084
Serena Maneesh	I Just Want to See Your Face	No 2: Abyss in B Minor	N/A
Jøkleba	Hvileskjær	Jøkleba	Norsk Plateproduksjon IDCD 32
Årabrot	Caterwauler	Rep.Rep.	Norway Rats Records RAT 9
Niko Valkeapää	Cakcii	Niko Valkeapää	Duippidit DPP500
Datarock	The Blog	Red	N/A
Side Brok	1, 2, 3, fyre	Høge Brelle	pinaDgreitt records pinadcd1
Gjermund Larsen Trio	Regntung Dag	Ankomst	Heilo HCD 7235

DJ 99, aka Guttorm Andreasen, has worked as a presenter, DJ, reporter and producer at the national Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation for 16 years, from 1992 to 2008 during which he hosted a wide range of programmes ranging from popular children’s shows, cutting-edge music programmes at the youth channels as well as culture and arts programmes on national TV. From 2003 to 2006 he produced 702 editions of the multi-rhythmic daily programme Wasabi on the NRK P2 channel. Up to 200,000 people would tune in daily on the complete genre-free blend of Swedish funk, Jamaican tango, Belarusian electro, Nigerian jazz, Venezuelan rock, Danish cumbia, Norwegian and Chinese jungle techno ... and virtually every imaginable genre in between! DJ 99 has performed in a wide range of settings ranging from the Sónar Festival in Barcelona to a small bar on the edge of a Serbian village. In 2007 he was one of only three selected DJs to play at the major music industry WOMEX festival in Seville. In 2005 he reached the finals of the International World Beat DJ Competition in London.

www.dj99.no

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