i think that one explaination for my cartoonish overconsumption of music is that i've spent a large part of my adult life trying to compensate for my parents' (percieved, at least) bad/non-taste in most things artsy-aesthetic. one of the handful (literally) of musicaians i remember my dad enjoying when i was younger was andreas vollenweider, proprieter extradoinaire of cheesy new age harping and transparent orientalism. the last time i'd even thought about the dude was when i made a mix cd for my brother and threw on this track, mostly as an in-joke but also because i'm pretty fond of the first half of it. (i am trying to convince myself that i'm not embarrased by that fact (remember, there are no such things as a guilty peasures... maybe). i like house and disco, cheese doesn't bother me. so i don't know why i find dude's music so... uncomfortably corny most of the time.)

whatever. anyway, i was pretty confident that no one my age would ever seriously like that music. wrong, wrong, wrong. a one mr. terje olsen (aka todd terje), who seems to be able to appropriate damn near any kind of popular music with his edits & "re-kutts", apparently does, and he almost made me snort coffee all over my keyboard when i heard his edit of vollenweider's "belladona" pop up in a pile of downloaded music i was listening to. seriously, this blew me away: hipster vollenwieder. and it sounds... really nice.

so yeah, that got me all excited and i tracked down a buttload of terje's music, most of which i liked. the standout track by far though was eurodans, a track i'm sure og will love. more bounce that most of the "cosmic" stuff i've heard, it blows his lindstrøm remix out of the water.

adendum: fun fact – terje is a physics person! nerdcore, you know the score...