My "Best of 2009" music list

The end of 2009 is almost here, so its time to sum of the music year for my part and I have created a playlist on Spotify. The order is more or less chronologically from when I discovered them. Though some tracks might be older than 2009, but they are on the list as I haven't discovered them before this year. There are some odd ones, and they are on the list simply cause they were fun (and very catchy!) like Rybak and David Guetta. Not quite sure what mood you would be in if you listen to the whole list in one go, but they all got my approval! :)

1. Thunderheist "Jerk it"
2. Miss Harmonica "Friday Night"
3. Kid Cudi "Day n Nite"
4. Alexander Rybak "Fairytale"
5. Dizzee Rascal "Bonkers"
6. Peter Fox "Alles neu"
7. Lily Allen "Smile"
8. Maskinen "Alla som inta dansar"
9. Kings of Convenience "Boat Behind"
10. La Roux "In for the kill"
11. Lars Vaular "Solbriller på"
12. Veronica Maggio "Mandågsbarn"
13. Jay-Z "D.O.A."
14. Miike Snow "Animal"
15. Prodigy "Omen"
16. David Guetta "Sexy bitch"
17. The Bloody Beetroots "Awesome"
18. Kråkesølv "Privat regn"
19. Bjørn Hellfuck "Krabbeklo"
20. The Nextmen "Round of Applause"
21. Einar Stray "Arrows"
22. My Little Pony "A song for you on your 40th birthday"
23. Therese Aune "Chamelon"
    

Enjoy my "Best of 2009" music
So what was my favourite?! I think most listened to album were by Lily Allen and Miike Snow. So now you know.

Concerts

• Girl Talk Live in Oslo
  Last years Øya was fun. This concert was even better!
  
• Prodigy were amazing! Didnt see that one coming from my old favourites.
• Donkeyboy's "Ambitions" performed by Marie Alming at Radio Nova Simply cause I didnt expect any performances at the Christmas party and her song took me be surprise. Great surprise!

Free music

• Alex Goose Blueprint 3 Outtakes I must say that the Outtakes are much better than the songs that got on Jay-Z's album
• Kutiman's Youtube tracks This is what the web is all about, free mashups that would exist without the Internet.
• Rockettothesky "Hee-ho and a Bottle of Rum" Have heard the song before on couple of her concerts, but great to get it on track

Video

• By far Peter Fox with "Schwarz zu blau"

Thanks to
YesYesYall and Radio Nova's Bra Trommis for making me discover loads of great new music! Keep up the good work!

ps. Loads of Best of 2009 lists can be found at Platekompaniet's website

Unreleased track by Rockettothesky found: "Hee-ho and a Bottle of Rum"

Well, actually someone did release the song "Hee-ho and a Bottle of Rum", but I haven´t found it before now. I´ve heard this song live before, but getting a free mp3 is all good! Rockettothesky played 29.03.2008 at the The Rhâââ Lovely Festival in Belgium. Together with The Silent Ballet they released the compilation "2008 Rhaaa Lovely Festival Compilation". It has several other bands such as Magyar Posse, Rien and The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet... Download the whole album for free now

That song from the TV3 commercial...

Saw the TV3 commercial the other day and really enjoyed the song, it turned out to be Lisa Mitchell with "Neopolitan dreams".
Check out her
http://www.myspace.com/lisalisamitchell

How EMI does viral on Youtube

Found a great track today by Roll Deep "The Avenue" while listening to Last.fm. Found it on Youtube. The video has been uploaded by someone else than EMI, namely "aleduke". Rather than asking him to remove it from Youtube, EMI says: "Embedding disabled by request". Oh the joys of the musicindustry...

A BIG YES... and a small no music

Just found this Band: A BIG YES... and a small no Quirky, almost ska-ish, indie pop? Yeah, that categorisation works for me!

N-Light-Ns new album is out (or Son Of Light if you like..)

Still not used to the new artist name Son Of Light. Like the old one better. Either way, finally he has new music out which you can listen to at MySpace. Think Son and Pop is pretty cool

Free music is good! When from Del The Funky Homosapien its better!

Back in 1991 Del tha Funkee Homosapien got famous with the hit "Mistadobalina". He hasnt really been away, eventhough I almost only heard about him through Gorillaz. Anyways, point is he is giving away his latest album Funk Man (the stimulus package) for free. You only have to sign up for his newsletter (which you can sign off from any time). Loads of other music there too for free. Sweet.

Uff. Last.fm wants my money

I guess it was almost just a matter of time, now Last.fm wants my money. Only $3 a month, but still. A shame. Loads say that Spotify will win this battle, but I use these sites differently, so I believe both can live side by side. Seems like all sites start like this, free at start, get loads of users, then trying to figure out how to get money, then subscription charges pop-up. Reality bites.

Girl Talk live in Oslo!

WOW! what a concert at Blå yesterday! Half the audience jumping up and down on stage with the mashup guru. Seldom seen so many people with such a grin on their face. Captain Credible did a great warm-up too!

Sorry for sound quality, but the concert was LOUD. And great!

YouTube music mashup by Kutiman

Kutiman mixes songs and musicclips from YouTube into quite funky songs. See all his songs on YouTube or his website http://www.thru-you.com
My favourite song is called "I'm New. Here it goes: Kutiman (Thru-you)

After Danger Mouse "Grey Album" came Jaydiohead

I was listening to Girl Talk on Last.fm and then I heard Jaydiohead.

He is like Danger Mouse, but mixes Radiohead with Jay-Z. Kind of cool I thought and I wanted more. So I visited his website. There his album can be downloaded for free at http://jaydiohead.com

Miss Harmonica is great!

Was at Doga yesterday in Oslo at Pecha Kucha. Last person on the stage was Miss Harmonica Great music! Escpecially love "Get dancy" Enjoy and have a great dancy weekend

My very first (own) Wikipedia entry: Hyperstate!

Really bizzarre, but of some reason NO ONE has written about Norways biggest rave party Hyperstate on Wikipedia. So as the big philanthropist I am, ta ta!

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperstate

Please help the article become better, and feel good about yourself too :)

Vinterens store hit: Karatetriks!

Tidligere tjenestemann (fra Radiotjenesten.com på Radio Nova) Arild Nøst Odland har laget vinterens store slager med sitt nye band Karate. Sangen heter "Karatetriks". Selv lagde jeg omslaget. Håper dere synes at den har samme kvalitet som sangen :)

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Norwegian music: Ingeborg Selnes

One of favourite musicians is Rockettothesky, alias Jenny Hval. And here comes her apprentice: Ingeborg Selnes! Weird text, strange pling plong music and very promising. I have bought her album "The Zoo" which is great! She was warm-up for Jenny (at her album release) and there she was rather shy and not very talkative. But this was some time back, so maybe she has changed now? She can learn from Jenny: create wonderfull (and introvert) music, but still be funny and talk to the audience.

Looking forward to see and hear more from her though.

Connect your iTunes to the Internet - MyTunesRSS

Yet another iTunes application I found on the net. Looks good, but I would have to have my Mac online 24/7... http://www.codewave.de/products/mytunesrss "MyTunesRSS allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library or any simple watch folder over a local network or even the internet. You can access your music from all over the world using a simple web browser." Seems good. Has anyone tried this?

Clean up iTunes library with

Havent tried this application yet, but seems promising. Finally a manner of cleaning up the chaotic iTunes library with TuneUp:
http://www.tuneupmedia.com/download/

Last FM is overloaded

Got this message the other day at last.fm. Doesnt suprise me really, after all, if people use it as much as i do every day (almost 4000 tracks played so far..), then it means loads of megabites transferred.

Spotify next? (Anyone got a token to share? :)

Song for the weekend: Smolik feat. Mika Urbaniak "Who Told You"

Great song from the Polish musician Smolik. Smooth, chilly stuff. Just what I need for the weekend!

Hurra! Rockettothesky's new album "Medea" is released today!

And this is the first single "Grizzly Man". Yet another great song from Jenny Hval. Just have to say it: Jenny, du er flink! :) And what a fantastic voice.

But what happened to the song "A choir of crayons" that you played december 2006? Okay, quite different from the rest of "Medea", but loads of fun! Hope to get hold of in better quality than my crapping mobilephone recording...:

New ways a promoting music: Piratebay!

Swedish group "Far och son" launch their single "panik" on Piratebay. And have a great video too:

Syncronise your mobile phone with iTunes

Swedish Sallinger has done it again!

Salling Media Sync synchronizes playlists, music, and podcasts from iTunes onto your mobile phone. It's free to use, but when registered it intelligently updates your phone, which is much faster.
http://www.salling.com/MediaSync/mac/

Reggae from Sweden: Kapten Rod

"Stjarnorna finns har" the Swedish reggae band sing. Great stuff for lazy summer days. AND you can download two songs for free at:
http://www.kaptenrod.se/

Love the coverdesign too

The Disciplines sing Oslo!

Great album from my favourite bands right now:
http://www.myspace.com/disciplines

"Oslo" is a great track!

Charles music video premiere "Hjertesten"

Randi sier:
du kan jo si "søstera mi blabla.." Da gjoer jeg det!
Ny norsk artist med videopremiere Living Room i morgen kl 21. I mellomtiden sjekk ut hans web charlesmusic og randis blogg Preview av musikkinnspillingen

Yes! Free fresh music

Discovered this great site by chance. Its got a (daily) dose of high quality free music. Great way of discovering new bands. Ah, and I really love the music player made in Flash! www.yesyesyall.org

Norwegian musicfestival posters

NORGES KULESTE FESTIVALPLAKAT
Have a look at most of Norways musicfestival posters at VG. Personally Im quite fond of Arendals "Canal Street" poster designed by Innoventi

Gulltaggen 2008 showing Virgin Galactic and The Reactable

Yesterday was Norways web-awardshow, Gulltaggen, celebrating its 10. anniversary in Oslo Spectrum. Unfortunately the project I worked on for Microsoft, Heroes happen here, didnt win. But you can read about it (and all other nominations) here.


Gulltaggen had a couple of good seminars, especially the one by president Will Whitehorn from Virgin Galactic. Great stuff! Sci-fi today:


Another great experience was seeing the Reactable live. The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. They performed live at Gulltaggen 2008 in Oslo

Great song by Familjen: "Det snurrar i min skalle"

The proof that: 1. English is not the default for good songs. 2. Swedish dialect is funky. Very.

Justice concert at Rockefeller

Justice live at Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway. Recorded 2. of February 2008. Not really quite sure which song this was (due to crap mobile sound), but at least one can experience the great atmosphere!

Listen to Fernando "Desperto" singing!

Well, acctually, it isnt him singning, but just podcsat test. Anyhow, here's his podcast channel:

http://desperto.blip.tv/

Justice DANCE - the cool t-shirt video

You might have seen this one on MTV. French band Justice, the new Daft Punk if you like, have a great song called D.A.N.C.E. If the song is great, the video is even better! I would like to buy just about any one of thos cool t-shirts!

Wayne Lotek "Control Alt Delete"

This British rapper loves his PC and uses sweet Windows sounds in his song "Control Alt Delete" Sounds similar to Roots Manuva. Well, he's produced for him too, so maybe not too strange then... Wayne Lotek at Myspace

Ren and Stimpy ad

This is the way all ads should be! have a brilliant weekend! (ps. its taken from the fantastic cartoon Ren and Stimpy)

The Vineyards til Norwegian Wood

The Vineyards trenger din hjelp!
The Vineyards er med i konkurransen om å få spille på Norwegian Wood festivalen til sommeren. Dette er en sjanse de ikke har tenkt å la gå fra oss, så ydmykt ber de om vår hjelp!

Send en liten sms med kodeord "wood" til 1987 og gi deres stemme til det eneste riktige bandet - The Vineyards!

Les mer om konkurransen her:
http://www.nrk.no/musikk/1.2157808
Hør, se og kommuniser med The Vineyards her:http://www.myspace.com/thevineyards eller http://the-vineyards.net

New Rave again: Klaxons

Ah, and while we are at it. I have to show you two of my favourite tracks for the time being. Two songs by the Klaxons. And as you can see: neon colors all over the place.. :)

Klaxons - "Gravity's Rainbow"


Klaxons - "Atlantis to Interzone"


Turn up the volume for this track!!

Christian Marclay mini documentary

Apple are said to have ripped off Marclay's telephone idea for their iPhone ad. I can see where that idea comes from. Have a look at Marclay's work. Me likes...

Spiegel Designclicks & music

The German magazine Spiegel has some good design/photo collection. Check it out here:

http://designklicks.spiegel.de/index.php#dk=002

Also, if you need some suggestion for music: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/0,1518,473950,00.html

I'm oh so cultural! Going to the opera: Moves

Went to the Opera, or sorry, Nationalballett, last friday. Was really good! Especially Jo Strømgren's Suite. Had loads of humour, jumping around the piano. You are still able to see it, but hurry! 29.3. is the last show

Henrik's bachelor party

Sorry Henrik for linking to your Youtube presence.. :)

Oboy Oboy posters

Went to Oboy Oboy, clubconcept in Oslo, on saturday. That was excelent! Snuten played live and Timbuktu played som records too. Their website is a bit outdated, but check out their funky flyers!

http://web.mac.com/kulturarena/iWeb/oboy/Bilder.html

Spelemannsprisen 2006

Congrats to Ila Auto for winning a Spelemannspris (Norwegian music awad) in the category COUNTRY with their new album "IF YOU KEEP PICKIN', IT MIGHT NEVER HEAL" (AUTO RECORDS)

My new favourite Hanne Hukkelberg won in "Åpen Klasse" (open category).

Shame Rockettothesky didnt win though as Newcomer of the year. 120 DAYS took that one. Oh well, cant win them all.

http://www.ifpi.no/spellemann/main.html

Great artist: Hanne Hukkelberg

Just discovered the artist Hanne Hukkelberg through Andreas Palegolas who plays with Rockettothesky. He made this fantastic video for the song "Cheater's Armoury", see more of his stuff at: http://www.palegolas.se





Three of Hanne´s songs can be heard here:
myspace
"The Northwind" and "Cheater's Armoury" are so far my favourites. So get her albums "Little things" and "Rykestrasse 68"!

Some live stuff, mainly from music festival in Barcelona
youtube.com

Rockettotheskys new song

New song by Rockettothesky, recorded at the 3t 10th anniversary. Black Box Teater (Oslo) on Friday 15 Dec 2006. That was my girfriends first Rocket concert and she loved it. Well, and mine eh.. 4th Rocket concert? :) Looking forward to hear the studio version!