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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Todd Terje has announced a new tour, titled the DJ's Across the Pond Tour, which is scheduled to take place from September 22 to December 8, 2023, in venues across mainland USA and Mexico. The tour ...

Todd Terje knows how to deliver a specific pin-prick of dance floor euphoria, but he’s really just going for laughs. "House and techno DJs — they're some of the most serious musicians around," the ...

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 ...

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 ...

During dance music’s recent epoch, it’s been a tale of two parties: The former, tagged EDM, farms millions from fields of filthy teens raving to ever-crescendoing melodic poofs of candy-floss pop; the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Given what we're going through hour after battered hour in summer 2020, any artistic endeavor entitled Conspiracy just might be the last thing you'd want to get involved with. But Terje Rypdal, a true ...