SIDE B

Nexus 21 - Real Love (Network Records)
Pleasure Zone - Fantasize me (State Street Records)
Stars on 25 - The Underworld medley (Underworld Records)
Maurice - This is Acid (Vendetta Records)
Bam Bam - Where's your child (Westbrook Records)
Frequency X - Hearing things (Popular Records)
Bassomatic - In the realm of senses (Virgin Records)
How II House - Lift the nation (Outer Rhythm)
Fallout - Morning after (1990 version) (4th Floor)
Blaze - Can't win for losing (Republic Records)
Ragtyme - Fix it man (Jack Trax Records)
Jungle won - Time marches on (Trax Records)
Frankie Knuckles - Tears (Instrumental) (Ffrr Records)
Lil' louis - How I feel (Diamond Corp.)
Mr. Fingers - Can you feel it (Trax Records)

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Bjorn Torske -1990 Mix (Side B)

Norwegian legend Bjorn Torske dug his tape deck out, applied a screwdriver and by golly got it working!  He then used a coat-hanger and cellotape to attach it to his computer, got a 1990 tape out of his Mum's loft and recorded it in.
Here it is in all its TDK C90 glory, a step back in musical time that runs through the foundations of modern dance music.

SIDE A

28th Street Crew - I need a rhythm  (Vendetta Records)                       
Looney Tunes - Another place (Nu Groove/XL)
2 in a Room - Take me away (Cutting Records)
Nation 12 - Listen to the drummer (Outer Rhythm)
Pink Noise - Gimme some more (energy)  (4th Floor)
MC Showbiz & The Lap 1 Crew- Gotta turn the music up (1st Bass)
LFO - LFO (Warp)
Shut Up & Dance - Rap's my occupation (S.U.A.D)
R-Tyme - R-Theme (Kool Kat Records)
No Smoke - Koro koro (Warrior's Dance Records)
Unique 3 - The theme (10 Records)
Psychotropic - Psychosis (O2 Records)
Nexus 21 - Real love (Network Records)


Bjorn Torske -1990 Mix (Side A)

Rune Lindbaek very seldom tapes his sets but we managed to get hold of this from the end of the night on one of the last legendary Klubb Kebabb nights at Headon, Oslo.  It was packed every Wednesday for two and a half years (1999-2001) with guests including Harvey and a then unknown Prins Thomas.  It was also voted one of the 10 best balearic clubs in the world by Muzik Magazine.

Close your eyes, crank it up and pretend you were there!


Rune Lindbæk @ Klubb Kebabb (Headon, Oslo, 2001)

Mental Overdrive live in Longyearbyern, Svalbård.
Read about Northern Disco Lights' trip to the Artctic here.

https://www.paperecordings.com/the-northern-disco-lights-road-trip-to-svalbard/

Mental Overdrive - 1st Run (Live @ NDL, Svalbard)

Mental Overdrive live in Longyearbyern, Svalbård.
Read about Northern Disco Lights' trip to the Artctic here.

www.paperecordings.com/the-northern-…-to-svalbard/

Mental Overdrive - Repeat Then Repeat (Live @ NDL, Svalbard)

Norway is a country of long winters, oil reserves, high prices, black metal...and some of the best house and disco in the world.This film find out why.

Description
Starting in the mid 90s, this relatively small Scandinavian country has been a hotbed of creativity and developed a unique, individual style of house music that has been exported all over the world. 

From the disco town of Bergen and modern international city of Oslo to the northern lights of Tromsø and oil capital Stavanger, producers and DJs have created a sound that has absorbed and reflected the landscape and long winter nights but given it a killer groove. Mixing up underground disco, 80s synth pop, krautrock, dub, progressive rock, italo, jazz, soul, hip hop, latin, afro and house, a form of leftfield dance music has emerged that is instantly recognizable as Norwegian. It has also gone on to help shape modern dance music.

From originators like Bjørn Torske, Erot, Per Martinsen, DJ Strangefruit and Those Norwegians on record labels like Paper Recordings and Tellé, a new sound was pioneered that continues to develop to this day. Their musical message has spread across the world with acts like electronic popsters Røyksopp, cosmic disco warriors Prins Thomas & Lindström, house hero Ralph Myerz, synth chanteur Annie and next big thing Todd Terje. 
And it is still growing with a new breed of youngsters emerging like Proviant Audio & The Treatment.

Using a combination of interviews, home video, news footage, landscape shots and animation, the film will trace the historical origins of Norwegian house and disco, trying to find out why the Scandinavian country has developed such a unique, influential and international sound. By interviewing the movers, shakers, players and makers it will find out where it came from and where it is going.

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