Bjorn Torske
Kokning
"Norway's Bjorn Torske returns with his fourth studio album 'Kokning'. Opening on a playful note with a slow-building title track, Torske strums a lone acoustic guitar against a background of shimmering synths setting the scene for a highly engaging piece of work. Throughout the course of the album a wide palette of genres are taken in and adapted to the Skrangle-House style (an open ended take on house music stemming from the Oslo nightclub 'Skansen'), and dub looms large over much of the music…
Kokt Kveite
Overlooked 12" from Bjorn Torske. With references to 23 Skidoo, This Heat, Residents, Idut Boy and Count Ossie and his unique blend of quirky, avant-garde, dubbed out, psychedelic sounds Torske creates a whole new genre: the free-disco. B-side track 'Soloppgang Over Yukigaya' was featured on Prins Thomas' 'Cosmo Galactic Prism' mix-cd, and rightly so.