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- Summary: Norwegian producer Joakim Dyrdahl releases his debut album.
- Record Label: Smalltown Supersound
- Genre(s): Indie, Electronic
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To be sure, the beats and atmospheres of diskJokke tend toward what could be called tacky extremes. But there’s also a darkness to them--a fertile sense of mood that amplifies dance-floor energy as well as the kind of pathos that adds a little something extra.
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FilterThe Norwegian DJ does a deft job of ambling between Italo, folk, disco, acoustic sounds and the odd sprinkling og old-school video game beeps here and there. [Winter 2008, p.100]
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To me this sounds like clear-headed music for lovers of straightforward disco pop--an unblemished set that asks haters and the insecure alike to wait behind the velvet rope where they’re most comfortable while the rest of us throw a cloth over the lampshade in the living room and put on a really great record.
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There's more to diskJokke than bulletproof connections; his spacey electro-disco is technically impressive and effortlessly appealing.
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Under The RadarNorway's diskJokke debut full-length features the most fun aspects of his playful, electroid digi-disco. [Spring 2008, p.88]
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Dyrdahl’s efforts on Staying In find disco, house, and techno beats mingling with textured, digestible melodies and intricately woven atmospherics.
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UncutThe buoyant beats of his debut seem well-judged to invite a wiggle whether your "booty" is on the dancefloor or wearing a groove into you favorite armchair. [May 2008, p.94]