in brief
02.07.2023

Trance-torsdag

© Sanne Krogh Groth
© Sanne Krogh Groth

Hvorfor Gabber Modus Operandi fra Bali var booket til Roskildes »avantgarede-scene« Platform, som af min 20-årige søn blev kaldt for »boomer«-scenen, er et mysterium. De havde deres europæiske debut i 2018 på den toneangivende Berliner-festival CTM på klubben Berghain. Siden har de rejst verden rundt og var i efteråret 2022 featured på Björks nye album. 

Musikken og trance-festen gik derimod lige ind – et mix af nye og tidligere udgivne numre, alle lavet af Kasimyn, som Ican Harem peppede op med sin vilde performance. Tracksene lægger grunden til trancen, men det er Harem, som styrer den med sang, recitation og growl og med en insisterende publikumshenvendelse primært på indonesisk. 

Det var højt og intenst, og det trance-glade festival-publikum, der var mødt talstærkt op, fik rig lejlighed til at danse igennem. Numrenes individuelle karakter findes i prægnante og langsommere pentatone temaer spillet af samples, der lyder som slompret (javanesisk blæseinstrument, som i nummeret Sandikala), bonang (lille gong) og synth (Genduwuro), og indonesisk sang/tale (Hey Nafsu). Et lokalt indonesisk virvar vævet ind i en global grænseløs musikmaskine. 

Jathilan er navnet på en Indonesisk rituel dans, hvor riddere på sivheste rejser ud for at forsvare sultanen, men undervejs besættes af skovens ånder. Jathilan er for tiden særligt populært på Java i lokale sammenhænge i by og land, hvor både dansere og publikum kan gå med i trancen, der ledes af et »fusions-gamelan« bestående af indonesisk gamelan, trommesæt, synthesizer og hvad der ellers er i nærheden. Alt er elektrisk forstærket og blæses ud gennem forvrængede højttalertårne – gerne med over 110 DB. Æstetikken er betagende og noget ganske særligt.

Gabber Modus Operandi finder netop, blandt mange andre on og off-line kuriositeter, inspiration i jathilan. Også de er rejst ud – uden sivheste, klassisk indonesiske dansekostumer og instrumenter, men med højtempo elektronisk dansemusik (EDM). Hårdt pumpende metallisk støjende beats nåede her op på 120 DB. Mod slutningen var vi også en tur på gulvet. Trancen tog nu form som bønnekald, meditation og indadvendthed. 

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»Music is, to us, a kind of closed club of nepotism, networking and Copenhagen cowboy energy. But in reality, it’s got nothing to do with expensive guitars or technical skill. For us, music is something you can feel in your chest, or something that gives you goosebumps. The best concerts are when someone screams so earnestly that the rest of us don’t have to. The best music expresses emotions in a way that would get you picked up by an ambulance if you did it out on the street. For us, music should fuck with the people who have it too comfortable, and give those who have it fucked a feeling that they’re not alone. Boom. And what the fuck is a chord and a key anyway? Kisses from Nightmaries.«

Nightmaries blend saws, guitars and voices into a dark-country, no-wave, cowboy-doom nightmare. They create the kind of soundtrack that feels like a fever dream you somehow don’t want to wake up from. As the world gets stranger and darker, Nightmaries lean into the madness, serving up slow-burning songs that creep under your skin like a poison that takes its sweet time. Put on your favourite steel-toe boots, dip your smoky eyes in an ashtray, and prepare yourself for sloppy doom with punk energy.

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»To me, music is love. I love how music allows you to skip the small talk and connect directly with people’s innermost selves. It is an extraordinary and moving way to meet one another.«

Fenja wrote her first song at the age of twelve – about a polar bear dying due to climate change – and themes of existentialism, nature, and her own sensitive nature came to define the lyrics and sound she has since developed. She released her debut album, Flugtdyr, in 2021, and in February 2026, she released the album Menneskedyr.

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Danish composer Sofus Forsberg has died at the age of 56. With his distinctive blend of melodic sensibility, electronic processing and rhythmic precision, he created a musical world that moved effortlessly between IDM, pop and the avant-garde.

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»Music for me is my hobby, my job, my outlet, my mood, an endless source of discovering new music and new, old music, some of the best and can be some of the worst. And I love it!« 

Track72 aka Tue Track aka Anders Lundby Brixen. Producer, DJ, rapper and more. Known for his role in the trio Malk De Koijn, which since the mid-1990s has created a personal universe in Danish hip-hop. Has performed in Ponyblod, Xtra Naan, Track Abdullah Rock, Booty Cologne and others.

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On Wednesday, 5 August 2026, it happened again: a chord in John Cage’s Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) changed after two and a half years. Classic FM reports.

The work was written by the American avant-garde composer John Cage in the mid-1980s. The score consists of eight pages of music, and, as the title suggests, the instruction is to play it »as slow as possible.«