Its this time of year where my home country is cold like the darkest corner in your freezer.
Everything is hard and cold and when the sun is out it looks as though it shouldn’t have left home today. In bed is the best place to be, chilling with some nice hot coco or something.
Some say there is a special nordic sound, a tone, melancholic in its ground substance.
Whether this is true or not I don’t know.
All I know is that melancholy is definitely a state of mind familiar to many Nordic people this time of year.
In Copenhagen we are lucky to have some daylight even when the days are their shortest, but all the way up in Norway where icebears and reindeers cruise the streets of every middle sized city, people litteraly go crazy this time of year when there is so little sunlight. Alaska should also be a tough place for humans in the winter.
Anyway the point is, its dark and cold and the best place to be is in bed.
I am not sure where, but somehow I stumbled over this track, that is almost perfect for this kind of weather.
Its called “Fanfar One” and is by Riva StarrRiva Starr who should be familiar to anyone into modern house music.
He is a talented producer of many music styles and has been around for a little over a decade
Producing and writing in many different genres under a lot of different names.
With a love of reinventing music that inspires him, Stef created the term “Snatch!” as his way of describing his bootleg remix style of snatching/pick pocketing other music styles for his own. It’s also a play of words with the type of folk/Balkan/rock music he draws a lot of his inspiration from, often carrying that gypsy spirit.
Having given away a number of widely praised and blogged “Snatch” mixes online (his recent remix of ‘The End’ by The Doors has well over 10,000 downloads on Discobelle alone), it wasn’t too long before some of these found their way into the DJ sets of some of the biggest names on the circuit.
I recommend “Fanfar One” to anyone blinded by winter or just life itself.
There is a Spanish Central Europevibe vibe to it, and its bound to get your spirits up a little.
So put your legs up, close your eyes and chill to this track.
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