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It's a Feedelity Affair

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why has no one reviewed this yet? it's one of the best tech-house albums i have ever heard! if you like trentemoller, the field et al, and have an appreciation for deep house, melodic dance music or any sort of minimal electronic music in general, you'll love it.

There is something inexplicably special about Norwegian music - whatever the style you can feel the instantly recognizable Nordic flair, as if the music is a sonic expression of fjords, mirror-like lakes and cloudy mountain tops in the rain. Same about the space disco album "It's A Feedelity Affair" by Norwegian producer Lindstrøm - layers and layers of Afro-beat, Pacific Coast synth-pop, Latin influences and lite-funk rhythms still can't keep the Northern lights visions away. The compilation of singles released by Lindstrøm during 2003-2006 stands out for smooth production and memorable synth melodies mixed into tracks that - unlike many other disco releases - keep changing directions. The tracks are built in subtle ways over long stretches and have a strong `70s vibe with a twisted sense of synth sound. The album highlights are chill sci-fi sheen of Lindstrøm's signature track "I Feel Space" and the 10-minute epic "There Is a Drink In My Bedroom And I Need A Hot Lady", which sounds very much in the theme of Gulli Briem's Earth Affair series. The booklet is very informative, revealing thrilling connections between Turkish cartographer Piri Reis, findings of Norwegian scientist Christian Birkeland and Nan Madol ruins in Micronesia. The only problem about this is that minimalistic cover design does not add much to the spirit of lost continents and civilizations visually. An impressive concept like this would better go with graphics by Kim Hiorthøy, but luckily Lindstrøm filled in this gap on his subsequent releases - "Where You Go I Go" in 2008 and "Real Life Is No Cool" in 2010. With "Music (In My Mind)" (featuring disorienting spoken vocals by Norwegian-Mauritian singer Christabelle) left out, this makes for a fantastic album - a journey across time and space into the undiscovered. -Sain Alizada