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RIF 018EP
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Blackbelt Andersen returns to Rett I Fletta, dusting off four timeless techno tracks he found in an old cupboard. They're actually so old the label would rather not tell you abd they could already be filed under classics.
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FP 035EP
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Daniel "Blackbelt" Andersen has been active in the Norwegian dance music community for a number of years. He got into electronic dance music in the early '90s and first started emulating the sound of Detroit techno on his father's home computer. These are three brand-new tracks not found on his newest album, II (FP 006CD/LP).
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FP 006LP
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Double LP version. Daniel "Blackbelt" Andersen has been active in the Norwegian dance music community for a number of years. He got into electronic dance music in the early '90s, and first started emulating the sound of Detroit techno on his father's home computer. In the last half of the decade he bought his first turntables and a mixer, and was soon DJing around Oslo. His first releases were on Canadian label Restructured Recordings and Prins Thomas' first label Tamburin, under the name Kalle Magnus & Daniel, a collaboration with his childhood friends Kalle Sandås and Magnus "International" Sheehan. Through the last years, he's enjoyed success with his releases on Full Pupp, Trailerpark and Claremont 56 and recently remixes for fellow Norwegians Fjordfunk and the lowlands disco kings The Glimmers. His productions have been licensed to a number of compilations like MOS Balearica and The Glimmers Fabric Live 31. He's a co-resident on the monthly Full Pupp Oslo and has also had a number of international DJ gigs from Berlin to Beijing. The Blackbelt sound can be described as Juan Atkins jamming with Airto Moreira, with a bit of Larry Levan thrown in for good measure.
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FP 006CD
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Daniel "Blackbelt" Andersen has been active in the Norwegian dance music community for a number of years. He got into electronic dance music in the early '90s, and first started emulating the sound of Detroit techno on his father's home computer. In the last half of the decade he bought his first turntables and a mixer, and was soon DJing around Oslo. His first releases were on Canadian label Restructured Recordings and Prins Thomas' first label Tamburin, under the name Kalle Magnus & Daniel, a collaboration with his childhood friends Kalle Sandås and Magnus "International" Sheehan. Through the last years, he's enjoyed success with his releases on Full Pupp, Trailerpark and Claremont 56 and recently remixes for fellow Norwegians Fjordfunk and the lowlands disco kings The Glimmers. His productions have been licensed to a number of compilations like MOS Balearica and The Glimmers Fabric Live 31. He's a co-resident on the monthly Full Pupp Oslo and has also had a number of international DJ gigs from Berlin to Beijing. The Blackbelt sound can be described as Juan Atkins jamming with Airto Moreira, with a bit of Larry Levan thrown in for good measure. A few words from Prins Thomas: "The raw material which became 2 has the same DNA as Blackbelt's debut. His ideas might lay around for 5-10 years before that crucial missing 'middle part' pops out of nowhere (or in this instance: two old ideas get combined into a new one) but essentially, they all come out with the same color, taste and smell... and they all sound like nothing but Blackbelt Andersen. Over a 3 month period in 2011, I invited Daniel into the mess that I call K16 Studios for a hectic but creative reworking of the material that he had piled up. The idea was to use Daniel's tracks as templates and use whatever kind of tool we had at our disposal to color in the white fields. Kalimbas, cheap old throwaway synths, guitar amps and effect boxes. Some tracks needed little more than a sprinkle of EQing or some re-arranging and others were reworked from the bottom up."
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2009 release. This is the debut full-length release from Blackbelt Andersen aka Daniel Andersen, who has been active in the Norwegian dance music community for a number of years. He got into electronic dance music in the early '90s, and first started emulating the sound of Detroit techno on his father's home computer. In the last half of the decade, he bought his first turntables and a mixer, and was soon DJ'ing around Oslo. His first releases were on Canadian label Restructured Recordings and Prins Thomas' first label Tamburin, under the name Kalle Magnus & Daniel, a collaboration with his childhood friends Kalle Sandås and Magnus "International" Sheehan. He has enjoyed success with his releases on Full Pupp, Trailerpark and Claremont 56 and remixes for Fjordfunk and The Glimmers. He's a co-resident of the monthly Full Pupp Oslo and has also had a number of international DJ gigs from Berlin to Beijing. The Blackbelt sound can be described as Juan Atkins jamming with Airto Moreira, with a bit of Larry Levan thrown in for good measure. His first album is a prime example of the aforementioned -- a highly infectious mix of Motor City strings, slight Brazilian rhythms and arpeggiated disco bass-lines... a 70+ minute potpourri of songs blended into each other and actually turning into THE dance album of 2010. Check the incredible "Ditråit," the spine-tingling "Kuk Av Stål," the Thomas Dolby-esque "November" and the future-classic "Sandoz" as an example. It's hard not to get excited listening to this brilliant dance masterpiece.
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