Check what Daniel Petry for Resident Advisor had to say about Snowbombing 2012 and Lindstom stellar appearance:
 
“Before going to Snowbombing, I was intimidated. I mean, I love snowboarding, and I love music even more. But the prospect of a whole week of both seemed close to insanity; how was one to survive such an ordeal? And how to make the most of it all? The solution I came up with was to go easy on the sauce; it seemed the only way. Against all odds, I managed this remarkable achievement.”
 
“Lindstrom played a live set which was a highlight of the festival, as not only was it full of emotion and glorious arpeggios, it was also surprisingly punchy and driving”.
 
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The Noweigian producer of the moment Hans-Peter Lindstrom will be joining Alex Gopher, who will deliver a rare disco set, as well as Das Glow and Class 84 on this very special event at Social Club in Paris that will take place Saturday 28th 2012. You can check the venue and ticketing information via Resident Advisor. If you are in town, come for a dance or two!
 

Two of the most respected heads of the Norwegian club music scene are playing back to back for the first time at this year’s edition of Oslo’s Oya Festival on Wednesday 8. August. Expect rhythms to float somewhere between disco and house, spicy spanning vocal tracks, sirens, keyboards, Indian sounds and many many more unpredictable tides. Additional information to be revealed soon on Oya’s Festival 2012 wesite.

Charting the career of one of Norway’s finest musical exports.
 
Norwegian producer Lindstrom may be known primarily as a purveyor of space disco, but his new album surely puts the lie to that sort of pigeonholing. Six Cups of Rebel is a prog fantasia, an album in the spirit of Todd Rundgren’s genre-spanning ’70s masterpieces. It’s a wild and adventurous ride, one that challenged Lindstrom to produce music in a way and a style that he never had before. That mentality has been a hallmark of his career thus far. Self-contained dance floor singles like “I Feel Space” eventually gave way to the lengthy jams on Where You Go I Go Too. After that, he went pop with Christabelle on Real Life Is No Cool. Speaking right around the release of Six Cups, he even revealed that he was already hard at work on something new altogether. RA caught up with Lindstrom last month in advance of his appearance at this year’s Snowbombing to hear all about it.
 
Download Lindstrom’s RA Exchange via RA website.

“Eclectic. It can be a horrible word. Most often when snobs use it to claim they have a superior music taste. But sometimes it can be wonderful. Lindstrom’s Six Cups of Rebel is eclectic in the very best sense – a mind-bending melting pot of disparate ideas that all seem to congeal together to take you on a surreal sonic journey.
 
This is an album so full of different noises and styles that it sometimes feels like he’s trying hard to contain all his ideas so that the album doesn’t overflow. At times it does – but somehow it all works. From swelling organ instrumentals to slamming disco belters Six Cups of Rebel is an adventure that will have your head exploding with happiness.
 
Just as you’re wondering where the repetitive organ march of ‘No Release’ is going, ‘De Javu’ bounces through the door, puts a tequila down your throat and forces you to dance. It’s a disco belter, a mesmeric cocktail of keyboard, samba drums and hip shaking bass.
 
From then the mood only gets stranger. ‘Magik’ is gonzo good-time synth funk while ‘Quiet Place To Live’ merges huge guitars, techno and disco – and somehow still works. ‘Call Me Anytime’ may be the best thing here, twinkling and pulsing and never feeling anything less than magical.
 
It finishes with the ten-minute ‘Hina’. It’s massive – growing only to stutter and break down before launching off again. It sounds like the final stages of his journey into space.
 
With Six Cups of Rebel Lindstrom has really put himself out there. He uses his own vocals for he first time. He’s admitted this is a record where ‘everything was allowed’. He has pushed himself to the limits of his sound, creating a record that merges an array of styles – from acid house to prog rock – stitching them together into something fantastic.
 
The sheer joy this album induces makes it worthwhile. It’s the furthest he’s ever gone and, at times, it nearly implodes under the weight of too many ideas running into each other at once – but when you come out of the other side you realise you’ve experienced something special.”
 
Album Review: Lindstrom – Six Cups of Rebel by Danny Wright on Notion Magazine.