“When I was a teenager I got most of my new music from skateboard videos.”
“The radio stations in Denmark where I grew up was/still is really bad, and I didn’t have the internet back then, so this was my only way to discover new music. I remember hearing “Let It Ride” by Dinosaur Jr in the Santa Cruz “Speed Freaks” when I was 13 years old. My first ever self bought vinyl was Dinosaur Jr’s Bug.
I also remember coming home after school when I was 9 – 11 years old and would go through my stepfather record collection. I had to do it when he wasn’t home. He didn’t want me to touch his stuff. I clearly remember first time I found Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde, Coltrane, Love Supreme, Can, Spoon and Neil Young, Harvest in his collection. It totally changed my life.
I have a lot of favorite records. To mention a few is very difficult for me, but here is a ruff list.”
SHORT LIST
John Coltrane “Love Supreme” & “Africa/Brass”
The Swirlies “Blonder Tongue Audio Baton” & “They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons”
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto “Vrioon”
My Bloody Valentine “Loveless” & “Isn’t Anything”
Can “Tago Mago”
Spiritualized “Lazer Guided Melodies” & “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space”
Neil Young “Live at Massey Hall”, “Harvest” & “Sleeps with Angels”
Autechre “Draft 7.30″ & “Confield”
Bob Dylan “Blond on Blond”, “Nashville Skyline” & “New Morning”
The Microphones “The Glow Pt. 2″
Sonic Youth “Sister”, “EVOL” & “Daydream Nation” & “Washing Machine”
Bach: Cello Suite by Mstislav Rostropovich
Public Enemy “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”
Steve Reich “Different Trains”
LONG LIST
John Coltrane “Love Supreme” & “Africa/Brass”
The Swirlies “Blonder Tongue Audio Baton” & “They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons”
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto “Vrioon”
My Bloody Valentine “Loveless” & “Isn’t Anything”
Boards of Canada “Geogaddi”
Can “Tago Mago”
Spiritualized “Lazer Guided Melodies” & “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space”
Neil Young “Live at Massey Hall”, “Harvest” & “Sleeps with Angels”
Autechre “Draft 7.30″ & “Confield”
Red House Painters “Shock Me” & “Old Ramon”
Neu! “NEU! 2″
Bob Dylan “Blond on Blond”, “Nashville Skyline” & “New Morning”
The Microphones “The Glow Pt. 2″
Dr Octagon “Dr Octagonecologyst”
Sonic Youth “Sister”, “EVOL” & “Daydream Nation” & “Washing Machine”
Bach: Cello Suite by Mstislav Rostropovich
Alice Coltrane “World Galaxy” & “Journey in Satchidananda”
The Cure “Seventeen Seconds” & “Faith”
DJ Krush “Kakusei”
Stereolab “Peng” & “Emperor Tomato Ketchup”
Einstürzende Neubauten “Tabula Rasa”
Public Enemy “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”
Boubacar Traoré “Maciré”
Ornette Coleman “Change Of The Century”
Morton Feldman “Piano and String Quartet”
Rechenzentrum “John Peel Session”
Henryk Gorecki – Kronos Quartet – String Quartets 1,2: “Already It Is Dusk: Quasi Una Fantasia” & “Symphony NO. 3″
Madredeus “Ainda: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack From The Film “Lisbon Story”
Smog “A River Ain’t Too Much to Love”
Dinosaur Jr. “You’re Living All Over Me”
Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” & “Live-Evil”
Cocteau Twins “Blue Bell Knoll”
Nina Simone “I Put A Spell On You”
Slowdive “Souvlaki”
Bonnie Prince Billy “I See a Darkness”
Wu-Tang Clan “Enter the Wu-Tang”
Mamadou Diabate “Tunga”
Broadcast “The Noise Made By People”
A Tribe Called Quest “The Low End Theory” & “People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm”
Faust “Faust IV”
Sun Ra “Lanquidity”
Curtis Mayfield “Superfly”
Sebadoh “Bakesale”
Terry Riley “In C”
Alva Noto “Insen”
Steve Reich “Different Trains”
—Tobias Wilner
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