#nils bech

[declanlikesmusic]

chris​†​†​† @ Mr​.​Roboto Project 11​/​7​/​16

A DJ Mix / Live Performance Review

CW: visuals contain fake blood, religious imagery, 2016 memes & political references

One of my personal favourite DJ mixes & live sets of all time is christtt's first proper attempt at a live show, what will be the start of several great mixes he would go on to do.

christtt is a plunderphonics & vaporwave producer who at the time had just gotten out of his first big break in the vapor scene with the release of his fourth album no lives matter on March 2016. To put it lightly, the title of that album has aged, but the album itself had a lot less to do about politics and way more to do about death and the afterlife in Hell, especially as this was made surrounding the ten year anniversary of his father's passing.

It's one of my favourite vaporwave albums of all time and it completely pushes the boundaries of what minimal can be done with its sample editing in order to effectively recontextualise & communicate strong & potent feelings of dread, despair & suffering that carry this entire concept album forward. It's incredible on that front, with its earliest highlight judas inside being remixed & featured as the closer of this mix, prefaced particularly by snippits of the songs directly sampled in that and its prior intro offline: HEALTH's New Coke and Genesis's Please Don't Ask.

Before you get to that incredibly explosive finale of that mix, you are first introduced to hauntingly elegant art pop from the likes of d'Eon & Nils Bech with some brilliant loops thrown into them, followed by even more breathtaking abstract electronica produced by Vaervaf, HELLCOM & Oneohtrix Point Never. After their crescendos, you're treated to a pair of frantic, eccentric & playful IDM beats provided by VHS Head & Extreme Animals before christtt uses all that came before this moment as a taste of what appeals & inspires his latest work at the time before happily guiding you in through the gates of Hell and taking you through the plunge.

This is an absolutely stellar mix, only 26 minutes in length and he spends that entire runtime showcasing his unique palette, his great ear for song editing, his seamless transitions and what marks one of the first true landmarks of his entire career as an artist & creative. Please give it a listen!

chris​†​†​† – untitled loop [0:39]

Nils Bech – Waiting [1:56]

d'Eon – Thousand Mile Trench [3:34]

Vaervaf – Mong [1:03]

Oneohtrix Point Never – Freaky Eyes [3:31]

HELLCOM – ACCELERATOR [2:43]

Extreme Animals – A Better Way [3:46]

VHS Head – Decapitron [2:47]

HEALTH – New Coke [1:19]

chris​†​†​† – offline / judas inside (live mix) [4:37]

streamable on Soundcloud • downloadable on Bandcamp

[belleandkurtbastian]

Me: “I know O Holy Night in English, French, and Swedish”

@benjji2795 : “Why do you know O Holy Night in Swedish?”

Me: “Completely normal reasons, definitely not related to a gay TV show, that’s for sure.”

[yourdailyqueer]

Nils Bech

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 8 April 1981

Ethnicity: White - Norwegian

Occupation: Singer, presenter, actor, musician

[half-a-tiger]

NILS BECH - “Foolish Heart (2019)” off the new album ‘Foolish Heart’ out now.

Director – Kenneth Karlstad

DoP – Kristian Engelsen

Dancer – Silas Henriksen

[lunawave75]

Henrik at the Bristol hotel in Oslo, 13th november 2019

+ BONUS

Niels Bech was there singing…

[roofdancer]

I was looking for some new content from Moddi for his Russian page that I manage and I found videos from his Christmas concert with Jentekoret Stas at  Sagene Church in Oslo. And then I googled this amazing church and Wiki told me it’s the one O Helga Natt scene had been flimed. And that’s how I stumbled upon this little masterpiece that brought back all the feelings.

“Neither of us is going to be the normal one, “ the character from Lauren Shippen’s The Infinite Noise says. Neither of us is a broken person in need of being fixed, of being saved. Neither of us is a savior who has to sacrifice something precious to be with the broken one. We all are broken in our own ways, and we all can help each other nevertheless. We save each other, in turn, minute by minute, again and again. This is how it works. This is how it works out.

[standardlovers]

mixtape : side a

track one - o helga natt by nils bech

[peachy-society]

Rule: Spell out your url using song titles then tag as many people as there are letters in your url

I was tagged by @littlefrenchiefangirl thank you so much I had a lot of fun picking songs but also god damn I thought I never would haha 💛

Play Dead - Björk

Extraordinary Rendition - Sons of an Illustrious Father

All Is Soft Inside - Aurora

Chambers - Tamino

How’m I Supposed to Die - Civil Twilight

Your Song - Elton John

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Stonemilker - Björk

O Helga Natt - Nils Bech

Cherry Wine - Hozier

It’s Oh So Quiet - Björk

Easy Living - Billie Holiday

The Seed - Aurora

Yggdrasil - Danheim

Can you feel the Scandinavian theme?

I tag @dailysixties @flasknarsfostervatten and @dansmasphere just in case you want to do this one but it’s all up to you 😉💛

Of course anyone who sees this and wants to do it is welcomed to do so!!