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Discobelle is a Swedish blog about music. GOOD music. These lads know their stuff and if you want to be in the know too, well, then, by all means, check out the brief interview below. And then make visiting Discobelle a daily occurrence.


1. What made you want to start a blog/music blog/when did you start your blog?
The blog started as spin off from a Swedish blog that we and a few others used to run. Back then we had a club and radio show too and the Swedish blog was more a way of keeping people up to date on what we were up to. And to recommend good clubbing in the area.

After a while we realised that our mix series was taking off outside of Sweden, and a lot of people were showing interest in the blog but couldn't understand what we were writing. So along with a shift in musical style we branched out and started Discobelle.net. This was in January 2006, and since then things have just gone upwards.


2. What are your top 5 favorite songs of all time?
Our styles of music vary so much that it would be impossible to try to list any amount of tracks that would go for all of us. Or even rank them. But I'll list five tracks that I love just to give it a shot anyway. And I'm going for stuff that's not Discobelle-style of music, that would be a bit boring.

* Trauermusik - Partial Arts. Just an amazingly subtle but powerful track that is a great example of how underrated electronic music often is by the rest of the world.

* The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett. Possibly the best and most beautiful piano piece in modern time.

* What's going on - Marvin Gaye. The album is still up there after all these years. Marvin knows how to sound sincere about serious issues without being cheesy. And fantastic harmonies to go.

* Outside - Remembrance. A rare track from an artist that I never found anything else by. I found it on a fairly bad electronic/ambient collection but was completely hooked by the strings which are amazing. Sort of Nightmares on Wax but more acoustic somehow.

* Wanna be Starting Something - Michael Jackson. If you play this track and it doesn't get people dancing you might as well go home. It's just got the vibe that makes you want to move.


3. What is your ideal band formation…can be anyone alive or dead, from any genre. Must include at least a lead singer, lead guitar, bass guitar and drummer. (Bonus points for backup singers/keyboardists. keytarists/etc….)
I'm not much of a band man really. I tend not to look at music from the formation of the people behind it, especially since electronic music as made this view fairly obsolete. Get a few people together that can bash out a melody, and then let Jacques lu Cont produce it and it will be just fine.


4. Any other blogs, music or non-music related, that you recommend going to on a regular basis?
We have an all star mailing list for music bloggers called Grindin. Anyone on there is well worth reading. All the links our in our sidebar on Discobelle.


5. Any guilty pleasure songs that you might not readily admit to liking?
We're putting a few Swedish crowns on Boy 8-bit. And thanks for featuring us!

Thanks to you as well, Bjorn!