“Before the Gods had names, scandinavian pagans of the bronze age worshipped the sun and other spirits in nature. It was a warm and colourful era after the long and cold Ice Age.”

That’s what Bård Aasen Lødemel aka Skatebaerd tells us about his unholy blend of detroit-ish techno and Bobby-O style synthesizer disco he diplays in his track Pagans, featured on the latest Supersoul Recordings release. He should know, because coming from a small village on the west coast of Norway due to the absence of nearby raves and clubs, he would wander, dance and run through the forests only accompanied by his trusted walkman and the spirits of the scandinavian nature. On the flip we find Marimba, a midtempo deep house cut for early mornings after long awake nights, which features old-school ryhthm machines, lush synths and 12-bit floating point panpipe samples. Skatebård started his musical career at age 13, playing the drums in a rock band, and has since always kept an equal interest in rock and electronic music. He discovered techno in the early nineties through compilation tapes of early Detroit techno and Chicago house and his main inspiration (not unlike the orginators of techno) might be italo-disco and european synthpop like Kraftwerk and Yello, but his alltime favourite band remains Black Sabbath.