When asked by Fact Magazine late last year whom he would sign if "money grew on trees," Norse-disco master and Lindstrom collaborator Prins Thomas answered, "Bjørn Torske - if I could lure him out of his cave".

Well, six years on from his second LP 'Trøbbel' (released on Tellé Records), Torske has re-emerged - with perhaps his best record yet. 'Feil Knapp' (that's Norwegian for 'wrong button', since you're asking) is the perfect record for Torske fans and the Scando-disco massive alike: veering from and psychedelic, dubbed-out downtempo and avant-electronica to quirky, playful Balearica and warm, melancholic house. Strange, funny, beguiling and enigmatic, the album has everything that we have learnt to love Bjorn for.

But who the hell is he, you ask? Well, without Torske there'd be no Röyksopp. No Torske, no Prins Thomas. And definitely no Lindstrom either. He hails from the capital of electronic music in Norway, Tromsø, a small town far north of the Arctic Circle and also hometown to other great artists Mental Overdrive, Biosphere and Röyksopp. One of Norway's early yechno producers, it wasn't until he released his debut album 'Nedi Myra' in 1998 that heads started turning elsewhere. At the turn of the century he found himself at the forefront (or should that be the background?) of the first wave of Norwegian dance producers making it big internationally, with his old friends Röyksopp leading the charge. In fact, Torske was something of a mentor to the group in their early days, remixing their breakthrough hit 'Eple' as well as DJing for them when they first toured 'Melody AM' around the world.

It was around this time he became friends with Zak Frost, who was at the time running his deepblue parties in Copenhagen and playing extensively in Europe's coolest clubs. They bonded over their shared love of deep, dubby dance music and all that God's green, green earth had to offer and released a compilation, 'Scando Nova', for Fuego Records in 2002, just after Torske's second LP 'Trøbbel' had been released. He and Frost have been friends since, and when Zak and Magic Jase first started the Nodisko parties in 2003 Bjørn was an early favourite guest.

(GUGLIELMO MASCIO, TORSKE AND FROST @ AN EARLY NODISKO PARTY, SPRING 2005 - OLD SKOOL!)

So it seemed only right that they invite the little Norwegian disco pixie back to London to launch his new record, released this month on Smalltown Supersound.

Welcome back crazy boy...

Also DJing on the night will be wonky techno practitioner from Hamburg CAJUAN and East End indie-disco darling ALI LOVE.

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