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City: Copenhagen NV
State: Hovedstaden
Country: DK
Signup Date: 5/2/2006

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Thursday, August 28, 2008 

Current mood:  used
Hey everybody,

I haven't all that informative with what been going on these last few months but rest assured that it's been because I've been busy as all hell. I'm sitting in my studio, trying to get it all down before it slips my mind.

My project with Miss Ane Trolle, Trolle//Siebenhaar, is finally out and is doing good in little Denmark. "Couple Therapy" has received good reviews and we're currently on the top 10 chart. We have people working on getting it released in other territories so hopefully we'll be making a splash abroad as well. We're getting everything together for our live show and it's going to be killer + we're working on the video for our next single.

In July I joined the Code Of The Cutz Mix Tent stage at the Vans Warped Tour '08 for a total of 14 shows in 16 days. From Florida to NYC. 6000 kilometers with my man Charlie Byrd from Alabama at the wheel. So many cool people, it's hard to recall them all but here goes: Bus 16 Crew 4 Life! Dante, Jamie, Donnie & Gill Mantera, Massive Monkeys, Angelo, Tiff, Lauren, Othello, DJ Manny, Yonas, Dez, Fritzo. I'll never forget you guys, much love. All the great bands out there grinding; Lordz Of Brooklyn, Aggrolites, Horrorpops (got drunk on danish Snaps with Henrik in Miami.. Crazy shit..), Bouncing Souls, Beat Union, Shanti, Beduin Soundclash. Thanks for the respect.

My man Lasse and me got our first single "Falling" out as White Pony and it's currently the highest climber on the danish airplay chart. Hectic shit. We got Toby from Floor Is Made Of Lava and Land from Decorate. Decorate. doing vocal features on it and it is hot as all hell. We're going on a rave cruise from Copenhagen to Oslo this whole weekend and we're gonna tear that sucker a new A-hole.

This sunday I'll be on danish national radio, talking with Anja Pil about all the crazy shit I've getting myself into. Check it out on P3 Public Søndag from 23-00. You can hear it online here: http://netradio.dr.dk/content.asp?station=3

My next move will be working on my own material for my next album entitled "808 Punk Rock". I'm going back to my punk shit on this one. Straight up hardcore shit, angry as all hell, fast and furious and full of piss and vinegar. It's about time I started to address the world around me and not just having my head up my ass. Nothing is settled yet but hopefully it'll be out on Allhands Records, a Copenhagen based indie label dedicated to quality vinyl and run by close friends of mine.

That's it for now, hope you'll check out what I got cracking and enjoy a few of my tunes.

Mucho amore,

- Pato.
Currently listening:
Are You Ready for an Organ Solo?
By Quintron
Release date: 2006-03-07
Thursday, July 19, 2007 

Current mood:  mellow
Category: Blogging
I haven't commented on it before but back on the 24.th of june, Copenhagen lost an irreplaceable voice.
 
Natasja Saad, or just Tasja, was one of those cats that had always been around. I remember her back in '95 when I spotted her and her long time partner in rhyme, Karen Mukuba at a Beastie Boys show. At that time they were still No Name Requested, an early 90'ties hiphop/ragga outfit.

From then on our paths crossed occasionally and through my friend  Dwayne, I eventually came across and became a part of the danish reggae scene, just as it was ready to blow everybody's heads. Natasja hadn't been doing music back then for a while, she had been making money as a professional jockey but had suffered a serious crash and had undergone hip replacement surgery. I recall her from a session at Pharfar's studio when she was trying to write her lyrics for what would later become Bikstok Røgsystem's now legendary "Cigar" track. She wasn't sure  if danish was a language she could deejay in, but Dwayne, Phar and  Blaes all convinced her that she was on the money and then she went in to the booth and laid down what became the kick start of the danish reggae movement, of which I am still an enthusiastic sideline player.

RubaDub Sundays quickly became the epicenter of the whole scene and I ended up by default as web designer for anybody within the scene who needed a site and who had a bottle of rum or some loose change. That's how I ended up doing Tasja's website.. Though, to be honest, it really  wasn't any good. It looked cool, but..

This last year was turning out to be Tasja's year for real. She had won  Irie FM's "Big Break" contest in Jamaica as the first non Jamaican  ever, she had gotten great reviews for a part in a danish stage  adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and she did a killer performance at the Danish Music Awards. Me and Ane were on the program  as well and we shared the same DJ set up as her crew and we had  backstage areas right across from hers. It was really exciting to see  her blast through on stage, her flow impeccable and her presence undeniable. I was overjoyed to see the same little lady who had sat in front of me in Pharfar studio, struggling to get her slender patois flow around the heavy danish language, no more than 4-5  years ago, on  stage in a hot red dress and high heels, TV cameras everywhere, and she  was killing them, moving as if she did this kind of shit everyday.

The last time I heard her live was at Rubadub's 5 year anniversary. It  was one hell of a night, David Rodigan & King Kong coming through +  Tasja and Pharfar. I went on first with Ane and after that I did a few  tracks on my own, backed up by DJ Cars10. I wasn't really on top that  night, but I felt it went okay until Tasja and Phar went on.. The place  blew up. It was seriously magic, her flow had gotten so sharp, so tight. King Kong came on afterwards and did alright, but no matter what his legend status might be, he had just been taken out by the local queen of the dance. Even Rodigan, with all his stage presence, all his seniority, seemed slow and old compared to what Tasja dished out that night.

At her funeral yesterday, the vibe was very heavy. Funerals are always  weird but at this one it felt like somebody had pushed the pause button  on reality. You had a turnout of just about every creative head within  the Copenhagen scene. People who are known for getting the party going  within 5 seconds; drummers, bassists, guitarists, dj's, rappers, soul  diva screamers, shit hot producers, hypemen, legends from the 60's  & 70's, toasters, promoters, mashup masterminds, graphical designers, fashionistas, old hippies, smoked out Christiania bong veterans, punks, rastas, gipsies.. And everybody not saying a thing, not doing anything, not preforming, everyone sullen and slightly scared. Scared, because it could just as easily have been them in that box with all the pretty flowers. We've all tried to be all fucked up after a gig and then jumping in to a van with somebody who might be slightly over the legal limit, not giving it a second thought, just wanting to go home after a good show. You could almost feel all these super talented people asking themselves; 'Fuck, I'm glad this didn't happen to me' and 'How many would show up at my funeral?'.

If Tasja has taught us anything up here, then it's to just fucking go for it. In real life she was a very humane person full of faults and  mistakes, but through all that, she made her voice heard and she stood  so much taller than her petite real life height of 5 foot zero.

Anyway, that's how I will remember her.


Here's some of the pictures that I've taken of Tasja while serving as  photo dude for Rubadub Sundays and included is also a recording of  Tasja live and direct from Rubadub's 5 year bashment.. Listen and learn, kids.


More love to you, Little T.


- Pato.


Natasja Live From Rubadub Sundays 5 Year Birthday Party!

 


  // Rubadub 5 year birthday bash //


// Bikstok release party //


// Tasja album release party //


// Bikstok release party //


// Bikstok Pumpehuset backstage //


// Bikstok release party //


// Bikstok Århus afterparty //


// Bikstok release party //


// Bikstok Vega backstage //

Currently listening:
The Harder They Come
By Jimmy Cliff
Release date: 26 June, 2001
Monday, May 21, 2007 

Current mood:  nostalgic
Category: Parties and Nightlife
What a night..

I played a set with Cars10 & Ane, Natasja tore the roof off, Fata and King Kong were killer and to finish it of, David Rodigan came through to school the crowd on how to run a set.

Crazy moments..

5  FUCKING YEARS!

Much love to Malachy and the crew for keeping it so tight for so long.

5 more years of rum, beer, weed, insane random shit, tuff selections, hangovers and bass, bass, bass..




Saturday, March 17, 2007 

Current mood:  peaceful
..So me and Sofia took a trip to Milan. She was looking forward to go crazy shopping and I was just there for the coffee and the food and to spend some time with my baby away from the normal everyday crap.

It was really cool, beautiful city. Here's a collection of impressions of Milan. Nobody seems to be cleaning the walls. The whole city is splashed in graffitti.. Nice!

Oh yeah, and the weather was really nice as well..

Peace,

- P.


Currently listening:
The Very Best of Fats Waller
By Fats Waller
Release date: 07 November, 2000
Friday, March 02, 2007 

Current mood:  pissed off
Dude.. I feel.. I don't know.. Today has been a weird day. So much shit should not be compresed into so few hours. I'm sitting with my laptop, the T.V. tuned to the live news feed from my old neighbourhood, and it isn't a pretty sight.

The streets are burning for real. People are rioting.

See, where I used to live there was this house. This specific house was a gift from the city to the dissatisfied youth of copenhagen, way back in '82. It had 2 beautiful venues, several rehearsal rooms, a really cheap and well stocked bar, exceptionaly cool gigs, a hardcore leftwing profile and one hell of a history. The house was self governed, that means that the city didn't have any say in the runing of the house, it was all up to the individual users and what they thought was the right thing to do.

 I say that there was this house, 'cause the cops came today. In full riot gear. They came through the roof. We're talking serious action movie shit here..  Teargas, water canons, helicopters circling the area, cops in full riot gear.

I couldn't belive it at first. We've all known that the raid was coming, that the cops could come at any moment and that they would be pulling out all the stops to clear it out fast. I just had to go and see what was going on. The streets were full of old friends, all as confussed and as amazed as I was. I walked around all afternoon, seeing faces that I've seen all round my old hood through the last 10 years, at parties, from the stage, at the super market, on the street, you know?

This house has been the launch pad for so many cool people and so many cool bands and so many cool ideas. The fact that all that is gone is so monumental that it's hard to really describe. People are really angry right now. Young people, old people, parents, small punk ass kids, old stoner types, fucking everybody is pissed off right now.

I'm pissed right now. I'm feeling so completely fucking useless at this very moment, I should be writting pissed off protest song, I should be slinging fucking molotovs at something.

But I won't. Not right now.

But I will..

I feel something is going on right now. It's been brewing for a long time and now it's about to go critical mass on this whole motherfucker.

It's like the 80'ties are back..


Much love,

- P.

ps. If you want to know more about Ungdomshuset/Jagtvej 69 then have a peak at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungdomshuset
Currently listening:
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
By Dead Kennedys
Release date: 11 September, 2001
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 

Current mood:  awake
This dude got some skill..

Tjek out "If you got the money", "So lonely...", "Back in the Game" & definately "Sheila".. True rude boy mashed up stuff.. Brilliant!

- P.
Currently listening:
Panic Prevention
By Jamie T
Release date: 01 February, 2007
Sunday, November 12, 2006 

Current mood:  recumbent
This was a classic party. A closed down old car dealership that got torn the fuck the down by 600 crazy kids..

Here's how I saw it..

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 

Current mood:  pleased
   
Currently listening:
Rancid
By Rancid
Release date: 01 August, 2000
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 

Current mood:  grateful
    Suddenly it appears that we have rounded the 1000 people mark up in this mother.. Optur! 
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 

I just got back from my first vacation in 7-8 years. I needed that so bad, you have no idea. My step-mom has a hacienda down in Majorca. No tourist stuff, this was just a chilled small town. Fresh figs from the backyard every morning, then a quick walk down to the ocean, splash around till it was time to get food. Cafe Con Leche por favor señor!



Here's a few snaps..
































I used to spend a lot of time down there when I was a kid, but I haven't been back in over a decade, so it was funny seeing everything again. It all seemed just the same, just smaller somehow.



Back in old DK, things are moving along as they have a way of doing. My good friend Ane Trolle and me are in the process of getting a deal together for a track we did a while back. Ane is a lot of fun to work with and you'll soon hear the track, don't worry about it. My old buddy Bjørn Bass is handling the mixing and it's always a joy to work with him.





Ane, Bjørn & me putting in work in front of the screen..




This summer has been a blast. Literally, it has been an explosive experience. From playing Parken (just about the biggest venue possible in Denmark), to doing straight up soundsystem shows on top of skateboard ramps and on rafts floating in Copenhagen habor, to getting paid huge amounts and seeing them disappear just as fast as they pop up on expenses beyond my control.




My head is fire and I don't even know it.. Skanderborg Festival '06.


I've met so many people, some good, some bad, but every one has been an experience in their own way. A lot of love goes out to the kids who have been digging my stuff!


The video for "Bad Situation" is finally ready and will be dropped soon. It's a killer, no doubt there, and we got something special planned. Can't say it right now, but it'll be big!



- Pato.


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