Chaos-Magick and Los Angeles avec Euroness: my friend Dinner. Dinner is the moniker for Danish producer and singer Anders Rhedin – who happens to be a good friend of mine. Dinner’s record label asked me to write a few words to accompany the EP release. Here they are… Admittedly, my friend’s physical appearance seems like quite the North-European cliché: He’s tall, thin, blue-eyed, polite and speaks with an accent that sounds like something in between a nazi-villain from a WWII-movie and Swedish aristocracy. His music definitely calls on Euro-references as well. Icy traces of Joy Division and echoes of Nico-ish phrasing come together with Eno-esque melody-lines and occasional kraut-like motifs, and together form a framework within which Rhedin’s chanting voice, minimalistic pop-melodies and somewhat wobbly productions can coexist. However, in my opinion, there’s more to Dinner other than accumulated mass of musical Euroness. Something uncanny. Underneath Dinner’s apparently cold surface there’s a weird warmth.  Like a warm, summer-night, where something is about to go terribly wrong. I personally feel that the years Rhedin lived in LA has something to do with it. His heart was broken over there – and the songs he wrote after his divorce (some of which are on the EP) all have quite audible traces of LA in them. LA at night, LA in the early morning, the city’s ghosts - loss, death, magic… To me, it’s interesting to hear how my pale, Scandinavian friend (among the people I know the less likely to drive a car) has painted his own, ambiguous musical portrait of the palm tree-covered urban sprawl that is Los Angeles. (In what would seem in a non-Not Not Fun kind of way). Also, there’s Rhedin’s interest in the occult. I’ve rarely had a talk with my friend without the mention of a Buddhist sutra, Crowley or chaos-magick comes up in the conversation. I myself see Dinner as a pop-ritual. Live, Rhedin performs alone, with a cloak of a sort – doing ritualistic (and very awkward) dance moves to his songs. He recently told me, that he drove around LA performing rituals for each song when the final mix was done. He drives a Volvo, of course. I guess, to me, this is what I like about Dinner. The fusion of shadowy LA with cold Scandinavia. Magic and… loss. Or something like that.
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Meat is murder is the title from an album by The Smiths from 1985. It is also a cool slogan and it is also a truth. It is at the same time highly radical, highly pop and as relevant as ever. The designer of the t-shirt is anonymous, but it is released as a MEAT IS MURDER / LOOKING FORWARD release. The goal is to promote the animals, the label and the return of the slogan t-shirt - yet there will not be any explanation nor political statements in communication of the t-shirt. People should take interest in it for their own reason, whether it is the coolness, The Smiths, animal love or the need of a new t-shirt. 

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2012 sees the German release of Rough Days For Diamond Trade’s debut EP ”Somehow”. Rough Days For Diamond Trade is the solo project of the Copenhagen/Berlin based musician and award winning filmmaker Frederik Sølberg. For the last 10 years Frederik has been a key figure on the Copenhagen indie scene as a member of the highly acclaimed bands Ghost Society and Lake Placid, a respected and noted remixer and as a director of music videos and live visuals for prominent indie acts.
In 2010 Frederik started to transform unrest into beats and solitude into songs. On his own in Madrid, Copenhagen, Berlin and Los Angeles he would spend nights writing and producing songs and developing a
genuine personal expression with  a significant Scandinavian touch.  A twist of reverbed and distorted guitars, pumping beats and gloomy catchy synths topped off with Frederik’s charismatic and androgynous voice. The sound of broken hearts on a dance floor. Like dreams marching in time.There is already a huge buzz about the project in the blogosphere and among musicians and firstmovers. 
This is only stressed looking at the people Frederik decided to work with: Award winning musicians Cæcilie Trier (Chimes & Bells, CTM) and Jannis Noya Makrigiannis (Choir Of Young Believers) are featured on the EP, it is mixed by award winning producer Anders Rhedin (who produced the first COYB album), and mastered by Mikkel Gemzøe (who has worked with acts like When Saints Go Machine & Medina). 
The music video for the first single ”Anywhere” is an erotic and melancholic the-day-after dance tour de force directed by Frederik, and is followed up by remixes by Legowelt, Boom Clap Bachelors, and Money Your Love. The debut EP is released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on the magic date 12.12.12.  

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