My name is Gustav and I play with Matias.
I'm Reine Fiske from Dungen.
And I'm Johan Holmegard from Dungen.
We are at Amoeba in LA and this is
What's... what is... that's our... in our bag. Shit.
I'm totally into turntablism.
It's like no one listens to that anymore, except for me.
So when I'm here in LA or in San Francisco
I always try to look for the tapes or the actual albums
I mean the tools or the breaks, I got so many of those.
This is Q-Bert, 'Underarms Are Fun.'
It's like a practice mixtape with Q-Bert and D-Styles, just like question and answering to beats
scratching for like an hour. I heard it on YouTube. It's amazing.
Ok we can start with this: Nisennenmondai.
It's a Japanese three-piece, some sort of punk, I guess.
It's great. We tried to book them for a festival that I am part of doing
and we didn't get them. But then I started looking at all these YouTube clips
and I was completely blown away.
I don't have this album. I have no idea about the songs. I never know songs
but they are great. I've never seen or heard them do anything bad
so I picked this one.
For me, my god is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and will always be .
I have to say, I rank him higher than John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix and
and you can see, by looked at my face, it's hard just to say that.
Y'know he's a little guy from Salzburg
Karl Böhm is, in the history of classical music, one of the best conductors ever.
and Symphony #40, we all know.
Da-da-da da-da-da da-da-da-da. that one.
But this one, the Jupiter 41 is astonishing
The last movement is, for me it's like the most amazing music
that anyone has written in the history of music
because at the end, I think it's for like 25 seconds at the end of the piece
it's a fugato, it's like a fugue but with five harmonies at the same time.
When you hear it, to think that one person actually has that in his head
it's amazing because it's like
if someone drops bombs on you and you cannot like
ahh... it's so much information.
There's so many reissues of African music being made
and they're all amazing, but this band is just
well, amazing sound. It swings as hell.
They have a totally unique attack
and this is some kind of collection thing.
And then this, something local. Ariel Pink.
I've been looking for this album actually, because the song 'Life in L.A.' is on here
which is a really nice song.
I think he is a true genius.
If Frank Zappa had started recording his music today
he would have sounded pretty much like Ariel Pink probably.
Underestimated, even though he's celebrated. But he needs to be celebrated more.
Let's move on to this record
'Incense and Peppermints' by the Strawberry Alarm Clock.
I got their second album, which is amazing, but this must be their first
and you can tell here, it's a vintage psychedelic gem
says the sticker, so
Must be true.
Must be true, I will not be disappointed. I know it's good. It's a classic.
This is my biggest inspiration
a Norwegian composer, guitar player/jazz musician.
This is an out-of-print CD so it's really nice to find it very cheap.
What's his name?
Terje Rypdal. He's a Norwegian.
And you got the chance to play with him this year.
Yeah in December actually, in Holland.
Are you gonna tell them about the time when you bought the record?
I sort of collect him so I finally found...
And this was how many
It was $500 or something I paid for the record
but it was unplayed. It's an amazing record.
Yeah, I can imagine.
Ok I found this one. This excited me a lot. This is Yumi Zouma.
Yumi Zouma.
But it's the first EP and the second EP and apparently some other recording I did not know existed.
So I had to have it.
I would say that this is the first band I ever heard that sounds like Seekit
which is a Swedish band, and their second album was
the best album that ever came, and I haven't heard that kind of music after that
and then these people sound kind of like that.
It's some sort of pop but it's kind of funky and groovy
and it's all kind of lame, but still nice.
This is one of those musicians that I listen to the most at the moment
It's Marcos Valle from Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, I think.
Born in '42
Both me and Reine like Brazilian. I don't know what their secret is.
We have Seu George, Milton Nascimento, Chico Buarque
I can understand if people think, oh it's quite cheesy sometimes
but as a composer, songwriter, musician, and arranger
the vibe... he's one of my favorites I have to say
I'm really happy to find this record because
now I need to buy one more of the records that I want.
Marcos Valle is... you should check it out, it's...
it's mind blowing.
This is a modern classic. Two good friends of ours.
It is.
It's Kevin Parker and Melody Prochet made this record.
This sounds actually a little bit like Dungen, though it's better.
It's like us but better.
She can sing in two languages, I can only sing in one: Swedish.
There you go.
It's a little bit better
quantity of languages.
I saw this one at your store in San Francisco a couple years ago.
I didn't get it then but I got it now.
This is the Youngbloods and It's a Beautiful Day, Initial Shock
but the interesting thing is that the picture of this person here
is a Swedish experimental composer, spoken word artist
Åke Hodell.
So that's pretty... it's a bit peculiar.
So this picture was printed in the program for the show that he put together
I don't remember the name of it. It's weird. Amazing.
And this is the last one, Azimüth
Is that how you... Azimüth. Moot, maybe.
This is actually the guys here, some of them
backing band
and played with a lot of...all of them during the 60s and 70s
Brazilian really amazing musicians
and they got the name, I think, from one of the songs, Marcos Valle.
He has a song called 'Azimüth'
I recently listened to this with Reine and
Gustav at home, at Gustav's place in Stockholm.
I got so...
it's mind-blowing.
That's all of my records.
Thank you so much.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you.
An honor to be here and do this.
Yes.
