The music festival at the heart of the Norwegian underground scene
Norway has always been a great place for wild new music. In the 1980s, teenagers were so hypnotised by the subculture spearheaded by Norwegian Black Metal leviathans Mayhem and Burzum they started burning down churches; later, with 1997’s Substrata, electronic producer Biosphere captured a freezing pre-millennial tension that forever impacted ambient music. Into the 2000s, surrealist lounge act Royksopp soundtracked chillout rooms the world over, counterweighting Biosphere’s hypnotic rural hymns. […]