The goodiepal, also known as Kristian Vester, is many things. Among those, he can be counted as one very prominent Danish composer / music theoretician / robot enthusiast concerned with the electronical music of the old school. Working under various names, in various projects, and with various other people, mr. pal has worked up an extensive discography scattered all over the world since the 90's. Today, he seems to be primarily occupied with making music capable of fooling computers that are slowly taking over the world without us noticing; directly (set sounds and images, advertisement, the internet) as more indirectly (check the interviews below). Please take the time to hear what the man has to say for himself, by watching/reading/listening to the media on these (or some of these) pages:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/01/goodiepal-and-t.html
http://www.dr.dk/P2/Radium/artikler/goodiepal.htm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KMSKuXtVp-o
http://www.dr.dk/P2/Radium/artikler/goodiepal.htm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KMSKuXtVp-o
Alternately you can listen to the hacker-pack advertisements that can be downloaded here. They make up a fair presentation of, if not his musical output, then his sense of humor, which is very important when dealing with his music.
Brainwashed has made a vast amount of goodiepal/goodiepal-related music available for us all to download for free on this page and quite frankly, it really is a goldmine.
A cover reads '100% adventure trance', which is a pretty good description of some of the music. An other could be 'cultural hacking'. The music i very diverse, ranging from 8bit electronical scapes to sarcastically reconstructed teenrock, but primarily it has a feel of folk music and electronical music of the times when it was about making new sounds, as opposed to the preset-music of today.
Here is a suggestion of how to approach the archive:
1: Narc Beacon . A compilation, making up a good all-round first impression
2: Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra . The follow-up album.
3: The brand 7" discs . Parts goodiepalfolk parts advertisement-hacking. Parl has over the years worked for various large brands (coca cola, carlsberg, nokia..) occupied with commercials. He ended up stealing their sounds, quitting his job, and releasing those sounds as the hacker-pack, thereby freeing the sounds that make up a great part of our consciousness. This is a series of releases featuring some of those sounds - information-age-electrofolk?
4: Sincerely Christmass . A collaborative release featuring goodiepal and bjørn svin.
5: Audio Structires 12" . Crazy electronics by goodiepal and (primarily?) friends.
6: 8-12 bit recordings . More crazy electronics by goodiepal and friends.
7: Cardiff sinclair / manipal inverted 7" . Probably the most dancable stuff on the list
8: The goodiebag 7" series . Series of 7" releases curated by pal between 1998 and 2000.
9: The demonbag 7" series . Accompanying series of 7" releases
10: Danmarks ældste sangskat . Lithophonic stone documenting the oldest music in the world; older than that of the caroliner bull.
11: Rare tracks . A collection of very diverse scattered tracks ranging from sarcasm to glitchmusic.
11: Deathdisco2000 . Deconstructed/Reconstructed music. Released with the dane t.s. hawk release bearing the same title.
12: Selected advertisements . Advertisemens for the two hacker-packs (containing the audio material mentioned above) and a synthesizer plus a couple of gemms.
Brainwashed has made a vast amount of goodiepal/goodiepal-related music available for us all to download for free on this page and quite frankly, it really is a goldmine.
A cover reads '100% adventure trance', which is a pretty good description of some of the music. An other could be 'cultural hacking'. The music i very diverse, ranging from 8bit electronical scapes to sarcastically reconstructed teenrock, but primarily it has a feel of folk music and electronical music of the times when it was about making new sounds, as opposed to the preset-music of today.
Here is a suggestion of how to approach the archive:
1: Narc Beacon . A compilation, making up a good all-round first impression
2: Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra . The follow-up album.
3: The brand 7" discs . Parts goodiepalfolk parts advertisement-hacking. Parl has over the years worked for various large brands (coca cola, carlsberg, nokia..) occupied with commercials. He ended up stealing their sounds, quitting his job, and releasing those sounds as the hacker-pack, thereby freeing the sounds that make up a great part of our consciousness. This is a series of releases featuring some of those sounds - information-age-electrofolk?
4: Sincerely Christmass . A collaborative release featuring goodiepal and bjørn svin.
5: Audio Structires 12" . Crazy electronics by goodiepal and (primarily?) friends.
6: 8-12 bit recordings . More crazy electronics by goodiepal and friends.
7: Cardiff sinclair / manipal inverted 7" . Probably the most dancable stuff on the list
8: The goodiebag 7" series . Series of 7" releases curated by pal between 1998 and 2000.
9: The demonbag 7" series . Accompanying series of 7" releases
10: Danmarks ældste sangskat . Lithophonic stone documenting the oldest music in the world; older than that of the caroliner bull.
11: Rare tracks . A collection of very diverse scattered tracks ranging from sarcasm to glitchmusic.
11: Deathdisco2000 . Deconstructed/Reconstructed music. Released with the dane t.s. hawk release bearing the same title.
12: Selected advertisements . Advertisemens for the two hacker-packs (containing the audio material mentioned above) and a synthesizer plus a couple of gemms.
