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I Talk With Lindstrøm

For Interview Magazine online.

Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has a way of punctuating his sentences with a little laugh that keeps conversation floating above the room. So the effect of talking with the soft-spoken Norwegian for an extended period of time is not unlike the sweeping club epics he produces for his own Feedelity label. I’ve interviewed him twice now: The first time was in the summer of 2008, several weeks before the U.S. release of his debut album, Where You Go I Go Too. The record did a lot to establish Lindstrøm as separate from his frequent collaborator and fellow space disco-naut Prins Thomas. Then, last year, Lindstrøm consummated another partnership on Real Life Is No Cool, playing Moroder to Christabelle’s Donna Summer.

So a lot had changed for Lindstrøm by the time I called him a second time, last week. It was 9 pm in Oslo, and he had just finished putting his kids to bed. Though I was cutting into his music time, which had undoubtedly grown more precious as a U.S. tour loomed, the father of two still welcomed me with his familiar and endearing chortle.

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