diskJokke: En Fin Tid

Joachim Dyrdahl is an Oslo DJ and remixer, now on his second album of blissful electronic music. His aesthetic is founded on discreet and unhysterical fusions of Italo house and this second album, whose title translates as A Happy Time , draws, too, on half-remembered disco and Kraftwerk-era synth sounds. It's a back-to-the-future loop the loop that shouldn't sound this good, but does. Like his fellow Oslo travellers Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas, the adjective "progressive" flits around diskJokke (the trippy "Nattestid" is a case in point) but En Fin Tid 's analogue washes come punctuated by live instrumentation and every spacey departure is much more listenable than that ghastly word implies.