At 1051 Magazine we have always loved the Nordic electronic scene (we take this opportunity to anticipate that, possibly before the end of the year, we will have an in-depth interview with one of its most relevant protagonists…). And we also always love to sniff out and discover those artists who are starting to stand out.

That’s why today we bring to our virtual pages Torje Fagertun Spilde, aka Third Attempt, a self-taught producer, composer and DJ born and based in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, although he grew up in Asker, just outside the city. At only 23 years of age, Torje has shown in a very short time that he has something special that sets him apart from the rest.

 

In his childhood he had contact with the trumpet and drums, but he says that over the years he has lost his classical musical training, and that his sense of rhythm and his musical ear, above all, remain from those days.

But perhaps the most surprising thing about Third Attempt is his taste for the most elegant music of past decades, and how it inspires him for his productions, in which one can appreciate the utmost respect for those sounds. House, Balearic, Lounge, Trip-Hop, Ambient, and the more electronic aspects of Jazz and Funk; with these ingredients, the Oslo native assembles important sonic artefacts. He cites as his references artists such as LTJ Bukem, Mr Scruff, Floating Points, Aphex Twin, Nightmares On Wax, Atjazz and Four Tet, plus Norwegian classics such as Todd Terje, Lindstrøm, Prins Thomas, Bjørn Torkse or Biosphere.

The maturity with which Torje approaches his productions is extraordinary, and the result is somewhere between cinematic and danceable, but always tinged with tremendous elegance. Since 2016 Third Attempt has been producing and DJing… a year later, in Tromsø, he started his relationship with the clubs and there he also made his live debut at the Insomnia Festival.

 

Precisely in Tromsø, Vidar Hanssen, supremo of the legendary label Beatservice Records, notices this young Torje and gives him the opportunity to release his productions on the label. Shoreline and Serve Chilled are his first two EP’s on the Norwegian label, released in 2018, and a year later he includes his track Long Story Short on Paper Recordings’ compilation 25 Years of Paper, Part. 2 by Flash Atkins.

In 2020, and again on Beatservice, he released his first album, World Is Too Loud, six tracks produced by Third Attempt, where again we have to resort to the aforementioned arguments, as Torje once again demonstrates a mastery that not all artists in their early twenties pour into their work.

The follow-up came in April this year, entitled Beats From The Quarantine. Another stroke of genius, conceived as its title suggests in this period of time when the activity of electronic artists has been restricted to the studio due to the compulsory closure of clubs around the world.

 

 

To close this intense year for Third Attempt, just a few days ago Quarantine Remixes was released, which as its title indicates, is an album with remixes of Beats From The Quarantine. Taking up-and-coming names mainly from the Oslo and Tromsø scene, the danceable rhythm of the original album is elevated (as in the case of Torje himself, who gives this treatment to the track that opens the album, Front To The Back) with an excellent result.

 

 

The career of this promising Norwegian artist should be followed closely. We will do so.

 

 

 

 

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