The giant mobile phone returns from the dead

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MomentThe giant mobile phone returns from the dead

Fix your gaze at the Oran-ge Stage and turn your head a little to the left, then you’ll see a sixteen feet tall mobile phone.

Tuesday evening the phone caught attention through-out the entire Festival site. It went up in flames and the fire department had to respond quickly and extin-guish the fire. Ever since a team of volunteers has toiled around the clock to rebuild the phone so that it would be ready for the opening of the Festival site yesterday.

The gigantic phone plays an important role on this year’s Roskilde Festival. It is the symbol of 2008’s human-itarian focus. In cooperation with Danish charity or-ganisation DanChurchAid, Roskilde Festival has created the campaign Fair Phone Fair Future. The campaign is about the metal industry in DR ongo – a country, where many companies buy the materials used in the pro-duction of mobile phones.

Congo has a huge potential”Minerals from DR Congo used in mobile phones have been used to finance civil war and horrible working conditions. But they can and must aid in the establish-ment of peace, reasonable working conditions and de-velopment. There is a huge potential in that country,” says Christian Friis Bach, international chief of Dan-ChurchAid. Fair Phone Fair Future is not about people simply boycotting mobile phones. Mobile phone companies have previously pulled out of countries like DR Congo when the press has started to address the situation but this is not the solution, says Christian Friis Bach.

You can support the Fair Phone Fair Future campaign by handing over your refund to the collectors who raises money to improve conditions for children in DR Congo.

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Finally, the gates were opened. Thursday at 5 p.m. eager festival guests stormed into to the festival site, and most of them continued running until they reached the very front of the Orange Stage. Four days of music was about to begin of the warmest day of this year’s Roskilde.

Orange Press is written, photographed and edited by the festival media office Publisher Roskilde Festival, Havsteensvej 11, 4000 Roskilde editor-in-chief Esben Danielsen editors Thomas Lenler Olesen, Bine Iversen og Otto Lerche layout www.fingerprint.dk e-mail orangepress@roskilde-festival.dk

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Friday July 4

Roskilde Pavilion13.00: Job For A Cowboy 15.00: Polarkreis 18 17.00: Rotten Sound 19.00: A Kid Hereafter 21.00: Seasick Steve 23.00: Holy Fuck 01.00: Yeasayer 03.00: Familjen

Roskilde Cosmopol12.30: Beardyman 15.00: Kenge Kenge 17.00: Jneiro Jarel’s Shape Of Broad Minds 18.45: Burhan G 20.30: Santogold 22.00: Robyn00.00: La Kinky Beat 01.15: Dj Wagner Pá 02.30: Orquestra Imperial Resident Dj: Master Fatman

Roskilde Astoria12.30: Yoyo Oyoy Presents Kirsten Ketsjer, Yoke & Yohs And Yoyo Oyoy Special Occasion Orchestra 14.00: Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band 16.00: Sidi Goma 18.00: First Floor Power 20.00: Sunburned Hand Of The Man 22.00: Osaka Invasion Feat. Dj Scotch Egg, Ove-Naxx, Maruosa And Bogulta 00.00: Fedde Le Grand & Friends 01.45: Ricoloop 02.30: Orquestra Imperial 03.00: The Count & Sinden

Roskilde Odeon12.00: Raunchy 14.00: Kate Nash 16.00: Mugison 18.00: Vieux Farka Touré 20.00: 18th Dye 22.00: CocoRosie 00.00: Battles 02.00: Motorpsycho 02.30: Orquestra Imperial 03.00: The Count & Sinden

Orange Scene17.00: Gnarls Barkley 19.30: Kings Of Leon 22.30: Grinderman 01.00: The Streets 14.00: Juan Formell Y Los Van Van 16.00: Band Of Horses 21.00: Mogwai 23.30: Goldfrapp 02.00: Spleen United

Roskilde Lounge12.00: Klaus Lynggaard 13.00: Jomi Massage 15.00: August Engkilde 17.00: Krusseldorf 18.00: Dj Banel 20.00: Dunkelbunt 23.00: Alberta In Love 01.00: White Pony Dj Team Resident DJ: Baunbaun

Roskilde Arena14:00: Juan Formelly Los Van Van16.00: Band of Horses18.30: Veto21.00: Mogwai23.30: Goldfrapp02.00: Spleen United

first the giant mobile phone on the festival site went up in flames. but now the towering symbol of this year’s humanitarian focus has re-emerged.

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real ecstasy dealer turned himself inA young Danish man who was arrested for drug-dealing on Wednesday was set free today. He had continuously told the police that he was not the owner of 200 ecstasy pills even though he was car-rying them when he was ar-rested. After the preliminary questioning on Wednesday he was set free. As a friend of him turned himself in to the police and explained that the pills actually belonged to him. The real drug-dealer is kept in police custody for the next 2 weeks and will be taken to court.

Man still in coma from drug overdoseA 20-years-old Norwegian fes-tival guest was hospitalised Tuesday after taking a drug overdose. The man has alleg-edly mixed hash and heroine bought in Copenhagen, reveals the Danish newspa-per, Berlingske Tidende. The Norwegian is still in a coma and his condition is critical, says Bent Stavad from Roskil-de Police. The young man’s family has been notified and have come to Denmark.

First Floor Power replaces aarOnThe Swedish indie-poppers come to the rescue in the last moment. French act AaRON has unfortunately been hindered in performing due to illness. Swedish act First Floor Power takes over the spot on Astoria Friday at 18:00 with crooked indie-pop in the vein of Talking Heads and Bob Hund.

The Oval is upgradedThe Oval is Roskilde Festival’s exclusive area close to the Lounge area. This year the area’s lush feeling has been given an extra hike. There are new seats in the bars. The good old table and bench approach is still in effect, but they have been redesigned in new materials, which are attractive and functional. The lighting has also been upgraded with new lamps, and there are now six choices of food compared with last years four. Offers include homemade burgers, thai food, nachos, tapas, lambrusco, sushi and expresso. The extra space for the bars is a result of the area’s goodbye to the Spoken Word tent.

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The festival area is buzzing with activity in the sun, and it is very important that you protect yourself from the sunrays and that you drink plenty of liquids.

”If at fi rst, the sunburn is a reality there is very little that the fi rst-aiders can do. That is of course, unless there are actually blisters on the skin,” ascertains Lars Rasmussen from the Red Cross Samaritans. “The most important thing is to drink plenty of liquids – and obviously the kind that doesn’t contain alcohol. It is also important that you protect yourself with sun lotion and that you eat sensibly,” stresses Lars Rasmussen. He adds that it is a very good idea to wear a shirt when you’re out in the sun. The basis for a great partyUp until now, no sunburned festival guests have visited the fi rst-aiders at this year’s Roskilde Festival. “But I really hope that people are smart and take care of themselves in the heat,” says Lars Rasmussen. He recom-mends that you put on footwear even though it is really hot. “Sandals prevent accidents whenever festival guests step on sharp stones or shards of glass.” According to Lars Rasmussen, if you are already sunburned, you should use after sun lotion and wear a shirt whenever you’re out in the sun.

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Stage checkName: Roskilde Astoria

What: Roskilde Astoria is the place where the music creeps way under your skin. In the daytime you meet the intimate experiences close to the artists, and at night the tent is tranformed into a club scene with energetic parties. The closed tent fi ts about 3,000 people.

Where: You fi nd Roskilde Astoria on the hill west of the Orange Stage.

Who: Efterklang, Fanfara Tirana, Fuck Buttons, Dunkel-bunt, Sunburned Hand of the Man and more.

Trivia: This year, smoking is prohibited at Roskilde Astoria (as in Roskilde Lounge) in response to the new Danish smoking law that took effect in August ’07. So blow out the smoke before you step into the intimate space!

Stage checkName: Roskilde Odeon

What: Roskilde Odeon has no extravagant light or sound show. Odeon is like a solid rock club which gives you every-thing straight up, from tearing rock roars to intimate concerts. Simple and authentic – the way it's supposed to be at a festi-val. Roskilde Odeon emerged in 2003. 170 volunteers work at Roskilde Odeon which can contain about 5,000 people.

Where: You’ll fi nd Roskilde Odeon in the north-western area of the festival site, right behind Astoria.

Who: Clutch, CocoRosie, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Raunchy, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – and more.

Trivia: The focus is on sustainability on the entire area sur-rounding Roskilde Odeon. All trade is either fair trade or organ-ic, and power-saving LED stage lighting is used on the stage.

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Perhaps not everyone were in such a hurry under the blistering sun yesterday, but the annual run to the Orange altar was won by Martin Skov-gaard wearing the inevitable orange suit. The Festival Site is now the center for all activities, music, events, magic and meetings.

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Roskilde’s hottest dayUp to now Thursday has been the hottest day of this year’s festival with temperatures up to 27C. The hottest festival ever was in 1976. This year Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show were inspired by the public and proceeded to take their clothes off – ALL their clothes. The average temperature for the whole festival period in 1976 was 21,9C. According to Danish records, the col-dest festival ever was an average temperature of 11,5C. That was in 1984. Brrr. Last year must have been the wettest!

Roskilde’s hottest dayUp to now Thursday has been the hottest day of this year’s festival with temperatures up to 27C. The hottest festival ever was in 1976. This year Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show were inspired by the public and proceeded to take their clothes off – ALL Up to now Thursday has been the hottest day of this year’s festival with temperatures up to 27C. The hottest festival ever was in 1976. This year Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show were inspired by the public and proceeded to take their clothes off – ALL their clothes. The average temperature for the whole festival period in 1976 was 21,9C. According to Danish records, the col-dest festival ever was an average temperature of 11,5C. That was in 1984. Brrr. Last year must have been the wettest!

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Kings of Leon ready with new materialFans of Kings of Leon, who will play at Orange stage at 19:30, might as well put a mark in their calendar on September 21st. Here the south state rockers will release a new album. ‘Only By the Night’ has been recorded in Nashville, and the band says to NME that the songs this time are more political.

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With no less than seven guest musicians on stage, the mastermind behind Choir of Young Believers, Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, showed up with a huge beard, white shirt and suspenders – as if he had appeared directly from the land of the Amish. The band started out with one of their more well-known songs, ’Riot’, and this was a reasonable way of getting acquainted with the talkative audience. With their mixture of orchestral rock and minimal repetiti-on, Choir of Young Believers sounds like the kings of me-lancholy in Low interpreting ’Nights in White Satin’. Wonderful moments, but

you soon risk suffocating. Two drummers, a violin-player and cello contributed

to creating depth, and especially the broadening of the rhythm section helped

lifting a track like ’We Talk on the Phone’. Several new songs were introduced, and songs like ’Why Does It Always Have to Be This Way?’ does indeed promise well for the coming debut.It was a self-assured concert, and alone the fact that the radio hit ’Sharpen Your Knife’ was left out points to a band with great integrity.This was my third Choir of Young Believers concert within a month and abso-lute the most impressive. Because is surely not modest music. This is music which deserves big stages where the high ambitions can be fulfilled.

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Last year it was Arcade Fire. This year it was MGMT who managed to gather the most crowded tent on the first day of the festival. An extremely large crowd had appeared to see what it was all about –this deservedly hyped Brooklyn act MGMT. And those who expected a huge communal party also got it. However, this came in too small doses as the band seemed too introvert.

But still the lead singer Andrew VanWyngaarden with the nasal vocals was a unique study in coolness.

With hippie hair-band, dark sunglasses and a few doses of pot too many in

the blood, he steered the band through fantastic crowd-plasers like ’Electric Feel’, ’Kids’ and not least the youthful hymn ’Time to Pretend’. If MGMT get around to writing more songs of this caliber, they can become a true psyche-delic pop-monster.

Tonight less was enough – not at least thanks to the hyper lively audience.

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Virtuous awakeningscattered party orgy

”Lupe, Lupe, Lupe!” The expectant audience shouted the new and fresh figure of hip hop onto the stage and let his name resound every time the break between the songs allowed for it.

Unfortunately, this was allowed a little too

often, however, Cosmopol was almost floating with an energetic crowd that licked up more and more cream and became wilder and wilder during the show.

No matter the amount of sex in the Muslim rap-per lyrics, the boys aired waved their caps, and the girls got hot when Lupe let his eight man strong act hammer the stage canvas up high in the air like cream on hot pans mixed with hand-played hiphop.

The sexy atmosphere lit fire when a couple in the audience started going at it during the track Superstar. That’s Roskilde Festival for you! But even though it was a great party, a bit of coffee was missing in the cream.

’Hiphop saved my life’- and those ’I’m one of you, guys’ clichés from the stage gave the fresh air a rather mainstream aftertaste.

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Trustworthy cream menu no. 2

Lupe FiascoRoskilde CosmopolThursday kl. 20.45

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American Clutch were al-lowed to open Odeon this year, and they were cer-tainly not allowed to do so in considering the “touchy types”. From the first se-cond, Clutch delivered heavy stoner rock with all the trimmings – fully charged amplifiers, extremely hard drumming and raw vocals.

The bands experiment in stoner rock bore clear references to Kyuss, who, without doubt, have played an important inspirational role. In the Clutch version this was mixed with a little touch of extra funk and me-tal, which made the music their own. We experienced a technical, very well played set, obviously enhanced by the band’s recent extensive live activity.

Everything wasn’t all that exciting. Most of the he-avy riffs were fine, but Neil Fallon’s vocals seemed for-ced, and many of Clutches

oddball antics came across as a desperate attempt to seem different.

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Some headliners suit Roskilde Festival better than others. Radiohead fits in perfectly this year. They have a new album with them in the luggage, they are innovative, they have massive amounts of artistic qualities, they cover a wide

selection of genres, and at the same time they have an equal amount of appeal in the public. And finally they even turned environmentally conscious.

In other words, Radiohead has struck a chord with Roskilde’s progressive and political profile.

The originals from Oxford drew a double line under that fact with a concert which was close to being perfect. With last year’s eminent and ex-tremely publicized album, In Rainbows, at the centre, they

stressed their status as of the most ground-breaking names in rock with a concert that had it all.

The audience on the crowded Festival Site witnes-sed a band that controlled both the compressed as well as the simple elements, and the soulful as well as the noisy elements. And this happened with a setlist which allowed room for the challenging, but also contained the impulsive – introspective electronic on ’The Gloaming’ – and outward-

Heavy opening of Odeon

The perfect matchradioheadOrange stageThursday 22.00

cLutchRoskilde OdeonThursday. 5.30pm

second grinderman album on its wayLast year, the side project from Nick Cave thundered through the sound barrier with their self-titled debut album. And according to the caveman himself, you can look forward to another album from the band in the beginning of 2009. So who knows? Maybe a couple of new songs will be played when the group take over Orange Stage tonight at 22:30.

”This ain’t fucking Backs-treet Boys, my friends,” front man Matthew Tuck said and encouraged the audience to start crowdsurfing.

With some hesitation, a few boys from the moshpit jumped onto each other’s backs, while others kept to the back, though we did un-derstand the message. That this band wasn’t Backstreet Boys. That it was far more dangerous. That we had to ap-

pear wilder. However, though the concert was good and seemed as one of the positive surprises of the day – profes-sional delivered, technically exciting – the band never really became dangerous.

Bullet for My Valentine opened with the title track from the latest album, Scream Aim Fire. With a pre-cision like a German machine gun, the drummer blasted off lethal fills (or so they soun-ded) into the stage room.

The lead singer encou-raged the audience the put their “fuckin’ fingers in the air” and use the fuckin’ mos-hpit. The audience followed order. They showed the devil horns, moshed and surfing the crowd. And did some heavy sweating!

All the while, guitarist Michael Padget put his left foot on the monitor and gazed across the audience, while he played another solo. Professionally, heavy, technically impressive. And exhilarating!

However, it never became dangerous, They wrapped the metal in a nice and too emotional vocal and tender lyrics which only bleed thea-tre blood. ”What’s happe-ning to me / I’m dying from the inside.”

But it wasn’t fuckin’ Back-street Boys, it was a good concert, but it wasn’t fuckin’ Metallica either.

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BuLLet For my vaLentineRoskilde arenaThurs 20.30

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Roskilde Festival has always been known for gambling by presenting new bands instead of only playing safe and well-known names. Letting the sensitive Faroese Teitur play the opening con-cert at Roskilde Orange was another gamble challenging the thought that music has to be loud and noisy to appe-ar on the biggest stage. But unfortunately the fragile singer/songwriter’s melodies did not work well on this scene as the sound was too low and the audience kept talking too much.

Through the song ‘The Singer’ Teitur tries to come to terms with the idea of being a singer expressed through the lines ‘I’d never meant to be a singer, but I’m slowly getting used to the idea’. When playing at Oran-ge Stage, he did not seem to be quite used to the idea yet. But, as he noted himself, he was also challenged by the fact that he was playing to a crowd of more people than

the entire population of the Faeroe Islands.

Instead of the muscle power normally deman-ded to conquer this stage, Teitur tried to put forward a feeling of melancholia. Starting with his ’Guilt By Association’ he crooned his way through the setlist, mostly only accompanied

by quiet string instruments, carefully played horns and a women’s choir.

Both Teitur and his band did well, but the intimacy needed to truly release his music was blown away by the wind of the Festival Site, and the party-demanding crowd was only satisfied when he played ’Catherine

the Waitress’ as one of the last songs.

Teitur did not really give us a noisy and loud party to kick-off the festival. Instead he peacefully cut the silk cord of Roskilde Festival ’08. The part will probably start later on.

Christian Boiertranslation: Mette Dahl

Expectant waiting and whispering resounded in the stage tent before Duffy’s opening of Arena which first

appeared as cheering and clapping, but was followed by almost complete silence when she took the stage with the track ’Syrup & Honey’ only accompanied by guitar.

Duffy appeared as an updated soul diva who both seemed to live up the all the clichés when she tripped around the stage with her blonde locks, red painted fingernails and stilettos, but also displayed a more modern and solid message to the female audience than many of her predecessors on the soul scene.

”My songs are about taking no shit,” she pro-claimed, something that didn’t break the image, but rather gave her some needed personality.

As a centre of attraction on the stage, Duffy easily kept the audience focused when she danced around with equal amounts of inno-cence and flirting. However, it was the strength of her vocal that really impressed when she let it loose in the soulful retro ballads.

However, the platinum-selling single ‘Mercy’

seemed as the one track the majority of the audience had come around to hear.

And after the dust from the dancing feet had settled, many left Arena after a

concert that merely seemed to meet expectations rather than adding anything really new to the songs.

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looking communal singing on ’Karma Police’.

It was all delivered with a sophisticated seriousness, free of all politically correct statements. Thom Yorke felt no need to verbally save the crowd in the name of a higher cause in a Chris Martin-like fashion. The music spoke for itself, and 20 minutes even passed before we heard a single “hey”

The new songs which have been played live for two years have now found their right ele-ments in the live setting, and

the charges of human energy and mechanic programming formed a whole several times during the show, helped by six big screens and energy-saving LED-lights on stage.

Last time the band visited the festival Site, the rain was pouring down on the Orange Stage. That was in 1997. This year they conquered the Orange Stage. Radiohead and Roskilde was the perfect match.

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Quiet sound and a loud audience

unruly divaThe Perfect match

If Gossip was made of ice, they would be made of choco-late covered ice cream. Hard on the outside and soft on the inside. The edgy guitar-driven tunes formed the hard shell, while Beth Dittos soul vocal formed the softness on the inside. Lots of power and quite tasty.

It started out slowly, but as

the concert progressed, Beth Ditto and her band mates tur-ned more power on step by step. And thanks for that.

What started out a little slow ended as a remarka-ble party with a jumping audience and a rather signifi-cant lead singer who strolled around in her underwear.

Along the way, Beth Ditto expressed her fear of playing the same time slot at Radio-head, but her and the band allowed the audience to sing the Radiohead hit Creep, and this eliminated all doubt. And there was absolutely no reason for Gossip to stand

in the shadow of Radiohead because the band did an incredible job and created a great party.

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Good gossipGossiproskilde OdeonThursday 21.30

duffyroskilde arenaThursday 18.00

teiturOrange StageThursday at 6.30 pm

the streets in top formWhen Mike Skinner’s band tonight visit the largest scene on the Festival, the main character will literally be fit for fight. At the time, Skinner is training to accomplish the New York Marathon in November. So if you run into an energetic jogger it might be the running Brit.

Mogwai howls in september At 21:00 Mogwai powers up at Arena. And if you have prefer-ence for the Scots virile noise rock, you can look forward to a new studio album called, ‘The Hawk is Howling’, on Septem-ber 21st. The album offers 10 songs and guest performance from acid rock legend Rocky Erickson who performed at last year’s Roskilde Festival.

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Head fashionorange Press ventured out among the campers to feel the pulse of this year’s trends in head fashion. This year’s trend: festive colours!

I have chosen my hat, because it is neat, and it makes me look like a scarecrow. I like that.

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If you like your bass served in such a dark and deep manner that your diaphragm literally shakes, Roskilde Festival has a real treat in the goody bag for you Satur-day night at Roskilde Cosmopol.

No one else than some of the biggest act in dubstep will be on stage in the shape of Shackleton, Benga, and Skream.

Especially the only 21-year-old – pallid Skream is a pioneer and a star on the scenet. He is regarded as one of the dubstep origina-tors, and he released his debut at the tender age of nineteen.

“The garage scene was slowly dying out, so we decided to do something else. It was really stripped, minimal and was only about the bass. It was back in 2000-2001, and we were really young – only about 15,” explains

Oliver Jones – his ci-vilian name – about the early beginnings in the southern London quarter Croydon.

Beats like pistol shots in the darkAfter a few years - primarily with underground status – there is no doubt that dubstep has seriously established itself as a viable genre. The deep, mysterious bass and the fusion between dub and 2-step have bubbled in London since 1999.

The ambience is generated by beats that sound just like gun shots in the dark – rhythms sounding like aliens hacking our brains, and a bass as deep as mother earth’s force field. Shackleton usually incorporates Middle Eastern sounds into his music, while Skream – who will be performing with his friend Benga under the joint name Magnetic Man – is unusual in that he also has a real

under-standing of melody.

“It’s hooks. Popular songs have good hooks. Benga’s songs always have a good hook that’s really catchy. And I just think that makes people remember your music. I don’t have a musical

education, but I like to make ‘real’ music and use chords correctly. You can inject so much emotion into your music in that way. I really like horror movie soundtracks. It’s all about using the music to build suspense and make you feel something really specific.”

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Shackleton will be playing Sat-urday at 03:00. Magnetic Man feat. Benga and Skream will play Saturday at 01:30. all of them will play at roskilde Cosmopol

The Cure, Depeche Mode, The White Stripes, Klaxons and The Futureheads all have one thing in common. The balls in their music have had intimate contact with two Germans.

The Hamburg based duo Jens Moelle and Ismael ‘Isi’ Tuefekci are Digitalism, who, since 2004, have remixed themselves upwards in the DJ tables, making it embarrassingly difficult for even the most clogged rock youth to say no to a quick dance. The hype increased even more, almost to boiling point last year, when they released their debut album ‘Idealism’.

Indierock or disco? We are in borderland, where the different genres glide together and lovingly caress

each others hands. “We compliment each other. I am a music and technical nerd,” Jens explains about his chaos theory.

Ruthless and mad“Isi doesn’t care about technique. He is more organised, so when I put a cable into the chequered square he visualises and directs the creative output. On the live stage, things change. “Isi can be much more ruthless and mad than me.”

They met at the end of the 90’s as employ-ees in a Hamburg record shop called Under-

ground Solu-tion. “While we were there, we witnessed many, many boring releases every week. Out of 500 records, maybe only one was worth the vinyl it was printed on,” Jens says about the decade’s

garage and house craze. “That’s why we began to make our own

music” Among Digitalisms first tasteful electronic concoction was the kidnapping of Robert Smith’s voice which was forced by sampling and stringent beats to spell – not sing the title form the Cures ‘Fire in Cairo’. It took us half an hour to make it,” says Jens about the loose hacker hit ‘Digitalism in Cairo” written on pirate software.

When playing live, Digitalism is pluto-nium in its most unstable form, and if you

doubt this claim, you can test for yourself Sunday night at Roskilde Arena.

With a great risk of meltdown they play a springy house/rock hybrid, which is like tickling sensations in printing tracks. If Franz Ferdinand is a rock band who get people to dance, Digitalism is dance music which gets people to rock. This stuff is infec-tious.

“It must just be loud,” grins Jens. Maybe because of this their studio is in a bunker behind thumb-thick concrete without win-dows. The only effects to create the party atmosphere are ventilation and a 5 euro stroboscope light.

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digitalism plays Sunday 00.00 at the roskilde arena

While we were there, we witnessed many, many boring re-leases every week.

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digitalismthe German duos house/rock hybrid is plutonium in its most unstable condition

festival nights offer other pleasures than death-binging, flirting and singing by the camp fire. if you find your way through the darkness to the scenes, you will discover that the music program includes everything from German club muscle and deep British dubstep to Balkan brass and american party mashup. here we steer you towards some of the festivals best night parties.

did you know?Digitalism’s hard pumped music is made to support the decks’ heavy universe. The single ‘Pogo’ has already been used on the soundtrack for games like “Need for Speed: ProStreet’ and ‘FIFA 08’.

did you know?Dubstep is alive and well in Denmark too. Especially the members of the DJ-collective Ohoi! are proud representatives. They are the masterminds behind the nightclub Below which is notorious for having a huge sound system, unusually intense bass frequencies, as well as the record company Kraken Recordings which releases Danish dub-productions.

dubsteplet the deep-sounding bass from london shake diaphragm

Mille, 22, froM DenMark Pål, 23, froM norway

I chose my scarf, because it is an explosion of colours. And since it is festival, summer and sun, the scarf represents it very well.

You have to have a festival hat! Last year I had a cowboy hat, but this year I have went for a more classical look ala Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. The shuttlecock in the hat band shows my interest for badminton.

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Imagine a dance floor where Jay-Z, Metal-lica, Roy Orbison, Britney Spears, Aphex Twin, Michael Jackson, Kanye West, Radiohead and Ace of Base all dancing and tumbling around, going completely ape shit and stripping one by one. This is just about how the brand new album ‘Feed the Animals’ by the infamous one-man-army Girl Talk, who have created a new style and career by creating music which is sto-len from the whole of the pop catalogue.

The one and only member of the army is 26-year-old Greg Gillis, who made his breakthrough via the Inter-net when he released his album “Night Ripper”. This controversial and deeply il-

legal release was every sampler’s paradise. One great mashup consisting of extracts from 150 other artist’s recordings. Aero-

smith was crossed with KRS-One, whilst Salt-N-Pepa swapped saliva with James Brown. In the Girl Talk universe only the best seconds from a song are allowed in. One chorus, one guitar scream, all to cre-ate the wild party that his live-shows have the reputation of delivering.

Infinitive combinations“I started with experimental music, but I am more minded now to create the party atmosphere, and get people out onto the dance floor. The music is all my favourite songs which are cut up so I can combine

them in an infinite number of combinations,” explains Greg Gillis, who has made sample-based music for many years.

Until now he has avoided legal action, even though he doesn’t bother to clear his samples. The problem is that there are too many, and the price for the rights would be impossible to pay. Even so Gregg Gillis doesn’t feel like a thief, or even a copier who just profits from other peoples work.

“One could suggest that all music descended from somewhere. Musicians who play guitar do not pay royalties to the person who invented the chord. In the same way, pop music is built up around narrow and known elements, and I think I just play an instrument,” say Gillis, who you can experience on Saturday evening on the Cosmopol scene.

SoundvenueTranSlaTion: Tim lawSon

Girl talk will play on Saturday at 23.00 at roskilde Cosmopol

Tired of moving your feet to predictable 4/4 beats and cool synthesizers? Roskil-de Festival offers other more exotic acts to get you out of your camping chair – guaranteed!

On Saturday evening and

night on the Astoria stage you can experi-

ence four dif-ferent acts

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each of their different ways know how to create a party based on strutting horns and elegant brass.

One name who has been successful in bridging the gap between the European club scene and Balkan music is German Shantel. His DJ-set Bucovina Club is renowned and has laid waste to venues all over Europe, and his bubbling cocktail of Western club beats flavoured with the Balkan horn and exotic scales has won him BBC’s prestigious World Music Award in 2006. Shantel is bringing his eight man high Bucovina Club Orches-tra, who will create the party and happy days feeling - guaranteed.

Shantel is not the only western European who has recognised the potential in this new fusion. The Austrian DJ, Dunkelblunt calls his own music ‘Balkan Dub’, and it

is true that you can hear gypsy music and dub in his production, but his

expression also draws from other more well-known speci-alities like Ska, hiphop and dancehall.

Even the dead dance Festival revellers won’t be

cheated from more authentic and pure Bal-kan music. Tubas, saxophones, trumpets and clarinets are the main ingredients when the

Albanian brass band Fanfara Tirana begin to open their sluices. But don’t get fooled here. The thirteen man high ensemble can even make the dead dance when they kick the party off with their original and soul-ful update of the South Albanian “Kaba”. It moves the edge of the stage and then straight into your heart. Fanfara Tirana has been tipped as one of the best Balkan brass bands at the moment by experts, so don’t miss your chances of experiencing a lesson in how real brass should sound.

People also know how to blow the horn outside Balkan. From the other side of the world comes the fiery Spokfrevo Orquestra from Brazil. The orchestra have taken their name from their bandleader Spok and the Brazilian carnival music “Frevo”, which originates from the Pernambucos area of Brazil.

Spokfrevo Orquestra mix the best from “Frevo” with Swing and Jazz, kicking the beat up to around dou-ble tempo, so no normal, sane person

can keep their feet still. The music is vir-tuoso, exotic and riveting.

michael GaunT/SoundvenueTranSlaTion: Tim lawSon

Shantel & Bucovina Club orkestar will play on Saturday

at 0200 at roskilde astoria. Spokfrevo orquestra plays

Saturday at 2200 at roskilde astoria and dunkelblunt

23.30, 01.30 and 03.30 at roskilde astoria

Musicians who play guitar do not pay royal-ties to the person who invented the chord.

GreGG GilliS

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Girl talkMeet the most popular and fun and festive hero thief since robin hood

Did you know?Greg Gillis admits openheartedly that he just nerds through, when he is not enjoying the rock star life under his Girl Talk alias. He has had a 9-5 job, as a bio-medicinal technician. The new album “Feed the Animals” can be downloaded free via Girl Talk’s record label website, Illegal Art.

Did you know?Shantels DJ-set Bucovina Club has taken its name from an area of the same name which is close to the Ukraine and Rumania, where Shantel has roots. In 2007, Shantel was behind the soundtrack to the German/Turkish cultureclash fable ‘Auf den anderen Seite’ which amongst other things was awarded for best manuscript at the annual film festival in Cannes.

the entrance of the hornsleave your inhibitions at home and let yourself get blown away by an impressive Balkan inspired line-up.

10 | FRIDAY JULY 4, 2008 ORANGE PRESS

Today, it’s the fi nal day in the Roskillz rap battle. In the last week, hopeful contesters have battled in freestyle rap by Agora skate.

Yesterday, more masters of rhyming were credited with hand tags at the skate park at Camping West, and the experienced freestyle cham-pion, Per Vers, heated up the audience and rallied the troops as emcee yesterday where many showed up to see the organized bickering on rhyme and the entertain-ment is also secure.

Bickering with booze-breath“I done, I’m fucking ham-mered”, the rapper called The Raven has lost the thread, but he wins the audi-ence with his honesty and booze-breath. Not all of the rappers have a ready answer.

After days with abundant

amounts of alcohol and sunshine, and a more modest amount of sleeping, it can be hard to stay focused when the propeller on the cap isn’t taking that many turns anymore.

A few trace outs is made from the topics given out, and one of the genres more stereotype records, which is mostly about your fucking

mamma is being put on. But with big smiles and

handshakes, the fi ghts are being ended, and the enter-tainment of the audience stays in focus.

Licking wounds While the judges deliberates on who’s going to the fi nal, the masked Swedish rapper ‘Follow him to the end of the

dessert’ entertains. He shows that Swedish underground rap isn’t nearly as afraid of percussion as the Danish.

Before the fi nal, the rap-pers go back to their camps to lubricate their vocal chords and to work on the verbal slaps and beatings with their homies.

Make some noise“Those who were cool, were cool, and the ones who were wack, were just enter-taining.” Per V says from

the scene to an agreeing audience. The critical audi-ence assessed every single performance, and can in the fi nal determine the rappers destiny.

The excitement from the audience is being measured on a “noise-o-meter” from the scene. The rapper with the best rhymes and the best fl ow can reap the benefi ts of the huge applause from the audience, and then continue the competition.

Finale todayYesterdays winner was MC Rapdog who has qualifi ed to the fi nal in Roskillz after a tight battle with DJ/Rap Kim Smed. The fi nal will be held today at Cosmopol 12:30 p.m. where the kettle once again will be fi red up.

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– bickering with booze-breathWhile the sun sets behind the six meter high speaker tower, hopeful rappers battle each other. The fi nal takes place today at Cosmopol.

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Roskillz

The festivals biggest beer bong contains 60 beers.

23-year old Nicki and Ru-ben at Camping West are the proud owners of the three meter high construc-tion that with its two fun-nels and a sedate system of tubes and pipes make up a giant beer bong.

When Orange Press arrives to the camp, the beer bong is about to get fi lled. It takes about 15 minutes to get all pipes and containers fi lled with the 60 beers that the beer bong can handle at the utmost.“We fi ll it up several times a day and then we usually drink of it in two groups. So you don’t have to drink it all by yourself. It takes about 30 seconds to empty the bong, so I don’t think the body would feel that well, if you didn’t do it in turns”, says the proud co-owner Ruben.

Suck, suck, suckThe beer bong is equipped with four taps, and after a random selection of a curi-ous member of the audience, all taps are taken. With a turn on a valve, Nicki sets the many liters of beer free, and a split second later the beer is pouring out of the four hoses and into the mouth of the expectant festi-val guests.

Much of the beer is wasted due to the enormous speed out of the taps. But even more ends in the thirsty mouths. The whole session is being watched close and loudly by around 30 bystand-ers, who have gathered to see the huge beer bong in action.

Greeting from TuborgThe rumor about the gigan-tic beer bong spreads fast at the festival area. Earlier in the day, Danish beer com-pany – and offi cial Roskilde Festival sponsor – Tuborg shows up at the camp and donates ten crates of beer. “Naturally that created a giant party, and our camp was suddenly really popular among our neighbors”, says Nicki while he recovers from yet another successful turn under the beer tap.

CHRISTIAN BØJE NIELSENTRANSLATION: SØREN PETERSEN

beers in 30 seconds

It takes about 30 seconds to empty the bong, so I don’t think the body would feel that well, if you didn’t do it in turns

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Camp offers reward for fl agA depressed camp has contacted Orange Press with some sad news. Their beloved fl ag has been stolen (or maybe they dropped it some-where themselves – they were not quite sure about this) and they are ready to go to extremes to get it back. So if anybody sees a red fl ag with the inscrip-tion “Roskilde 2007 – 2008 – undskyld” (“und-skyld” means “sorry”), it can be exchanged for a reward of great symbolic value in the Military Camp at L 59.

Warm up for the Nude raceTomorrow, Roskilde Festival will stage the an-nual Nude race. This year it’s going to be different, so there is a warm-up session for the race. The warm-up session com-prises a competition with rules that are a little different from normal. An example of one of the rules is that you are not allowed to have too much clothes on, but you are not allowed to have no clothes on. Understand? There are cool prizes for the event today, just like the real Nude Race. The race takes place between 12am and 1pm today.

Buy a radio host for 2 hoursYou now have the pos-sibility to get help in drinking your beer, wine, sitting in your chair and much more that you don’t want to do your-self. The Festival Radio’s two morning hosts Lars and Michael will for the sake of a good cause rent themselves out for a pe-riod of two hours to the highest bidder.The auction takes place today at 10am and money received will be donated to human to human.

Odeon is 100% ecology or fair tradeRoskilde Festival has worked hard over the last 3 years to improve the area around Odeon for the good of your visiting conscience. This year, for the fi rst time, the area is 100% ecological or fair trade (except the beer bars). There are many new features in the area. This year you can feast on the new scrumptious dishes from Tjikken Tjili and sausages from the ecological sausage bar. At the same time as checking your thirst with milk smoothies by Naturmilk and ecological drinks in the bar. You can even lower your body temperature with cold fair trade ice-cream from Ben & Jerrys.

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, ready for Facebook-partyOn July th a giant party is held at Kongens Have (a park in themiddle ofCopenhagen). So far , people have signed up for the Facebook-partythat Mark Holm announced this spring as ‘The (hopefully) biggest party inDenmark!Wewill be , including you!’ – since then a lot more peoplehave shown interest. Mark Holm has asked for permission to use the parkand gotten a positive response. METROXPRESS

Serena andVenus in the finalFor the third time tennisplayers and sisters Serena and VenusWilliams will meetin theWimbledon final. Yesterday big sister Venus reached her seventhWimble-

don final by beating Elena Dementieva -, - (-) and later SerenaWilliamswon -, - in her match against Zheng Jie that more than one time whe-re stopped because of the rain. Venus has won the title four times andSerena twice. They’ll meet on Center Court tomorrow. METROXPRESS

Barbecue accidentsare on the rise

‘Friends – TheMovie’ is comingPRODUCTION. It looks like a re-union for theworld’s favorite fri-ends Rachel, Moni-ca, Phoebe, Joey,

Chand-ler and Ross.MailOnline re-ports that thehighly anticipa-ted film producti-

on of TV series ‘Friends’finally seems tobe a reality. Theactors behind theNew York-groupwill according toinsiders rise as their alter

egos witin thenext year and ahalf. It’s the suc-cess of ‘Sex andThe City – The

Movie’ that has inspired thecast – also Jennifer Anistonnot to say the least who un-till recently doubt-ed that starring asRachel Green aga-

in wastherightthing for her.

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HEAT DAMAGES. Only fools facethe barbecue grill without fe-ar. Or at least a review madeby The National Institute ofPublic Health for Metroshows that the number ofbarbecue accidents has incre-ased considerably.According to senior resear-

cher Bjarne Laursen, around320 people in Denmark lastyear were injured so severelythat they were in need of tre-atment. The number was200 in 2000. On top of the of-ficial numbers, the instituteassumes that lots of acci-dents are never reported, be-cause they are resolvedwithout the involvement ofthe hospitals.Bjarne Laursen thinks an

obvious explanation lies inthe Danes’ increased use ofbarbecue grills:

»It’s both accidents wherepeople use dangerous fluidson the hot grill causing burs-ting flames, cuts and barbe-cue grills that have beenknocked over.«

Actual deaths are rare, butthey do occur. For examplethe other day when two peop-le died from carbon monoxi-de poisoning after having lig-hted a barbecue grill indoors.

The numbers show that itis particularly men who endup injured. Presumably, thatsimply reaffirms that the bar-becue grill is a traditionallymasculine domain.»But there are also a lot of

incidents with children, be-cause they burn themselveson the hot surfaces. Aboutone out of every five peopletreated is a child,« says Bjar-ne Laursen.Apart from the accidents

that are directly related tothe barbecue grill, the actualfood traditionally causes fo-od poisonings with particu-larly campylobacter and sal-monella. Typically becausethe food is not properly coo-ked, or because it is harder tokeep the hygienic standardswhen cooking outdoors.SUSANNE SAYERS/METROXPRESS

Particularly men end upwith injuries, when the barbecue is brought out

Epo testshave no effectMETHOD. No one knows whet-her the cyclists in nextweek’s Tour de France aredoped with epo. Accordingto several experts, the testmethods employed by the in-ternational anti-dopingagency, Wada, are practicallyuseless. This is also the asses-sment of the Danish dopingexpert Rasmus Damsgaard,who has double checked ahandful of the Wada dopingtests. According to Wada allfive tests were negative, butDamsgaard is absolutely po-sitive that they held ampleamounts of the banned drugepo. Swedish doping profes-sor Bengt Saltin supportsthis perspective. And recent-ly Carsten Lundby, a Danishresearcher, has also calledthe test into question.According to Damgaard,

the problem is that Wada on-ly classifies a test as positive,if there are remnants of afew specific types of epo –but the black market for do-ping offers hundreds of alter-natives that will not causeWada to react. METROXPRESS/JM

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More people bring out the barbecue and thatmeansmore accidents.

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some festival guests love proper conditions and peace at night. Welcome to caravan camp

At first glance, the cara-van area in the eastern part of the festival area looks like any camping site around the Danish summer landscape.

Looking more closely, however, you discover a van painted with graffiti and the sound of insisting techno rhythms, which distinguish-es the guests here from the stereotypical campers wear-ing identical track suits and white footwear.

Here the camping suit is exchanged with bare stomachs and cans of beer. Jakob Andersen camps for the forth time at Roskilde festival together with five other guys.

“We have grown old, so it’s great with a caravan when it rains. On top of that we have cold beers in the fridge and we can cook ourselves,” he explains and points with a proud nod towards the awning decorated with brown stripes that mark the entrance of their shared festival home.

Food brought alongThe comfort-loving gentle-men, who age-wise spread

from mid- to late twenties, are not completely unfa-miliar with luxury. For instance, they brought food ready to be reheated during the week made by their respective girlfriends.

“This is senior camping,” Jakob Andersen laughs to the amusement of the other members of the group. One of the guys races into the awning and shows a great banner saying “Roskilde up North” as well as all seven names. Unfortunately, number seven had to stay at home because of a serious whiplash.

More luxury, please!Even though life as a camper is pleasant, there is still something missing

”A couple of years ago we had electricity and could watch TV. This would be great again,” they say. For this festival they have

brought games and a Rubik’s Cube, which will have to make up for TV until the festival program begins.

Apart from the common shower- and toilet facilities the comfortable campers say that the neighbours are great to live next to. “No need to worry about bur-glary,” they concludes.

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“This is senior camping”

A couple of years ago we had electric-ity and could watch tV

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