Hedonic entertainment5/9/2023 ![]() “You can make people cry, laugh, get horny, get mad, want to change the music and go home” To conceptualize an idea on fourteen tracks with a common thread. To just rest and digest all the impressions. During the album, you might get a lot of thoughts that you otherwise wouldn’t have had. Personally, I love putting on a record from start to finish. Technology has created inflation on the feeling of real music and album formats have been given a real boost by streaming services. The music has spread like diarrhea over everything. Once you hear the music, it means something. To sit and just hear the murmur of people. There are few places left that play no music at all. If you sit on the beach, someone should turn up with a speaker, or when you enter a restaurant, there should always be some music on the speakers. It’s never quiet anywhere, and I’m quite sensitive to sound. – As we sit here, I think about the sound of the road. We sit in silence for a few long seconds. It’s almost hard to imagine that in just a few hours he will be pushing the vinyl needles to their breaking point in a maxed out sound system. His essence somehow makes himself better in nature. Rudolf oozes peace of mind as he carefully sips from his bottle and leans back. All around us, car alarms are ringing, the sound check is booming from far away from the stage and the tourists are chattering like seagulls outside the fences into the Garden. We each take a sip of our cider and lean back for a while in the scorching sun. Who knows, maybe it will come back one day, but right now I just feel fomo when I’m not in nature. I also don’t have the energy to go to a rave today. Urban is great, but I find more peace in life when I see the stars in the sky before I go to bed. – In theory, it can’t get any better, but I noticed the exclusion just walking between home and the studio. The mundane, urban everyday life affected Rudolf negatively without him realizing it. Before moving to the island, he lived in Södermalm and had his studio within walking distance. But above all, they have given me a lot of love and security. I don’t know if it was my parents who gave it to me, but they have shown that it is possible to make a living from what you are passionate about, to stand on your own two feet. Artistry is a driving force, art is my calling. You don’t make art for someone else, then I’d say you do decoration or advertising. But if you just have discipline, it’s easy to become like everyone else. Disciplinary means, in short, that shit has to be done. – They have taught me that you need two things to succeed. What was it like growing up with two artist parents? Sometimes I think people use it as an excuse to screw around. You can never run away from your past, but I see no positive social development in glorifying violence and abuse. But the last thing I want to do is refine the image of the suburb. ![]() – I think you get warmer from being around different things and not having a raked manege. What do you think it has brought you in life? It taught me about injustice, different backgrounds and that life isn’t so damn linear. I am also grateful that it gave me an insight into the true everyday realism. – It could probably have been problematic growing up there if I hadn’t had so much love around me from parents and teachers. He tells about his upbringing, about pounders who slept in the gate and kicker gangs who nested at the subway barriers and guarded his residence. Rudolf has his roots in Högdalen, southern Stockholm. ![]() Now they must have changed that law, if it wasn’t just a whim from the beginning. It is a gentleman’s rule that has survived. The police couldn’t do anything about it. This led to the drug kingpins in London during the early rave scene always wearing plum tops and having the drugs in their hats. In the olden days in England, you could not ask a gentleman to take off his hat under any circumstances. The hat is a sickly cool piece of clothing. There is a connection to the Roaring Twenties, which was a decadent and hedonistic decade. Where does the fascination with hats come from? We sit a bit away, far from the stage area and the ongoing sound check with a non-alcoholic cider each. Tophat, spreads a calmness on the sun-kissed, sparsely populated dance floor that has not yet opened its doors for the day. Here it is already full steam ahead of the evening’s dancing bravado, but Rudolf Nordström, better known as Mr. The camel colored cowboy hat towers like a lighthouse when I step into the Garden in Stockholm on a warm Saturday morning. Tophat in a conversation about schlager, anarchy and pop music. Nöjesguiden has met the current album producer and DJ Mr.
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