That Lindstrøm, what a showman. Oh, don’t let the Norwegian producer’s humdrum 9-to-5 work ethic or low-key live presence fool you. If anyone knows how to keep an easily jaded audience in rapt anticipation, it’s the guy who captivated indie and techno heads alike with a three-song, 55-minute album– last year’s revival-transcending Where You Go I Go Too. And good thing, because this as-yet unreleased collaboration with wanderlust-y Oslo vocalist Christabelle (aka Solale) just keeps snowballing.

Fellow Norwegian producer Todd Terje has been spinning “Baby Can’t Stop” since spring 2008. Belgium-based duo Aeroplane shared their remix within a widely blogged “Flying mix” around the same time. Listening to the full eight-minute track now, as Lindstrøm and Christabelle prep for the January 2010 release of their joint Real Life Is No Cool LP, it’s hard to tell where Lindstrøm ends and Aeroplane begin. The pulsating Moroder synths, two- or three-note bass line, four-on-the-floor kicks, Paradise Garage handclaps, and live-sounding drum fills could easily fit either’s M.O.; so could the proggy guitar peals, classic-rock organs, or, hell, buskable acoustic strums. All that’s (almost) for sure is that the hallucinatory, stereo-reflecting diva-isms– “What a feeling”, “I go crazy”, etc.– belong to Christabelle. The result: two sets of contemporary disco’s finest at the top of their respective games. And that’s just to start.

[original version from Real Life Is No Cool; out 01/19/10 from Smalltown Supersound; remix due on a forthcoming 12" on Smalltown Supersound]

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Lindstrøm & Christabelle
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"Baby Can’t Stop (Aeroplane Remix)"