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WHAT IS SADNESS REVISITED

Sadness Revisited is not a band.

It's a Danish producer living in Northern Norway, near the town of Hammerfest.

I don't know much about the guy, but having heard some of his music, I simply had to start writing about it. It's not that it's earthshattering hit music, but it's different in a way that's difficult to describe. Maybe it's the weird combination of beats, rap (lifted from a sample cd - I'm sure of it, because I've heard the exact same sample before) and strikingly beautiful piano and pads.

An email dumped into my inbox not long ago. It was from one of my DJ friends here in Malmö, Sweden, who sent me the track "Djungle" done by this guy - he calls himself Sadness Revisited - and asked for my opinion. I was pretty awestruck - again, not because it sounded like a hit, but because there's a sad vibe to it that sounds just like I imagine 4AM at a party on a freezing mountaintop bathed in Northern Lights must feel like.. I know this sounds weird and probably also stupid...but bear with me. Maybe you'll hear the track one day and feel the same way. Or maybe you won't.

I am writing this article because I think the music deserves an audience. On the other hand, I've never spoken to the artist in person, and I've no idea whether that's what he wants. Maybe it's an old geezer sitting in a hut somewhere halfway up a mountain, experimenting with sounds. I asked the aforementioned friend in Malmö, who barely knows anything either. A girl he knows, sent him the demo that I got to hear when I asked for more tracks from Sadness Revisited. She had spent the night with him once; said she met him at a party, or rather, outside the party, as he apparently didn't socialize much with anyone there, but spent his time sitting outside looking down on the ocean (south of Malmö...don't remember the name of the place). Anyway, she had exchanged email-addresses with him (apparently, he's not even on Facebook), and sent and received a few emails.

The exchange ended with a mail from him, simply saying "One day I disappeared, and I never found me again". Damn, that's dark. Strange guy. She hasn't been able to reach him since. I got the email-address, and wrote numerous mails with my opinion about his music, but didn't get a reply.

Anyway, he apparently told her that he would be putting some of his music up on Soundcloud - and this evening he did. It's the track I mentioned above ("Djungle"). So here I am, starting an article about an artist that I think is a genius, but that I know nothing about. But I'll get more info and update the article.

My hope is that Sadness Revisited reads this and gives me that information.