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Ulf Pettersson is a Swedish keyboardist, producer and studio engineer. Here we presents his DIY “cosmic disco” recordings from the 1970s.
SUMMERSHORES: Sit down in your favourite armchair and light your pipe (!?). When you’ve leaned back and made yourself comfortable. Enjoy this melodious hit on headphones (stereo) for 4 minutes and dream of our summer beaches, soon we’ll probably have none left…
THIS KINDA SHIT: When the weekend comes and you happen to be hit by the 1950s disco wave, I recommend that you invite your friends to a party. And when everyone is gathered and the mood is at its best, you flip the record a few times until the number 2 stares at you. Then you turn up the volume until you can’t hear the neighbours yelling:” this kinda shit”. Then fly away to an alien planet with the help of: This Kinda Shit.
The recording was made in the Moraträsk studio on August 26, 1979. Roland Johansson was responsible for the recording technology, and the music was performed by: Ulf Pettersson on synthesizer bass, fake flutes and strings and a lot of other cool effects. Peter Lundgren played the drums.
The background story about the Summershores single :
“During a summer break from the band Flakes (formerly Schizo, Empire), in 1979, I transported my keyboard instruments home to my boyhood room. I spent the summer recording mostly experimental songs. At the end of the summer, I had made a dozen or so of works and there were two songs that stood out. It just so happened that a relative who had gone to school with Leif Walter, one of the mainstays of the group Mora Träsk, and knew him well, offered to arrange studio time for me to record in Mora Träsk’s studio in Gävle.
In late summer of 1979, the drummer Peter Lundgren and I headed to Gävle on a rainy August Sunday and recorded these two songs, which were Summershores and This Kinda Shit. We hadn’t rehearsed at all. I remember that Peter hadn’t even heard the songs previously to us speeding away from Söderhamn in a borrowed, rusty Volvo 142. In the car we listened to a cassette of my lousy demo, to say the least, and planned the arrangement on the way to the studio.
The technician Roland Johansson welcomed us and after just a couple of runs the songs were recorded, which took maybe 4-5 hours in total. The master was sent from the studio directly to the record pressing plant, and 500 copies saw the light of day just in time for Christmas 1979.
Most of the singles were sold at my dad’s work, a local shipping company, of all places. Which was mainly because I was wearing the shipping company’s shirt on the record cover. I think maybe 450 copies were sold over a two-year period and then forgotten.
40 years later, I started receiving messages on Facebook from various DJs, individuals, record stores and record labels who showed a sudden, almost desperate, interest in the old single and the very last copies of the original pressing were sold out in 2024.”
In Swedish:
Historien om singeln Summershores
“I ett sommaruppehåll 1979, från bandet Flakes (f.d. Schizo, Empire), transporterade jag mina keyboardinstrument hem till mitt pojkrum. Jag ägnade sommaren åt att spela in mestadels experimentella låtar. När sommaren började närma sig sitt slut hade det väl blivit ett dussin alster. Det var två som stack ut, och det hände sig att en släkting som gått i skolan med Leif Walter, en av huvudmännen i gruppen Mora Träsk, och kände honom väl, erbjöd sig fixa studiotid i Mora Träsks studio i Gävle.
På sensommaren begav sig trummisen Peter Lundgren och jag oss i väg till Gävle en regnig augustisöndag och spelade in de här två låtarna, som var Summershores och This Kinda Shit. Vi hade inte repat någonting. Jag vill minnas att Peter inte ens hade hört låtarna när vi skumpade i väg från Söderhamn i en lånad, rostig Volvo 142. Med en kassett på min minst sagt usla demo, lyssnade vi och planerade upplägget på väg till studion.
Teknikern Roland Johansson välkomnade oss och efter bara ett par genomkörningar spelades låtarna in, vilket totalt kanske tog 4-5 timmar. Mastern skickades från studion direkt till skivpressarna, och 500 ex såg dagens ljus lagom till jul 1979.
De flesta singlarna såldes på Pappas jobb, ett lokalt åkeri av alla ställen. Vilket närmast berodde på att jag bar åkeriets tröja på mig på skivomslaget. Jag tror att det kanske blev 450 exemplar sålda under cirka två år, för att sedan falla i glömska.
40 år senare började jag få meddelanden på Facebook från diverse DJ’s, privatpersoner, skivbutiker och skivbolag som visade ett plötsligt, närmast desperat intresse för den gamla singeln och de allra sista exemplaren av den ursprungliga pressningen gick åt 2024.”