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We’re looking to the future across a new horizon and a time when we can open Jaeger’s doors once again. We’ve set a tentative objective for May in the hope that a vaccine and the sun will initiate the return to normality and we want to be at the forefront of it all, chasing a ray of hope and a time where we can have a dance floor in full effect again. 

It will be a good day when we can dust off the cobwebs and bring some life back to a dance floor with the sun looming ever longer in the sky. We look forward to a day when we can invite you all back with the warm embrace of our soundsystem in lieu of a physical hug. It will be  a brighter night as Jaeger sets its sights on a May and June programme.

We’ve started making arrangements with some of Oslo’s leading lights back in the DJ booth, building on the foundations we started laying towards the end of last year. Our closest and dearest are back in the fray with residents and a slew of regular guest DJs providing the springboard into summer 2021 and towards the full return of  the dance floor. Residencies like Lyd, Big-UP, Sous-Vide, Serenity Now and Frædag are all back, with appearances by Prins Thomas, g-HA & Olanskii, Normann and Finnebassen to name but a few.

The full lineup will be confirmed at a later date and with regard to the ongoing covid-19 measures in effect. Watch this space for more details to follow soon and we hope to see you on the dance floor very soon. 

Last night Jayda G stepped up to the essential mix for two hours of Disco, House, Gospel and R&B which is available to stream via BBC and a few Mixcloud stations like the one below.  The mix comes a month before the much anticipated debut LP, “Significant Changes” coming out via Ninja Tune and it’s a week before the Canadian DJ and producer joins g-HA & Olanskii in the booth for Frædag.

Classic Disco, House and Gospel from the likes of Gladys Knight, Mr. G and Ron Trent course through the set, setting a pre-party Friday mood for this mix that could carry on into the early hours of the morning to any musical dimension.  The mix includes “Significant Changes and Beyond” taken from her upcoming LP at the heart of this mix and a couple surprises from Faith Evans Seu Jorge at the very end for a very comprehensive mix.

Kala festival in Albania adds Jæger residents Olanskii and Øyvind Morken to the line-up with Prins Thomas.

In its second year running, Kala Festival returns to their picture paradise location with a summer line-up for the ages. Featuring the likes of Josey Rebelle, Honey Dijon, Secret Sundaze and CC: Disco against the backdrop of the Albania rivera replete with white sandy beaches, azure waters and intimate musical stages, Kala festival tick all the right boxes for a musical summer break. Just look at these pictures from last year.

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Jæger will be there too with Olanskii and Øyvind Morken and honorary Jæger resident Prins Thomas over the course of the weeklong program. Expect some House, Disco and Balearic sounds echoing down a sun-streaked beach beyond a green gully with some of the worlds best selectors. Tickets are on sale now and you can get them here.

Black Coffee protege Da Capo joins the Oslo World line-up and Black Motion reschedules for early 2019.

Due to some unforeseen circumstances Black Motion are unable to fulfil their commitment during the Oslo World festival and we have to wait just a tad longer to get the South African DJs at Jæger, but it’s a two for one as we get Da Capo to stand in for the duo. While we’ve rescheduled Black Mortion’s appearance at Jæger for the 18th of January 2019, South African House artist Da Capo will take their place for the Oslo World festival.

A burgeoning talent on South Africa’s enduring House scene, Da Capo has been nurtured under the wing of South African House music monolith, Black Coffee, and like his peers Black Motion, he makes esoteric House music, bringing together influences from home and further abroad.

Da Capo is Nicodimas Sekheta Mogashoa is a self-taught producer & DJ who first fell in love with house music at an early age enabling him to have a good ear for music and the unmistakable ability to create blazing sounds to keep masses salivating for more.  It earned him his spot amongst South Africa and the world over as a highly regarded producer at the tender age of 21.

Inspired by the biggest names in the house music industry such as Nick Holder, Zepherin Saint and Andy Compton, to name a few, Da Capo has set forth on a journey to create his mark on the House Music scene with the release of his Solo EPs released under DNH Records  elevating him to the status of a household name in countries far afield and clubs around the world. Recently he’s signed a deal with Toronto based Music Label DNH Records owned by well-known DJ/Producer Nick Holder. 

You can find out more about the event here and here.

Limited tickets are available now for Hubbas Klubb with Ross from Friends through Ticketmaster.

Avoid the MC Kaman guestlistpqueue mayhem and secure your ticket for Hubba’s Klubb on the 27th of October, when Ross From Friends joins the Norwegian troubadours in our basement for a live set. You can read more about the event here, and get your tickets here.

We have only released a limited amount of tickets for pre-sale, and there will still be some tickets available on the night at the door.

Ross From Friends has just released his debut LP, Family Portrait and his accompanying live show has been getting some incredible reviews already. Here he  is doing his thing for Boiler Room:

Hubbabubbaklubb also just released their critically acclaimed debut LP, Drømmen, Drømmerne, Drømmer this week, and the band will be playing a DJ set in the company of Ross.

The Mutual Intentions boys combine their talents which you can hear on the first single from their new LP .

“It isn’t easy” premiered on Spotify today, appearing on the album “Jacuzzi Boys”, coming out later this year. Freadfades and Jawn Rice deliver a straight-up House track with designs clearly on the dance floor. Following Jawn Rice’s Highlights on the Mutual Intentions label and Fredfades Warmth from last year, this track falls somewhere beyond those two LPs, succumbing to the functional demands of a dance floor on this occasion.

Between Jawn Rice’s synth work and Fredfades samples it harks back to a simpler time in House music, stripping the genre down to its essential parts without going lo-fi. They showcase their combined experience as producers and “It isn’t easy” certainly has all the right ingredients to become an instant House classic.

From the warm chords opening up the track to those carefully selected vocal samples, the different elements fit together like a perfectly orchestrated puzzle. The vocal sample is an instant earworm and the progression of the track gives it the room to get familiar with listener without ever getting overtly repetitive and stale.

Fredfades and Jawn Rice have certainly caught everybody’s attention with this single and we look forward to hear what “Jacuzzi Boys” has in store.

Untzdag resident has delivered two mixes to Ron Morelli’s Mixtape series on L.I.E.S. “Two 30 minute sides of impeccably mixed road trippin music” is what L.I.E.S calls it, and what might that mean? “Think Baldelli, think the Italian countryside think of a ton of tracks you don’t know and you have your starting point.” Ron Morelli’s tastes are not to be taken likely and although we haven’t yet heard the mixtape yet, it’s sure to be yet another Øyvind Morken eclectic adventure through the schizophrenic DJ’s kaleidoscopic mind. Pick up a copy over on L.I.E.S.

For personal reasons Kelly Lee Owens will have to postpone her appearance at Jæger to a later date and in her stead we’ve lined up Oscillate’s Kate Miller to join resident Karima F for this next edition of Affirmative Action. Kate Miller spends her time between Melbourne and Berlin, with each city exacting its  influence on the artist identity in different ways in her sets. Her sets are varied and ever evolving, going from the most recent releases to classic old school gems, merging the funky and the dreamy, the uplifting and the dark. An Oscillate resident, she’s just helped ushered in three years of the prominent event’s series at ://about blank in Berlin in a year that’s seen her play everywhere from Panorama bar to Kaiku in Finland.