The Copenhagen Experience

Mads Nørgaard is the head of Design and the owner of the company Mads Nørgaard - Copenhagen. Mads also created the idea and concept for 'The Copenhagen Experience" trilogy.

Djuna barnes aka. Maria Gerhardt stole her dj-name from her favourite writer around the year 2000 - and then started to spin her personal selection of rock and rave, alternative moden pop and obscure crate-finds at crazy trashdrag collective "Dunst" parties and has since then developed a fast and furious career on the Copenhagen dance floors as well as around Europe, Tokyo and New York City.

The band Rework was founded in 2000 by Daniel Varga and Michel Kübler. In 2005 they discovered the singer Sascha Hedgehog at a concert with her French beat punk band "Les Quitriche", which sparked an immediate musical partnership. The boys produce while Sascha writes the lyrics and works on the melodies. Since the three share the same musical influences and Idols from Velvet Underground to New Wave and EBM, they quickly agree on a style, gravitating between club, indie, cabaret and house.

So far Rework has played at clubs all over Europe - from London to Paris to Porto - even managing to pull off a gig in Moscow.

Rework was chosen to re-record the song 'Copenhagen'. Produced by Anders Trentemøller and co-produced by Djuna Barnes it ended up as The Copenhagen Experience #2, which is the soundtrack for the second film in the 'The Copenhagen Experience' trilogy.

Steen Jørgensen was the lead singer in the punk band Sods back in 1977 (Sods later became Sort Sol in 1983). In 1978 the band had their first big concert warming up for Iggy Pop at the Ny Teater. In 1979 their debut album "Minutes to go" came out which is still heralded as the first Danish punk album. Reforming as Sort Sol, the band went on to become wildly influential with their experimental sound and have since released several grammy-wining albums along the way. Some years later Steen recorded the album Ginman/Jørgensen, which was highly applauded upon its release. In 2000 Sort Sol signed up with Universal music. The last album to be released from Sort Sol was 'Snakecharmer' in 2001.

Steen Jørgensen was, with Marie Fisker, the lead singer in the re-recording of the song 'Copenhagen', which was recorded for the first film in 'The Copenhagen Experience' trilogy'.

Freja Beha was spotted in the streets of Copenhagen about 3 years ago. Her debut on the international fashion scene started only a few months later, when she opened the Prada show in Milan. Since then she has done campaigns for Chanel, Gap, Calvin Klein, Joop, Jil Sander, Chloé, Balenciaga, Gucci, Hugo Boss and latest the Copenhagen Experience films for Mads Nørgaard Copenhagen along side Eddie Merz.

Eddie Klint was born and raised in Christianshavn in Copenhagen. Before being scouted by Unique Models, Eddie was training to be a chef at the Michelin star restaurant Ensemble, spending his free time practising Parkour. After Eddie became a model, he quickly became the favourite of Miuccia Prada and Steven Meisel and has been the face of Prada's clothes-, phone- and perfume campaigns. Eddie has also done campaigns for Belstaff, D&G, JOOP, Levi's, Whyred and, lately the Mads Nørgaard - Copenhagen films "The Copenhagen Experience" trilogy with Freja Beha.

Photographer/director Noam Griegst's career within fashion photography started 10 years ago with his ability to capture the magic in a person or scene. Eager to avoid commercial dictations, his talent and vision has led to numerous collaborations with International contemporary artists and numerous fashion assignments. His distinctive work is regularly published in editorials all over the world. Noam Griegst's first book "Still going life" is sold at Collette, Paris and Storm, Copenhagen. His second book will be published in 2008.

Mads Nørgaard - Copenhagen is a Copenhagen based clothing company. Mads Nørgaard - Copenhagen makes four collections per year for men and women. The company was established along side the Mads Nørgaard shop in 1986. The collections have been sold worldwide since 2001.

The film trilogy 'The Copenhagen Experience' is produced for the Mads Nørgaard - Copenhagen company to capture the mood and inspiration of the collections.

Trentemøller loves to create antipodes in his music and so the contrast between large and vast echo chambers and sharp, direct in-your-face sound bits are characteristic of his sound. Coupled with outstanding production skills, he creates fascinating song structures many of which have become instant club classics all over the world.

Tomas Barfod is, despite his age, a veteran of the music scene. Internationally he is best known as the producer/drummer in the band Whomadewho. Also working as a solo artist, Thomas has releases on several of the best international electro and house labels (Kitsuné, Gomma, Get Physical and Turbo) while managing to create crtitically aclaimed remixes of the likes of Bloc Party, Gorillaz and Chromeo. On the business side of things he is heavily involved in the Copenhagen festival 'Distortion' and the fresh yet odd record label 'Tartelet' done with fellow dj/party organizer Frederik Bille Brahe. If you wanna catch him as a dj or with Whomadewho he is regularly playing festivals and nightclubs around Europe.

Tomas produced the first re-recording of the song 'Copenhagen' which was mixed by Anders Trentemøller and featuring Steen Jørgensen and Marie Fisker on vocals.

Marie Fisker comes from Copenhagen, Denmark. Her lo-fi-vintage music is a blend of blues, country and rock. A bitter sweet almost David Lynch alike imaginary expression. Marie has kept instrumentation simple but very effective; everything's carefully slotted in its place to just punctuate and enhance her silky, sultry voice.

In 2004 she established a recording studio in the backyard of an old house in the center of Copenhagen. While writing songs she recorded and invited musicians to join her in the studio. As developing the musical sound, this will be a debut album produced by herself and the drummer Jakob Hoyer (The Raveonettes).

She played at Roskilde Festival '05. Performed in London at Barfly and The Social among others. She was awarded a price of honor as The New Upcoming Artist 2005 given by Carlsberg. As part of a saturday night program portraying the great legend Johnny Cash on DR2 danish national tv, she performed a song with Kira Skov. Kira Skov and Marie Fisker has also been touring denmark as a duo. She made 2 songs for the shot-films "New Love" by Laurence Coriat and Lœrke Vindahl and "Vi Der Blev Tilbage" by Martin De Thurah.

Spending a lot of time in the studio lately mixing the drone of guitars, soft tambourines, sampled beats and stuff Marie Fisker's debut album will finally hit the streets this fall!

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