Keeping The Beat: Euro Musicians Use Tractor As Instrument

Feb 13, 2009
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Here's a little something to brighten up your Friday afternoon. It appears that decrepit farm tractors are gaining favour amongst Nordic musicians (okay, it's probably just the one guy) as tempo-keeping instruments, with the stacatto rhythm emanating from a Volvo tractor's collapsed muffler at 200rpm being especially favoured.

Hit the jump to check out video of these vintage pieces of farm machinery putting the "cultural" back in "agricultural".

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  • frank walls [reply]
    7 months ago 0 points
    Olle and friends have have started a Grand new thing! This just blows me away. And. To make it on the tele. WOW.

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