Norwegian disco? What’s that I hear you ask! diskJokke, the work of Joachim Dyrdahl, gives the answer. What I most like about small European countries toying with electronic music genres is that they nearly always bring something different to the table, they’re own unique cultural interpretation.

Staying In is no different, a 10-track collection of instrumental disco tracks. Sometimes it’s absurdly playful (Staying In), other times fluffy and poppy (Storre Enn Forst Antatt) and occasionally its hypnotic and moody (Interpolation). Yet the sci-fi weirdness of Cold Out delivers a completely different an unexpected angle, bristling with rolling percussion and seedy sine waves, this is more akin to Eat Static than the modern electro-disco pop currently sweeping European dancefloors.

In fact, as Staying In progresses, it only gets more focused, more studious, more enchanting and quite simply more enjoyable. Flott Flyt is a compulsive, Moroder-like electronic dittie, with sparkling keyboard tones fizzing effervescently, driven by handclaps and intermittently sprayed with funky bass. Glatt is equally bizarre, with its incessant bass driving silvery synth lines, co-joined by a marching beat.

It may start airy and fluffy and a bit sickly sweet, but by the end of diskJokke’s Staying In, you’ll realise you’ve found a rare disco jewel with its own inimitable personality. Just keep playing it and playing it and you might come to adore it.