Music with cables on full time. (Nikolaj Tange Lange) in danish Since Heidi Mortenson ten years ago left Denmark she has grown up in the spanish ghetto. Her only job in the beginning was to hand out flyers for a club. ”It was a party if I could aford a liter of soymilk,” she tells. She is in Denmark now to play a concert at the Ladyfest, but also to celebrate her debut record ´Wired Stuff´. A record which in a way has been on it´s way since she ten years ago moved to Barcelona. At that time she was living in a one-room appartment where she had to turn on the shower to heat up the room - with the result that it soon got too moisty and she had to go out. In return she almost had no costs and was free to do as she pleased. Slowly she worked her way up the degrees to be PR manager for the club. And when a friend moved to London Heidi could even aford to buy her turntables and this way she got to practice and also got permission to dj. After two years she recieved bad news. Her best friend in Denmark was dead. This made her think about what she wanted in life. ”I didn´t want to promote others and play other people´s records. I felt the need to be creative myself,” she tells. But instead of reaching for the guitar on which she composed songs as a teenager, she bought a Roland 505 - same type as Peaches made her debut album on. And she started to experiment. ”I have sung into a washing maschine and also rebuilt my parrent´s phone reciever into a microphone.” Already from the start did her experiments make good impression. After a year she was selected for an experimental festival and shortly after she was on a European tour. Since then the carreer has been one long upgoing ride for Heidi Mortenson. And the machine park has been limping behind in the tempo she could aford. ”It´s only one year ago that i got a soundcard. And I din´t have a studio microphone untill one and a half years ago.” But even though she many times has been tempted to get a regular job she never ducked. She just doesn´t feel good when other people tells her what to do. ”Rather nick an apple now and then and pick up clothes from the recycle containers. My pink raincoat which i will use for the show tonight is one that I just found today.” One and a half years ago Heidi Mortenson made a big move from Barcelona to Berlin. ”In Barcelona it was parted in two. Either you were a dance musician or you made experimental music. And I always felt that I was in between.” In Berlin she has worked together with Kevin Blechdom and Scream Club. But she also finnished her debut album. At a time where she after ten years with washingmashines and messed up telephone recievers, feels that she is getting more mature as a musician. ”I´m much more self assure and i use my voice much more and i dare be more personal.” And being personal is important for Heidi who writes texts that always springs from experiences in her own life. ”I think the most important is that you´re honest in what you do, and that you don´t pretend. E.g. I´m not a very good guitarist. But I don´t wanna wait two years to bring it on stage till I´m good enough. Good enough for who? The two guitar nerds who´s checking out how i´m grabbing the chords? When she at night brings out the guitar and mixes the twisted beats with a hard, raw guitar, it seems only from exiting joy that there are screaming among the audience. An audience who by the way recieves just as nicely the more advanced electronic songs from the debut record as the more primitive covers of Dolly Parton´s ´Jolene´ and AC/DC´s ´Highway to hell´. To think that we Danes have such a cool rock´n´roll queer electro star -and nobody ever told us!