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"Bern Balders" is a pseudonym for a Norwegian Minimal Elektronics/Avant-garde artist who wants to remain anonymous. Bern Balders released just one single, "The Alter-Ego Effect b/w My Spy-Event" on his own Do-Re-Mix Records in 1981. This single is a contender for the price of Worst Mastering Job Ever – Bern Balders sent the master off to the pressing plant with instructions that they must remove hiss. This was done by leaving out all treble, so what was really an up-beat track, multi-layered and intricately arpeggiated, was reduced to little more than a droning synth bassline, cardboard bass drum and vocals...