WOOZOOM Leave UFO (Radio Edit) at Three Minutes and 11 Seconds and Turn up the Bass Instead
A Norwegian Duo Formed in 2000 Tells One Man’s Story of Waiting for a UFO
A radio edit usually means cuts. UFO (Radio Edit) by WOOZOOM runs three minutes and 11 seconds. But that is exactly as long as the alternative rock song the band first released in June on the DJ BBQ EP. Instead, the duo from Oslo, Norway, left the length alone and released the new version on 24 September 2026. By the band’s own account, it simply has more bass, more treble and more weight in the mix.
WOOZOOM’s UFO (Radio Edit) sits in the playlist below, among experimental rock, krautrock and art rock records, and WOOZOOM’s artist profile collects every article about the duo. The single came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts. It verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Press play on UFO (Radio Edit), then read on.
That decision says a lot about how the song is built. So this piece follows its hook first, then its story, and then its structure.
WOOZOOM Hang the Hook of UFO (Radio Edit) on One Man Who Never Stops Looking Up
First, the hook is the premise. UFO follows a man who thinks about one thing only. He is sure that aliens will show themselves to him one day. So he keeps his eyes on the sky, reads meaning into odd lights and waits for a signal back. Then, one evening, the waiting ends: the sky opens, a UFO lands and the aliens turn out to be real.
That is the whole story, and it is a tidy one: a long stretch of looking and listening, then a single payoff.
John Arne Paulsen wrote the lyric, co-wrote the music with Harald Bach-Gansmo, sings, and plays electric bass and guitar. Bach-Gansmo plays the keyboards and produced, mixed and mastered the track, with Paulsen sharing the mixing.
Black Sabbath’s Iron Man Is the Classic Case of a Bass Player Writing Science Fiction
Black Sabbath set the template, though. Geezer Butler, the band’s bassist and lyricist, wrote Iron Man for the 1970 album Paranoid. He wrote it as a science fiction story about one man. The man travels into the future and sees the apocalypse. Then, on the way back, a magnetic field turns him to steel, and the people he meant to warn ignore him. The song reached No. 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972, the band’s highest-charting single there. WOOZOOM also name Black Sabbath among the bands they grew up on. So UFO is again a bass player’s science fiction story about one man.
UFO (Radio Edit) Keeps the Three Minutes and 11 Seconds WOOZOOM First Released on DJ BBQ
Next, the structure is where this radio edit is unusual. On Apple Music both versions run three minutes and 11 seconds. The first came out on the DJ BBQ EP on 12 June 2026. It sat next to DJ BBQ, Fretless Fun, Laser Eyes, Night Goat and a remix of Store Lepper. Then the radio edit followed on 24 September. The band calls it the same song and the same story, with more weight behind it.
Still, three minutes is short by WOOZOOM’s standards. On Kvakkolamp, Mirrors runs nearly six minutes and No Moose almost as long. The third album, Planet of the Ducks, released on 25 October 2025, spreads ten songs across rock, pop and jazz-inspired fusion.
The pair have been at it for a long time. WOOZOOM formed in 2000 as an instrumental project and added lyrics and vocals later. Its first album, Hipdone, reached a listening panel at Universal Music in Norway, but no deal followed. Within the band, Bach-Gansmo plays anything with keys and shapes the effects. Meanwhile, Paulsen moves between fretted and fretless bass and between acoustic and electric guitar. The radio edit came out with BaPa Studios holding the recording rights.
Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water Shows How Far One Story Can Carry
Deep Purple come first on the list of bands the duo grew up with. That was back when they bought LPs and learned every credit on the sleeve. Smoke on the Water, from the 1972 album Machine Head, tells a true story from start to finish: the 1971 fire at the Montreux Casino. Someone at a Frank Zappa concert fired a flare gun at the ceiling, and the building burned. The band had come to Montreux to record there, because the casino was about to close for its winter renovations. UFO works to the same plan on a smaller scale, with one story told from its first line to its last.
From the BestRock.News curator team: “We added UFO (Radio Edit) to our experimental rock and art rock playlist. A three-minute science fiction story fits right in there.”
The band’s own advice is to turn it up, so start there and listen for the bass.
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