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New year’s resolutions for 2011: Up early, no haircut, less internet, improve spanish, non-english movies, push musical limits, act.

By now, most will have failed their goals of going to the gym, ending procrastination and learning french. I figured since we’re more than halfway through the year, this could be a good time to start. There will be no failures, only successes and learning outcomes. I will do my very best, and I view [...]

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Don’t be a music producer, be a wizard!

Making electronic music? Yawn. From reading music production forums, one would think it’s a pretty mundane hobby. All I feel is being discussed is how to copy deadmau5 how to make a track sound “pro” (way too loud) how to apply sidechain compression on absolutely everything for no good reason And so this is what [...]

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It’s important to pick a good title

Today’s clip hemmelig agent nemmelig Kid pretending to be a secret agent, with his water pistol. Sees a butterfly, excitedly runs after it, then realises he’s off guard. Unimaginative titles Why is it that song titles in electronic music so often are about the weather, love, or the phonetic rendition of the sound the bassline [...]

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New track: “nordlysbanen”

I’ve finished a new track! Well, I constantly make funny little clips, but it’s been quite a while since I last finished a larger track! It over 7 minutes in length, which probably makes it the longest track I’ve made to date. The science-fiction transportation theme is one that I often come back to, and [...]

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Artist spotlight: Microsoft

Windows users: Navigate to C:\Windows\Media Play flourish.mid, onestop.mid and town.mid in Windows Media Player. Words fail to convey how awesome this is.

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Music production at home in the ’90s: tracker music, was it limiting?

Today’s unrelated clip: sulten sultan (the next one will be much better, haha ) What is tracker music? I’m not fully sure how to explain it, but it’s basically music that’s sequenced in a matrix like in the video below. The first ones had 4 channels and 8 bit sound, with more channels, sample support [...]

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Routines, equipment, GM sounds, fanfare

See bottom of post for today’s clip. I’m still here! Greetings from Lima, Peru! I’ve been here since february on an exchange semester for my bachelor’s degree in media technology, which lasts until the end of july. I’ve written a couple of blog posts from Peru, and will write some more eventually. Too bad summer [...]

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Artist Spotlight: Malmen

Earlier this year when I was looking for a counterpart to all the shallow modern electronic music, I somehow stumbled upon Malmen. He specializes in catchy well-made chiptunes, but also knows his way around more modern electronic styles very well! I find that his titles fit the music really well, which is of big importance [...]

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Views, comments, followers, back scratching

Today’s clip: ein milliard kilometer i timen (Work in progress) Views, comments, followers, back scratching I just realised that my showcase video on YouTube has received more than a thousand views! I don’t know how YouTube logs them, but I’m guess they’re for each unique visitor. Assuming that’s what it means, imagine a room of [...]

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