I just put together another Spotify playlist with the best chilled tracks I’m listening to at the moment.
Two hours of the best Deep House, Ambient Grooves and Laid Back Electronic Music, selected by me. Got some fresh tracks here from masters of laid back electronic music, like C-Jay, Apparat, Jan Blomqvist and State Azure. Enjoy, and don’t forget to hit that Follow button in Spotify.
Photo by Alexandra Marcu
The world of Eurorack Modular Synthesizers can be very complex and I guess a bit intimidating for even a seasoned electronic musician. It really is a jungle out there, with thousands of different modules made by hundreds of companies all over the world.
What does every module do, what do I need to get started and how do I connect everything to make sounds? Valid questions indeed. I found this excellent page from the Canadian company Intellijel that explains everything you need to know.
Lots of useful information, even for someone like me that have been into this thing for a few years now.
I have put in about 30 hours of game-play in Assassins Creed Odyssey but the game is so huge it feels like I only have scratched the surface. There are still many more islands to visit and I think I’m actually only at around 28% completion. Great story, world-building and I love the mediterranean atmosphere. It takes me back to my summer vacations in Spain and Greece and makes me long for the summer again.
The game feels somehow similar to Origins but even better. It’s bigger, the graphics is better, more life-like and there is a choose-your-own adventure approach where you have to select yourself what to say and how to respond. I like that you don’t always have to choose the violent option. Many times there is actually a peaceful solution to a problem, a solution that doesn’t involve a complete massacre.
As with Origins, I have of course taken the opportunity for some in-game-photography.
Here are some of my better captions so far.
Today the wonderful news was released that LP5, the first album from Apparat in six years will be out March 22 on Mute. The first single is already here. It’s called DAWAN and it’s a monster of a tune. I’m in love!
One of my favorite dance music producers and DJs lives in Finland, speaks Swedish and used to do mod tracks on his Amiga. I’m speaking of course of Henrik Hurtig, alias Cid Inc. This is is latest mix on Soundcloud, check it out.
I think it’s time to recommend some dance music again. I recently found this really good collection of fresh beats from London based label Needwant. The main theme is house music on the deeper side and I really like what I hear
There is a laid back vibe here that reminds me of old school Deep House, the kind you would hear in the mid- to late 90s on labels like Guidance Recordings.
House music for the perfect pre-party or when you just want to chill.
This is my latest modded Game Boy DMG-01. It’s a Play it loud model Clear, or Skeleton as it was called in Japan when it was released in the early 90s. To get it to look like this I had to clean and then polished the inside and outside. Most of the time these old shells have become milky and yellowish with age. Fortunately it’s pretty easy to fix with ordinary plastic polish or acrylic polish as it’s sometimes called. You can probably get it in any hardware store or else on Amazon.
The red screen, buttons and the silicon parts are brand new. I also installed all the mods I usually do when refurbishing these old beauties:
Backlight for the LED-screen, Bivert chip, Prosound mod, Bass mod and 1000 uF capacitor on the power strip to minimize noise and hiss (That’s the big blue capacitor down to the left).
It’s still up for sale on E-bay but not sure for how long. These models usually go pretty quick.
The Fifty Eleven Project is an ambient concept album by Danish DJ and producer Kasper Bjørke and friends. It interprets and evokes the emotional rollercoaster Kasper experienced from his cancer diagnosis and throughout the five years of regular check-ups. The album is a two-hour journey where vintage synthesizer sounds meets real pianos and strings.
Since each track has its own story to tell it never gets boring and everything is very well produced – think Brian Eno meeting the piano melodies of Jon Hopkins. Out on Kompakt.
My webdesign for Fogelberg.com was nominated for CSS Winner of the day, 10th of January 2019.
I didn’t win that day, which I didn’t expect to really. It’s not that I don’t believe in my design.. I do, but I have always found that it’s usually harder to win the hearts and soul of everybody when doing edgier stuff (music, design, general art). A clean cut minimalistic fashion site will always attract more eyeballs. As will animations, no matter how UX-unfriendly they are, but that’s another story.
Anyway, I’m glad the people at CSS Winner appreciated and nominated my design. The current score of 7.4 is pretty good, I think, considering it’s just a site about me and stuff I like, basically. I call the design style Fogelberg.com Outrun Glitch, for the heavy use of the colors blue, purple and cyan combined with glitchty and noisy elements.
An unexpected piece of synthesizer music was released on Replug today in the form of a brand new album from dutch producer C-Jay.
Adem is clearly inspired by the synth masters of the 70 and early 80s. It is a great sounding collection of synthesizer compositions, full of swirling arpeggios, sweeping pads and mysterious melodies. The first thing that comes to mind while listening is Tangerine Dream, but this album thankfully manage to stand on its own legs with its own identity. Adem sounds completely unlike something I would expect to be released in 2019 and I love it. Put on your headphones, lie down and get ready for a long journey.