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Just finished mixing and mastering the first track for my new project VVARLOCK! I have decided to not go the fucking spotify, soundcloud route to promote it. Using the norwegian platform Urørt, which is free. I will embed the song in this post, directly from Urørt.

Track has been made on my good old MPC One, i have used baritone guitar, ES guitar and my MS20-mini for bass.

It is fairly new territory for me to use my own vocals, but I am practicing while doing! hope you enjoy the track!

As of late I have decied to create a new project for creating music, one which will not be as much connected to my personal life or who I am as a person. This musical progress will be more alternative, post-rock and heavily guitar based. I even borrowed a 7-string electric guitar from my brother, it's a brand called Douglas which I have never heard of. Tho I have never ever played a 7-stringer this was set up with way more advanced tuning options, never ever seen these things! (pictures in blogpost)

The guitar it self sounds freaking nice tho, just amazing pickups and neck feels nice. I have decided to make this music project solely on my MPC One hardware sampler, it has a bunch of nice compression and effects which I learned fits well with guitar based recordings. Only using a KORG Toneworx amateur multi-FX pedal, so the limitations inspire. For drums I am using this god awful drum program called Acoustic Drums which comes with my MPC One. Been tweaking the ever living fuck out of the samples in that program to make it sound as authentic as possible as well as driven and punchy. Renamed the program to AcousticGrunge and i think so far it sounds awesome.

I do not have any demos to post but it will be under the name VVARLOCK in the future. I will post the album when done, so far it is coming a long great and I am looking at different ways to master the tracks on Linux using Ardour and the LSP plugin bundle.

In other personal news I managed to strike some luck ordering one of my favorite albums on vinyl! JR Ewing - Ride Paranoia!
This album has been one of my favorites from the Norwegian hardcore noise scene for many years! The band split up in 2006 and I have been wanting this record ever since. A label in Berlin called Thirty Something Records has been some kind of superhero group-label because they printed up EVERY! JR Ewing release on vinyl! so Ride Paranoia was limitedly printed to only 200!

After 2 weeks the mailman finally arrived with my package! only to see the vinyl was broken in fucking half!! Crazy, postal service did not see the fragile sticker or no? I emailed Thirty Something Records right away hoping maybe they could send a new one, but knowing it is only 200 copies I was scared they ran out. Luckily they didn't and they are sending me a new copy next week! fucking a! my heart was pounding for reals! Big ups to Thirty Something Records for being this understanding!

so going from creating a soundtrack for this game "A Quiet House In Flatbush" I have now helped out creating their trailer and their website! Which is highly inspired by the 90s vibe of the web revival! I got full creative freedom and they loved the idea!

I also made the logo, handdrawn first then digitized! to make look like an old horror slasher! This will be a short blog post about it! but check out the site! it also has snake! with a highscore submit!

FORKROADGAMES

So far in my journey of coding my own website again since the days of myspace, i have been having big streamlines of ideas! Having been a musician freelance for two decades I have never in my life had so much trouble getting my music online.

Yo be it having it on Soundcloud, I remember that fucking platform before it had a timed upload limit. The day they implemented that I even was like fuck it. Because I always loved the option of adding songs out for free... yes getting paid for albums and such was good. But in the meantime of doing big projects maybe I had a beat or a bootlegged remix of something just for the fun of it! Now the options are paying stupid fees every month just because I wanted to let someone hear my glitchy bloghouse remix of Airwolf etc, and not even knowing if the algorithmic scan system would flag it as copyrighted... because fuck free-use right? I mean it is for free..

I digress, i got bitter I saw no hope until this neocities revival.

So I decided to put up all my albums that I can find for free on my homepage the option to download the zip file or individual tracks. All through Proton Drive to save bandwith just in case. All pages will also feature 2 preview tracks which are hosted here on neocities.

This feels good man, I am paying to be a supporter here but doing it here feels good as it supports the community on here.

I added "Slumt & Harry" which is an album I made and released around 2022-23 It's a fucking mess of an album but I like it, It was originally made to be a electronic meets garage gritty noise rock and I finished it. When I finished it I created stems of it for remixing and I decided to remix it just for fun one day and I thought that result was even better. So the decision was made and that turned into the actual album.

Added to the list is also SNERK which is an album I made with my homie Torkelsen under the alias Munn Til Munn Metoden (Mouth To Mouth Method) a name we chose by randomly opening a dictionary and pointing to a page. If you like experimental electronic music this album is just us having fun with sounds and how far we could take it. but also adding a tough punch throughout the thing. We used old synths, cassettes for resampling and for sample hunting, we had our friend KooldDjKcFly scratch on TSU and Ille Funky... man we had a fun process!

One of my latest EP releases "Extended Play" is also added, I really like that one. it was also realeased on CD limited to 25 only numbered, the coverart was handmade by my girlfriend. the full artwork is to find in every zip. I had a blast making this where every track was made on the MPC fully standalone, which is how I make all my music these days. Lot of good bass sounds from the Korg MS20-Mini in this one.

Also when it comes to coding the pages I just wanted them to look dumb and ugly man xD gotta shoutout to "julians-art" for tipping the VSCodium software, it has helped me out so much!

I am adding more albums to come, probably around the next couple of days!

After making my main desktop run linux I have delved into a lot of open source and it transmitted to my phone as well.

Few months ago I bought myself a used G-pixl8aPro phone and OEM unlocked it to install Graphene OS, which also flashes the ROM so the Gphone is stripped of the Gcorp and puts it into a sandbox (lovely stuff)

Even if you are now running just android there are tons of free open source app alternatives to the daily life! and on linux I have found great usage of some video editors and audio digital work stations. First thing i recommend is getting F-Droid or Droidify, these are open-source appstores which gather their apps from mostly github.

In these stores you can get calendars, sms, phone, keyboard, noteapps and you know actually some cool alternatives to snotify as well ;)

KDenlive is an opensource video edit software which Is out for Linux, Win, MacOS and been using it a little bit and it does hell of a job, just free and great.

Ardour for audio editing so far but I am having trouble with some third party plugins so I am still on the hunt, its pretty darn dope for being completely free (I did end up donating to the team, which is optional) Its also for Mac & Windows.

Also speaking of.. LSP holy shit what a pack of plugins for free and open source :D Linux only!

And for snotify alternative on Android I use OuterTune from F-Droid/Droid-IFy!

Even tho I love local files even more so i rip CDs and send the files via Local Send which is an amazing open-source alternative to Airdrop, but this actually works cross platform! so i send mp3 or flac to my phone and then just use VLC or Audio Player from F-Droid to play them

This blogpost will actually have something sick to share! I was asked late last year by ForkRoadGames to make a soundtrack AND sound design for a horror game!

The game is called A Quiet House In Flatbush and it is currently in development.

You can however wishlist it on steam as of now tho!

I have made a page for it here

For the soundtrack process I used the Korg MS20-mini and Linndrum to make it sound authentic 80s slasher. Fork Road Games wanted it to be like the late 80s early 90s feel and it was such a perfect project for me to do.

On the page you will find some tunes I made for it, only 3 there now as I am writing this but will update with more tracks

Some pictures of the game is there (degraded for the site design, originals on steam page) and some other info.

I also wanted to include this old save from my MPC that i recorded onto cassette today, its a few years old beat that I created with my Korg MS20-Mini back when I first bought it. Got some gnarly Daft Punk'ish bass sounds from it and made this beat

The sample is from some random thrift store vinyl, wish i knew what it was as it sounds like a cool track from the bytes I hear in this beat

Tater_Andersson_DaftHippie_Tape.mp3:

Making this blog on my website gave me a push to look through my MPC projects folder! and I wanted to go waaay back in dates! and personally I found a bit of forgotten gold

I seem to decided in the past to bootleg remix that 90s Dreams eurodance tune.

Sorta recall the idea but the demo that I discovered actually threw me off a bit haha! it is super unhinged! but the rythm is on point! So I decided to post the WIP version!

Fucking great original tune tho!

2 Brothers on the 4th Floor - Dreams (Tater Andersson Bootleg Remix):

I while back bored I decided to record and remix the Norwegian news-Jingle I knew it was created by "Röyksopp" which is funny in itself

Chopping it on the MPC i realized how electro-dance vibey it was and there was a hidden melody in there! actually quite beautiful in my opinion.

It really did feel like I was bootleggin a Röyksopp song, so weird man... been used to hearing the worst shit connected to that jingle haha!

Röyksopp - TV2 Nyheter (Tater Andersson Remix):

While coding this website I was listening to Idris Muhammad and my ears caught attention to this one part in "Turn This Mutha Out"

I have this Phillips tape CD deck from the 2000's and the input is has a long phono cable connected to the Line B out on my Behringer UMC404. I then recorded that part directly to cassette tape and then from the tape to my MPC One for some chops

I was gonna try and make it a nice smooth remix but I ended up distorting the hell out of it, I still have some writer's block which sucks! but either way I wanted to make something for my first blog post. So here is some distorted bloghouse'esque loop directly recorded from my MPC into Ardour :)

distorted bloghouse beat demo WIP: