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DILL - Devil In Little Lisa
Thursday, 13 May 2010 20:06

DILLDHS recently did the master for the new album by DILL (Devil In Little Lisa) and enjoyed every bit of it. The swedish Punk-Rock act website is here:

http://devilinlittlelisa.blogspot.com/

Be sure to check them out!

 
Human Simulation - Hunting For a Dream
Thursday, 02 April 2009 15:06

Human SimulationHuman Simulation consists of three guys with a very different musical background. While Marcus Nilsson and Andreas Wallström comes from a rock background, Carsten Ohlsen has dwelled in synth and electronic music all his life. And this is what makes the band so exciting. Rock and synth mixed, can it get any better?

They met through the Internet in a community unknown to most people: the Commodore 64 (C64) remix scene. Both Marcus and Carsten had won Remix of the Year  thanks to two wonderful remixes of C64 game music, both featuring drums and percussion by Andreas. A little later on, Carsten was sending out song snippets to various people, snippets which also reached Andreas at one point. They were so good he they should start a band and get Marcus in it too because he's such a great singer. Marcus said yes, and so the band was born.

Apart from being a member of Human Simulation, Marcus also fronts rock act Devil in Little Lisa and Andreas plays drums in pop/funk/rock act Kuling. What Carsten's doing outside the band, no one knows. ;)

I do like the band very much and so you should too.

As good friend of them I did the mastering for Hunting For a Dream, wich you can listen to in their MySpace page.

Happy listening!

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DHS of TSW - Costa Calma (Sotavento Edit)
Thursday, 26 February 2009 23:38
englishCosta Calma has been a come back to the roots. Main idea behind the track was to experiment with sounds, melody, putting togheter very different elements to build something able to live by itself. It's not proper club music. I wanted to put togheter a sonic texture able to summon feelings and emotions.

While making it, the weather was very cold here and all i wanted was to be in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), a place where i left a piece of my heart. Sea, cool weather, beach and water, a lot of salty water.

As a start, some tracks came to my mind: Chicane's Offshore, Solid Globe's North Pole (amazing tracks able to create mental images of places) and, of course, Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre. I choosed to for an electronica arrangement, very close to the style of the first Jarre: vintage drums (same Korg Minipop used in Oxygene), OSCar, dynamic filters and very analog sounds.

With the first part of the track i wanted to give the idea of an underwater place. Break takes you to the shores of the land, with a short approach. Then a more dancey bassdrum and the guitar lead give some energy and dynamic freedom: now we can move, explore the beach or simply enjoy it's peacey landscape. Guitar notation is intentionally simple and nostalgic at the same time.

After the next break, chords (and mood) change with the opening of OSCar filters give another energy charge, that will be our companion until the end of the track.

I believe that Costa Calma is a very good picture of my favourite way to arrange a track: looking for the best communion between different kinds of music to create a new track, able to auto define itself. Added with that "something" that's my trademark (don't ask, i still don't know what exactly it is. But it's there).

italianoCosta Calma è stato per me un pò come tornare alle origini. L'idea era di tornare a sperimentare con i suoni, la melodia, mettendo insieme cose diverse per creare un tutto organico e in divenire. Non è un brano "tunza". Ciò che volevo era creare un tessuto sonoro che potesse evocare delle sensazioni, delle immagini ben precise.

E' stato fatto in un periodo climatico particolamente freddo e tutto ciò che avrei voluto era tornare a Fuerteventura, l'isola delle Canarie dove ho lasciato parte del cuore. Mare, caldo, spiaggia, acqua, tanta acqua.

Mi sono immediatamente venuti in mente alcuni brani: Offshore di Chicane, North Pole di Solid Globe (meravigliosi esempi di brani che sanno evocare ambienti, ma troppo "freddi" per le atmosfere che volevo io) e Oxygene di Jarre. Ho inizialmente optato per un arrangiamento elettronico, in uno stile molto aderente al primo Jarre: drums vintage (lo stesso Korg Minipop usato in Oxygene), OSCar, filtri dinamici e un approccio estremamente analogico.

La prima parte del brano vorrebbe dare l'idea di un ambiente sottomarino. Il break porta all'approccio alla terra ferma, alla lenta fuoriuscita dal mare, cominciano a sentirsi onde e gabbiani. L'intrusione del bassdrum e della chitarra porta una ventata di energia e di liberazione: ora possiamo muoverci, vagare per l'isola, la spiaggia. Il giro del solo di chitarra è volutamente semplice, evocatico e nostalgico.

Dopo l'ennesimo break, il cambio di accordi e l'apertura dei filtri dell'OSCar danno una nuova sferzata di energia, che ci accompagnerà fino alla fine del brano.

Credo che Costa Calma sintetizzi molto bene il mio approccio all'arrangiamento: il cercare la felice unione tra diversi stili musicali per creare un brano che cammini bene da solo, che si auto definisca. Con in piu' quel qualcosa che da anni oramai è diventato il mio marchio di fabbrica (non chiedetemi cos'è, ancora non l'ho capito. Ma c'è).  

Costa Calma has been produced for Scenesat.com launch and it's now avaiable for listening at soundwavers.com.

 
Farewell
Saturday, 11 April 2009 15:32
BSG

Farewell and thanks, those have been five amazing years!

 
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