Troels's posterous

The skies are grey, it seems summer has left us, and I am on my way to the Faeroe Islands with VETO.

 I have thought a lot about the BLCK release lately. I have set the goal for myself that the material - in any form it'll take - must be finished come august. This means that a release in late september, beginning of october is realistic.

 I have had a hard time figuring out in what direction I wanted to go. I want the album to reflect both the straight up techno part of me and the part of me that is willing to put genre barriers aside and do work that is more experimental. As techno is a genre with a lot of dogmas and well-founded rules, it can be hard to find a path beween those two sides. I have turned to a lot of different artists and genres to look for inspiration and I am now much nearer to the finishing line than I thought I would be at this point.

 I want to be proud of the end result. I don't want to look back on it in six months and think that I could have done anything differently. I want BLCK to be simple in structure, but complex in soundcape. Excactly like I feel about WHT.

 I'll post artwork and tracklist here as soon as it is ready.

Stop! Hammock time...

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I am mostly writing this post to check out the functionality of the wordpress app for iPhone. Hope it works.
 
I am in Norway with Veto right now. We played a show at Slotsfjeld Festival earlier tonite. It went well, though it was in broad daylight. Music just sounds better when it's dark doesn't it? Right now we're just waiting for Big Bang to go on stage. We played a show with them at the Viper Room in LA a few years ago, but none of us seem to remember the music that well, though the party afterwards with them still stands vividly. It was a nice night.
 
Later on we hope to catch Who Made Who at a local club here in Tønsberg. They are really nice guys and it's always nice to see them again.
 
I hope to begin using this blog more in future. Posts like this one, with more stories from here and there will most likely occur when I have seen if this app works.
 
Untill then I leave you with a picture of my feet in a Norwegian hammock.

Late night update


This post os mostly just to check that the confusing setup of autoposters and automatic status update updaters are working, but I might as well put you up to speed on what's happening with me at the moment.

Not so long ago I became the father to a beautiful little girl. Being a parent really puts your life into perspective and forces you to reconsider and rethink everything you used to think was important. It is the ultimate rush and I highly reccomend it (provided you want to of course).

I recently moved into a new studio. It's nice to have a place to go to work now, as opposed to doing everything - cosy as it might be - from my bedroom. It's not a big place, but it's big enough to record with a band. I might post some pictures from there soon.

The BLCK EP's are not nearly done. I am working on a new track for the first one called Swaat. It's dialect for "sort" that means black in Danish. I really like the sound of the track and for me it has become kind the missing link, between the stuff I do for the dancefloor, and that with a more artistic approach. We'll see what you say when it's released.

Untill then.

Collective memory realized?

If you, like I do, like to share information, photos, links and videos online through your Facebook account, Twitter account, Myspace account, Flickr account, and so on and so on, this new site is for you. It's called Posterous. Just like ping.fm you can use it to post stuff to various accounts at the same time. This way you don't have to update your various accounts every time you just want to share a simple link. The difference is that ping.fm uses a web interface, but Posterous uses something as oldschool as email. Imagine that. You just send an email with your first content to post@posterous.com and they set up a site for you instantly. No creating accounts or anything like that. You then update the site with your posts simply by emailing that same address. The site knows it's you mailing and posts the content of the mail to your profile. Links, videos, photos, the works...

I like the idea that all these different sites and services like Twitter and Facebook are joined via services like Posterous. It makes the internet work like one big machine, and essentially is putting the information stream back in the hands of the users. You make the sites, by the content you upload.

Check out Posterous at posterous.com. If you don't get, you probably don't need it :-)