Under the Åskmoln

Here is the kind of music I am writing currently. Moody ambient tinged techno.

Cosmogramma Interactive Arts

I am very exited about the interactive art application Cosmogramma Fieldlines. It is a sort of digital album art meant to promote the record Cosmogramma , which is out 3 May on Warp records. The program was created by Aaron Meyers.

The basic idea behind the application is to use your mouse or webcam to access the different "balls" on screen. Pulling them on the lines will generate different tones played gracefully by harpist Rebekah Raff.

I found it via the blog 'create digital music' and I hope that you will be as immersed in Cosmogramma Fieldlines as I was.

Practise Makes Perfect

I decided to put up a mix I did as part of my practice in 2009, covering the excellent net-label Thinner on the service Mixcloud. Their stellar releases covers electronic music fused with the echo-ridden world of dub.

Monday Thinner Mix by Suecae Sounds on Mixcloud

What Jazz turned Into

From Sonar Kollektiv 10th Anniversary Party, with band Christian Prommer's Drumlesson. I bought their album straight from the independent Berlin-label Sonar Kollektiv a couple of months ago. An album well worth getting, if you ask me. The band reinterpret classic techno, house and dance music into something completely different. Enjoy the listen!

The History of Techno

High Tech Soul - The Creation of Techno Music from oddish on Vimeo.

This documentary named High Tech Soul attempts to capture a piece of history of techno music, with a heavy focus on on the city of Detroit. I found it via Multilinkmagazine, which also writes about the connection between this documentary and the book Techno Rebels. Seeing that documentaries about electronic music is not that common, anything good enough to take its subject seriously is recomended by yours truly.

The Primitive Voice of Techno

I became involved in a discussion yesterday at the Modplug message board. The board is dedicated to users of a specific type of musical production programs; called trackers, which I have been using for several years as my main tool to produce music.

The author of the tread mentioned a new book by Russian author Martynov, who explores the theme of repetition in music. Using techno as a reference I think I can see an underlying relationship between tribal music of different continents and the very modern incarnations of dance music. Although the differences are obvious: the cultural, instrumental, and melodic differences are sometimes vast. Some things to me seems very much alike though. There are the repetitive phrases, the mesmerizing focus on rhythm and movement, and the idea of music as a potential vehicle for ecstatic experiences.


The artist Ame with the minimal techno track Rej, originally released 2005 on Sonar Kollektiv.

The achievement of different states of consciousness when dancing to repetitive music is still very much witnessed all over the world. I have written before about how night-clubbers and spiritual dancers relate before, inspired by the portrayal of Muslim Sufi's in the french documentary Blues de l'orient.

I believe that the techno producer who lets a kick drum build the foundation of an entire track are building upon an ancient practice, which probably would pay close resemblance to the original spirit of music as it was in the dawn of humanity. I also think that some of the appeal of modern dance music is that it speaks with a voice that attracts us in on very fundamental level.