Posts Tagged ‘triphop’

Something about creation and music… also chill out music

Monday, February 9th, 2009

I love to create. I love to sit in the studio and fiddle with some pieces of audio that eventually someday is gona turn into a complete and finished piece of music. Electronic, chillout, downbeat, experimental hip hop, triphop, punk rock, electroclash or whatever genre it may be… it starts with some waveforms colliding with some brainwaves making a small eksplosion.
Kind of organised neatly on a computerscreen by an organic organism, played and recorded by a human being. Well also drummachines makes music in its own screwd way… organised also somehow by some idea.
Everybody who is into music knows what this is about and know this feeling.
This enthusiasm about sound and how it affects your body.
It doesnt matter if you are a pro or a music lover or both… you know what feeling I am talking about.
It doesnt matter if you are into classical or goth or punk or ska or folkmusic or chillout or downbeat or dubstep. It doesnt mater where you come from or who you are (thank you Bowie or what it Jagger)… this feeling is what keeps music alive.
This is the reason so many people struggles ( so it seems for the uninitiated) and spends hours going nowhere carrierewise, working their but off, just to get this kick of adrenalin when every nerve in your body says yes yes yes thsi is great.
It remains to me one of the biggest mysteries of life.
Its a condition in the brain you could say. Okay that makes sense some of the way, but it doesnt explain everything.
Enough for now.
Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music

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http://www.youtube.com/gangalounge
http://www.last.fm/music/Ganga
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Ganga
http://www.gangamusic.info
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All I want

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Today I got a license request for the track “All I Want” from my latest album. This is great, as its my favourite track from the album, featuring the wonderfull vocalist Helle Chirholm. I worked with her for many years, and she sings on quite a few of the Ganga tracks – Hifi Love – is one of them.

I started to work with another singer called Claire Ross-Brown, and its gonna be exiting to see what is to come out of it. I am very optimistic.

I almost finished my two filmjobs…. I think. You never know what they might come up with for changes in the last minute. I am looking forward to having more time on my hand to work on new Ganga tracks.

I have also been working with Steen Kyed on our common project Petrol. We had a nice session the other day at his studio.

I am moving from my studio by march the 1. Not nice. Hopefully I will find somewhere with an atmosphere. I cant stand those newly build soundprooof concrete with wool inside placs that pop up all over. Its a money machine I guess.Totally without athmosphere. I could sit at ome like in the old days? No way – to cosy to get anything done. Hmm… maybe I need that.

chill out downbeat triphop artist Ganga

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Soundtoys and toying with sounds in acid

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Just got a new Casiotone MT-540 for 10 dollars. What a bargain. I cant wait to plug it in and hear those weird drumsounds and screeky beeps these guys produces.

Maybe you wonder why I sit down and write a blog before trying it? It might have been more useful to some, if I could provide some info on this little monster.

But to tell you the truth, its been weeks since I bought it, and its still sitting here in my livingroom – still in the original box.

Its sometimes like this when I buy some sound crap, cheap stuff that makes a sound – could be toys also. Its like some of the magic about buying them is, that you don’t really know what they sound like, and as long as you haven’t tried them, they are still full of potential endless possibilities.

If you start using them you might find right away that they don’t work or you don’t like the way they sound.

It might also be that in this particular downbeat, chill out there track, it fits perfectly and you are glad you waited to plug it in, because if you had done it earlier whilst working on another track, you wouldn’t have found a place for its magic.

To be totally honest, its not very often I can wait to pull it out and push a key or two.

Anyways, I will soon be heading down to the studio and working on a Real XS remix and a Vanessa Daou remix. Maybe just one, I feel a bit tired after getting up too early.

Couldn’t sleep last night and got caught inside the magic of the program Acid – I love that program, perfect for loops and detailed sound mangling. Midi is actually also working pretty well now after many days of midi darkness – they now provide inline midi editing, which is nice.

<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

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Sample from real life and put it on vinyl

Monday, August 25th, 2008

I heard a great program in the radio yesterday while I was running in the local park. It’s a great time to listen to something you didn’t really know you missed out on. Like getting a present – just like that out of the blue, some words to enlighten your spirits or something..

It was an interview with a danish artist called Jørgen Leth, who works with both film and poetry and who has spent most of his life creating very artistic films and documentaries and writing poetry. He was for many years also the commentator for national danish tv, on  the annual Tour De France.

Anyways, he caught my attention talking about his notebooks.He always carry a notebook with him, so he can jot down ideas for his films and poems.

It can be a sentence he hears someone speak out, or it can be something from a movie he is watching, or it can be a situation he witnesses on the street. It can be almost everything.

He is sampling from real life and putting it in to his little book, and some day he will come back to it and use it in a film or a poem.

Quite fascinating to hear him talk so passionate about this and very inspiring.

When you are working with music and sounds, sampling from everyday life is something quite common.

You work with sounds, and you sample them and manipulate them and use them in your music. Not so strange really.

But it just struck me that its also a possibility to work like Jørgen Leth, and sample non audio inspirations, even though you are a musician and not working with words or images like he does.

All it takes is to be a little more open. Its all up to you really.

If you are not that open just now, right now when you really wanna do something, then just grab your handheld recorder and start recording in your street or in the field or in the park or anywhere.

Put the pieces together with some help from a computer and some effectfull algorithms and your never failing human imagination, and voila!.. you made a new contribution to this worlds collection of artworks consisting of zeroes and dots.

Why not take the step and put it out on vinyl. All your downbeat, chillout and triphop and electronica and dub.

Sample away. From real life.

<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

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