YOTD CDR and attack of the inspiration

March 8, 2010 – 12:44

So the CDR version of YOTD came out today. Limited to 12 copies, with a couple already gone (pre-orders and such). The release itself is packed into 3 cdr’s, and I’ve tweaked the sounds and samples of the tracks just to make it better. Some minor re-arrangements have also been made. Haven’t figured out the price yet cause I don’t know how much shipping would be. But for Swedes, around 100 SEK.

Yesterday I walked into town to record the Fyris river, sadly there was too much ice to get to the best places, but I managed to get some stuff recorded. With the hydrophones I bought a while ago, and the cable I got last week, it’s so much fun to record. And today I recorded the piano at work for a final track for SISE.

However, I won’t be able to get SISE done until the ice goes away cause I need to properly record water in order to fix the final things.

Also, while I was walking around yesterday, I came up with an idea for an album title and its artwork. Now I just need to record the tracks… I guess that will be the project for spring, heh.

And yeah, the silent apartments project I started with Manifesto and Mrcien is done. At least when it comes to the music. We have some ideas for the title and the artwork, but haven’t decided on anything yet. We’ve also decided to start looking for a label to release it on (you run a label and wanna release it, contact me!).

That’s pretty much it for now. When I get home I need to update the Johan Hjort website with information about YOTD.

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Artwork, tattoo and cable.

March 2, 2010 – 17:36

First things first, earlier today I dropped off the YOTD artwork at the printer’s, I’ll be getting it on Friday, so YOTD should be out early next week.

I also went by my favorite tattoo studio with some 20 pictures on a USB memory, and he thought they looked like fun. So in the end of March I’ll be dropping by again (he’s fully booked at the moment), then with better reference pictures. The idea is a LucasArts inspired full sleeve, with a touch of Red Dwarf.

And finally, I got the cable I’ve been waiting for. So now I can properly record water in stereo. The final touches to SISE should be done this week, or weekend.

And then Tarmskrap seems to be coming to town, so I’ll most likely meet him for  a coffee or two.

Good times, except that it seems I’m about to get sick again.

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Change of tunes

March 1, 2010 – 06:27

Walking to, and from, work without music would be hard for me to do. Even walking home from O’s place without music is hard, and that takes about ten minutes. As you might understand, I need music to work in society and among my friends.

Today I removed all previous albums from my mp3 player and replaced them with new ones. Not new as in just-released, but as in that I haven’t listened to them before/recently.

Walking to work takes about 30 minutes, and walking back home obviously takes another 30 minutes. Then again, if I’m going downtown or to a friend it takes longer. So I listen to my mp3 player atleast an hour each day, except for weekends. I can usually fit over a 1000 tracks on the mp3 player and that takes a while to listen through.

Not long after I got my current mp3 player I noticed that it refuses to go from album to album when listening. So I decided to listen to all tracks in alphabetical order, which is nice cause it’s almost always a different genre from track to track.

Here are the albums I used to have on the player, in alphabetical order:

Agonoize – 999
Agonoize – Hexakosioihexekontahexa
Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy
Aphex Twin – Drukqs
Bloodhound Gang – Hooray For Boobies
Bloodhound Gang – One Fierce Beer Coaster
Bong-Ra – Warrior Sound
Bong-Ra – Full Metal Racket
Brighter Death Now – 1890
CPU – Computer Error
D12 – D12 World
Daft Punk – Alive 2007
Detektivbyrån – Wermland
DFT – Minnesluckor
Doormouse – Broken
Dubmood – 0 to z
Eminem – Encore
Eminem – Relapse
Eminem – The Eminem Show
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
Endif – Meta
ESC – Matte
Exillon – It’s OK to Dance
F.K.Ü. – Where Moshers Dwell
Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
Finntroll – Ur Jordens Djup
Flogging Molly – Swagger
Green Day – Dookie
Henry Bowers – Escape From Juniper Hills
I:gor – Barwy Kolorow
Infected Mushroom – The Gathering
Infected Mushroom – I’m The Supervisor
Johan Hjort – Not That Human
Johan Hjort – Not What I Thought
Juno Reactor – Shango
Juno Reactor – Beyond The Infinite
Jupiter 8000 – Twisted Bliss
Justice – Cross
King Diamond – Voodoo
Kraftwerk – Minimum Maximum
Marilyn Manson – The High End Of Low
Merzbow and Jamie Saft – Merzdub
Moctan – Come Closer
Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
Noll Koll  -  Happy Rullator To Knaspulka
Otto von Schirach – Maxipad Detention
Promoe – Kråksången
Puzzleweasel – Exo-Grid
Rage Against The Machine – Battle of Los Angeles
Rage Against The Machine – Evil Empire
Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine – Renegades
Rammstein – Liebe Ist Für Alle Da
Reversed Obesity – Growth
Shpongle – Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
Sickboy – Time To Play
Soundmurderer – Wired For Sound
Squarepusher – Do You Know Squarepusher
Squarepusher – Hard Normal Daddy
Squarepusher – Music Is Rotted One Note
Stone Sour – Stone Sour
Stormfågel – Den Nalkande Stormen
Sveden Passive – Sunki Naapurissa
Sveden Passive – Vahvoja Liikkeitä
Tarmskrap – I Smell Sumthin’ Funky
Tarmskrap – I’m Just Sayin’
Terracorpse – The Prescription For Death
The Whole Series  -  Whole
The Chemical Brothers – Come With Us
The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
The Cumshots – A Life Less Necessary
The Offspring – Smash
Various – Twisted Vision
Various – Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe
Venetian Snares – Meathole
Venetian Snares – Rossz Csillag Alatt Szueletett
Venetian Snares – Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole
Zyklon Boom  -  Välkommen Till Avfolkningsorten

And here are the ones I replaced them with, also in alphabetical order:

A Perfect Circle – eMOTIVe
A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms
A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
AC/DC – Back In Black
AC/DC – Ballbreaker
Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin
Ass Fed Head – Assfedhead
Black Label Society – 1919 Eternal
Cliteater – Eat Clit or Die
Console Enemy – The Worst Album Title Ever
Cypress Hill – Collections
Das Bandt – Paraformalia
Dia Psalma – Psamlade Psalmer
Fear Factory – Digimortal
Fear Factory – Obsolete
Immortal – Sons Of Northern Darkness
Insane Clown Posse – The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
Insane Clown Posse – The Great Milenko
ISOpussy – No Operation
Jedi Mind Tricks – Servants In Heaven Kings In Hell
KMFDM – Angst
KMFDM – WWIII
Korn – Live And Rare
KU:NT – Fresh Ear Rape #1
Lillasyster – Hjärndöd Musik För En Hjärndöd Generation
LOK – Naken, Blästrad Och Skitsur
Lords of Acid – Greatest Tits
Machine Head – Hellalive
Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson – Portrait of an American Family
Marilyn Manson – The Golden Age of Grotesque
Me And My Droid – Digital Insects
Metallica – Black Album
Monster Magnet – Powertrip
Nirvana – From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah
Otep – Jihad
Ozzy Osbourne – The Essential
Phuq – Aaargh!
PST/Q – Natt Klockan 12 På Dagen
PST/Q – Pluralis Majestatis EP
Rallypack – Sod Off God, We Believe In Our Rockband!
Reel Big Fish – Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album
Rob Zombie – Greatest Hits: Past Present And Future
Runtime Pilot – Han Är Död
Sepultura – Roots
Slagsmålsklubben – Den Svenske Disco
Slagsmålsklubben – Sagan Om Konungens Årsinkomst
Slayer – Decade of Aggression
SphereX – Teh  x  Album
Sportlov – Offerblod i Vallabod
Sportlov – Snöbollskrieg
SSH Visor – Radiant Cilia Sun
Stam1na – Stam1na
Static-X – Wisconsin Death Trip
Static Bass – Eargasms
Stephen Lynch – Superhero
System Of A Down – Hypnotize
System Of A Down – Mezmerize
System Of A Down – System of a Down
System Of A Down – Toxicity
The Haunted – rEVOLVEr
The Haunted – The Haunted
The Kristet Utseende – Pang På Pungen I Portugal
The Skulls – The Golden Age Of Piracy
Timbuktu – Alla vill till himmelen men ingen vill dö
Timbuktu – Oberoendeframkallande
Timbuktu – The Botten Is Nådd
Tool – Aenima
Total Chaos – There Are No Russians In Afghanistan
Tyskarna Från Lund – Metamorphobia
Unspeakable Easels – Air Wonder Stories
Vader – Blood / Reign Forever World
Various – Elitserien: På Ren Jävla Svenska
Various – Mighty Manipulating Masters of MIDI-Chlorian Mind-Masturbation
Various – Musik I Teorin
Various – Neurospace
Venetian Snares – Cavalcade Of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore
Venetian Snares – Chocolate Wheelchair
Weird Al Yankovic – Running With Scissors
Weird Al Yankovic – Straight Outta Lynwood
Winnie The Shit – Hand Driven Episode
Öppenhjärna – Öppenhjärna

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I’ll do it “tomorrow”…

February 16, 2010 – 22:29

The artwork for the CDR version of YOTD was done on Sunday, so I figured I’d walk to the printer on Monday. I didn’t do that. So I thought I’d do it today, but I didn’t. So I thought I’d do it tomorrow, but I won’t. I could do it on Thursday, but I probably won’t. And I really don’t think I will do it on Friday either.

So yeah, I’ll do it “tomorrow”…

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Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2010 – 18:31

I’m not much for celebrating things. I do however enjoy my own traditions. One I’ve had for a couple of years is finding a picture and adding some text to it, every Valentine’s Day. And of course I did so this year as well.

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Interview, review and album progress

February 8, 2010 – 12:40

As previously mentioned I was interviewed by the local newspaper, and I’ve finally gotten around to translate it into English. And I’ve also translated the reivew of Year of the Deer.

Speaking of YOTD, all there’s left before the CDR can be released is the artwork and getting it printed. Not sure when that will be though, but I’m hoping sometime this week.

And as I might’ve mentioned before, I’ve been working on a follow-up to Not What I Thought and yesterday I decided on the tracklist. So as far as the music goes, it’s pretty much complete. Although I need to record water (with the hydrophone I bought a while back), but I should be able to do that by the end of this week if everything goes as planned. Then, of course, comes burning the CDR’s, stamping them and making the artwork and getting that printed.

Then again, YOTD is going to be released before the follow-up, so there’s really no rush for me.

Once all those things are complete, I should really get started on the project I have with Manifesto and Mrcien, haven’t done anything so far, but I do have ideas.

Till next time…

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Interview

January 19, 2010 – 18:21

It’s Monday afternoon, I’m sitting at work as usual. Not doing much at the moment, then my phone rings. The voice on the other end introduces himself as Andreas calling from Upsala Nya Tidning. He goes on to tell me that he wants to interview me in regard of Year of the Deer, I of course say “No problem, pretty much every day after four works for me”.

We end up deciding doing the interview the following day. That day was today.

Andreas left a couple of minutes ago, and the photographer will show up tomorrow. Really looking forward to reading this. I’ll get an English translation done as soon as possible. Andreas also told me that YOTD will be reviewed (by him) in the upcoming issue of Ergo.

2010 seems to be starting well for me.

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2009: Year of the Deer

January 14, 2010 – 10:58

It’s finally been released, my longest and most massive release to date; 2009: Year of the Deer.

Clocking in at over two hours and encoded at 320 kbps.

After work today I’ll update johanhjort.se with lots of info about it.

In the meantime, you can download it at Internet Archive. (Mirrors to come)

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Summarizing 2009

December 21, 2009 – 12:12

Three albums, five EP’s, one split, one compilation and two gigs.

All in all, a pretty idle year if you only count the actual releases, but if you count the work I’ve put down, it wasn’t so idle after all.

018: Experimental took a lot of energy to get done, and not just deciding on the tracklist, but everything around it. The release party, artwork, sending out review copies (haven’t seen a single review yet, which sucks ass) and so on.

Year of the Deer went rather well, there was only one track that was shorter than the 10 minutes I had aimed for. And I’m currently working on getting the last track together. Though I won’t repeat this project for a couple of years, and maybe next time it will just be released after a year, and no complete previews to download. I don’t know, haven’t really evaluated it yet.

Those have been the two major projects I’ve been working on, and luckily I’ve been able to do other side-projects inbetween.

With Random acts of music a new project named dawned, You Are Ten. The name later appeared with the full length album Perfect Failure, which had been done since spring of 2007.  You Are Ten will be anything that Hjorten isn’t, and also not used as frequent as other names.

On Not That Human I used my real name for the first time (if you don’t count the intro on 018: Experimental), and the album itself was different from what I had done before, it was darker and more spiritual. It was described by one person as “Lustmord” sounding, which of course is a great compliment.

Also released using my real name was the EP Not What I Thought, this was also different as it was very minimal ambient. And obviously inspired by Brian Eno.

Electricity was also another album that had been done for quite some time but was released “late”. It, yet again, didn’t sound like anything I had done before.

The first gig of 2009 was at Augustin Erba’s book release party on a rainy day in May. Despite the weather and that I would’ve wanted more people to see it (like always) I’m happy with it, and I also got to try out some source material I hadn’t used before. Which of course leads us to the second gig which was at UKK; I used new source material (except for the prayer tape) and was a wee bit drunk on whiskey – but that helped to shape the gig in a good way.

During 2009 I was also interviewed by Uppsala Fria which, as far as I can tell, didn’t lead to any more sales or new fans, but it’s all good. An interview is an interview.

In very recently, just a couple of days ago actually, the fifth EP of the year was released. It’s the second release in a tradition I started last year, its title is my age; 26.

So what does 2010 hold for deersound and I?

And probably a lot more, but only time will tell.

By the way, there are still copies of 018: Experimental left. You should buy one, or ten, for you and your friends. They’ll like it.

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Release: 26

December 17, 2009 – 22:52

Just like last year I brought my recorder along to work. Then I recorded a whole bunch of sounds, though most sounds were recorded on my way back home to the apartment.

More info can be found on the deersound website. I’ll add it on johanhjort.se eventually.

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