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Shaving

Hjorten — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:53:23 +0000

Every weekend I try to shave my head. Inspired by my previous videos, I made another one. Shaving.

On both YouTube and Vimeo you will see me shave my head and face, and if you think it’s too faast; you can check here and here.

The music is an edited version of a song of Amendurå!.

Again, that is all.

I’m on a bike! I’m in a bed!

Hjorten — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:36:23 +0000

Hi, it’s been a while. I’ve made some videos.

Daily trip was recorded on September 1st, on my way to and from work. I used duct tape to get my crappy digital camera to be still on the handlebars of my bike. The music used in the video is an old song, I made it in 2009 or 2010. I honestly can’t remember. Anyway, you can see the video at Vimeo or YouTube. You can download the song, Åtta bitar, from SoundCloud.

Sleep Lapse I was recorded during the night to today. I set my Nikon D50 to take one picture every ten seconds, but sadly the battery died around three in the morning. The sounds were recorded with my Roland Edirol R-09 and then processed in FL Studio. Watch the video at Vimeo or YouTube, then download the music from SoundCloud.

That is all, for now. Duuun duuun duuuun.

Staring into strange re-arrangements

Hjorten — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:42:56 +0000

Staring Into Strange Eyes has been complete since March, and I’ve listened to it a few times since then. About a month ago I realized there were some minor clicks and cuts here and there in the tracks, nothing I think people will notice. But since I do, I have to fix them.

Plus I haven’t heard back from the girl with a photo I want to use for the artwork, so I need to contact her again. Also, I have better water recordings now, so I might change the old ones. So all in all, SISE won’t be released in a near future, but probably before the end of the year.

Release: Amendurå!

Hjorten — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:43:42 +0000

Not long ago I released a new EP, called Amendurå!, on Underljud.

It’s most likely going to be the only breakcore/jungle focused release I’ll do.

It’s on!

Hjorten — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:51:38 +0000

Another project of mine is now in motion.

The basic idea is recomposing/decomposing a track of mine. It all started when Audio.Warfare mentioned a thing on Facebook, to which I replied, and I got a reply back, and I replied to that as well.

I recorded some sounds, made a track out of them, then a second person will use those sounds to make a track of his/herself, then a third person will make a track out of the second person’s sounds. And so on.

There’s no deadline for this project, and the release will be on physical media. But I have faith in it. I’m sure it’ll sound amazing.

Pyrophilia

Hjorten — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:05:40 +0000

Download the “lost track” of Paraphilia (aka my friend version bootleg) all for free!

Pyrophilia. 22:12 minutes. VBR MP3. 29,6MB.

The future of change

Hjorten — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:28:08 +0000

As of today, my last three EP’s on Witte Dood have been released. And yesterday I found out that I’ll be playing a gig in the end of September, I’ve already started planning for it, and I think it’ll be great. Decided that I’m gonna do a sort of “megamix”, meaning a bunch of my own tracks which I will somehow edit and tweak while they’re being played.

In label-related news; deersound now has a sub-label called Underljud. The new addition will focus on the stuff that is too weird and/or random for deersound, but also handle the latters digital releases. The sub-label won’t just release mp3′s, though. It’ll be releases on any media (mainly CDR’s obviously) I see fit.

First out on Underljud will be an EP of amens. More info to come in a week or two.

Rådata is raw

Hjorten — Sun, 09 May 2010 20:53:33 +0000

Late 2008 I started making a long track composed of raw data extracted from exe and dll files. My intention was to release it on deersound as a 3″ CDR, but never got around to it. In 2009 I made a video for the track, but it is lost somewhere. I also made a second track in the same sense during 2009.

And just a couple of days ago, I listened to the second track, and of course got inspired enough to start making a third track. Earlier today I was all done with it, though it’s five minutes shorter than the previous two. Still, the whole release is 1:10 hours long.

Though the music might be complete, the artwork is far from it. I haven’t even thought about it. My goal is, however, to get it released on another label than deersound. I’m gonna start looking for labels that might be interested and then send out some e-mails and/or letters.

Idle news

Hjorten — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:00:35 +0000

There’s been a lack of updates because, well, things haven’t really been going on. Staring Into Strange Eyes is done of course, but the artwork isn’t.

And I’ve been told the EP’s on Witte Dood should be released by the end of April, so expect an update when that happens.

Staring into a full sample

Hjorten — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:40:19 +0000

Last night I finished the last track for Staring Into Strange Eyes, now there’s “only” the artwork and burning process left. But I’m not gonna rush it. And since I’m feeling generous today, here’s the first track off the album. Free to download, forever and ever.

Johan Hjort – When I walk through rain 7.28MB – VBR MP3.