Freedom of speech… yey!

I was cleaning my desktop when I found this document that a friendly soul sent me last year. It’s in Swedish and it says that a person wanted P3 (state owned radio) to be tried for playing “Murder Murdoch”. According to the person P3 violated their duty to be politically impartial by playing it, but the authority ruling in these cases (Granskningsnämnden) took no action against P3 - so it’s ok to play the song. That’s freedom of speech at it’s best!

I just thought about the consequences a conviction would have had. So many songs are political, most of them I would say. I mean, doesn’t most of the bling bling rappers advocate capitalism for example? They’re extremely political in my book. Maybe I should write to Granskningsnämnden about that…

until april..

yo!

if you´re into basketball or like the drama of documentaries, check this out while you wait for GOOD THINGS to drop! born ready is a web series about lance stephenson, a high school b ball talent from coney island..
a real time documentary if i got it right. peep game!

The teacha!

A friend of mine, Ruskig, started a hiphop school a while ago and he asked me be a guest teacher there. So this week and the next me and the students are comparing the differences between recording in a digital and an analog studio. I haven’t personally recorded on tape since 2001 and Government Music so I enjoy just being in the studio watching the tape roll. This is a clip of Jacke doing his thing over a DJ Large beat.

Good Things!

Yesterday I found myself putting up the stickers Supreme and Dainja made in Thailand. Which means I made it official I guess - Looptroop Rockers new album “Good Things” will be released this year. The same year that DVSG is celebrating our 10th anniversary!!

Night Before Mastering

As usual, some snares were too loud, some dubs had to go, some bass tones get automated and so on and on. Thought I was done with the mixing last Friday but had to rush up to the studio in Västerås again today. Last minute decisions are always made and they are as creepy as always… We still haven’t decided on one track, if it will be on or off the album. Might be a long night.

Anyway friends, besides this-the album is DONE. And we’re a really happy and proud boy group about it. Expect something superextravagant in April . Djeeeahhh.

Mastering tomorrow, then some serious chillin’. Kind of like I did in my brother’s work’s chair the other day.

And yo…

…check this shit out man: http://vbox7.com/play:0a18d1c5

It’s kinda crazy. The guy on the right i did a song with around 4 years ago in Bulgaria (Cmotan - “Nursery Rhymes”, which is on the “Standard Bearer” cd).

Peace!

Working again

This is what I did today, back in the cold Swedish reality - even though it feels great to be working again…
I uploaded a couple of new songs to my myspace - 2 tracks that I did with other artists for their projects: “Radio” with RockBottom (US) and “12 Dziesma” with Akis (Latvia). By the way, you didn’t miss “This is what I look like naked” and “Faluja (dub version)” that I added a while ago right?! Other than that I’ve been working on my Swedish album. On a real evil beat from my man Jimmy Ledrac. And after going for a run with P. $chumi I found this clip from a rehearsal we did in the ex Wax Cabinet late last year. Embee made the mash up during the summer I think, but this is recorded before we did a show in Sälen in December.

From bangkok to sunny beaches and back

Ok, so here´s the full report from our trip to Thailand. (or at least as much as I remember right now..)

Me and Anja was talking about what to do for my 30th birthday. I didn´t want to throw a party, (I do too much partying anyways..) so we decided to save up some money so we could go somewhere nice.
I´d never been to Thailand, so asked Dainja, who´s been there like 10 times, if he´d like to be our guide. Fortunately he was game and after some bullying and blackmailing I had convinced about 12 people to go with us.

I was very exited to enjoy a real laidback vacation, but little did I know that Nojjan aka DJ Irk aka Borstis was already in Bangkok, hooking up DJ shows and networking with writers and clubkids in the big city far east.
We did a little thing at Club Culture (BKK) the same night we landed and we even got Tha Momz to join us at the club! It wasn´t packed, but the music was bumping and I had a good time, still amazed that we were all having food and drinks together on the other side of the planet. I travel a lot with the Troop and with Timbuk, but it´s something special about exploring new places with your close family..
Our second day in BKK started with a boat trip down the river, hosted by our friend CW who spent some of his childhood years in BKK and speaks a little thai. He showed us some of the old temples after we borrowed some new gear from the temple security people.. No shorts or basketball jerseys on holy grounds!
That night was crazy. First we all had dinner at Bed supperclub. The food was SUPER, the interior design was future/rave/gameshow (in a good way! ha ha) and the musical performance by a japanese lady was strange to say the least. Best dinner I had in a while.. Next up was the Banyan Tree skybar, which is now placed among the top three of my favourite bars worldwide. (No 1 is still Ichan´s joint in Tokyo. My people know the deal baby..) At Banyan Tree you take the elevator to the 59th floor and then the stairs up to the 61st floor.. The Vertigo Grill & Moon Bar is an open bar (as in no roof.. ha ha) and has the most beautifullest view over the city. Their bloody marys is killing competition! That was a perfect way to celebrate both jasons and my birhtday.
Since then we´ve been doing some late night clubbing, island hopping and lots of snorkeling and scuba diving. (congrats to our crewmembers who got their divers licenses!)

On Koh Tao me and Dainja met up with Rob Cooper who´s a signpainter and woodcarver/fontmaker/goodguy.. Dainja had visited him some years back, and he looked happy to see his fellow typographer again! I got a lot of inspiration just looking at his little workshop and pictures of signs he made, and we were both totally impressed with how good this guy is with his handwriting and all over craftmanship. Not very much is handmade nowadays and it was cool to hang out with a real master of letters and style.. He actually made a wood sign for Dainja and wrote some calligraphy that we hopefully will use for some future designs! (if I had more time I´d go study under this guy, sweep his floors or something..)
Today we´re back in Bangkok. We picked up some new stickers that we printed over here and they look perfect! Busyness and pleasure you know..
I had some delicious tuna sashimi and bought a fake watch, so I feel like I´m at least almost ready to go home. Only one more day out here! Kinda sucks to fly back to cold Sweden but we´ve got bizniz to attend to and people to see.
Hope i didn´t bore y´all to death, I´ll get better at this shit as we go along. (and sorry if my spelling´s not 100%)
Stay up my friends! / Supreme LTR. DVSG.

Back in effect!

Yes, me and Supreme are back after two well deserved weeks of vacation in Thailand. All the vocals were already recorded when we left and now that we’re back Embee and Vladi (and Mats Nyman who did a quick guest appearance) are almost done with the mixing. Things are moving! Mastering is booked for next week and it looks like we might keep our life line! If we do, the plan is to release the album 3rd week in April. But we’ll drop a single with a hot ass video before that, and we’ll hit you with different goodies on the page till then. This, that i dug up from the archives, for example. A little something from when we warmed up before a show in Århus, DK late last year…

yo yo yo!

All of a sudden, i’m in Thailand with my family and friends, turning 30 years old on a rooftop bar overlooking the city of angels - Bangkok. It’s my first time in Thailand and everythings been real nice so far. Great food, great people.. i’ll update you more when i get back home to my computer. (i’m on a PC at an internet cafe at the moment.. bu hu.)
Right now we’re on the island of Koh Tao and last night we did a DJ set at club AC. Me and Promoe did a little screaming and Timbuk, Dainja and Irk was spinning records! My mom got a new job as head of security, she was really good! People don’t mess with mothers, even if they’re so drunk they can’t speak.. (the kids, not the momz. ha ha) i left at 4AM but i think Timbuk and the merciless DJ Irk stayed with my brother at the club until 6 something.. Thank you’s to everybody who made it a great night!
Now i’ll try too book our flights back to bangkok and go eat lunch with my girl.. see you all soon, i’m getting ready for a real hectic 2008!
peace!

/Supreme and The Swedish Entourage

Single prep

It’s all mixed and mastered. Simon-san at Nimativ Form has done a fabulous video and we’re soon ready to go! You might be surprised…

ja matane

/Atte

Buster Boss JR

Aspiring producer Buster Boss Jr swung by the studio today to peep the new video and dig the latest tunes. Most of his attention was directed towards the buttons for raising the monitors though.

/Uncle

Ginger and Lemon

Seven tracks almost done now. This time things are running pretty smooth. Guess we’ve grown some knowledge… I have an ambivalent relation to the mixing process. To let the babies go after, sometimes, years in the making can be a hassle. At first it always seems like it don’t turn out/sound as good as the original ruff mix. The same feeling as I got when building the song can be hard to capture.

I’m reminiscing about the spring/summer of 2002 when we did the “The Struggle Continues” mix. That was a total nightmare. My ambitions were raised to the limit and we had to build everything up from scratch based on the arrangements done in the MPC, SP and Motif. Then down to 2-inch reel-to-reel tape and mix from there on a Trident TSM (for you tech-freaks) desk in a completely overheated studio. And I’m not a schlook that’s known for using few and clean sounds when building my compositions, so we had a couple of frustrating months working it to some kind of perfection. The day when I’m pleased is the day I stop making music.

On Fort Europa I let two engineers mix the whole album while I approved mixes via mail. Neither a flawless way to work. “Can you raise Promoe’s “yeah” and fade it to the left at bar 17, beat 2 2 Db, please”.

Team-work on location seems to be the best way and now we’re working a future classic: Ginger and Lemon. My favorite track today! Peace

/The Comfortable Analogue Lover

Schumis New Office!

Its almost done! My new office that i share with my fellow peeps from The Workgroup Nimativ Form. Here´s a sneak peek folks…

This is where the blurprints of the upcoming tour is well hidden and so far i am the only one with the key to the safe…

Welcome to the Good life!

Schumi.

Night shifters @ Soundism

Vladi! That means mix. That means we’re almost done with a new album. Yes siree, it will be out and poppin’ this spring for sure! More on that soon. Hej.

DJ set in Thailand!

Come check it out if you´re in Bangkok or Koh Tao!
Peace / Supreme & ze fam

Shop news!

We’re currently reorganizing the shop administration and we hope this will be a positive change for all customers. Therefore the shop will be down for a while until we figure out the last details.
We hope to see you when we open up again!

If you have an account in the shop you will be notified about the progress via e-mail. Otherwise just peep this page once in a while.