Looptroop Rockers

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…

yo!

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a real time doc­u­men­tary if i got it right. peep game!

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.

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 10^th anniversary!!

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.

…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!

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.

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 30^th 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 59^th floor and then the stairs up to the 61^st 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.

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 3^rd 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…

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