Video of the day 13th of February 2014

One of the worst things about the internet is that everything is logged and followed and measured.

You can get statistics and charts of everything. Who looked at what when. And there is a hunt for more views and likes and approval. Its hard not to want that, right?

And now and then you just see how the statistics go bananas.

A while back one of my videos started to get a lot of views.

A lot more than usual. I have no idea why.

There was a bit of an increase.

25 550 % increase since last month.

The viewers are men from America. They apparently like this sort of thing.

Everybody watches this....apparently.

Do you get it? If you do...please let me know what is going on...

Video of the day 24th of January 2014

My videos on youtube range between somewhat interesting to completely useless.

The idea with the channel was to show videos of some of the weirder instruments and sounds that I have in the studio. I felt that there was a lot of pictures of Mellotrons and Orchestrons but noone actually played the machines so I thought I could fill a empty slot of information.

Then after a while I realized that it could be interesting to show how the productions worked and how they were arranged. If you were interested in the band you could see them work and record . And then when you heard the album you could hear the different parts 

and how they worked (or didnt work) together.

I think this is a video from the Antkowiak sessions. Very experimental camera work.

Blasticking.

Video of the day 16th of January 2014

As you might know by now I love synthesizers. 

To me they always seemed to be so mysterious and scientific....at the same time. 

Very much like a stompbox I got the feeling that just by pressing one key everything in the production would change and shift the listeners attention.

I bought my Korg MS-10 at a music store in Paris. The guys who owned were complete assholes. I chose between a MS-10 and a SH-101. Im really happy that I got the MS-10. It is a very simple analog synth but with loads of possibilities and it can be quite expressive when you mess with it. 

Ive used it a lot and it is my main synth when we play live with Necromonkey.

I met the guys in Air after a show at Cirkus in Stockholm and 

when I mentioned the shop they said with heavy french accents 

"We know the shop..they are assholes. 

But when we became famous they treated us like kings.....assholes."

This video is from the 2012 Änglagård sessions for the third album. Filmed two years ago.  

Watching these little snippets I always become sort of sad because 

I still hear all the unfulfilled potential of the recordings. 

I still cant listen to the album. It just annoys me.

Änglagård Thomas enjoying the Korg MS-10