Old news:
So, instead of re-coding my homepage with some
fancy scripts, I just manually pile up the old news feed on
this hidden page. Have a nice day.
- Gammis
News 3rd
Mar 2023:
The
first update of the year! Hi, it's time for another album
to get dropped! This time it was Detached Ignorance turn,
which meant a lot of production work for me. I'm happy
with the result though, and I think that I've reached jet
another level in my mixing and mastering knowledge. I got
a new record with the song "Who are You", but not the kind
of record that I'm proud about. I saved it as 40 different
versions before I finally got tired and released the album
even if I felt that "Who are You" could be mixed and
mastered better still. I am proud of the guitar solos on
that track however. Big thanks to everyone who helped me
listen to the sound of the tracks and even bigger thanks
to the guest artists: Promise To Panic, Ahnna Guthler and
Lemonride. Thank you!
Same as You:
Various Rock, right?
Songs written in 1999-2021,
released in 2023.
- Gammis
News
30th Dec 2022:
Happy new Year!
Another year is coming to its end and as per usual
it’s time for me to summarize my achievements. The
first feeling that comes up is happiness. 2022 has
been a joyful year for me as a musician. It has been a
creative year. It has been a productive year. It has
been another year full of learning. There has also
been a lot of feedback and some fun surprises when it
comes to my audience.
The numbers:
I’ve taken a slight step backwards in productivity
compared to last year when it comes to finished song
projects - with 33 songs finished (2022) compared to
44 (2021). But I have a lot of songs nearly complete
that will get finished in 2023 so that number is a bit
misguiding. Some years are more about finishing
existing projects rather then starting new ones, but I
feel like 2022 have been a year of both. I’ve
officially released 4 full albums, 2 EPs and one
single over the year. All songs released this was: 52.
I’ve started new song projects in logic 149 times in
2022. That is one more song started in a DAW then the
year before. The numbers of ideas recorded on my
Dictaphone are too many to count at this time. The
most frustrating part of the year (but still pretty
fun at times) has been trying to sort all those
Dictaphone ideas.
The Songs:
Some songs released in 2022 have reached their full
potential and made me really happy. Some didn’t
deliver what I hoped. Some songs became dearer to me
after release when others showed their appreciation.
2022 top three songs for me:
1. New wave of Fire
2. Full Circle
3. Ronny Cyklar till Norge
Most disappointing was: Den Sociala Hierarkin, a song
that I released just to get done with the album rather
than taking my due time with all the tracks.
The Response:
The first time I ever tried to promote any of my songs
via a promotion service was in 2022. Because of this,
my audience have grown with several hundred percents
for a couple of projects, namely Gammis and Detached
Ignorance. But one funny thing is that Detached
Ignorance started to grow a lot even before I used any
service because of one the songs making it into some
playlist in USA all of its own. Another funny thing is
that two other projects - that I haven’t tried to
promote yet (Nerd Chills and KondensKungen) - have
made themselves an audience on their own throughout
the year. As of today, Detached Ignorance has a
growing group of listeners in Brazil, USA and in
Japan. Nerd Chills grows the most in USA and Germany.
KondensKungen grows the most in USA, Australia and
France. And Gammis had 88 different listeners from my
neighbouring town Stockholm the last month. I will
always produce music since it is my passion. So it’s
not vital for my music to get recognized. But it is
cool. It especially warms my heart when someone reach
out and write to me about what one of my songs means
to them – thank you again!
The Tech:
I have become more familiar with my new mastering
program: iZotope Ozone. It has helped me to complete
my tracks a bit faster then before and made a slight
improvement in sound. The biggest step I’ve taken as a
producer this year, however, is not in the mastering
department. I’ve finally reached some core
understanding when it comes to fabfilters Pro-Q 3 and
its dynamic EQ side-chain possibilities. This great
revelation came late in 2022 so none of my previous
releases have any of this. In my coming releases,
however, I hear the technique in action clearly.
The Future:
So, looking forward, what are my thoughts about next
year? As a producer I still have a long way to go
until I reach the perfect sound for all my songs, but
the latest step with dynamic EQ side-chain will be a
game changer to many of my rock songs. I will try to
learn a bit more when it comes to stereo mixing,
mainly how to bring some sounds out to the sides while
vocals, bas and core drums still cling to the middle.
I will try reaching this using the pro-Q 3 and a new
program for me: the bx_solo. I will not say for sure,
as these things have a way to change over time, but I
see a couple of releases for both Nerd Chills and
Gammis during 2023. The first release, however,
belongs to Detached Ignorance. And that’s a promise.
- Gammis
News
8th Dec 2022:
Hi, again. Wow, yet another album
released. But first I need to thank everyone who
listens to my music, I got my spotify-wrapped
yesterday and was blown away. I got a lot of positive
statistics for all of my projects. So, thank you!
While it felt good releasing the last album to get
some closure of the 4-album project I had, this
release feels GREAT! It feels like a gust of
fresh air flew through my creative process and
it gave me even more hunger for a productive
future. I've been
really exited about these song since the very first
day I played around with a rework for the first of
them. It's been a long lasting dream of mine to be
able to release some of these songs in a fashion that
does them justice, and I think I just made it. The
most important song for me is #1, "New Wave of Fire".
This song was originally made for my grunge-metal band
Mutual Edification. We rehearsed it a few times back
in 2001 and I still remember how to play the guitar
riffs and the melody. Some songs just suck with you
like that, I guess. While we had lyrics back in the
day I figured I'd try something different just for
fun, making it a more game-friendly "Megaman-like"
metal. I got so inspirited while working on it that I
started to remake several old songs as well. A few
days later most of the album was already done. Many of
the songs are new versions of old tracker-metal
releases from 1998 (find them at modarchive.org). The
song "Give Me Power" have been hiding in my unfinished
projects folder since 1998. I also have to mention
"Leaving Myself", a song made for the band One Future
Plan back in 2002. It also had lyrics back then, but I
think this version works better. Even the cover art is
a rework from a old drawing I did in my early teens.
Metal Droid:
Reincarnated Megaman-style Metal!
Songs written in
1998-2022, all recorded in 2022.
- Gammis
News
3rd Nov 2022:
And here comes the last piece of my five
year old project! Success! Yeay!
I started out
in 2018 with listening
to almost all song ideas
from my Dictaphone
marked with the "random
Swedish song" marker.
The first step was to
write all the lyrics,
which gave me a lot of
additional inspiration.
After having around 80
finished lyrics I
started to sort the
projects after different
feelings. The red album
(2019) was to be the sad
one, the yellow one
(2020) got the crazy
songs, the blue one
(2021) had all the songs
that I associate with
work and then there was
the green one (2022)
that supposed to contain
angry songs. Some songs
were added late in this
album and some songs
were moved to other
projects not yet
released, but the core
idea of fitting these
songs into four
different albums with
different feel is still
there. And then I
recorded most
instruments in "bulk",
having days where I
recorded half the albums
vocals - for instance.
But wait! These four
albums doesn't combine
80 tracks!? No, some are
still coming later and
some might never get
finished. I hope you
enjoy this scrappy
album. :)
En Självbiografi på Tre Ord:
Pro tip: Avsluta
alltid dina skivor med en
sångtitel likt detta: "Jag borde
hållit käft!"
Songs
recorded 2018-2022.
- Gammis
News
7th Aug 2022:
It's time for another release! This time
it's Detached Ignorance's turn. When planning this
release I realized that it was better to focus on a
few songs at a time instead of making it a full length
album. Perhaps this is something that I will implement
more often in the future. The songs are pretty
straight forward even if I feel a bit confused about
what to answer when asked the genre. I'm feeling OK
with how they turned out even if I think I could make
them sound even better if I put in a couple more hours
work. This is, at the end of the day, just a hobby and
not my main occupation. The biggest adventure of the
Bombardment EP was, however, the cover. It took
several months and engagement from a few sources that
didn't deliver anything to the final product before I
got the help I needed from my dear friend David Guvå
(who had to remake his work 2 times due to hard drive
errors and re-installations). I edited his rendered
picture and added a more dirty feeling to it using
vector tracing and coloring. Hope you like the songs!
Bombardment:
Rock on!
Songs recorded in 2022.
- Gammis
News
11th Jul 2022:
A lot have happened since I last updated
the site. The albums keep lining up and this time it's
another Nerd Chills project that's up: Full Circle. I
started to play around with vocoder synthesizers back
in 2018. I made a few songs that I liked and came back
to the theme from time to time until 2021 when I
decided to make a full album out of the songs. Now I'm
really pleased with a few of them. Hope you like them
to :)
The next release I hope to get out soon is one with
"Detached Ignorance". The music is done but I've had
some problems with the album cover, trying to
outsource the work without success and getting help
from a friend who sadly deleted the files mid work in
a hard drive crash while rendering 3D art. I'm in no
hurry though.
Without actively searching any game projects I've
managed to get another freelance gig. A cool little
game with an arabic theme - something I've said that I
would like to work on some day. Currently I've done
two long (10min+) tunes for that game. I've also fixed
up some old songs that got used in different sources.
Another game that I've been involved with for some
time now as well as a Counter-Strike tournament. Check
them out here: @Matth33w_Dev and esportstudion.se .
The amount of streams on my song about Ronny @cyklaforlivet
keeps on building and I hope to give him a few hundred
for his cause. So thank you for listening to that
song!
Full Circle:
Vocoder fun.
Songs recorded in
2018-2022.
- Gammis
News
11th Apr 2022:
Today is a historic date in my
musical career because today I release my first
ever cover album! After talking to the original
artists, bob hund allowed me to use their mascot
on my cover art. Thank you for all you inspiration
bob hund! Hope you like what I did here.
Mer än så kan ingen bli:
Covers of bob hund songs from the
90's
Songs recorded in
2021.
- Gammis
News
24th Feb 2022:
Sometimes the process of releasing
music doesn't have to take that long. I started
with the first song for this album in December
2021 and finished the 13th song in the same month.
It's a experimental album with jazz drums together
with old chip sounds, perfect for a old platformer
game. I hope you'll like it!
8-bit Bird Jazz:
Can you guess what birds the songs
is inspired of?
Songs made in 2021.
- Gammis
News
17th Feb 2022:
This years first release is a single.
It's a TRIBUTE single, in fact. After joking about
it with my co-worker Ronny, I decided to try
making a song that he could use to promote his
bike run this summer, where he also gathers money
for a good cause (research for Heart and lung
cancer). So, be sure to check him out on instagram
@cyklaforlivet
while listening to this wonderful track.
Ronny Cyklar till Norge:
Featuring wonderful cover art by
some great painter...
Song made in 2022.
- Gammis
News
30th Dec 2021:
Happy new year! It's time to take a
look at 2021 and what I produced and learned over
the year. It's been a kind of depressing year with
covid-19 ruining lives and plans for everyone, but
for me it's also been another great year of growth
and productivity.
Released tracks: 56
Finished tracks: 43
29 of them matches both categories
I started 2021 by releasing Gammis & Dronten's
"GG Livet". It was fun to work together with
others when mixing and switching ideas for the
masters. Then I put all my effort in finishing the
"Finn Fem Fel" album that I later released as
Kondenskungen. I'm feeling OK with the result even
if it felt more like a mass production a la the
assembly line rather then putting enough thought
into every song. Then came the big release for the
year with the Detached Ignorance album "Half
Emptiness". I made great strides toward better
mixing and mastering but still felt that I came up
short in the end. The album got to much bass and
sounds bad in some speakers. I'm still really
proud of most of the songs on that album however,
just a bit sad that I didn't switch mastering
tools before releasing it. But I did switch
mastering tools, only after the Detached Ignorance
album. I now use the Izotope mastering plugin:
Ozone, and I love it. Because of Ozone I would
like to say that the last album I released in
2021, the "Introvert Tankesmedja" by Gammis, has
the best sound of them all. I did not put as much
work on the latest album as I did with the "Half
Emptiness" one, but it still sounds better in my
opinion. So that's a witness of how much help I
got from Ozone. I've always wanted to learn how to
master songs when using references, and now I've
started to learn it! Lastly I made more money from
my streams this year. Even if I don't do music for
the money it's still a neat little bonus. So thank
you to everyone who streamed!
The best of my songs from 2021, from the producers
point of view, will have to be "Gammis - Smutset i
Stupröret". The day I recorded it was a great day
in the studio, as well as the day I mixed it.
Looking forward towards 2022 I'm filled with
excitement. I've felt more and more under 2021
that I would like to give the game music career
another try, maybe that is something that will
continue to grow in 2022 and hopefully grow into
some interesting projects. I also have a long line
of half done albums waiting to get finished. Some
of them already have their album covers done. So
the set goal is to continue to release a bunch of
albums, but I'm also ready to pause those projects
if a game music gig appears. Let's see what the
future holds. In any case, there will be more
tones out of me, That's a promise.
- Gammis
News
20th Oct 2021:
Hi there. A new album is out and I
can gladly move on towards the next few projects
in line. This one sound a bit better then my older
albums in my opinion. A great deal of that is due
to more focus in the mastering process. It's hard
to be the artist, the recording technician, the
mixer AND the master engineer of the same songs
that you once came up with and recorded on your
Dictaphone. But with great tools it's apparently
possible. I switched over to iZotopes Ozone while
mastering and I believe it gave great results.
This is the third of four albums in a planned
collection with ideas I've recorded on my
Dictaphone over the years. I collected them all in
2018 and started to work out some structure to the
songs as well as writing out the whole lyrics and
so forth. It was a really exiting project at that
time and I promised myself that I would see it
through until the end. Now, however, I have so
much more material recorded that I could expand
the collection with a few more albums with ease.
The idea was first to sum up these Swedish songs
into different feelings, making the album color
represent the mood of the songs. After a while I
realized that the mood idea wasn't going to
happen. Instead I've sorted them in a different
way: The first album was the red one, and it was
the one containing the more serious and, frankly,
depressing songs. The second one was the yellow
album which contained a lot of the more "brain
dead" songs, if you will. Now, here's the blue
one, and the theme of this one is: job. I've had
my night time job in more the 10 years now and
I've learned a lot about people in these years.
Almost all the song ideas for the album were
either recorded at work or handle my thoughts
about my night time job or the work we do to get
paid in general. I'm particularly content with
track 9.
Introvert Tankemsedja:
Work it baby.
Project started in
2018, finished in 2021.
- Gammis
News
10th May 2021:
I finally did it! After lying almost
entirely idle and 99% done for half a year, I
finally did some of the last tweaks to this "baby"
and then released it. I started with the album in
the spring of 2020 as a side project. Soon it
became clear that it would be the main project of
the year and indeed my "2020 baby". After
approximately nine months it was ready for
release. But I wanted to wait a bit longer for
more mastering inspiration. Instead I got Covid-19
and didn't touch my studio for two months. Then
the project grew cold on me. To be honest I really
feel that I could have mastered it better in some
"ways". But every time I've opened the songs this
year, I've lost track of what those "ways" would
be and instead I've winded up with a feeling of
wanting to move on. I guess that I should have
sent it to some professional mixer/master-er, But
that would have cost me... I'm not there yet. I'm
still really proud of my "2020 baby" and I hope
that you'll take your time and listen to the
tracks. I want to thank Salah Fatah for singing
the choir on "Love Communication" with me. That
contribution means that I didn't do everything on
this album entirely alone, so thank you!
Fun fact: The only song on "Half Emptiness" that
wasn't entirely made in 2020 was the song "Cut Out
My Eyes". That song was written in 2004 for the
band Mutual Edification. I wrote it at home but
formed it together with the band at the spring
rehearsals before our summer tour that never got
to be. Since then I've never recorded even a
little memory note from this song - until now. It
feels really cool to be able to remember songs in
this way and then make the song "real" almost 20
years after it was written. I have another song
just like that in mind for a coming Detached
Ignorance release.
Half Emptiness:
Back to the roots of rock.
Project started in
2020, finished in 2021.
- Gammis
News
16th Mar 2021:
Yo! Lately* I've been focusing a lot
on the mixing and mastering parts of my
productions. It has been interesting and I think
that I've learned a lot under a short period of
time. But it also has it's costs. It has been
impossible to put the amount of work that is
needed into all of my projects, which in turn
injures my creativity. So I decided to cut down
the fine tuning parts in some of the projects.
First in line was the KondensKungen albums. While
making song within these projects, I just create
without a particular goal for each track. So, now
I won't put to much work into making them sound
the best that they can. It's just a pile of piled
up creativity, really. This time I only used
samples starting on the letter F. I'm happy for
the help I got from my kids, my brother and my
friend Zigge. Thank you!
Finn Fem Fel:
Experimental and Instrumental..
Project started in
2019, finished in 2021. *Lately: the last
couple of years :)
- Gammis
News 10th Feb 2021:
Wow! Finally, we are done.
This EP has been in the making for a very long
time. We could have put more work into it, but
G&D releases shouldn't be polished, so it's
all good. It's been a interesting experience to
share files three ways on the songs with Zigge.
He absolutely adds a bit of professionalism to
our madness. Enjoy!
- Gammis
News 21st Dec 2020:
Hi! Another year is about to end - and, as per
usual, I bring you a small report of my musical
actions. There have been some ups and downs
throughout the year, but my main conclusion is
that I've developed my mixing skills even further.
A couple of setbacks, mainly a hard drive crash in
November, made the quantity of finished songs and
albums suffer. But the ones that didn't make it
this year will soon see the light of day - so its
no big problem. Here are this years numbers:
Released tracks: 34
Finished tracks: 35
25 of them match both category's
I could call 2020 "the year of numerous
release-alias". I released Nerd Chills first
album, I released EDM gammis first album (so the
real gammis rock wont get mixed up with the EDM
remixes). And then I also released a "regular"
gammis album. But I've also worked on releases
that will be released by "kondenskungen",
"Detached Ignorance" and "Gammis & Dronten".
So now I suddenly go by (too) many names.
Due to my ferocious activity - I guess - the
company that helps me with my releases are
starting to question some of my work. I've just
recently got the EDM gammis album rejected because
I didn't properly credit the original author and
remixers. I'm trying to tell them that It's all
me... well, hope they wont put me on hold forever
with that "problem".
This year, I've invested a lot of money in good
plugins for my DAW. It's great with cool plugins.
Its even greater with cool plugins if you know how
to use them. So I've invested a lot of my time in
learning as well. Big creds to: fabfilter,
valhallaDSP, waves, oeksound and "produce like a
pro". A big thanks to my two kids, Ester and Séur,
for participating in some of the songs that came
out this year.
Perhaps some old person in Sweden will get this
greeting to its full potential:
"Deeeeeet koooooommer mera,
dudidudidudidudidududuuuuu"!
- Gammis
News
23rd Oct 2020:
Hi! Another release is done. This
time I'm introducing a new project called "EDM
Gammis". It's, as you can imagine, a "Electronic
Dance Music remix project" of old Gammis songs.
Most of the initial work was about combining new
knowledge and creativity with old song ideas and
recordings. That was really fun. I have chosen
some of my Swedish songs that I thought deserves
a better presentation than the rock productions
from old. Some songs didn't make the cut,
resulting in an short album that apparently
identifies as a EP on the streaming services.
This is the first time that I choose to cut some
of the songs on a album while still feeling
perfectly fine with it. The album title is a
play on words with a pretty immature twist
("tolk" means "interpret" but "tork" means
"whipe"). Even if this isn't my most serious
release I'm still proud of the outcome. I'm most
pleased with song 2: "Mamma". The original song
had some potential but that recording was - for
lack of better words - awful. Now I really feel
that I've made a version that is worthy the
heavy text that I wrote as a teenager. I hope
you like it too!
Gammis Tolkar Sig Själv:
Dance to Gammis songs - the best
of two worlds?!
EDM Remixes made
from 2017 to 2020.
- Gammis
News
25th Jul 2020:
Finally the next Gammis album is
out. This album is not as dark and depressing as
the last one in the planned Gammis series of
four albums. Most of these songs would fit under
the "mindless happy rock" genre, as many of the
Swedish gammis songs of the past. I'm
particularly happy with a few of the mixes here;
"Salt i Min Fil", "Praktikant hos St.Per" and
"Kul att Du Tyckte om Min Låt" mainly. I think
they mark another step forward in my development
as a music producer. It also gives me some extra
warmth when my kids want to participate in my
music.
Konspirationsteorier i Bollhavet:
Fun loving Swedish rock music.
Songs made from
ideas recorded with my dictaphone over a
wast period of time, recorded throughout
2018 to 2020.
- Gammis
News
30th Jun 2020:
I never thought that the corona
virus would affect my work in any way, but then
I realized that it might take longer to get my
albums out to their destinations. A couple of
extra weeks later, here we are:
Chip December:
Instrumental techno remixes of
some of my old chip tunes.
Songs made in FT2
back in December 2001, remade in logic pro
2020.
- Gammis
News
1st Jun 2020:
Hi there! Half of the year has
nearly gone and I still have no albums to
present to you, but fear not! In fact it's a
great year so far both in terms of productivity
and creativity. I started off with listing four
different projects that I made up goals for this
year, I even let some of my fans vote for which
project I would focus on first. Now, when this
years first finished product is about to be
released, I realize that this particular project
wasn't even an option in that vote. When there's
only the deadlines I make up for myself, there's
always room for a creative outburst or two. :)
But I have done a lot with the four initial
projects as well. Now I'm currently waiting for
other participants to do their parts in two of
the projects while I'm taking my time to mix and
master three other projects where
everything is already recorded - with perhaps
one song as an exception. Keep in mind that when
I write about different projects I mean full
length albums in all these five cases, so
there's a lot of work.
I took another look at the "about me" page and
updated it a bit. Some new music projects and
games added to the lists there as well as a
little text part about my childhood and why
music meant so much from early on.
In other news, My son came up with a brilliant
idea today, so I made a hidden
page section just to explain the idea a
bit more deeply.
- Gammis
News 22nd Feb 2020:
Hello.. I looked up my page on
my phone and realized that the Discography
section was awful to look at while using
small screens. So here's a small update,
still using the 2017 build though. The new
projects are coming on nicely. Have a super
day!
- Gammis
News 14th Dec 2019:
It's time for my yearly sum-up.
I'm a stat-guy. I like seeing my work broken
down into numbers. But not everything that is
important when it comes to music can be
measured in basic statistics, otherwise this
entry would be a real downer. The "dream
number" for my finished recordings this year
was 88, but the real number turned out to be
17.
The numbers:
54 released tracks.
17 finished recordings.
5 of them match both categories.
With that said, I feel strangely
contempt with what I've came up with
this year. Instead of rushing out
the albums that were waiting for
release, I took my time and did them
justice. When I finally was done
with producing the "Glitterbengt was
Here" album, I had less then half of
the year remaining to focus on new
recordings. I did not. Instead I
started to manage some of my old
songs even more rigorous. So, now I
have three series of albums waiting
to get made.
The first series is divided in three
parts. It's inspired by a book I've
written myself and will be released
by Detached Ignorance since the
lyrics will be in English. It
contains some songs that I made back
in 2012, but I'm still not finished
with all the recordings to the first
part. This first part, however, is
my current main project and will
hopefully get released in the first
half of 2020.
The second
series is divided into four parts. I
asked my wife how she thought I
should split all the songs I have in
mind for these albums and she said
that it's better to not mix the
different themes and feelings too
much. So I'll be keeping most of the
depressed songs in one part, most of
the really wacky and weird songs in
another part and then hopefully get
two semi-serious albums left in the
end. The common thread that keeps
these albums together in a series
will be hard to detect for other
people - i guess. Other then
"Gammis" being the artist and the
covers having a similar feel them,
these songs all come from ideas
recorded on my little Dictaphone
around the same time span. So
there's no real theme in the lyrics
keeping all four albums together.
Here's the first part:
The third series is the
"Kondenskungen" albums. I loved
making the first one and that album
is the only one that I find myself
listening to sometimes now after
release. I will make more albums out
of more letters in the future. ;)
Now, I will try to keep an open mind
about what I can produce in the
coming year. I think that I've found
a good way to work now - with main
focus on one project at a time until
that one is released. There will
come days when I suddenly work on
something completely different then
all the ongoing projects I already
have, but that never matter when I
only have my own imaginary timelines
to follow.
Hey, who is that in the middle?!
Yes. It's me. Thnx to David Guvå, Black Molly
Entertainment and GLL for this opportunity. It was
an honour to be a part of the production crew on
this huge event.
- Gammis
News 14th July 2019:
Here you go, this is my latest release.
More information on the discography page.
- Gammis
News
15th Mar 2019:
Another album done and released. This
one contains a bunch of "pop-ish" songs
with Swedish lyrics that I've created
over the years 2010 - 2016. I have
special memories attached to most of
them, so it feels great to include them
into a album now when they sound a bit
better then the original mixdowns. When
I've been talking to people about my
music, I've realized that it's been a
mistake releasing all of my past
projects under the same artist name. It
makes it hard to separate the projects
and hard to give people a fair preview
of my music. I made the decision to
release this album using my main
artist name, and will only
release material like this -
pop/rock genre and Swedish
lyrics - as Gammis in the
future. On the bright side, there's
not many unreleased mixdowns that
require flat masters left, finally!
- Gammis
News 12th Feb
2019:
Hi there. My first album of the year is
done and out on all "platforms". While I
found myself surrounded by all the half
done projects and remaster projects in the
end of last year, I decided to take a
while off from all ambitions and just
create like in the good old days. Two
months and 22 tracks later I found myself
with yet another project waiting to get
mastered. I struggled through the
mastering with the help of a few friends
and got the album DONE! Thank you: Henrik
Petersén, Erik Gustavsson, Karl-Filip
Karlsson and David Guvå.
As you can see, I decided to release this
album with the alias "KondensKungen".
Since I'm releasing music in such a wide
area of genres and both songs with Swedish
and English lyrics, I have decided to
release different kinds of albums with
different aliases. I'm keeping the
"Gammis" name exclusively for Pop and Rock
with Swedish lyrics. The "KondensKungen"
projects will not be as serious. This
particular release is made with samples
and plugins on the letter "R" in my
instrument library. There's so many sounds
in my library by now, that this kind of
challenge just makes an easier framework
when making music. It has been a great way
to learn what "R-sounds" I can rely on in
the future.
Also, my brothers album is out! I've just
mixed a bit and then mastered this, all
creds to Joh Shouldersson :)
- Gammis
News 31st Dec 2018:
Time to sum up the year! So,
this has been the BIG "Trying to learn to
master"-year for me. I've released some
older songs now when I finally found ways
to polish them up into a OK state. But
mastering music is hard work - and not as
satisfying for me as some of the more
creative phases of making music - so now I
have a even bigger load of tracks, that
are just waiting to get mastered and
released, then I had in the beginning of
the year.
The numbers:
43 released tracks.
77 finished recordings.
16 of them match both categories.
Sadly, there's been some big bumps
throughout the year that slowed down the
production. The two main problems was a
throat sickness that lasted for two whole
months (when I was supposed to record
lyrics) and then my main music computer
broke down - costing me ALL my savings and
another month where I was unable to work
properly (waiting for a sale on a iMac).
I've also been working as a producer on a
project made by my brother. Not being part
of any recordings there - just the mixing
and mastering.
After yet another game project got
cancelled in 2017, I decided to take care
of my own songs in 2018. Not actively
hunting new game projects have left me
with a mixed feeling, on the one hand I
get to control and manage all my creative
work as I see fit, on the other hand I'm
not making it easier to reach my goal in
that industry. But I'm confident with the
decision. I have, however, realized that
I'm never going to get finished with ALL
of my own projects - that would take me
several life times. So if I want to work
with making music for games in the future
- I kind of have to put down most of my
own album projects. I still got a family
and a paying occupation to think about.
Now, looking forward to a even more
creative year: 2019. I will stick to the
decision about not actively searching for
game projects throughout this year to. I
simply have to many darling-projects that
just needs to get finished. I hope and
believe that I can get more projects
released 2019 then I got in 2018. There
are three complete albums that are just
waiting to get mastered as I write this,
and then a lot more projects where just a
few songs are done. And even if I have my
doubts, I hope I can continue the trend in
creating more new finished recordings. A
dream number would be: 88.
Let's get this going...
- Gammis
So, I got called the day
before this was going on air. David (AKA
Dronten) wrote and recorded this song on his
ipad and wanted me to master and tune it a
bit. A few hours later the voices sounded
OK, there was a new choir-boy and the sound
felt atleast OK In my mind. It was fun to be
a part of something bigger then my own
projects.
- Gammis
News 10th Jun 2018:
2nd remaster is here! While still finding
my groove around the mastering jungle I
decided to take on some of the old Swedish
leftovers in my local library (although
I've released some of them in their
pre-remastered state on my Youtube
channel). There are no particular theme to
this album but it still feels good to
finally find a home for these songs. Some
are just flat remasters since I cannot
find the original work files, others are
reworked in a bit more advanced fashion.
- Gammis
News 27th Apr 2018:
1st remaster done! This is an project
recorded back in 2009. I felt that the
general sound of the songs got so bad that
I decided to discontinue the project and
just release a few of the songs as
singles. Now, nine years later, I've
gained a bit more knowledge about
mastering music and thought that the
Moroten Oskar album deserved another try.
It's a "flat" remaster - meaning that I
just took the original mixdown and edited
them from there. The cooledit project
files is long gone. Hope you enjoy this
weird EP. :)
- Gammis
News 11th Mar 2018:
Finally my kids first album is released!
Ever since 2011 we have made a few songs
per year on their initiative and now I
felt it was time to sum the songs up into
a whole album. Many of the songs were made
in a similar fashion: I give them a beat
and a couple of headphones, start a
recording and then I leave the room. We
had some copyright issues which prolonged
the release but the whole issue turned out
to be a error by the release company. I
hope you can enjoy the sound of untamed
creativity!
- Gammis
News 4th Jan 2018:
Thank you for your support during 2017. I
finished 46 recordings during the year and
started 51 additional recordings - not
counting all the ideas on my dictaphone.
My streamed music also generated a few
bucks for a meal out with the family. I
hope to reach a even higher number during
2018. With luuuv.
- Gammis
News 15th Dec 2017:
So, my second album of the year is out. It
all started with me trying out something
new in logic and one month later (November
has always been my most productive month)
I had a full length, 14 track, album
finished. This is me going back to my
electronica roots, with a bit of
house/techno feel added. There are six
totally new songs and eight remixes of old
tunes on the disc. Track no. 9 is a remix
of one of my first musical arrangements
ever. Listen to it via the links on the
discography area.
- Gammis
News 11th Dec 2017:
So, I made a Warframe related Christmas
jingle. Seems that the point was writing a
text, not recording a song. But anyways :)
- Gammis
News 27th Nov 2017:
This is the first day that
this page goes public. Peace and pinatas.
- Gammis
News 22nd Oct
2017:
The old site got hacked, so
I started making this simple HTML site
instead. Stay simple, stay safe.
- Gammis