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 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