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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 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.

Have a great 2020!
- Gammis

News 28th Jul 2019:

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



News 30th Jul 2018:

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