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This is what I ranted one time, some answers without the questions:

Childhood memories always give a nice read. So here’s one:

I felt at an early age it was (and still is actually) never enough for me to just like something. I always wanted more with a certain feeling that something was giving me, totally indulging in something, so it was the same with music.

I remember myself in my room pretending to be playing my favourite music myself, like it was me doing all the sounds. I had the same with all the stuff I like, I remember being pissed off because the Ninja Turtles did not exist for real. Yeah that kind of stuff. I love to love something. 

Any musical philosophy is based on the fact that music is what I do (what?).

As in: it’s just the thing I snap back to always, It is my natural state. It’s this big black obsessive time absorbing black-hole thing. It’s not a choice, it’s like that. It is a quite obsessive thing actually. Woa!
   
I just know that it’s great to make a sound, and with any luck you haven’t heard it before, then get all weird and actually make that work and it brings you to all these imaginary places, evoke memories and when you’re there, push it even further. Then the smoke clears and you sit in your room with what could be considered a track. YES!

BUT, no-one can deny the pure beauty of a melody. They are like a tool for emotions. You know, when you have been listening to, eh…I dunno..Autechre, or any mostly technology driven music, or gangster rap for that matter, anyway.. THAT…for way too long, and then suddenly you hear this simple Nick Drake (Belle & Sebastian?) song and you’re like WOA FUCK, that it hits you straight in the face. I love that. Let’s not be afraid of POP! But don’t underestimate the greatness of a hard-hitting sub bass beat neither.

Don’t know if this contributes to the whole story in any way.

I will try to leave my head a bit: My last record is sort of a playful affair, but it is difficult to talk about that right now to be honest because I am NOT in that place anymore. But I do remember that I was really into all these memories of stuff that I used to do as a kid, getting all these flashbacks again, smells, sounds, you know when you go through a period like that. Thinking of being all excited about buying you first album on cassette, videogames, stuff like that. Now, of course it would be cool to say that it's is videogame influenced, but naah, it’s really not.
  
BUT, it all comes down to this: when something is so nice, sad, pretty, scary, weird or whatever….it has to materialize. We can not leave it like that right? Just floating away, dissolving into hazy memories. SO, let’s catch that mofo and I think that is why I (we?) do music. And it can be anything. But I guess I am not saying anything new here of course.
 
Right now, I really love the idea of people living in big cities, the metropolis. It has been my little obsession for some while now. How can we all still live a sane and happy live in something so (mostly) ugly and noisy, getting all stressed out, the cities that never sleep? But some of us do! (most of the time). People get more and more weirded out, living in their heads. I love to find that little psychedelic side of daily life. I was on that trip during my whole last album.

I think after this I will do the most HEARTFELT, but FAT and WEIRD thing ever, with a lot of melodies too. It is all coming together. I feel it coming….I hope.
I will try to answer some topics I didn’t touch yet (did I touch anything?)

Electronic music? I have no idea, of course I am completely aware of the fact that my music will be classified as that. But I never felt that it was fair to name music to the process that was used to create it. Damn, I don’t know. That’s a very hard question; I would actually need to construct some coherent thoughts about that.

Even though I sincerely enjoy technology and the processes of using that technology to create music (geekdom, yes) I wish that music, at the end of the day, is still music. I have heard people say: “I don’t listen to anything that has guitars in it”, without even knowing the song. So yeah. 

There is a lot of electronic music from the 60’s that sound so “out there”, it is like people use technology to make music-making more EASY, instead of pushing things further. Me too, I catch myself taking easy routes and shortcuts sometimes. That is when bad music happens. There is so so so much more to be done in electronic sound generation and manipulation, all modern possibilities are quite intimidating if you think of it actually. If you compare your protools setup with these dudes 50, 60 years ago cutting up tape with scissors to make some sounds. I do have to mention that a lot of that stuff sounds like aforementioned description though: dudes cutting up tape (hey that is a great band-name)

Where I want my music to go? Well, one day, do tracks, that just have all the ideas fully worked out, do stuff that I feel is new for me, something bursting with ideas and colours. Get inside a feeling or idea.

I should mention that I love the Smiths and Beach Boys. For some reason I think it adds something by mentioning that.