Small Colin on XFM Dublin

On Saturday night on the aforementioned station they played my remix of the Radio Scotvoid track "I'm A Groover, Not A Raver". Its really good coverage for both myself & for Scott as the song was featured on a show called "The Chillage Idiots" which is apparently a very popular programme.

To listen to the show again you can either visit the website here or d/l the whole show directly here. The song is played right at the end of the set. (around 2:06:00)

I'll leave you with the words of the presenter,

"...the track is a humorous mixture of hip-hop and techno"

New Track up on MySpace

I have uploaded a new track onto my profile page on Myspace. It is named "All On Me (The Clock Is Ticking) and it is infact an old instrumental song that I always thought needed a vocal. The problem was I could never find a strong enough melody to use. I'm very happy to have "finished" the song finally.

Check out the possible sing-along chorus/break part in the song! Na-na-na, etc.

2 track finished...

...today. I just need to master them then they're are done! ;-)

Their names are "Vara" (named after the place where Eyrún is going to work) & "Hand Clotts"

I should really describe them but I'm pretty bad at that sort of thing so its probably better if you listen to them then you can decide. I can tell you that both are instrumental songs.


Problem... I'm still haven't figured out how to upload music here so in the mean time I will upload them to myspace (when they're mastered of course). Hopefully I will do that tomorrow so keep one eye on there.

I also managed to do a rough mix of a new Knivderby song (Nere För Räkning). Needless to say, it rocks!!!

BTW I don't think I've been this productive musically in ages so long may it continue. :-D

Wednesday Photo

Following on from my photos from the 1st place I lived in Jönköping here is a pic from the 2nd place I lived. You are looking at the Munksjö (same lake one as the one in the pic from 18th Sept) at 7 in the morning. Beautiful!



The studio I had in this house was unbelievable. It was almost as if the room was designed for making music. Due to the alcove at the window, a small recess at the back & a sloping roof the acoustics in there were superb! I really miss it actually :-(


Music Update

Some new songs are coming along nicely. A couple of the Knivederby tracks are almost at "1st mix" stage as well.

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Back To Gothenburg...

...and the first thing I did was set up the gear. Well a temp set-up anyway until my studio room is re-decorated & stuff. It was a really great feeling to play keyboards & electric guitar again. :-D

Hopefully in the next week or so I can get some serious music making time in.

Yipeeee!

Photo of the day

Going on from yesterday's pic I thought I would post a pic that was taken nearby my first apartment in Jönköping. (Well to be honest its a bit away from it but I did live in that 1st apartment at the time of the pic)


Watch out for a pic from close to my 2nd & 3rd place in Jönköping soon. This could become a theme actually? ;-)

Tidy, Tidy, Tidy

One of the good things about not having my studio set up at the moment is it forces me to do things I tend to put off. It was the turn of the External Hard Drive today. Now it not only looks neat & tidy when browsing, it is completely free of old & unused samples and songs. Yeah!!!

Not only that but I managed to do some work on a collaboration EP I'm doing with Radio Scotvoid. I will post all the details of this project soon. Needless to say the music is pretty good (if I do say so myself).

Knivderby updates & a random photo

As well as my own songs I've also been working a little with the new Knivderby demo but as I don't have my full set-up with me at the moment its proving a bit difficult. Their new songs are very good btw.

As you can see my post frequency has increased recently. I hope to keep this rate up by adding some photos as well to make it abit more interesting to both you & me.

This photo was taken outside my first apartment in Gothenburg a few years back. I wrote a lot of music in that place so I thought it would be a nice touch to have it included here...

New Tracks

Over the last few days I've been working on some new Small Colin songs.

"The Coward" is a Nightmares On Wax type track that probably will feature vocals at one point. Very smokey :-D
"Vara" is an ambient track that I love actually. Very smooth, very relaxing
"Its Your Call" sounds the most Small Colin-y. Again no vox yet...

Once I figure out how (and if) you can upload music on here I will start to add clips of the songs. And maybe even full demo versions of them too.

Stay safe...

Pics from gig in Växjö

I recently played a festival gig in the middle of Sweden in a place called Växjö. It was a great evening with loads of other good music. Here are some photos of my performance (Thanks to Louise Wargklev for the pics)





You can check out the Kompisfestival website here Also you can see other pics from the event here