We have been working on a short video to promote the Lysgaard/Beatlite project, since it’s such a visual concept, and hard to convey through the traditional mixtapes and so on. Jonas Bødtker is doing the filming, while Jørgen Håland is whipping out his motion graphic skills. Here are some stills from the shoot!
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, see this post on the BeatLite, which covers the technology part of it. The rest of the explanation is just what the video will be for!
Today is the day the first edition of the Nabovarsel magazine is released!
We have been working on this thing for about five months now. The bulk of the magazine is made up of some brilliant articles and photos, cooked up by the most brilliant young minds in Bergen, nothing less. Headlining is the biggest, baddest city guide to Berlin you have ever seen, covering ten years of club culture.
We also have gotten rather huge amount of DJs from the whole country to chip in and name their top 10 tracks between 2000 and 2009. Some safe cuts, some suprising ones, lots of great music. Just over fifty pages, it’s a pretty solid piece of work, if I may say so.
If you are unaware of the existence of Nabovarsel, it is a music and culture collective based in Bergen, hosting parties and various other events, managing several artists and bands, and we even have a podcast, featuring mainly mixtapes from Norway’s best DJs. Branching out, we figured it would be great fun to make a magazine, too.
My role in this project has been in the design department of course, being head designer on the whole rag. Keep reading for some design jibberjabber!
One of my biggest projects over the last year-and-a-half has finally reached its 1.0 milestone, meaning that the first version of it has been finished, tested and has performed well in a real setting.
I’m speaking of course, of what has been called the BeatLite. This is, in really short words, a musical performance enhancer. Read on.
Time has come to finally release my freshiest mixtape yet; the first mixtape in a series for my new club The Set Up. This mixtape is titled Side A: The girls, as the B side will be a mix for the boys, to come at a later date. This time though, I’m really getting in touch with my feminine side. Damn, is this tape ever cheezy. But that’s a good thing. Really good.
You can download the mixtape right from the download button in the player, or, if you would like a zipped copy with album art and all, I have one of those for you here.
this is a party mixtape, a mixtape to dance ’till your clothes fall off and start makin babies to, not a high-brow tape to impress other djs. Girls are supposed to want to put this in the deck when they want to party out, but my dj colleges can enjoy it also, there are some pretty fancy stuff going on there as well.
I just uploaded a couple new things to the interspace, so I thought I should share.
This first track is a work in progress, working title Three tails. A moody arpeggio sketch, trying to pinpoint a disorienting theme. Three tails 1.3 (sketch) by lys
And this one, this is interesting. Ras is an ancient track for me, back from, oh, about 2005. I found it buried on my computer, and it still feels like one of those flying dreams when I hear it. it was built on inspiration by the dub master Scientist, and the track as a whole is borderline ridiculous, but that’s the way I like it. I remember spending days on end barely eating, getting close, intimate and sweaty with this synth sound. Ras by lys
There’s more over at Soundcloud, if I managed to tease your ears a little.
Finally, after a year of sweat and toil and locking ourselves in the studio, our band Stöv (me, CT and Jørgen Håland), are releasing our debut music video and single. More words later, first watch it!
You can download the track free at Soundcloud, and/or buy the full version in super high MP3 bitrate at Art On Earth.
I’ll probably edit this post later about more stuff regarding the song and video, but for now, you can read up on the vimeo page.
