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Ready for another release from BLCK? The series, started last week with Hours Later, continues with a brand new claustrophobic bass-builder called Urge For Air.
Again, this series concentrates on older material by me that for one or the other reason, haven’t been released. Until now.

Get it while it’s hot. Once again it’s completely free.

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These two songs didn’t make the cut for BLCK, and instead of them rotting away on my harddisk, how about I just set them free. They are called “I Don’t Have To” and “Home”. Hope you like them.

Home

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I Don’t Have To

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As you might or night not know, I have decided to cancel all my fall shows. This is a decision I have come to after realizing that I can’t be everywhere all the time, and I need to put my energy in the new VETO album. I apologize for any trouble this might have caused you and ask for your understanding. Thank you.

I have decided to start releasing a few single tracks through my own label. This, the very first one, is a free release entitled Hours Later. As with the next couple of tracks to come in this series, it’s material that I haven’t been able to place in any of my projects.

I don’t think I’ll be making another solo album for a while. It is a long and lonely process and I think that releasing singles suits me better right now. Record, edit, release. Just like that. I am excited about this way of making my music available, and I think that I might stick with smaller releases in the future. Instead of making an album every two years, I’d rather do a bundle of tracks (an EP if you like) every three or four months. It gives me a better creative flow to be able to publish material with that frequency, and it gives you, the listener, a better grasp of where I am musically. For now the releases will only be digital but maybe, if the support is there, I’ll be able to make physical copies of coming releases.

As I mentioned before this track is released on my own label BLCK. Yes, I know the label shares it’s name with my previous album. Why is that? Don’t ask. It just does :-)

I sincerely hope you like Hours Later and that you’ll tell your friends if you do. Remember to follow me on Twitter or stay tuned here for more releases like this, and much much more. Please post you thoughts on this release in the comments. Take care and thank you for reading this.

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Saw this band on this years Spot festival i Arhus, Denmark. Great cinematic textures, dreamy themes and chorused vocals. Really, really nice. Next big thing out of Denmark. Oh, yeah and they play their shows wearing bunny-masks. It works, believe or not, it works.

Proof why you should care about Sleep Party People below.

Sleep Party People – Notes To You

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Now go buy their album here or here. Out on Speed Of Sound.

Wednesday night I played in Kolding in Denmark at a Venue called Pitstop. It’s a very nice little relaxed club where I’ve played a couple of times before. We had some major issues with the sound on stage but the crowd seemed to like it. A little over a hundred people where there, which is good for a wednesday night in Kolding.

After the show a guy walked into the backstage area. I could tell that he had had one or two drinks, as he walked determined towards me. The first thing out of his mouth was “I liked it better last time you were here!” I was baffled by his straightforward statement and replied with a rather sarcastic comeback. The thing about “the last time” was that I was in the middle of the process of trying to find out where BLCK was going, and as I had no finished songs for the album the show was more like an accompanied DJ-set than a concert. A lot of four-to-the-floor-kicks and a lot of drops and builds. Your typical steamy, dance-till-you-drop night.

The concert last night was different, and I quickly found out that the more mellow, melodic approach I had taken this time around, was exactly what he didn’t like. He had expected a rave, and was treated a concert.

I have gained a lot of really dedicated followers over the years. I cherish those people for not succumbing to the fickle currents in mainstream and for being loyal and caring about my music in a way that maybe not even I do. But during the last couple of albums I think I have also lost some listeners. People who thought I was one thing – an electronic wunderkind, or whatever other one-sided nouns have been plastered on to my name. People who thought that a show under my name would mean sweaty walls, constant 128BPM beats and orgasms of drops and builds. I don’t want to be that. I want to be able to change, and that is what I am trying with the concerts and albums I do now.

During the conversation I had with the guy at Pitstop, I think I realized a lot of things. I have to try and care even less about what is expected of me, or what I think is expected of me. I have to be more uncompromising and more true to what I want. I think I am being that in some ways, but I need to find a deeper truth in my music. Something more.

Thanks to the drunk guy for enlightening me.

I have a cold. Just like last year and the year before that, I become foolhardy with the tiniest rise in temperature. The inevitable outcome of this is a nice spring-cold. For me, it’s the sure proof that summer is just around the corner.

I have a ton of work to finish by the start of next week: A mix, a two-day vocal session and a DJ-set tomorrow, far away from home. VETO is moving into new quarters and I am rehearsing for the coming months BLCK/WHT live-shows. All in all, I am keeping busy. And the sun has come out.

John Cage – In A Landscape

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Admitted. It’s been a while.
So here’s something to keep you occupied while I try and muster the energy to start blogging again.

Don’t Want To Know
Performed by Troels Abrahamsen
Written by John Martyn

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