Inspiration: Nicola Conte

I have been into lounge music for a really long time. I consider that the first song I ever heard of the style is the first track on a mix cd by Thievery Corporation that came with a magazine, many many years ago. The song was ‘Bossa Per Due’ by Nicola Conte. I’m guessing that being a very early James Bond fan made me get into it a lot. The music was modern bossa, with many sixties’ influences. Nicola Conte is an Italian DJ and producer and I love all his stuff: his DJ-sets, acoustic music, electronic music, remixes (they’re amazing). He gets away from one of the things that can bother me very much with lounge music; that it just become trendy background music for decoration stores.

A couple of years ago Conte released a record called Other Directions, the sounds on this album was very traditional, yet somehow very modern.

I have been DJing for many years, mostly Deep House music but I love to play more chilled sets, where I have more space to play things I have discovered, and listening to Nicola Conte’s sounds always make me contemplate to just become a pure Jazz/Bossa DJ. That would be cool.

Urban Intervention, (how it turned out)

Great website for film students

Although I haven’t gotten into this website in depth it seems to be great. It’s a website for young Nordic film makers and is sponsored by the different Nordic film institutes, and it is in English. It seems to have great articles, and lists of schools (especially good if you are looking for exchange, if they’re on our school’s list that is). If you sign up you can also watch different film and video productions. Enjoy.

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Digital/Acoustic (1)

I have recently stumbled upon quite a few interesting things that can add to the discussion about digital versus analogue/acoustic in music. It seems to me that classical symphonies, instead of looking back in time in a conservative way that might be thought of has instead started to collaborate quite extensively with the electronic/digital music scene. Maybe the most known phenomenon of this is in music today is Detroit techno legend Jeff Mill’s collaboration with Montpelier Philharmonic Orchestra (clip can be seen here). And today I found this on one of my favourite record label’s website. It is a trailer for a DVD and CD by the band Phoneheads and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker. An interesting collaboration indeed. Another example of this is the popularity different Symphonies around the world have gained with performing nostalgic tunes from video games. I’ll try and deal with this in another post.

Urban Intervention

Here is a digital mock up of my Urban Intervention project.

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