Nightcrawler

Aye ye foamsmoking scurries. I have been away for long. Just poppin in to drop a few links and tell you that I still love you and mind you - I'm not dead. I'm just going ninja for a while. Sometimes what you see is not what you think you see, but what someone wants you to think you're seeing. Before I'll get lost in that logical knot let's just bang head on the subject wall and say:

Staying up at night might have a lot of nice pros. One is that many budding artists release a lot of material from their Den of Black Magic (improvised home studios) in the late hours. Like Öllegård Thulin. Just listen to this, awesomely fresh track. If you know how a great dancefloor sounds while it's still being nurtured in the glass house in your grandmothers garden, this is it.

Also. Some things I don't usually share. Like for example, my muses. The ones who keep giving me inspiration. But this one has been with me for some time. And she's too good to hold on to. If you haven't heard of her, I envy you. Sharon Van Etten.

Hisashiburi de nee~

Yes, it's been a long time. My broadcasts to the world keeps twirling around in my head but as you might have noticed, it's easier to follow me at twitter nowadays. However, some things are too good to get lost in the flow. The duo Emelie Molin and Victoria Skoglund has banded together to form Mire Kay, and the result is soaring.

Today's the official release of Sea Monster by Mire Kay. Beautiful and with a tangly air that just blends right in through your mind and tease something wonderful out of the vast deep inside.

Mighty Unclean

Looking forward to Modern Dansteatern on saturday. Since I visited them last they've hunted down - or perhaps he hunted them down - Danjel Andersson, former editor of the magazine Visslingar & Rop. He's now the director of the place, which I believe is for the better. As a director of the festival Perfect performance; he booked the single performed art piece still engraved as "best I've seen" in my memory, IBM 1401 - A user's manual. From Erna Ómarsdottirs webpage:

IBM 1401 – A User´s Manual is a meditation on the complex relationship between man and the machines he creates.

If you're in Stockholm on saturday, join me for a evening at Skeppsholmen and Moderna Dansteatern. It's a two-stage evening, beginning with Dorte Olesens Unclean thoughts. Directly after Olesen, Erna Ómarsdóttir and Valdimar Jóhannsson performs as Lazyblood. I'm not sure if Valdimar is somehow related to Jóhann Jóhannsson, who made the music to the IBM 1401. When a band drops status-lines as "There will be blood" - it's time to buckle up, Dorritz.

Lunch Beat

Tomorrow's thursdag and another Lunch Beat goes down in the secret basement of Olofsgatan in Stockholm. It's a lunch dance club. 60 SEK cover fee and they provide you with a tasty vegetarian lunch, something to drink (without alcohol) and a good deal of untz. Like a suckerpunch in the gut this is a slammin' win way to do something else on your lunch. Prepare to break a sweat. And remember: If it's your first lunch at Lunch Beat, you have to dance!

Queen

I've been giving linkage to Queen Kwong before. Now she released a work-in-progress video up of the song Long gone, meant to be on the forthcoming album. It's a collaboration with Joe Cardamone. The enlightened reader immediately recognizes front man from The Icarus Line. I didn't. However, if that band name don't ring any bells, you should check them out. They released Black Lives through the awesome Dim Mak Records.
Tchüß!

Viva la vida!

I once read a music review at Feber.se (when it was the now-legendary Feber.se run by Olsson, Gradvall, Persson, Lokko and and not a bleak copy of reddit) delivering an undeniably clear message about the word "magic" and its rightful place in a review. Which isn't. It's one of those big no-no words for reviewers. And of course, in line with the feber-ism, it was subsequently used in that same review.

Some tracks by Vivianne was presented on Tracasseur today. Label Koloni Records tags it Lumberjack disco. This is Good Weather For An Airstrike on speed with a bigger boombox on the shoulder going downhill on a longboard in the rising sunrays. I'll be playing this on repeat in my car until summer comes back. This is all your electronic dreams with a beating heart.

This is magic.

Double update, bjatches!

I just wanted to remind you about my friend Luddes awesome blog babel etc. Man's got style when he wants to.

Electrotrash

A bastard kid in shared custody 'tween the former marriage of Front Line Assembly and Pulpa (who now is dating Genghis Tron).
Dirty, brutish and bothersome electrotrash by Tony Ist Das. The track name? Das Ist Bebben.

Tony Hultqvist is an established visual artist in Sweden, and you oughta take a look on some of his stuff on his personal web site.

Eco-Patents Common

The solution is simple, but not easy to achieve. My father says this when things get rough. And todays topic is eco-patents. My suggestion for a better tomorrow? Make law force all eco-patents into a open-source common.
In cooperation with WBCSD some global businesses are trying it out.

I believe shared knowledge is double knowledge. As the TV-chef I'm truly not I've prepared one interesting path towards something like the GPL. Swedish government is handling a small account of "artists salaries". Basically a government guarantee that will compensate the recievers income if it falls beneath a specified sum/year.
I think it'd be interesting if the government started offering this kind of income guarantees as an exchange for buying a good idea from an inventor.

I'll return with an invite to Samuels bar for mingle and discussion about different ways of transferring this idea into Swedish policy. Policymakers and wannabees welcome!

Where do Good Ideas come from?

Those of you I've had the opportunity talking to, probably know about my interest in creativity as a process. Where ideas come from, how they form and whether the situation where good ideas come to life can be set up.

Now, Steven Johnson, a man interested in the same question, has had a TED-talk. It's nothing revolutionary but it adds to my point of view. If you're interested in that point of view, follow the link to TED.com

Now kill some darlings.
The eureka moment probably doesn't exist.
And your new shinytwinkly million-euro incubator is not working.