Øya 2009 Post Festival Roundup

So Øya 2009 came and went away. I saw lots of great concerts and the short version is that I really enjoyed myself at Øya 2009. Read on for day to day roundups.

Øya 2009

Øya Festival Begins

And so begins the Øya Festival. Been looking forward to this all summer. Also I just bought at HTC Hero Android phone, I really like it so far and I can’t wait to use it to it’s full extent.

Goodbye Blue Sky

So it seems as if summer has left the town of Trondheim for this season. Autumn is fastly gaining ground. Goodbye blue sky.

Finally Flaming Lips

One of my all time favourite bands are finally coming out with a new album this year. Check out http://www.flaminglips.com/ for a cool music video (vimeo didn’t like me so no embedding) and also http://covertcuriosity.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-flaming-lips.html for two more tracks. Check it out!

From “The W.A.N.D” video

I Saw A Film Today O'Boy

Hooked on Air

Lately I have been reading for my exams and I always need to have some nice music floating in the background. When reading I need something sweet that I can easily ignore, it’s there but I don’t have to actively listen to it to enjoy it. Here comes Air to the rescue. Their sweet sweet electronica floats on a breeze (except maybe 10 000 HZ) so it’s perfect for my reading needs. Here are some Spotify links (press the images).

Pocket Symphony 2007

Talkie Walkie 2004

Moon Safari 1998

It Was A Great Year (For Music With Robots)

I love the electronic sounds of Ugress. The man behind it all is named Gisle Mortens Mayer and I read his blog to stay up to date with his various music projects and to get a glimpse into his music production process. He is currently in the process of releasing his fourth Ugress album wich is called Reminiscience (cover is showed under). As always he promotes his releases with free singles and EPs, the last one is called It Was A Great Year (For Music With Robots) and it’s in my personal opinion a great and basic electronica track with some very cool sounding robot singing. Check it out by clicking on the links under the cover of Reminiscience or by playing the embedded Soundcloud wigdet.

Can’t wait for this to be released on June 15th

Ugress – It Was A Great Year (Movies With Robots) by GMM

Links:

Ugress Blogg

It Was A Great Year

It Was A Great Year Production Notes

Trends Are Cool

I love Google Trends, so fun to compare weird stuff in trends on the web, like flu seasons or festival seasons. Here is one cool example, courtesy of Google Trends Gagdet.

It’s kinda sad to se how Quart dies if you view the total stats when pressing max (for all years back to about 2004)

Walk Without Rythm And It Won't Attract The Worm

Epic, just epic.

Digital Music Library + Last.fm + Boffin

So I just found this thing called Boffin. It’s a program made by the guys at last.fm that lets you play you’r music library based on tags, a feature I have been missing since I started to use library based players like iTunes. Check it out if you like cool new experimental tech. Also below is a image made from my music collection tags, that I made using Boffin and Wordle.

I like rock it seems