Hello there! I am Johan Halin. I make apps and music. I post good stuff sometimes. You can also find me on Twitter. You can if you have questions or comments.
Two train journeys recorded on an iPhone. Every frame was modified with an app I wrote, and this video was created as a test of that app. The app, codenamed “Ruiner”, might see a public release in some form at some point, either as a Mac or iPhone app (or both).
Get the music here: http://soundcloud.com/superjohan/20111107-1
Tools used for the video: iPhone 4S, QuickTime Player 7, iMovie ‘11, Ruiner 0.1 (unreleased)
Tools used for the music: Sound Studio 4, Ableton Live 8
Here’s a list of my favorite releases from 2011 that were actually released in 2011. No Bleep/iTunes/Spotify links this time; you’ll have to do some work. Check out the mix if you’re feeling lazy. In alphabetical order:
Belong - Common Era
Benoit & Sergio - Let Me Count The Ways
Cyclo. - id
Drexciya - Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller I
Emptyset - Demiurge
EQD - Equalized #111
Erik Travis - Make You Rock
Escort - Escort
The Field - Looping State Of Mind
Gerd - Palm Leaves
HTRK - Work (Work, Work)
Mike Simonetti - Capricorn Rising
Omar-S - It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It
Regis - In A Syrian Tongue
Rotten Sound - Cursed
Surgeon - Breaking The Frame
Teeel - Amulet
Tiger & Woods - Through The Green
Tropic Of Cancer - The Sorrow Of Two Blooms
Xhin - Sword
Blawan - Peaches (Bleep / Spotify)
DJ Blend - DJ Blend Detroit (FXHE Records)
Drexciya - Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller I (Bleep / Spotify)
EQD - Equalized #111 (Hard Wax)
Genocide Organ - Under-Kontrakt (Spotify)
Hudson Mohawke - Satin Panthers (Bleep / Spotify)
Lone - Echolocations EP (Bleep / Spotify)
Stingray Enters The Unknown - The Sadist (Bleep / Spotify)
Various - Tresor Records 20th Anniversary, mixed by Mike Huckaby (Bleep)
An exciting combination of Teenage Engineering OP-1 and Ableton Live. All sounds created with the OP-1, with some processing in Live. Made most of it in our bedroom, literally in bed. Afterwards I noticed that my timing is way better when playing the keyboard sitting down at a desk, as opposed to lying down in bed on my stomach.
I also don’t understand half of the things on the OP-1, I haven’t figured out how to get custom drum kits on the device, and I think the T2 key is broken. But I still find it a pretty amazing little device.
Escort - Escort (Boomkat / Spotify)
M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Spotify)
Moomin - The Story About You (Bleep)
Nao Tokui - Mind The Gap (Spotify)
Planetary Assault Systems - The Messenger (Bleep)
Regis - In A Syrian Tongue (Bleep / Spotify)
Swans - Various Failures (1988-1992) (Spotify)
Tropic Of Cancer - The Sorrow Of Two Blooms (Bleep / Spotify)
Omar-S & Colonel Abrams - Who Wrote The Rules Of Love (R&B Long Mix)
Wonderful vocal house by Omar-S. I wonder if the vocals are sampled from somewhere or if they were recorded for this track. Either way, it’s all good.
Removed some old tracks from Soundcloud, put them up on Bandcamp instead. I like to keep Soundcloud for more fresh and experimental stuff that I’m not really planning on releasing elsewhere.
Ripping station 2011. Just need to buy a cartridge, didn’t get one with the turntable. (Taken with instagram)
Soundhack - Soundhack 2 A1
Super duper jerky glitchy house by Frank Timm, the Soundstream guy, released in 2000.
