Finn Arild and I sat down and played around with one of my songs-in-the-making and this is what we came up with. It's pretty good, but a little bit unfinished.

Who knew you can actually make a CD in one month? Actually it doens't sound that impressive when you hear these stories about Beatles and Black Sabbath only using like 15 minutes in the studio for recording their multi-platinum records - but thats until you try for yourself.

As some of you might have notices I enlisted for this RPM challenge (Record Producing Month) where the task is to produce a record in, yes, one month. In this case: February. So in short I did. Now you can listen to the complete CD here. But since I'm such a nice you I'll also list out each song for you in direct .mp3 links:

• 01 Classical
• 02 Sounds from Berlin: Ticketmachine
• 03 The Cousin
• 04 The Second Andromeda Strain
• 05 Better man
• 06 Sounds from Berlin: Torstrasse Traffic
• 07 Bass First
• 08 Bad man sleeping
• 09 The long night
• 10 Sounds from Berlin: S-Bahn at Alexanderplatz

I'll provide a .bin/.cue image once I've gotten some more sleep so people can burn they're own CD if they feel like it.

The last tune I made for the RPM challenge. It has some good sides - but I think it's the weakest of the tunes on that CD.

This one is a mostly a re-master of a previous song I made but I changed the chord some and also added the small sinewave melody. Small contribution by Finn-Arild here :D

Pretty personal text here (like all). I'm unsure about some of my chorus - but I'll let it pass for now :D This is pretty close to some pop template song - but I still put it in the Electronica category

This almost sound like an instrumental Depeche Mode song or something like that :D It's not a typical me song - which is good, shows I'm trying some new stuff. The name is strange - it's not classical music, or a classical techno song or anything like that - I basically called it that since it started out with some "classical" guitarriffs but they are kinda buried into the tune now :D

This is the first tune I started on for the RPM 2007 Challenge - I think its finished now. Or at least the main parts are where they should be.

We're going back to electronic and ambient roots with this one. Samples taken from "The Andromda Strain" (1971), the rest is pure me.

So I decided I would enroll in the"RPM 2007 challenge". RPM basically stands for Record Production Month, and the idea is that one will make 10 songs, or 35 minutes of music using only the 28 days of February. Anyone whos tried their hands on composing will know this is VERY HARD! Nonetheless I'm gonna try it.

RPM 2007 Challenge

This is the second time this has been held, and this time there are around 2200 bands who has signed up for the challenge. Last year around 190 bands actually managed to finish a CD in one month! I'm sure a lot of it sucks, but practice makes perfect and thats the whole point here.

So, here is my second song for the RPM challenge called "The Cousin". It's not really about the my cousin (it's about me). But since I met him around the time I wrote the lyrics I called the song that anyways. Enjoy:

Listen to the song!

I have also finished two other songs, you might as well listen to them as well!:

"The Second Andromeda Strain"

"Bass First" 

New tune I made for the RPM 2007 challenge. The lyrics I wrote after a really bad hangover :)