Synthwave Tribe

I was a hardrock synth / keyboarder back in the day. I unfortunately lost the ability to play and now re-recording all my saved side-projects. First I found 800+ MIDI files.

I didn't touch an instrument for 30+ years due to issues with my fingers, but in July 2021 I decided to document my youth. Mostly for my now 20 year old daughter Freya that never really experienced me as a musician and to shut up many of the old ghosts who are still graving on my absence.

I exclusively use Studio One Pro and love it! - Back in the 80s I used Cubase and was a beta tester up to its release. I somehow got that privilege because I was an assembler & machine language coder and was one of those that coded the cartridge lock overrider and gave the sourcecodes to Cubase with no fee and maybe saved them from getting screwed by too many. I voluntarily skipped all coding and now working with big data and advanced SEO.

- The tracks how I worked as a teen and in my early twenties - No regrets - Most of my friends didn't even knew I played at all. 30+ year old material are now being worked on, and the idea is to archive those before I get on with new material.

- This can be defined as being, or at least trying to be analog organic in an electronic environment.You won't hear a lot of sampling, effects or even automated sounds. BUT most of the sounds are originally what I used back then - We had limitations, but still we had synths that up to this day still rule! :D

In other words, I'm old school, in a way that preserves the original analog sounds. I'm not a sound designer, I reach my sounds by feel and trust me, many of them sound awful in stand alone mode, but perfect when mixed into a track and with some delay / reverb and saturation.

My goal is to pick a bunch of these tracks, and release them on my 60th birthday in January 2023. Maybe as multiple albums, some singles on Spotify - just for the fun of it. I have no ambitions getting back whatsoever.

All tracks are registered at KODA / N©B Denmark without exception.

(Profile image was shot in August 1988 at Hans Christian Andersen Airport in Odense, Denmark.