Junk Musik

Two years, A LOT of singles and EP:s, two audio books, almost a thousand posts… In some ways, your recent past defines who you are. I am glad that I have had the opportunity to – in a way – be this web site.
When we started the Junk project back in 2004, no one knew anything. Itunes did not exist. Radio only played songs from the record stores.
And believe it or not – there were no blogs with three columns. We wouldn’t let that stop us, though. After one month we found a 19-year old guy in northern Sweden who knew something about Wordpress. He was, apparently, the only one. He helped us out & we sent him our first singles as payment. We got our three columns & slowly learned how to write the code.
Junk was the first Swedish music company to abandon the cd-single & go for download only. We released some great music that the world has not discovered yet. Then we suddenly forgot that we were supposed to produce music & headed for the book shelf. We didn’t think that much - we just wanted to do things that interested us. It wasn’t our plan, but Junk became the first Swedish company to release an audio book novel as a download as well.
Thinking back, I remember late nights sitting in front of my computer, emailing covers, audio files and screen shots back and forth, trying not to fall asleep during endless iChat-sessions.
We have all learned a great deal from all of this & I have made some new very nice friends. Junk will probably continue to exist, but for me, it is time to say goodbye.
I’m proud of what we have achieved and the fact that I know so much about the world of music/download/blogging/web2.0/DRM/copyright/file sharing thanks to Junk (I even know how to type that code nowadays!). Running a daily blog for over 1,5 years (after that I slowed things down a bit), also taught me about how much work it is to post. post, post, post, post.
But writing these words, I realise that I will miss it like crazy.
Really.
I will miss posting on this site.
I will miss reading your comments.
At the moment Junk is a sleeping project. It may wake up this spring, this summer or this autumn with a Metro Jets record, a Mom & Dad-release or something completely different. That is the fun part with Junk – you never know. I am not a guy for sleeping projects, though, so for me it is time to move on.
Thanks Magnus, David, Christoffer & Jens for letting me in.
Thanks everyone out there for reading my words and making all my work worth while. I would be happy if I sometime see you at my personal blog.

Love to you all,

Anders

We might stop doing this. Some may say we already have, but we are not sure. I am writing this, for instance. But if we stop doing this, we might stop in April, since we started in April. That was a long time ago.

Practice, kids, practice.
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Ever been in a troublesome recording session? Ever looked for that illusive “make it good” button on the console. Well, maybe your prayers has been answered. Or…

Read about it here.

Thisis kind of strange/scary/awful, but proves that pop music can be dangerous. I have never seen anything like it.

Worst love songs ever

He has waited for 20 years. It’s OK to be happy.

See for yourselves here. And to top it, they’re going around the world again.

They say he’s under fire from various European governments. Or maybe he just wants what we all want. Whatever his motivation is, wouldn’t it be great…at last? Read the last day’s most talked about piece here and decide for yourselves.

As for Junk, the future has been here since day one. But you already knew that didn’t you? Yes you did!

OK, the other day ago we updated the wordpress-software that runs our blog. Version latest and greatest of everything. It’s a fairly simpe process but always a bit nerve-racking. You restart and hope for the best. It worked..puh.

Maybe it’s time for a “hardware” update as well. What are the Junk people doing in real life? Anything Junk related? Anything else? A bit of both it turns out.

We’re starting with Mom & Dad, the previously publicised, highly hyped and awesomely anticipated kraut konzept from Jens and David of Brainpool. To our joy Mom recently became a dad. And as Dad says, “the confusion is now at a maximum”. But they will straighten out, contain themeselves and finish what they’ve started. Hopefully this spring. We wait wantingly.

And what about the Metro Jets album that was talked and blogged so much about here on Junk during the recent Fall? Well to some, this liberating Brecht-esque idea of making an album in public quickly went from being the great motivator to the great restrainer. How do you keep a subconscious process going while simultaneously stopping to think and write about it? Beats me. And we’ve got a whole lot of nothingness to prove it…
But in the great words of Mr Nick Lowe “I’ve been a lot of things but I never was a quitter, I’m a …(fill in title here, first right answer gets a free download)”. So we keep keeping on. Off-line. With the occasional text and sound update here on Junk. Same as it ever was… same as it ever was… And it’s fun again.

“What about Christoffer?” I hear you chant in chorus. As usual he’s working around the clock in the comfort of his knobs, faders, tubes and capasitors. A taste of his neverending strive for excellence can be heard on Helena Josefsson’s new album. Helena has taken a break from Sandy Mouche and will release her EMI solo dubut on Feb. 28. Preview the single iTunes or on her MySpace page.

That was the update. Please hang on while we restart…

I’m updating Wordpress so Junk Musik may look a bit unusual for a while. Hopefully not for long.

Update: Looks alright now?