EPTWhen I’m not working or sitting around playing video games or writing things for this blog I like to make music. I like it so much that I’ve rendered 2 gigabytes of stuff. That’s four albums of released music and even more unreleased crap. Anyway, I released my last album in july of last year. It was a compilation of music I worked on for the game Momodora 2. As a musician I go by the name Elektrobear.
This whole thing started in the summer of 2008 while I was living in a small quiet mountain town of Bíldudalur, Iceland and working a summer job. I was living with my mom who didn’t really have enough space for me so they rented out a small apartment next door. Of course this meant no internet for me. A few years prior I’d bought a hulk of a pc to play really old video games like Counter-strike on. Now suddenly this behemoth was rendered almost useless. So, one lovely weekend while I was home alone I transported my desktop from my living quarters to the living room of my mom’s apartment. It was there, while basking in the glory of the internet again, that I discovered Fruity Loops. A new dimension was opened up for me and suddenly my late night chilling sessions had meaning again. Now I was composing glorious music every night, and even though I had no idea what I was doing or how the program worked I still made some cool stuff.
Fast forward to October 2008 and I released my first album, Melodies of the Underworld. It wasn’t anything spectacular although most of those songs still hold a special place in my heart. Rather, it was a first step in a journey that would take me to places I had never been before.
Next year gave birth to a new album, We took to the skies. Again it had some endearing songs and some just plain weird ones, although this was the album where my general sound started to come together. That whole year was a rollercoaster for me personally and emotionally with my first relationship going to shit and a short spell of residing abroad. I also launched elektrobear.com that year.
Anyway, I’m writing all this because today I’m again sitting on a nearly finished album, but I’m procrastinating the release. I’ve listened to it countless times now and it’s 90% ready for release I’d say. Putting these words down on digital paper and crystallizing them in the interweb is just a way for me to tell myself to get on with it.
It’s time.
And as a closing statement, here’s a hype video I posted in May 2011.
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