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I’m not spectacular at updating this blog thingy but I’ve been terribly busy! Here’s what’s new:

• Me and my lovely girlfriend Johanna just bought our own place. We now live in a cozy (read: not that big) flat with way too many video games and CDs. The heat sure takes some of the joy out of moving and fixing stuff but everything’s looking really good but not 100% set up!

• I got a job at Oxeye Game Studio scoring their upcoming to-be masterpiece codename “Project B”. I assure you the game and soundtrack will both be brilliant and work perfectly together. This is definitely my biggest job yet and I’m incredibly excited about the project and all aspects of it.

• I’m still working on the Armored Core tribute album. I’ve got roughly four finished tracks and I’m planning to bring the total up to around 10 before I’m done. Since this is a project I’m doing in my free time it has taken the back seat a bit but I hope to get everything done before christmas depending on my workload!

• I’m going back to Stockholm University to study EVEN MORE musicology, specializing in game music. This semester I’m writing what we in Sweden call a “kandidatuppsats”, basically the equivalent of a Bachelor’s Essay. As it stands right now the subject will most likely be ‘The Sound of a Break — Music for Towns and Cities in Japanese Role-Playing Games on the Fifth and Sixth Generation of Video Game Consoles’. Quite a mouthful, eh? I’ll most likely be calling out for some help listing most RPGs and what music is what I’ll call “town music” from this era so I can go through most of them and hand-pick the ones relevant to the paper. It’ll be a blast I assure you!

• Since I just got a flat I’m dead broke, if anyone wants to send me money so I can keep funding my research (read: buy more game music albums) feel free to drop me an e-mail!