Human Simulation consists of three guys with a very different musical background. While Marcus Nilsson and Andreas Wallström comes from a rock background, Carsten Ohlsen has dwelled in synth and electronic music all his life. And this is what makes the band so exciting. Rock and synth mixed, can it get any better?

They met through the Internet in a community unknown to most people: the Commodore 64 (C64) remix scene. Both Marcus and Carsten had won Remix of the Year  thanks to two wonderful remixes of C64 game music, both featuring drums and percussion by Andreas. A little later on, Carsten was sending out song snippets to various people, snippets which also reached Andreas at one point. They were so good he they should start a band and get Marcus in it too because he's such a great singer. Marcus said yes, and so the band was born.

Apart from being a member of Human Simulation, Marcus also fronts rock act Devil in Little Lisa and Andreas plays drums in pop/funk/rock act Kuling. What Carsten's doing outside the band, no one knows. ;)

I do like the band very much and so you should too.

As good friend of them I did the mastering for Hunting For a Dream, wich you can listen to in their MySpace page.

Happy listening!

MySpace.com Page
Facebook.com Page

Costa Calma has been a come back to the roots. Main idea behind the track was to experiment with sounds, melody, putting togheter very different elements to build something able to live by itself. It's not proper club music. I wanted to put togheter a sonic texture able to summon feelings and emotions. While making it, the weather was very cold here and all i wanted was to be in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), a place where i left a piece of my heart. Sea, cool weather, beach and water, a lot of salty water. As a start, some tracks came to my mind: Chicane's Offshore, Solid Globe's North Pole (amazing tracks able to create mental images of places) and, of course, Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre. I choosed to for an electronica arrangement, very close to the style of the first Jarre: vintage drums (same Korg Minipop used in Oxygene), OSCar, dynamic filters and very analog sounds. With the first part of the track i wanted to give the idea of an underwater place. Break takes you to the shores of the land, with a short approach. Then a more dancey bassdrum and the guitar lead give some energy and dynamic freedom: now we can move, explore the beach or simply enjoy it's peacey landscape. Guitar notation is intentionally simple and nostalgic at the same time. After the next break, chords (and mood) change with the opening of OSCar filters give another energy charge, that will be our companion until the end of the track. I believe that Costa Calma is a very good picture of my favourite way to arrange a track: looking for the best communion between different kinds of music to create a new track, able to auto define itself. Added with that "something" that's my trademark (don't ask, i still don't know what exactly it is. But it's there).

Costa Calma è stato per me un pò come tornare alle origini. L'idea era di tornare a sperimentare con i suoni, la melodia, mettendo insieme cose diverse per creare un tutto organico e in divenire. Non è un brano "tunza". Ciò che volevo era creare un tessuto sonoro che potesse evocare delle sensazioni, delle immagini ben precise. E' stato fatto in un periodo climatico particolamente freddo e tutto ciò che avrei voluto era tornare a Fuerteventura, l'isola delle Canarie dove ho lasciato parte del cuore. Mare, caldo, spiaggia, acqua, tanta acqua. Mi sono immediatamente venuti in mente alcuni brani: Offshore di Chicane, North Pole di Solid Globe (meravigliosi esempi di brani che sanno evocare ambienti, ma troppo "freddi" per le atmosfere che volevo io) e Oxygene di Jarre. Ho inizialmente optato per un arrangiamento elettronico, in uno stile molto aderente al primo Jarre: drums vintage (lo stesso Korg Minipop usato in Oxygene), OSCar, filtri dinamici e un approccio estremamente analogico. La prima parte del brano vorrebbe dare l'idea di un ambiente sottomarino. Il break porta all'approccio alla terra ferma, alla lenta fuoriuscita dal mare, cominciano a sentirsi onde e gabbiani. L'intrusione del bassdrum e della chitarra porta una ventata di energia e di liberazione: ora possiamo muoverci, vagare per l'isola, la spiaggia. Il giro del solo di chitarra è volutamente semplice, evocatico e nostalgico. Dopo l'ennesimo break, il cambio di accordi e l'apertura dei filtri dell'OSCar danno una nuova sferzata di energia, che ci accompagnerà fino alla fine del brano. Credo che Costa Calma sintetizzi molto bene il mio approccio all'arrangiamento: il cercare la felice unione tra diversi stili musicali per creare un brano che cammini bene da solo, che si auto definisca. Con in piu' quel qualcosa che da anni oramai è diventato il mio marchio di fabbrica (non chiedetemi cos'è, ancora non l'ho capito. Ma c'è). Â

Costa Calma has been produced for Scenesat.com launch and it's now avaiable for listening at soundwavers.com.

Sidechain Confessor has been produced for Scenesat.com launch and it's now avaiable for listening at soundwavers.com.

The Sound of SceneSat Volume 1

The people behind SceneSat Radio had a dream. A dream to bring the awesome music of the scene to a wider audience, a dream to show those who claim that all those hours in front of a computer never amounted to anything that out of those grueling hours came not only careers and carpal tunnel syndromes but beauty..

..and now that dream has come true.

The SceneSat team has brought together some of the most brilliant arrangers and composers of the scene to create a compilation which will show the multi-faceted world of scene music, to celebrate the launch of the station and to show people what they can expect from the scene today and in the future.

A wide range of musicians have participated to create a compilation filled with musical styles ranging from minimalistic electronica to floaty ambient through hard core metal via British indie to anthemic trance and heavy goa, making this one of the most versatile and intriguing collections of scene music ever to be released.

Contributing to the compilation are such scene luminaries as Jeroen Tel (Maniacs of Noise), Jogeir Liljedahl, Drax (Vibrants), DHS (The SoundWavers), PsychNerD, Cordis, E:Mortal, Thermostatic, Ugress, Dafunk, moog, Keito, Willbe and many, many more.

The compilation will premiere live during the launch show on SceneSat Radio on February 7th and will be available for download starting March 1st, 2009.

About SceneSat Radio

SceneSat Radio is a webradio that aims to cover the demoscene and its surroundings - people, productions, parties and anything contributing to the scene - broadcasting live shows and scene music 24/7/365.

Logo designed by Markus 'LMan' Klein / Remix64.com - Cover design by Chris 'daXX' Crusher - Cover Sputnik modelled by H2o / TRSI 

From today i'll start to post tracks that for some reason haven't been publically published before.

Let's start with the infamous We Call it W, done for the BBB Show on SlayRadio and featuring the idiotic lyrics by Boz :)

Have fun (track on the left menu).

 (08/10/2008) Update: today the track is in 5th position. :-O 

ERM?

It looks like for some reason my old (2004) remix of Giana Sisters (keep da scene alive) is currently being aired by swedish Radioseven.se among very well known commercial dance hits. Not only, it's placed 11th in listeners favourite charts!! Whassup?!

 

Maybe it's time for me to clean some dust from the track and give it some proper EQ and mastering? ;)

Saturday 13 september night your beloved DHS has been in Reggio Calabria, part of the jury for the NotteINsonne 2008 DJ and Producers Contest 2008.

It has been a real pleasure and a funny night, met some really fantastic people and has been an all alround great experience!

Thanks to all the people involved, expecially to:  Massimo Cominotto, Domenico Augliera, Marco Mauro, Gianni Sanfilippo, Vittorio Pelli, Cesar Field and, of course, Claudio Tassitano (NJoy).

 More info HERE (italian). 

Ok, i released this one some months ago to a bunch of shoutcast radios (Slayradio and Scenesat).

Now, you can listen to it clicking on the left column player.

Have fun!

the 17 of august RKO made avaiable for download the new remix by The C64Mafia, named "Paperboy (So you don't like rap music).

RKO Link
Remix64 track page

This time, along with the 'usual' dhs and makke we have a special guest rapping along, Mr. Romeo Knight of RSI fame.

You can even listen to it clicking on the left column player.

Be sure to download it and have fun!