Posted on 17/05/2017
Back in February 2013 I had a call from some of my oldest musical friends – Danish veteran band “Sort Sol”. The band wanted to drop by the studio with their American producer Randall Dunn, and have some stuff twisted through the Moog Modular system. Of course I was delighted to do this. Consisting of […]
Posted on 10/10/2016
Danish singer Lars HUG (Lars Haagensen) announces, that he will no longer make music, probably to pursue his succesful painting career. I worked together with him on many occasions and for extended periods, and there is no doubt he has paid his musical dues. Even though working with Lars was not always pleasant – as witnessed in the recent documentary about […]
Posted on 01/07/1992
“Slow Down” – my first solo-album under the name “Ranum” was recorded in 1992. In the days – before DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) – I experimented a lot with non-linear, tapeless recording techniques. Using my fully RAM-upgraded (32MB) Akai S-1000/1100 samplers, I managed to get all vocals and acoustic instruments to play along with the other […]
Posted on 01/07/1989
Around the time when I was recording the debut album by Rockers By Choice, I was asked to write a music track for 2 of the most prominent radio DJ’s on the new independent Copenhagen radio station “The Voice” – Dan Rachlin and Philip “Flunse” Lundsgaard. They had come up with a funny rap lyric, […]
Posted on 01/03/1989
1989 was an exciting year in many ways. One day I got a visit from Kenneth Bager (Dr.Baker, Coma, Music for Dreams) who was then the A&R for Virgin Records. He had signed a young rap outfit to match the then dominating rap group “MC Einar” who had been quite successful. Kenneth asked to record the album […]
Posted on 01/11/1983
Posted on 26/08/1981
The grandiose synthesizer theme from the movie “Chariots of Fire” (1981) is probably one of best known synthesizer themes ever. Composed and performed by Greek movie composer and musician Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou). When subsequentially released as a single, It even went #1 on Billboard top-100 and top-10 in certain territories, which is not very […]