Posted on 21/06/2017
How to open up the library treasures to the public The Royal Danish Library situated in “Den Sorte Diamant” (The Black Diamond) building on the Copenhagen harbour front contains thousands of unique or very rare works, that are normally displayed in static glass mounts when shown to the public. Although you do get physically close […]
Posted on 03/08/2015
Funny, colorful and catchy girlie-disco summer dance track. [gdlr_divider type=”solid” size=”100%” ] As a composer fiddling around, you sometimes stumble over stuff that is out of your normal hemisphere and comfort zone. But this song almost wrote itself over the semi-cheesy EDM-style riff, and I decided to have some fun and record it. Quick, light […]
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 01/03/1990
Rebels in the film business In 1990 a special proposition (called “Fifty-fifty ordningen”) was made by the government, regarding the financing of the Danish popular movie productions. It was decided that a production company should come up with 50% of the budget for their film, before the Danish national FIlm Council would put up with the […]
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 31/03/1981