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One of the secret Danish music legends has passed away

2023-08-14T03:56:00.006-07:00

Morten Munch died with his daughter by his side last Sunday morning in Copenhagen. Morten was in a very bad condition due to many years of Alzheimer's, which struck him at a very early age.

He had some amazing peaks in his career, reaching the stars with silver and gold records, topping the album charts and even a grammy. Morten was part of the Danish metal band Skagarack from 1986 to 1991 on Bass. Skagarack was successful in Denmark, Germany and UK

From the end of the 80s to 2015 Morten became a producer and sound engineer for well-known bands and performers in the industry.
Worked on 2 albums with Michael Learns To Rock: Colours and Nothing To Lose
and on releases with: Kick The Kangaroo, Hopscotch, Cut N´ Move, Den Gale Pose, Sticks N´ Fire, Emotions, Bonnie Tyler, Pretty Maids, Østkyst Hustlers, Anders Mattesen (Terkel I Knibe), Marie Key band, Ivan Petersen, Sweethearts, Lars H.U.G & Dr Baker

And probably the best selling Christmas record in Denmark “The Julekalender” with “De Nattergale” from 1991.
Morten had the best of both worlds, he was a gifted musician and a really skilled sound engineer,

Morten's funeral has taken place.

Introducing: Danish Indie Pop Artist eee gee

2023-03-21T04:26:00.005-07:00

by Media Tower

Emma Grankvist, known by her artist name EEE GEE, is a talented artist from Denmark. She is known for her innovative approach to music-making and her unique style, which blends elements of electronic, ambient, and experimental music.

Growing up in Denmark, EEE GEE was exposed to a wide range of music from an early age. She started playing piano and guitar as a child and soon discovered her passion for electronic music. She began experimenting with various sounds and textures, developing a unique style that blended traditional instruments with electronic beats and samples.

EEE GEE's music is characterized by intricate rhythms, layered textures, and ethereal melodies, often creating a hypnotic and otherworldly atmosphere. Her tracks are a fusion of various genres, ranging from ambient to techno, and she is known for pushing the boundaries of what is possible in electronic music.

In addition to her music, EEE GEE is also an accomplished artist and designer. She has created a variety of visual art pieces, including paintings, drawings, and digital art. Her artwork often features bold colors, geometric shapes, and abstract patterns, reflecting her unique approach to creativity.

Despite her young age, EEE GEE has already made a name for herself in the Danish music scene and beyond. She has performed at a variety of venues, from underground clubs to major festivals, and has gained a loyal following of fans who appreciate her innovative approach to music-making.

Looking to the future, EEE GEE shows no signs of slowing down. She continues to create new music and art, always pushing the boundaries of what is possible in her respective fields. With her talent, dedication, and innovative spirit, EEE GEE is sure to continue making an impact in the art and music worlds for years to come.

Danish producer makes football song in the U.S.

2012-10-10T13:26:00.002-07:00

In the U.S., rotates a good part of the population world around NFL - the American Football League.

Music does not mean as little at sporting events, and every year has its own theme songs.

The Californian team The Oakland Raiders have of course a theme song.

Behind it stands the Danish producer Jimmy Antony. He has produced number of rapper and actor Ice Cube.

The theme is freely available on YouTube, where fans have the opportunity to hear the number, as in the best American style course to advertise a commercial product - namely soft drinks from Pepsi.

Hear the song:

The Danish Sound Studio Baby Factory is busy in hit-factory, currently working with real superstar.

2012-10-10T12:48:00.001-07:00

This summer, the Danish hit-engineer Lars Falck suddenly a picture up on his Facebook, where it said, he worked with American Grammy artists as Krayzie Bone, Yukmouth, Chris Brown and the legendary rapper Ice Cube.

- We are working on a track produced by Sha Money XL and here sings Chris Brown chorus, says Lars Falck.

Chris Brown has for some years been in the media spotlight after he had committed violence against his ex-girlfriend Rihanna - another superstar. Subsequently, Chris had difficulty finding a record company that would publish his music, but now everything seems to indicate that career goes up again.

And of course Ice Cube would come by the studio when he had 2 days in Copenhagen.

- In Ice Cube next album will be 4 songs produced by Danish produce which is under Solid Production in LA.

America loves Danish Ronny Morris

2012-08-26T16:20:00.002-07:00

An almost unknown Danish musician is creating a name for himself in Los Angeles.

The name is Ronny Morris, and he sang, 'All About Love', is in on the latest Buddha Bar albums, which is a world-Selling Compilation of electronic music.

Five years ago, while he was sitting in his apartment in Denmark, did Ronny Morris nothing about electronic music. He was the classic guitar rock, but he was not really anywhere and therefore took to Stockholm to get new inspiration.

kidding me
Ronny met the producer Adam Kviman, and while they were working on an album, they agreed that Ronny must come too U.S. for sing the vocals.

From there it took off. Suddenly Warner Brothers in the phone and asked if they could use his music in one of its television productions.

- I thought, 'someone who makes kidding me, this can not be true'. But it did, and suddenly I had my music in five major U.S. TV series, says Ronny Morris.

Debut album this fall
Then the choice was easy. He sold his apartment, packed eight suitcases and settled in America.

- The most important thing for me was to travel in the direction where there was someone who had intersse for my music. Had it been Berlin, London or somewhere else, I was taken there. But now it was Los Angeles and the famous television studios, said Ronny Morris, whose debut album, 'Sweet Silence', release this fall.

Danish hit Producers in the studio with Pharrell

2012-05-20T10:07:00.005-07:00

The 13 May put the Danish producer duo Pitchshifters a picture up on their Twitter profile where they stood with the U.S. superstar Pharrell.

How have you suddenly ended up in the studio with Pharrell?

"Because we're good hehe, and because we have an ok buzz among other things because of our Jadakiss / Wale / Future song 'Turn Up' which has justcome out. It is 14 days has been downloaded 1.5 million times. "

How I came in contact with Pharrell?

"Our American manager in New York have driven management of NERD in anumber of years. He puts a lot of things up for us constantly. Among other things, also here with Pharrell. "

What are you working on?

"We are starting to produce for Pharrells new artists: Buddy, Lidia Peck & Alissa".

How far have you / when you can hear anything?

"We have plenty of tracks that are already finished for Pharrells artists. But the music industry in the U.S. is a giant machine, where things take time. Patience is one of the biggest talents to have in this game. But there are plenty other of our works out so just google us. "

Have you worked with other big stars?

"We have worked with Chris Brown. We have two songs, one is the bigcrossover single on Jadakiss upcoming album 'Dead Or Alive'. We have a song on the Rich Boys forthcoming album 'Crooked I', Kobe, Claude Kelly. We've just been to a meeting in New York with the whole Kanye Wesst team of A & R`s and songwriters, and it went really, really good. "

Los Angeles elektro duo get the scandinavian touch

2012-04-18T14:14:00.006-07:00

Lars Falck and The Polyamorous Affair (Sissy Sainte-Marie and Eddie Chacon)

The Polyamorous Affair are gearing up to release their brand new single 'Whoever Controls The Groove' and have the premiere of their video.

The LA electro duo - married couple Eddie Chacon and Sissy Sainte-Marie - are set to release their new single on the 16th April, alongside a series of remixes from Ghosting Season, Bright Light Bright Light and Enjoyed. Eddie is well-known artist former in "Charles And Eddie.

The track 'Whoever Controls The Groove' is taken from their forthcoming album release 'The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be'. The album is expected to be out later this year through Winter Palace Records, and features track produced by Bobb Bruno of Best Coast. all the songs go thru Denmark for mix and mastering together with Lars Falck in Baby Factory (Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga and Black Eyed Peace) " we always work together with Lars, so we can get the scandinavian touch" said Eddie with a smile.

The people behind Lady Gaga are crazy about danish Mannequin Mars.

2012-03-29T03:53:00.002-07:00

The Danish artist Mannequin Mars have release their second single "Oh My Gosh".

In november 2010 they won an American competition, organized by the grammy-winning producer / mixer Jack Joseph Puig (Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas and others) with their song "You Cant Love Me." After the competition, the interest grew for the brothers music and their refreshing style with influences from David Bowie, Prince and Culture Club, added with today's Auto Tune.

In 2011 they were contacted by the Danish music producer Lars Falck, who, like Jack Joseph Puig also has worked with Lady Gaga & Black Eyed Peas, here is the result of their collaboration.

The band is a pop duo consisting of two brothers, Adeeb and Kamil Alhaijali from Skive. The band has existed before they had found a band name. Adeeb was eight years old when he began writing songs while big brother Kamil was 12 when he began to produce music from a small studio he had built.

"Back then, the style was not the same," admitted the brothers, "But it didn't take too long before we knew what we wanted to do. It had to be pop music with a 80's / 90's sound and inspiration would be Michael Jackson, Prince and Roxette. "says Adeeb

On Youtube you can watch the video for "Oh My Gosh" -

Mannequin Mars is about to finalize an EP in Vibe Factory together with Jakob Winther and Emil Rosendal Lei. It will be mixed in Baby Factory this spring.

Mannequin Mars also acted as support for danish artists like Who Made Who, Vinnie Who and Mike Sheridan. They also appeared to Start Festival 2010 where they received much attention and praise for their slightly different style.

"It's a circus when we're on stage" they think. The music reflects the 80's sound, mixed with modern beats.

Snoop impressed by the Danish Sound

2012-03-15T00:08:00.000-07:00

Snoop Dogg expects a lot of cooperation with the Danish hitmager KATO, whom he mentions in laudatory terms

It was quite a surprise when Snoop Dogg back in October published a picture on Facebook & Twitter, from KATOs music studio in Aarhus with the text 'Recording with my nephew KATO live from Aarhus, Denmark.'

Now Snoop Dogg speaks again about his upcoming release with Kato.

In a clip from Snoop Doggs documentary 'Doggysodes', you see him tell his bandmates that he has great expectations for the number he made in KATO, and that he predicts it to be a huge hit.

- It's nice to see Snoop is just happy for what we did together, as I am. And I'm very proud of our session in my studio and the music I played for him, made such a big impression on him, says KATO about the new coverage of the collaboration.

At the end of the video Snoop Dogg has difficulty hiding his enthusiasm for the Danish dj, his music and his lady thatcher. As he says: 'Every song han put on, dem bitches Knew'. (Each time he made a song so famous bitch of the editor)

Single 'Never Let U Go "is now published on Monday, March 19

It is not the only song from Snoop with Danish sound, the song "Tonight" which is mixed by Danish Lars Falck from Baby Factory will also be released in March

Danish Hampenberg & Alexander Brown in international cooperation with Pitbull and Fatman Scoop with their single "Raise The Roof"

2012-03-06T21:22:00.000-08:00

Morten Hampenberg & Alexander Brown has always been good at finding featurings for their hits, and with their upcoming single "Raise The Roof", they have they've got the world famous rapper Pitbull and the marked hip-hop radio host and promoter Fatman Scoop to help. It is not only the international artists who contribute vocals on the single.

the American rapper Pitbull written and performed the song and have in the past few years has been plain sailing and has a number of hit singles and best-selling albums behind her. The rapper has previously worked with Jennifer Lopez, Chris Brown, Timbaland and Akon, and now he has chosen to work together with the Danish dj-duo. It was the contacts in the hip-hop environment that made that Danish basic tracks for the single had reached Pitbull.

"We were told that he had moved on it right away. But we just went and thought: That's a lie. We dare not believe that we had landed one of the biggest commercial names at all," says Alexander Brown. As singlets lens title "Raise The Roof" suggests, there is an English version of the Danish duo's hit single "Push For roof" with Danish Yepha. The Danish version was originally the debut single from Morten Hampenberg & Alexander Brown and has sold about 40,000 copies.

About Pitbull says Brown, "He adds a number of entirely new dimension. One thing is that he makes it international, because he sounds so crazy. Another thing is that he takes on a whole new story into the number. He rides a lot references like 'Houston, we have the a problem', 'Beam me up, Scotty' and 'Back to the Future'. "

Hear the English version of "Raise The Roof" with Pitbull, Fatman Scoop and Nabiha and the original Danish version Yepha here:

Snoop Dogg getting the Danish sound

2012-01-18T16:33:00.000-08:00

It's not just Lady Gaga who wants the Scandinavian Sound.

Baby Factory seems to be the place for more and more International Megastars.

Lars Falck and his new studio partner Aeisha Rauwerda, mixed a new single with Snoop Dogg a couple months ago. The single "Tonight" wich is produced by the Belgian producer Jimmy Nazim, who has worked with Gloria Gayner & Kylie Minoque, loved the danish mix.

- It's an amazing experience to work with some of the greatest. And of course, also a good feeling to know that lots of people will listen to our work, says Aeisha.

And with both Gaga and Snoop in the box, several international superstars are now in line to work with Lars and Aeisha, to get what Lady Gaga on her twitter page called 'The scandinavian touch.

- Right now the scandinavian sound is very popular among American artists. And that's great for us. Funny though, we are working with exactly the same techniques as they do in America, says Lars,
who got the Snoop job as a direct result of working with Gaga.

- They called us. We gave a proposal for how the song should sound, in October. And in November we got the message that we had won, says Lars.

The german singer Helene Fischer also came by. While she was in Denmark she decided to use the Baby Factory crew to record two songs for an album. And the new british artist, Clairissa came by Copenhagen to work with the two danes.

Lots of different international stars are waiting to get in the danish music studio, Baby Factory in Copenhagen.

Soulshock make American X-Factor

2011-10-02T08:49:00.000-07:00

(BT) it may well be that the Danish star producer Soulshock is finished with Danish X-Factor, but now he must work for the American version of the popular talent program.

Soul Shock, real name is Carsten Schack, has been hired by the man behind X-Factor, Simon Cowell. One of Soulschocks tasks will be to produce the U.S. X-Factor winner's first album.

- It's crazy. And I am wildly excited, says an enthusiastic Carsten Schack told the newspaper.

Great ambitions
Soul Shock is a veteran music producer and has worked with Whitney Houston and Kylie Minogue. And he is looking forward to the upcoming X-Factor project - not least to work with Simon Cowell himself.

- It's really cool to work with someone in relation to the Danish competition really has ambitions. If someone says, 'no, it can not be done', Simon will just even more turned on. And I think that X-Factor can easily go to become the biggest over here, says Soul Shock.

Soul Shock aka Carsten Schack will not rule out that in time he can sit in the X-Factor judge chair again - this time in the U.S..

Soulshock have super stars in the studio.

2011-04-16T08:12:00.000-07:00

The Danish music producer busy in the studio and currently he is working with a true superstar.

(BT.dk) Carsten "Soulshock" Schack are currently hosts an American megastar.

- We are working on a track that I wrote to Armando "Pitbull" Perez's new album.Here Chris Brown sings the chorus, telling Soulshock to Look Into.

Chris Brown has for some years been in thethe spotlight after he had committedviolence against his ex-girlfriendRihanna - a second superstar . Chris then hadtrouble finding a record company that would publish his music, but now every indication that his career goes up again.

Apart from guard Chris
But Soulshock has fuming busy in his studio in LA, and as soon as the new trackis cooked, then Chris Brown out of the studio - new artist's hit list.

- I gotta make this song finished first. So we start on Monday with full throttle andnew artists, says last year's X Factor judge to the gossip magazine. He made himselfnoticed last year by merging the trio the Fireflies, which went straight into the Danish population's hearts with their gentle and pleasant tones.

Scandinavia dominates U.S. hit charts

2011-04-02T03:04:00.000-07:00

(eb.dk) Danish, Norwegian and Swedish songwriters behind seven singles on theBillboard top 10-list. The Scandinavian songwriters are popular in USA.
They are actually so popular that all 7 singles on Billboars top 10-list in last week written by a songwriter from either Denmark, Norway or Sweden.

- There are very Scandinavian music on the Billboard lists and has been for quite some time. But looking closely at it, there are very few that provide much, says Tor Erik Hermansen of Stargate to Norwegian VG.

- Americans rates are not especially to Nordic songwriters. The rates of peoplewho write hits. And many Nordic produce dry concentrate on America.

Danish songwriter, is number one Number one on the Billboard list is Lady Gaga's track 'Born This Way', written by Danish Jeppe Laursen from the group 'Junior Senior'. Already after three daysstormed 'Born This Way' in at number one on the American Billboard list's 'Airplaychart, ' and it turns out that the song is still a huge hit.

Number three on the Billboard list is Katy Perry with 'E.T.', written by Swedish Max Martin.

Number five, six, nine and ten on the list is also written by Swedish songwriters.But Norwegians also understand to succeed in the U.S.. Number four on the listare namely Rihanna 'S & M'.

Just in March, the Scandinavian songwriters stood behind half of the top spots on Billboard, which is official U.S. charts, which is published weekly by themagazine Billboard magazine.

INTERVIEW: the american producer & engineer Carlos Bedoya

2011-03-13T06:43:00.000-07:00

Carlos Bedoya is a multiplatinum selling producer & engineer from Miami, Florida.
A few of his hitcredits includes: Beyoncé, Missy Elliot & Mick Jagger

Video Interview with the american producer & songwriter Daron Jones.

2011-03-01T23:19:00.000-08:00

Interview with the american producer & songwriter Daron Jones in Baby Factory Recording Studio Copenhagen.

Daron Jones is a multiplatinum selling producer & songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.
A few of his hitcredits includes: Pink, Usher & 112

Video interview with the american producer Gordon Raphael (the Strokes, Fake Chemical Brothers)

2011-02-26T10:20:00.000-08:00

Lady Gaga Recording New Album 'Born This Way' in Europe

2010-12-17T15:12:00.000-08:00

(The danish newspaper B.T.) - Endless melodies, hooks and drench banging away in the shell of me. Now it is not long, it's almost perfect. But I would not have nearly perfect -

Lady GaGa wrote this at twitter. And everthing suggests that she has since then, been done with the song and are ready to record it. Four days in late November, she has been working in the Baby Factory Recording Studio in Copenhagen's North West district.

Besides Lady GaGa have OneRepublic, Tricky, 40 Golcc also Black Eyed Peas previously worked in the Scandinavian studio, which also is equipped with an apartment, if you really want to work through.

"Until now, Lady Gaga made recordings for the upcoming album in the Copenhagen studio Baby Factory and earlier this year at Abbey Road studios in London. Rumors say, that,there is another studio in mind, in Europe, for recording the rest of the album "

The Copenhagen studio is brought into pophistorisk extremely distinguished company. Abbey Road Studios, where she recorded in October, is inextricably linked to particular Beatles, who recorded most of their songs in this studios.

According B.T. the woman behind monsterhit as' Poker Face 'and Alejandro' had a couple of foreign producers at the Baby Factory.

First single, is already affecting the world charts in February 2011, while gaga fans then have to wait until spring before the entire album is on sale.

During the visit, the studio got a See and Hear photographer rough treatment of super star's bodyguards, who thought the photographer had arrived very close. In addition, she also had one-hour yoga in Hamsa Yoga Studio in Copenhagen.

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