Mikkelsen

London-based producer whose work straddles a variety of genres within the broad church of electronica. Drawing from the ocean of sound that is readily available to the modern producer, I use Ableton live to construct soundscapes that are melodically...

[mchlmkklsn]

5 time restricted tasks x 5 producers = (slightly less than) 25 tracks pushing the crew into novel creative territories ...

[nightmusicblog]

Music producers! I’ve just joined a fledgling Soundcloud collective started by Michael Mikkelsen, where every month someone assigns a two hour production challenge, and you have a week to come up with the goods.

This is the group:

https://soundcloud.com/groups/confederate-crew

The first challenge was to make something from a snippet of ‘Palladium’ by jazz fusion band Weather Report.

This is what I made from it in 2 hours by microsampling:

https://soundcloud.com/night-40/production-lab-storm-imogen

The group is open to anyone, especially friends of members. Join!

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When I'm not doing music, I sometimes like to do music and sound for moving images. How about this sweet little Transport Tycoon-like animation by Adam Wells?

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Some very inspired, quick turn around remixes by dc Sux and NIGHT on this playlist. Oh, I quite like my own reworking of Writing When Drunk too. 

[mchlmkklsn]

Some very inspired, quick turn around remixes by dc Sux and NIGHT on this playlist. Oh, I quite like my own reworking of Writing When Drunk too. 

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I’d been waiting long enough for someone to remix one of my tracks, so here’s a remix I did myself. Possibly better than the original! 

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Yep, it’s another new one, produced using Hemingway’s ‘writing when drunk’ formula. More in the pipeline, so check back soon. #writingwhendrunk  

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Listen/purchase: Something (About You) by mikkelsen

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Difficult to get enough of this!

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Stealing from left, right and centre, this track's inspired by / contains more or less overt references to Caribou (the 'vocals'), Jon Hopkins (the bassline, which took age to crystalise), The Field (the love of repetition) and Trentemøller (the dub-like intro and outro). I'm sure  trained and knowledgable ears will spot many more fragments in there, but those are the big ones I would mention / openly admit to.

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(MIKKELSEN)

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WBR Suggests: Caius - Without You

Since Monday we have been feeling exceptionally laid back, thanks to this smooth number from Copenhagen based Caius. The Danish 20 year old’s Soundcloud is peppered with super chilled-out tracks and ‘Without You’ is the latest in a collection of sophisticated heavy-bass electronic music. The use of Ashanti’s ‘Foolish’ vocals drench this track in nostalgia and tie it in nicely with the producer’s popular releases (Make U Mine, Things Gonna Be Okay…). Recent conversations with Caius reveal that he is focussing heavily on production, so with any luck we may see some more releases soon. 9/10

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My track "Spoons" got picked up by the Beyond Synth show/podcast. Have a listen.

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Not so much an EP as the culmination of a number of infrequent, long-haul collaborative efforts under the Lira/Mikkelsen guise. Four tracks developed over nearly three years worth of on and off working together with Brighton-based Ivar Lira, AKA ProtoPlanetDisko. #Pop? Yep. #Electronic? But of course. A bit #Emotional? Sure. #Melancholic? Oh yes, indeed. #Chilled? That it is. Catchy? We’d like to think so - listen to find out for yourself!      

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My remix of ‘Only Human’ by Plum. The reworked version of the track is robotic, synthetic and at times ghost-like, but thanks to the vocal, it retains the organic character of the Portishead-like original. Make sure to check out Plum’s other tracks - follow the link below to a bunch of good ones: 

http://www.plumtunes.com/

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If like me you're wondering what happened to the brilliant Lassi Nikko a.k.a. Brothomstates, then this one's for you. At least as cool as a pair of ripped jeans and with a sample of someone deeply intellectual thrown in for good measure. Amen.

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My synth-overloaded reworking of Platform and Lu Angel's 'Wake Up'.