The Basement: 2008

Time for a new house. Also time to rip it apart and rebuild it pretty much from scratch. So my gear got to spend the first year in the basement, distributed over three rooms and connected with long cables. It was actually quite a good year: I also spent a lot of time in the basement, sampling anything and everything that made a noise. Hardwarewise, I was running out of audio ports. So I got an RME FireFace 800 and expanded it with two Behringer ADA8000’s. That should do it for quite some time. It was also time to try out generic MIDI controller keyboards, so I got a small ReMote SL to have directly in front of me. 

I learned how to make ugly custom dust covers.

Musical Output From This Period

Sami, my brother, suggested that we should try to make music together. He had a couple of friends who had written him some lyrics, and he had composed melodies to them. So we decided to try it out. Turned out we’d be collaborating for close to 15 years with a bunch of songs he had written at that time. Creating our first song in the basement was hugely athmospheric. I would sample garbage, plastic hoses, tools and basically anything and everything that I found in the basement, and finally we ended up with the song below. It took several years to add the final touches to it (guitars), but other than that, it was born and bred in the basement. Exciting times.