Hjalti

hjalti — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:08:20 +0000

fat-girls-debasser

From the Ashes Hjalti Rises

hjalti — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:38:19 +0000

So, my latest show was a compleate disaster. My good old computer decided to freak out and I had to cut short everything. I guess such is is life however from the show I have scraped together an allbum which I ratherlike. I’m in the mixing prossess and waiting for remixes to come in but soon!!!!

02-be-alder-haerskande-beisende-natu

HiFi is so 1950’s

hjalti — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:20:58 +0000

So last night’s session of recording my good friend’s blackmetal project went amazingly well. We got a whole song done which is quite amazing. Fun pictures too! Mixing on the other hand is an on going project. Black Metal as you may know eschews high fidelity going for a more dirty “grim” sound. Min Air and I have to go against our trained instincts. Still it is nice to try new things and kind of exciting. I wish I could say the same about my own music. I spent a bit of time writing music this evening, or really manipulating sound, and nothing really came out satisfactory. For my new album I am taking older buts of things I have written but never really used for anything and just sorta tearing them to shreds. Unfortunately the bits and bobs were not cooperating. I’ll figure it out soon enough. The theory is sound just not the method!

-hjalti

I am listening to this in an un-ironic, un-hip way. It is seriously good!

Why did Beaver Become a Dirty Word?

hjalti — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:14:58 +0000

I know, I know, I haven’t updated in a while. I could lie to my fictive public and say have been too hard at work on music related things. But alas no, I have been goofing around, going on vacation and eating brunch at roxy’s. But the last few weeks have not been fruitless for hjalti. Oh no. I have come out with a remix on MinAir’s brand spankin’ new EP, and released a video on the site. I’ll be recording a friend tomorrow too boot! So despite appearances, I have been quite the industrious beaver.

-hjalti

Best album title ever.

Like a boom boom boomarang

hjalti — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:44:19 +0000

Oh Buzz why can’t I quit you?

It’s harder than you think. And that’s not a pick up line.

hjalti — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:24:32 +0000

Shhh… don’t tell anyone but am attempting to write a Euro Techno album. Unfotunatly it is not going as smoothly as I want it to. I’m getting frustrated with the linear structure of it all. It is so second nature for me to make things complicated (see my life). Plus I tend to write things in the minor key, which makes it much more industrially than euro techno. Humm…mabey Britney and the Backstreet Boys know somthing I don’t.

So. I listen to this crap. Shut up.

A little step back from the step forwards.

hjalti — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:48:35 +0000

Finally, at long last Hjalti has released a full length (Winter asks what we did in the summer…) . The album is basically a more polished version of my live set and I think it turned out well. Some times it is really hard to get enough distance away from the songs to really know if it is good or not. You put so much of your self and your emotions into these things and objectivity gets lost somewhere along the way. There is definitely one song on the album (I’m not saying which one it is) that I oscillate between liking and loathing. I also know I could have spent a lot more time in the preproduction phase, but then again when is something you are working ever done. I think anyone will agree to that. So for better or worse it is out there and I hope all the hjaltinistas enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed making it (and narcissisticaly listening to it).

-hjalti

The song that made me want to write music in the first place

Though it is 90 degrees summer is ending

hjalti — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:47:11 +0000

The stifling heat and sun of a Seattle summer has made hjalti quite the lazy boy, but all you long suffering fans take solace, not one but two releases are forth coming. The LONG awaited album “Winter Asks What We Did in the Summer…” is coming out in a matter of days as well as the live album from static glide. The d.iscontent crew is still working on future live dates so stay posted!

-hjalti

this song was not ment for humans. It goes out to all the fish in the sea

Hjalti is so not 1337

hjalti — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:58:14 +0000

Yep, my computer got one fucked up little virus, so I have been quite the neo-luddite of late. More concerning is that I may have problems getting live to work, and thus all the work on the new album may be lost. Fear not though because there may be some surprises up my sleeve.

Some summery swedish synthpop

Afterglow

hjalti — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:53:15 +0000

So the show, on my end, was an unmitigated successes. A good crowd of people, a ton of friends [thanks to everybody who came out], and a problem free set. Who could ask for anything more? God it was amazing to hear the low end hit on those speakers. I think my body is still shaking from it. Do to some technical difficulties I even had to improvise during the last 3 minuets or so of my set which was fun. So I guess thanks again to Travis, Miniature Airlines, all the DJ’s, Scobot for the visuals, Ms. SDC for the photography and especially every one of you kids that came out. I am looking foward to playing more shows soon!

For some reson I have been listeing to this song a lot