Today, I released my new track “Close of Day”. This is an instrumental electronica beat heavily influenced by West Coast hip hop.

During the 90s, I discovered and listened to a lot of different styles of music. This included hip-hop, and I used to listen to Norway’s National Rap Show every Friday night. This was the time of the East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry. I didn’t pay that much attention, though: I cared about the music and the beats. And I learned to like the distinctive sounds of both the typical New York style beats (which I tried to capture somewhat in my track “Interjection”), as well as the style of the West Coast or the Southern beats, which often had more synthesizers involved in the production.

“Close of Day” is heavily influenced by these synthesizer driven beats. But it is also heavily influenced by electronica: Every Saturday, I used to listen to another radio show, DJ Abstract. He played house and techno music, which I were also heavily into in the 90s. And that lead me to later discover ambient music, which you often hear as an influence in my music.

The cover photo is taken in Los Angeles, by my good friend Sverre.

It is available on Spotify, Bandcamp, Tidal, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Youtube, Deezer and many other places.