Olydig- Swedish designer canvas

Olydig is Swedish and means disobedient. Yet, it is also refreshingly dandy (fairly cheap) Gothenburg based designer canvas accessories. Have a look.



Small shoulder/carrier bag. Price 350sek/32euro/240dkr. Perfect for a netbook such as an Asus Eee or an Acer aspire one. *STILL AVAILABLE.


Small shoulder/carrier bag. Price 350sek/32euro/240dkr. *SOLD OUT.


Cute wallet. Price 120sek/11euro/80dkr. *SOLD OUT.


Cute wallet. Price 120sek/11euro/80dkr. *STILL AVAILABLE.


Cellphone keychain/lanyard. Price 100sek/8euro/70dkr. *SOLD OUT.


Pencil case. Price 130sek/12.5euro/90dkr. *SOLD OUT.


Pencil case. Price 130sek/12.5euro/90dkr. *STILL AVAILABLE.

Check out tons more neat Olydig stuff over at www.olydig.se. Theres even a sale going on as we speak, so some of it might come even cheaper if you care for some leftovers.

Winter Took His Life

Photo by: Mattias Fredriksson

So christmas was over just like that..... oh well, its freakishly chilly outside (again), and i feel like recommending something warm and toasty for the cold. So... meet Gothenburg girl Susanna Brandin aka. Winter Took His Life. Once again, as in the almost endless Swedish cases of amazing in the shapes of such newer girl names- Lykke Li, El Perro Del Mar, Promise And The Monster, Britta Persson and beyond, one could wonder how there could be any room left for further greatness. But, fear not, Winter Took His Life found herself a quiet prosperous little picnic spot only a heartbeat away.

Her wonderful debut album- You know what it´s like to be alone and shut down, came out last year and can be found at Bless The Press. So if you (just like me), didnt get on the first one in time, there you go. It would be a shame not to follow up on this fantastic girl from the start.

WTHL's myspace can be found here.

Cowon S9 Striptease

So it seems.... The shimmering Cowon S9 makes it to shops and stores (pretty much globally) just before christmas. It is officially out in Germany, Uk, Sweden, Norway, France, U.S etc. 8gb goes for 180 euro and 16gb for approx 215 euro. 32gb? Unfortunantly not up for grabs untill next year. Anywaa, for specs along my initial S9 post, go here.

For those interested in some serious gadgetporn, here you go. The two very first Cowon S9 unboxings. First one by Engadget, second one by Boy Genius Report.


Visit the Engadget Cowon S9 unboxing gallery here.


Visit the Boy Genius Report Cowon S9 unboxing gallery here.

Or check out some neat amateur hands-on footage on youtube, click here.

Artist of the month - postponed

My "Something Monthly" posts - Artist of the month, was initially starting as of today. But it is with sad eyes i am to inform, that i am going to postpone its debut till the 15th of February, due to the fact i was rushed to the hospital late thursday night last week, with a somewhat scary lung infection. So now- 4 days, 27 intravenous blood samples and a couple of hours sleep later, i am finally online again. I will try to keep up with my ideal blogging spirit and get some stuff going. But dont expect the world of me just yet. thx.

As for artist of the month, it will be running every 15th, of each month. Starting 15th of February. Hopefully that will work out for all of us. Ta ta.

Paddington Distortion Combo

The ever so super fantastic swede- ex. Bear Quartet member Carl Olsson and his brilliant solo project Paddington Distortion Combo, just announced his new album, set for release February 23rd 2009. There is no mention of a definite album title, though the following four song titles will be present on the upcoming release- -White mans clap, La La, Birth Defect and Defätismus.

So, if youre generally silly to the bone concerning Paddington or just excited about uplifting lofi kiddy electro combined with 80's kitsch/trash and swedish sub-suburban indierock "one man style". You gotta a wonderful surprise coming up in 2009.

Also, here's a cuddly live clip from a PDC show this summer at Potatiskällaren (The Potato Basement) in Luleå (north Sweden).


The video is part of a 4 piece liveshow recording, that is to be found here.

Mintpass - Used as read

Last month i posted about the diverse (but amazing) Korean consumer electronics company- Mintpass and their super fabulous Mintpad mediatablet. As it seems, Mintpass has alot more neat design stuff cooking in the lab. So i figured i would let you have a look at this- A fascinating concept design entitled "Used As Read".


Click images for larger sizes. (opens in a new window). All images courtesy of Mintpass.co.kr.







Disturbing cables on the back, clashing with the cleanliness across. Classic and retro.


Brilliant, to say the least.


The whole concept stacked.

It really looks as though Mintpass is a company all about doing things right from the start. Wonderfully refreshng and ambitious, i must say.

Read more about "Used As Read" here

Melloboat 2009

What if you could travel the seas between Sweden and Finland for 24hours accompagnied by a bunch of questinable bands, a couple of interesting, justified by a few awesome. Would you? Well, let me include the fact, that Swedish math-metal-maniacs Meshuggah are among the awesome, along swedish indie wonder Promise And The Monster and Porcupine Tree founder/singer Steven Wilson's own project (accompagnied by wonderful Danish artist, photographer and filmmaker Lasse Hoile).

To be quite honest, i dont even care much about who else is playing the Melloboat aka. Siljaline Galaxy cruiser that night and day the 24-25th of april. Just the fact that one can brag about sailing the dark baltic sea with the 3 artists mentioned above, already have me itching my backpocket.

I doubt it will the most important music event of the year (as stated in small print on the bottom of the poster), but the fact that you can get to witness a neat thing like this for a measly 100 swedish kroner (10 euros), or even get a nice room with a view for 900 swedish kroner (85 euro) pr. person along with, seriously should make this worth your while.

Personally Meshuggah and Promise And The Monster are two of my favourite artists of this last year. So in my opinion, this boat holds a great deal. If youre not familiar with my 3 personally recommended reasons to join this event, heres a taste of what to expect.

Promise And The Monster's latest video- Night Out.


Meshuggah - Bleed.


Steven Wilson's album trailer (by Lasse Hoile).


Sure beats the hell out of sailing the safer seas of Denmark with Carpark North or Lis Sorensen (if you even know who that is)......Anyway, im there.

For more info on Melloboat and its cruises, artists, prices etc. Go here.

Cowon S9 - A closer look

Around 3 months ago Korean Cowon announced a somewhat handful of new devices, set for public arrival around the new year (before and after). One of these, is the extremely talked about- Cowon S9, also known as the Curve. Not only is it sweet sweet eyecandy out of the ordinary, it also plays every living audio and video format out there.


This just oozes beautiful build quality from top to bottom.

Just to sum up the specs before taking a closer look at the amazing design. The S9 revolves around a 500mhz dual core processor (yup, dual core), a razor sharp 3.3" iamoled touchscreen, (480 x 272 pixels, ), Flash storage capacities in 4, 8, 16 and 32gb, Bluetooth 2.0 support, DMB tv (probably asia only, since europe isnt prepped for that), Audio playback support for: MP3/2/1, WMA, FLAC, OGG, APE, WAV, Video playback support for: Xvid SP/ASP, Avi, Divx, WMV9 SP/MP at 30 frames pr. second, and best of all, it promises 40 hours of audio playback. It will be available in Korea from the 16th and prices announced so far range 150-220$ with 4-16gb. (No price on 32gb yet).

And here they are, the rest of the latest S9 press shots. Courtesy of Cowonglobal Korea.


Clean backside in gunmetal black.


It looks as though the S9 will be the first touchscreen player, to have nice tucked away controls, allowing you to function when not looking at the screen (fx.in your pocket.) play/pause in the middle, skip buttons on the right and volume on the left. Very slick details.


Looks to be the sleakest of Ui's Cowon has yet to launch.


Clean and neat UI, aesthetically in the middle of Samsung and Apple. Very promising stuff.

Cant wait for this one to surface.

Blip festival 2008 - Memories

Photo by Elektropionir @ flickr.

No it is not Swedish indiepop sensation I'm From Barcelona, but merely a pile of blip festival 2008 performers. Yesterday (Sunday) was the fourth and last day of Blip festival 2008. By now, around 40 artists (plus/minus) have performed, tons of dancemoves where executed, and a boatload of photos were snapped,..... Yeah, so in order to enhance the envy (and regrets) in all of us who couldnt go, here's some photographic highlights and shortcuts (links) from/to some of the people who took insightful pics from the festival.

Elektropionir took 78 nice pics (amongst them, the top group photo), Check his blip festival set here.


Photo by Arambulo @ flickr.


Arambulo posted great pics of Meneo (top crowd) and Bitshifter (bottom crowd), along 14 other cool blip festival photos. Check his set here.


Rasterbox took a bunch of great photos, amongst them, this pic of the merch area.


X Plastic Neurospasta also took a bunch of photos aswell, check em here.


And to top it off, here's a few videoclips aswell.

Meneo (Spain), Friday night.


Cheap Dinosaurs (Usa), Friday night.


Sulumi (China), Saturday night.


All in all, it looked like the most awesome thing in the world, and agaainnn...... im sooo bummed out that i didnt have the possibility to go. Oh well, atleast i got to sit and surf, post and escape boredom at the same time. One thing is sure though, next time, i'll blog/snap the shit out of the real thing. I promise.

Blip fest relations chapter 5

The Sid 6581/8550 Recordings Archive is a massive hive hosting 343 Sid chip tunes, all up for completely free download. It is one simple site, one long list, no registration, just click to download. It is really that simple and glorius. A definite thing to check out if you have commodore music hunger.

More to the Atari side of chips/music, then head over to the Ym2149 recordings archive instead.... once again... same concept.... really simple, one long list, download whatever you feel like, no registration.

Furthermore in the spirit of dear father christmas/pixel baby jesus and courtesy of Doctor Octoroc, heres a cool 8-bit christmas compilation entitled 8-bit jesus. All free. Enjoy lo-tech sheenanigans in the shape of holiday monstrosities like- Ryu the Red Nosed Ninja, Silent Knight Man, Super Jingle Bros and more. Check that out Here.

Ohh yes.....