Music!

All sound clips and videos you can find below is produced by me, John Ekström. They are divided into three sections. The first section (Ostendo) consists of my latest productions. The second section (New Era) consists of songs from the year 2001 until arround 2005. The third part (Nostalgia) consists of my older songs from 1997 to 2000.

Ostendo is where my alter ego is today. I have envolved and learned a lot since I first started out with my first song. I use my pseudonyms for different occasions but today my music are so mixed with various different genres together that I gave up putting labels on my tunes. The most important part is what you hear, not what genres it belongs to.

The New Era was an important time for me as a musician. FasttrackerII was a great program but it had its limits and I needed someting more. Reason1.0 came in the end of 2000. A friend introduced me to this program and eventually I got used to the difference between this program and FT2. During the New Era I divided all my music into three major sections. I did that to seperate all my different sounds. In the project Natun I made mainly melodic dance music inspired by modern trance and house music. The project Northtribe was aimed at the more underground sounds of trance, such as progressive and psychedelic trance with a bit of tribal influenced sounds. The third project was Enzyme where I gathered every piece of work that I considered to be experimental from my side.

When I started composing my own music I started with a music program called FasttrackerII. I used this program for almost four years, but unfortunatly this program was very limited and I had to change it for more professional programs so that I could envolve as a musician. Still some of my best songs were made in this program. Some pseudonyms I used during this time were Cream and later on Pisces.