Colab profile picture

Colab

Music for ordinary people

About Me

I started making music under the name Colab in 1985 in Stockholm, Sweden, together with my older brother. We never actually created anything of significance, but it got us both started making music.
At the time, we played on a Roland SH-5 accompanied by a synced TB-303/TR-606 combo and recorded on a two-track Fostex (with tape delay). Later, we went separate ways musically, and I invested in a Roland D-10 and an Atari ST/Steinberg Pro 24 and spun off the musical style from industrial sounds to a more ambient electronic sound.
Musically, I took a hiatus for many years and focused more on just playing piano. Then in 2002 I discovered Propellerhead Reason and revived Colab as an outlet for more illbient electronic instrumental music, and currently make all my music off Reason in my home studio in Toronto, Canada.
I do both personal work and produce other people's music. This page will contain a mix of both.
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/6/2007
Band Website: community2.mi7.com/member/show/7695
Band Members: Mikael Hansson
Influences: Arovane, Boards of Canada, David Sylvian, Lloyd Cole, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Simple Minds (very early years), Skinny Puppy, The Cure, The The, The Residents, Tuxedomoon, ....... LCD Soundsystems, Four Tet, Acid House Kings, Tiger Lou, EBB, Unai, Jackson and His Computer Band, ....... Pluxus ...
Sounds Like: Whee whee whee / hau hau hau
Record Label: Three person family records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Fat Tuesday CD almost complete

Finally got my act together, and over the course of the last month went back to my forever-in-progress CD "Fat Tuesday" and revisisted all tracks.  In some cases it was as simple as making sure t...
Posted by Colab on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:16:00 PST

New collaborative track (Blake, Jenny G and colab)

This is a collaboration between Blake Freele (guitars, noise and spoken vocals), Jenny Grettve (vocals) and myself (instrumentation, drums and effects). After my previous take on Blake's "Exoskeleto...
Posted by Colab on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:29:00 PST

New tracks uploaded

I have just uploaded two new tracks.  These are both tracks that I have produced for other people: - Blake "Exoskeleton Landslide" - see this for more very experimental tracks by Blake ...
Posted by Colab on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:26:00 PST

Nostalgia

I've just posted a few older tracks to complement the ones available on my MI7 profile, which tend to be more current versions or drafts I'm working on.  Still, I'd share a few of the older thing...
Posted by Colab on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:21:00 PST