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simen

HomeBrew Production
Songwriter/ producer

About Me

Welcome to HomeBrew Production and Leo Music aka Simen Fjeld and Ole Olsen. Song-writing/ production team in Oslo Norway, with several hits and placements under the hood.
We have both been members of nationally well known bands and have jointly a long list of placements in film and TV as well as with national and international artists as well as a handful songs published. Here are some of our achievements:
Idol
Shannon Noll (Australia) used the song Tune in on his 8x platinum selling debut album.
Finalist John Lennon Song writing Contest
With the light on was awarded with finalist in JLSC in electronic category out of 20.000 submissions.
TV Films - US
TV series and films: Felicity, ToppModel, Masters of Horror.
Swedish chart with Lasse Stefanz
Number 2 placement (Bare børjan), selling more then 2 x platinum, and a top 10 placement (La vida loca) sold to gold.
Most aire-played song on national Radio 2001
Elle melles song Frokost på café was the song that received most are-play at Norwegian radios in 2001. Totaled 11 weeks at no. 1, Norwegian charts.
NRK Balle Frost
Producer/ composer Balle Frost - musical for kids contracted by NRK, the biggest station in Norway.
National winner Eurovision song contest
Ole penned the lyrics for On my own. National winner 2001.
Other credits
Ann Tayler (both singles album sold to gold), Café du MIDI, SpoonFool (singer/writer, single credit), Iceland, A girl named Jaen (LA), Jørn Hoel, Mocci, Rune Rudberg (single).Simen runs the production company HomeBrew Production, producing music for films and multimedia along with song writing and producing for several national artists such as BWY, Hanne Sørvåg, KimHye and Erik Bakk. Ole is a full time writer, writing with internationally named writers such as Espen Lind. MySpace Codes

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/26/2005
Band Website: homebrewprod.com
Band Members: Simen Fjeld
Ole Jørgen Olsen (assosiated member)
Influences: Madonna (especially Ray of light album), Sting, The Corrs, aha, Fatboy Slim, Portishead, Everything but the girl, Dido, Kean, Max Martin, Gwen Stefani, Kylie Minouge, Kraftwerk, Duran Duran, The Chemical Brothers, Pet Shop Boys, Røyksopp, William Orbit, Beck, Emilio Estefan, Basement Jaxx, Dian Warren, Nelly Furtado.. and finally one of my greater influences: DE PHAZZ!
Record Label: HomeBrew Production
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Cafe du MIDI > 22.0000 friends!!!

Man, Cafe du MIDI is still growing madly!!!We are coming up 23.000 friends... beat that!!
Posted by simen on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:08:00 PST

CDM to new hights!!

Cafe du MIDI is coming up to 13.000 friends here et MySpace. That makes it the 3 biggest Norvegian pop-act here. At the moment of writing we are avergaging approx 5-600 plays pr day.. .:-)
Posted by simen on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:06:00 PST

Café du MIDI > 11.000 fans!!

After adding the band "Cafe du MIDI" at MySpace late august this year, the band has gained more then 11.000 friends. At the time of writing the qualifies to a top 10 at the Norwegian To...
Posted by simen on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:49:00 PST