Dreaming Life

Light Forest Rain Sweden

This is one out of two real life testings of the air raid sirens in Denmark on the first wednesday in May. The sound is recorded in Copenhagen in an urban city environment.

Air Raid Siren 1 (Danish)

Air Raid Siren 2 (Danish)

This giant medley of movie songs was created by request for the prestigious Danish Movie Award Show "Bodilprisen 2017" where the hosts of the show "PLATT-FORM" sung the vocals live (vocal arrangement by Stockmann Stage). The backingtrack contains several musical genres and includes both international and Danish hit songs. 

All the music is arranged, produced, recorded and mixed by Cowfish Audio and mastered by Holger Lagerfeldt. The musicians on the tracks are: Mathias Madsen Munch (piano), Jesper Balslev (guitar), Kaspar Frederiksen (bass and keys), Philipp Broder Jørgensen (drums, percussion and whistling) and Stanley Westh (trumpet).

The songs are (in order of appearance): Dansk biografreklame intro - Let's Go to the Movies ("Annie") - Musens sang (Mød mig på Cassiopeia) - Love Theme (Les Parapluis de Cherbourg) - Er du due med himlens fugle (Vagabonderne på Bakkegaarden) - Ghostbusters ("Ghostbusters) - Tema (Olsenbanden) - Don't Look for Love (Den eneste ene) - Theme song (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) - Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III) - Krummes Sang (Krummerne) - The Murder (Psycho) - Tilicus (Reptilicus) - Lose Yourself (8 Mile) - Midt om natten (Midt om natten) - Brug dit hjerte som telefon (Hannibal & Jerry) - Kender du det (Vil du se min smukke navle) - Speak softly love (The Godfather) - Hot! Hot! (Mille, Marie & mig) - Theme (Jaws) - My Heart Will Go On (Titanic) - Theme (The Pink Panther) - I Have Seen It All (Dancer in the Dark) - Det er somber, det er sol, det er søndag (Far til fire) - What a Feeling (Flashdance)    
Bonus info: The Logic X sessions contained about 115 tracks.

Bodil Awards 2017 - Movie Medley (backingtrack)

This track is a pure a cappella cover of the hit song One Night Only from the movie 'Dream Girls'. The vocal arrangement was made by Denise Stockmann from Stockmannstage.com and I was hired to do all the recording and the mixing. The recording project contained nearly 50 tracks and is sung by no less than 25 singers divided into 'instrument' groups. Most of the singers are recorded with the Brauner VM1 condenser microphone except from the human beatbox tracks which are recorded with the classic SM7b. The microphone preamp is the Neve DPX.

One Night Only (From Dream Girls) - A cappella version

DunkelDirks is a male singing quartet from Denmark who hired Cowfish Audio to record, mix and master their own song 'Vender dig om'. The group has a really positive attitude and was a pleasure working with and as a bonus, they provided the sheet music for the arrangement, which made it very easy to communicate during the session and it also came in handy during mixing, since the voices are constantly shifting their roles from backing to lead vocals and that made the translation from written to music to audio a piece of cake. Or in this case: beer! check out their website: dunkeldirks.dk

Vender dig om - DunkelDirks

This song is made purely from bottle related sounds and was tailormade for the customer Zzysh, who produces bottle seals to help conserving wine and champagne. The end goal was a commercial video on Youtube and as you can see in the thumbnail, a lot of the sounds are made from the actual product. The beat was recorded, produced, mixed and mastered (specifically for Youtube) by Cowfish Audio and the music was composed by Philipp Brodersen and performed by the Bottle Boys. All of these sounds were incredibly quiet in real life, so they had to be augmented in the cleanest way possible using only high end equipment with very little noise. 
Fun fact: it was better to record these kinds of quiet sounds BEFORE we ate lunch, because you could actually hear the musician's stomach digesting when we continued recording.

Jingle (Zzysh)

This track is a real christmas ballad for the cold winter nights by the fire. Cowfish Audio was hired by Denise Stockmann to record and mix this wonderful tune, which she had written and arranged together with Simon Nøiers who wrote the lyrics. The nice thing about the arrangement is that it allowed for the tried-and-true method of panning the two female voices wide in the chorus, which opens the track up in a really nice way. 
If you want to buy the track you can find it on iTunes.
Merry Christmas everyone!

For nu er det jul - Stockmann Stage

The purpose of this track is to create the ultimate party vibe in live show performances. Here you are presented with a selection of some of the greatest hits from the 80s and 90s to get the audience in the right mood. As a vital part of the Bottle Boys live show this track usually comes on right in the end and it has been played at concerts in more than 30 countries. Cowfish Audio has made the arrangement, recording, production and mixing. 
When doing these types of tracks you have to take into account the instruments pitch range (e.g. this backing track has beer bottles as the lead instrument on stage) and also you have to arrange the tracks in appropriate keys so that the transitions blend well. A lot of the time is also spent on producing the right instrument sounds, so that it resembles the original tracks in the best possible way. 

The track list of this medley is:
Axel F. - Beverly Hills Cop (with hint of Crazy Frog)
Lipps INC - Funky Town
Gigi d'Agostino - The Riddle
Barcode Brothers - Flute
MC Hammer - Can't Touch This
Sugarhill Gang - Apache
Vengaboys - We Like To Party! (The Vengabus)
Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone vs David Guetta - Play Hard

80s, 90s and 00s MEGAHITS - Backingtrack

This track is really something special! It is the sound for a really big TV and internet commercial for 7UP and Canada Dry which aired december 2016 and was targeted USAs midwest audience. It even was on air in a grand football finale on the stadium. 
The audio was recorded and mixed by Cowfish Audio and played by the Bottle Boys. Christmas music and soda bottles go so well together. 

Happy Holidays!!

PS If you want to see the final commercial please check out this Youtube-link: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHRwBkKdkDU

7UP Christmas Commercial

This track is produced, recorded and mixed by Cowfish Audio. 

The inspiration for the sound of this heartbreak track was actually a hospital with all the loneliness and sadness that's found there. The beeping sounds of the heart monitors and all the other non-organic sounds that blends with the warm sounds of the human body.

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