Music & Production

2025

The main purpose of the tech house track “Magdalena”

The lyrics for “Magdalena” are intentionally written in another language to mask the literal meaning and shift focus away from local political rhetoric. This choice also supports the musical direction of the track, giving it a more exotic Latin tech house character and allowing the vocal elements to function as texture and energy rather than explicit messaging.

13 December 2025

FWSC FastTracker Music – Personal History

The musical side of FWSC was probably never planned, structured or even meant to become a “project”. It was very much about learning applications. The name grew naturally out of the same world as FreeWare Data and FreeWare Data/2 (FidoNet...

30 November 2025

FWSC – The mid 90s developer project

During the mid 1990s, roughly between 1994 and 1999, I ran a bulletin board system called FreeWare Data. I got into the BBS world during my upper secondary school years (Swedish “gymnasium”) through new friends who introduced me to FidoNet,...

30 November 2025

SoundCloud monetization terms update: what’s new and what matters

SoundCloud has posted a new “SoundCloud Monetization Terms of Service” for both On-Platform Monetization and Off-Platform Distribution. The terms page shows “Last Updated: October 31, 2025”. SoundCloud’s notice to artists says the update will take effect on November 24, 2025....

6 November 2025

“Magdalena” utnyttjade högern – blev ett algoritmiskt experiment

Låten “Magdalena” ingår i musikserien “Ballader För Det Bruna Sverige” och kommer ligga på volym 2. Serien är en musikalisk satir över svensk politik, där flera tidigare låtar fungerat som rena roasts av högerregeringen. Ursprungligen var idén att volym 2...

4 October 2025

Spotify Playlist Services by Tornevall

Tornevall now offers a Spotify integration service that makes it easy to both link to playlists with clean, shareable URLs and export them into structured formats. I’ve been missing this myself for a long time now, and sometimes it is...

15 September 2025