Music!

All the sound clips and videos you will find below are 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 around 2008. The third part (Nostalgia) consists of my older songs from 1997 to 2000.

Ostendo is where my alter ego is today. I have evolved and learned a lot since I first started out with my first song. I use my pseudonyms for different occasions but today my music is so mixed with various different genres all 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 something more. Reason1.0 was released in the end of 2000. A friend introduced me to this program and eventually I got used to the differences between this program and FT2. During the New Era I divided all my music into three major sections. I did that to seperate all of my different sounds. In the Natun project I mainly made melodic dance music inspired by modern trance and house music. The Northtribe project was aimed at the more underground sound 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 for my part.

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 replace it with more professional programs so that I could evolve as a musician. Still some of my best songs were made in that program. Some pseudonyms I used during this time were Cream and later on Pisces.