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Ghosts Inc. was formed in 2007 by Steve Engler, Norbert Croonenberg and Mikael Hansson.

The three members bring a variety of musical backgrounds and influences ranging from David Sylvian to Tuxedomoon by way of The Residents, Miles Davis and Cabaret Voltaire - and channel this together on a variety of hardware and software platforms.

Ghosts Inc. completed their first release, “Sounds from the attic”, in the summer of 2008. The six tracks started as experimentations with electronic voice patterns (EVPs) and over the course of several months of collaboration coalesced into their current shape, which best can be described as a debate on whether ghosts may be nothing more than mirror sightings of our own souls; the real-world projection of inner struggles. It is music that resides in the shadowy space under the floorboards; music that crawls through the cracks of the ceiling.

All tracks have been jointly composed and produced by Ghosts Inc., and have been made freely available to download (through our myspace page - see above) and remix under the Creative Commons license, but with no rights for commercial use without Ghost Inc.'s explicit agreement.

About the band members:
• Steve Engler – actively releases music as Synthetic, and has been a member of Primitive Modern and Twitch Revolt.
• Norbert Croonenberg – Norbert has composed music for commercials in the Netherlands; however, this is his first studio release.
• Mikael Hansson – Mikael releases albums and produces other artists as Colab; and is a member of The Classic Series. Mikael operates out of his independent label Three Person Family Recordings in Toronto, Canada.

Contact:
myspace – www.myspace.com/ghostsincband
email – ghosts.inc@gmail.com

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Title: 02:_003 get over here

Description: This is the first track from our "Sounds from the attic" album

Title: 01:_007 so cold

Description: This is track 2 from our "Sounds from the attic" album

Title: 05:_009 the ghost of meaning

Description: This is track 3 from our "Sounds from the attic" album

Title: 04:_008 it's dark

Description: This is track 4 from our "Sounds from the attic" album

Title: 06:_012 I'm still the same

Description: This is track 6 from our "Sounds from the attic" album Special guest on bass: Roland Mylanus

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10/29/2008 --

sounds from the attic 1.0 available for free download

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Subliminal | 29 days ago

Hi Guys,

I have downloaded Sounds From The Attic and I have to say that it's quite the musical trip. A great idea to base music on EVP's and so well executed. My compliments.

Regards,

Michel.

synthetic1 | 3 months ago

Hi Audiotechnica, thanks much for the comments, there probably is a planned progression. This EVP project was preceeded by me making an entire album from EVPs. On Synthetic's "Ghost Suite" the progression was exactly like you suggested, going from scary and depressing to happy at the end. I sense that this pr5oject is similar if not as blatant. The Synthetic album should be available before Winter for free download as well.

audiotechnica | 3 months ago

Hi Guys—well done for getting this done. I’ll admit that It took me a few listens to get into this, but get into it I did. My preferred tracks are 002-003 + 01-007, I like the atmosphere created in those. You seem to be brining out lots of illness memories–I used to have all kinds of weird hallucinations as a child when I would get sick overheat and watch the pictures on the wall paper as they started to move (two patterns on wall I remember are trains and Action Man/GI Jo figures–quite interesting when you get used to it!!) so something about this music reminded me of that!, also are the tracks in any sort of order? as they laid out here I felt that there was progression from downright scary to recognition and acceptance of the things that previously scared you? maybe that’s part of the “mirror of own souls” you mentioned in your notes?
Maybe I’m just thinking to damn much!!
Well done though guys-congrats to you all

Blake | 3 months ago

Yes, very good indeed! I really love the voices. Reminds me of the sleep paralysis episodes i suffer from though. Sorta scary! I do mean that in the best way however.

B

Ghosts Inc | 3 months ago

Quick note to say thanks for the early interest - we really appreciate it!

We will be updating this page soon with info about the work process as well as additional track info.

Thanks again.

Pegasus | 3 months ago

Hi everybody,

Congratulations for your project! Exciting atmospheric music. Not easy but subtle. I liked especially the mood of 01:_007

It would be nice to know how you made the compositions. What was the method of cooperation? How to compose music together when you are residing on different sides of the globe?

I agree with Spinmeister that it would be nice if you would name the tracks. It would be in some way more humane :-) At least in the long term it will be necessary. :-) :-)

spinmeister | 3 months ago

I like this very much. I've long held a soft spot for ambient music. And your mini album is right up my alley.

I'm not sure how much you care about marketing issues, but if you do, I have a couple of questions /comments:

Have you considered giving names to your tracks, rather than numbers? There are several advantages to doing that: Most importantly, it makes it much easier for your audience to remember and refer to individual tracks, recommend them to friends, send you compliments etc. Also it creates another avenue of communication between you and your audience. i.e. what were you feeling when you created it? Did you have an artistic vision for each track? I assume you corresponded about the music amongst yourselves and that there was something that guided the making of each track. I would look there for inspiration for track names.

Also, do you want this to be on many people's mp3 players? If yes, you may want to consider making it really easy to download it. If you're not into creating our own web site from scratch, archive.org is a great place to upload music that's intended to be free.

Congratulations for creating such nice music together!

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