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Alexander Ahlstrand, selfmade musician has been creating experimental rock and pop music since 1996. It is a personal account of a musical career that went absolutely nowhere. The Montana Musical Experiments Project and BCP is available on Spotify. Also check out instagram: @mmxpmusic and @BCPMusic
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Quite unexpectedly we, BCP, present a slightly trimmed and most entertaining look at the band, which didn't really exist, performing live for the first and the last time after conducting a world tour of one town in Sweden. Alex on vocals, commentary and guitar. Nils on bass, guitar and assorted homebuilt thingamabobs. From Malmoe, may 4th 2019. Wel…
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"It Won't Change A Thing" is a progressive, industrial, alternative rock concept album, that is about resisting oppression from despotic style rulership and the dawn of a potential big brother Orwellian nightmare. A modern protest album for the Trumpian age it is due for released on the 1st of April 2020. Musically it is in the vein of Pink Floyd a…
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In this episode Alex talks about the second act. An act comprising of mostly sleep and stress related issues and how this turns his inner protagonist Sam into a broken human, seeking a way out of his mental and emotional prison. Also it introduces Clare Estelle as one of a handful collaborators. "It Won't Change A Thing" is a progressive, industria…
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In episode 2 of 4 Alex (me) talks about the first act of the album touching upon creating an imaginary dystopian universe populated by mindless robotic voices. "It Won't Change A Thing" is a progressive, industrial, alternative rock concept album, that is about resisting oppression from despotic style rulership and the dawn of a potential big broth…
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"It Won't Change A Thing" is a progressive, industrial, alternative rock concept album, that is about resisting oppression from despotic style rulership and the dawn of a potential big brother Orwellian nightmare. A modern protest album for the Trumpian age it is due for released on the 1st of April 2020. Musically it is in the vein of Pink Floyd a…
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Alex and Axel invite Daniel, also known as "Consumer #1" to an impromptu podcast session in Oslo where the three discuss the intrusion box project, the live performance by BCP and the main idea of making music. A podcast evening that included insults and Mauro primitivo del salento. This is for the time the final Basement Cluster Podcast episode as…
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Alex discuss a solo outing that may or may not be a BCP thing. Apparently an early incarnation of Nils is in the cut somewhere but is it BCP, or a hommage to the clown devil, or just a fucking waste of your time. Was this the reason it wasn't released? Did Alex win or lose the war against censorship? How many glasses of wine does it take to make ik…
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Near the ultimate outer limit of the BCP universe, also known as "The penultimate end of everything", king Alex of the mongrels wage a war with Austin of Michigan for the moral right to the Book of Common Prayer and all the mamary glands displayed on the front of the cover. In this extended episode Alex (of BCP) gives his thoughts on censorship and…
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Proudly sponsored by Mauro Primitivo del Selento, Nils and Alex finally get around to discuss one of their flagship projects called "Chicken" - A strange short film about a dude who gets of on rubbing chicken or something like that. It may be sensual, sexual, gory or just plain disgusting. It is however artsy stuff AF and BCP is proud to finally be…
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Alex (solo) recount bits and pieces of the story of how he created the perfect terrible bookend to a box of 80% crap with an additional 20% of crap and called it "Conclusion". The episode also deals with the remake of the cherry on top of the crap and "Good advice on how to advance your music career by massmurdering the audience". Two minutes short…
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Alex and Nils discuss the history and making and destruction of the BCP guitar. It all deals with the very strange night when Oscar joined BCP for one night and everything went weird. The outcome is a 20 minuter recording only know to a select few as "Second to last". A few weeks later Nils decided to demolish Alex' garden gnome in a symbolic state…
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Alex and Nils, otherwise mythically known as "BCP", dive deep into the "Bird Incident" - a 15 minute recording of two dudes and one dudette discussing the proper disposal and burial procedure of a bird. A recording which in its own right became a myth. This episode also include a brilliantly narrated dramatization of the Bird incident crescendo, pe…
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The basement cluster podcast was rudely and abruptly interrupted and the podcast ceased for a few months. In this public service announcement Alex explains what happened and what the road looks like ahead. Meanwhile in a parallell universe BCP performed before a live audience (not stuffed animals, drunk uncles or chicken). Hopefully the podcast can…
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Learning from their mistakes, Alex Ahlstrand and Nils Pihlblad recorded followup episodes to the podcast. In this SKYPE conversation, Nils and Alex discuss method acting, excessive collective behavior and the top three best way to destroy vinyl LPs. No braincells were harmed during the making of this episode. Welcome to the Basement Cluster Podcast…
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Alexander Ahlstrand, selfmade musician has been creating experimental rock and pop music since 1996. It is a personal account of a musical career that went absolutely nowhere. This week Ahlstrand retell the making of a christmas sampler which at the very last turned into a album experience entitled "The Change". The bleak selfwallowing of Crucial F…
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Alexander Ahlstrand, selfmade musician has been creating experimental rock and pop music since 1996. It is a personal account of a musical career that went absolutely nowhere. This weeks topic is about a lost unreleased demo dealing with more raw emotional states, and Ahlstrand tells of several key mistakes he made leading up to this demo, Listen t…
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Alexander Ahlstrand, selfmade musician has been creating experimental rock and pop music since 1996. It is a personal account of a musical career that went absolutely nowhere. This weeks topic is the return of MMXP and a brand the advent of digital recording. Listen to the full recording of the week here: soundcloud.com/mmxp/ Also check out instagr…
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Alexander Ahlstrand, selfmade musician has been creating experimental rock and pop music since 1996. It is a personal account of a musical career that went absolutely nowhere. This week he adress the strange DJing ventures recorded on "Widescreen Personalities" with fellow artist Christopher "Totte" Nedergaard. The Mantra Bros. was the name. Listen…
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Mr. Ahlstrand - the unknown swedish dude who recorded a lot of unreleased music, dissects the studio recording he made with the band Soundescape August 1997. A short film soundtrack entitled "The Lost Trip". A druglaced partial conversation piece with psychedelic backdrop, inspired by The Doors and Pink Floyd. The recording is available on soundclo…
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Reupload. Mr. Ahlstrand - the unknown swedish dude who recorded a lot of unreleased music, dissects the studio recording he made in August 1997 of "Behind her, in front of me". The single is available on soundcloud.com/mmxp This is the story of "Behind her, in front of me" - told by the weirdo that recorded it!…
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In this episode, mr. Ahlstrand - the unknown swedish dude who recorded a lot of unreleased music, dissects the fourth (and final) made on tape demo entitled "Behind her, in front of me". A demo which, though crude and noise, became the demo that contained a song, which was taken to a studio, made into a band, performed a lot live and eventually int…
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