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T H E · C O V E R · A R T · W O R K · of my new role playing video game christmas concept album called Black Santa.

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N E W S F L A S H · “At 08.00 the doors of Dreamhack Winter 2007 where opened. One hour later over 2.100 game hungry had checked in. The lines of people attending with computers and office chairs where long and it was not easy to reach the booked seats.” (29.11.07 Jonkoping/Sweden )

T H E · P A R T Y · I S · O N · with a terrafast internet connection pumping out 40 GB/s to the the end users. Cisco is representated with their fastest router the CRS-1, a device that is able to deliver 92 TB/s. The speed is 1.000 as fast as todays topspeed between two internetpoints between two ISP:s. This environment is working as a testbay, Mr D. Garpenstahl, chairman of Dreamhack board claims.

With the Cisco router frequently used on internet 1 Billion gamers could be able play at the same time online, says Mr S. Hannervall CEO Cisco Sweden.

40 GB/s out to the end users will make a user able to watch 10.000 videos at the same time, according to E. Hallberg at TeliaSonera.

To sum up: 1.000 times faster networking could give you at least 1.000 times more high quality fun and action.

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C H R I S T M A S · D E M O · A L B U M · R E L E A S E D · 23.11.07 on the Black Friday, first day of christmas shopping season worldwide. The album was produced in Vixton DeSin City aka Vallingby/Stockholm/Sweden and released on own label Black Mask Music. The style on the album is Tom Smokes own blend emotional instumental/orchestral/experimental/electro/game/metal full of strong affects.

T O M · S T A R T E D · H I S · M U S I C A L · career in 1984 working with musical technology and playing drums, piano and keyboards, playing in local configurations. Now working solo and alternating with his psycadelic/jazz/electro/rock band +II+

S O N G · L I S T · (15 songs, X=Xtreme tribute)
00 Intro Spectre (intro/hidden track) (0:32)
01 Black n Red Christmas (X White Christmas tribute) (2:49)
02 Searching Little Ice Lilly (1:49)
03 Black Home at Bell Rock (X j-bell rock tribute)(3:15)
04 Moon Dance (multi awarded orig 8-bit) (2:45)
05 Dark Forest Winter Hut Party (X clips from old swe trad accordions) (2:14)
06 Mountain Tribe (vox) (2:03)
07 Glocko Largo (the gold bell) (3:14)
08 Monster Demon Cratixx (evil demon's dinner, vox, restricted)(2:53)
09 Chaotic Knight (knight stumble in his crazy walse) (X Silent Night tribute) (2:18)
10 Flashing Stairs (The stairs up the stone wall)(3:31)
11 Midnight Gnomes (The Evil Gnomes working out a plan)(X Midnight trad. swe song) (1:22)
12 Walk with the Lard (little zombie walking alone with his big bag) (1:51)
13 Day Break (the sun is going up, the elfgirl is confused and has to surf to the astral dimension) (feat. Ania) (2:53)
14 By the Sea (the party and christmas is over, just a rabbit left down by the sea) (extro) (0:43)

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I N · V I N T A G E · R E C O R D I N G · S T U D I O S checking the guitar and bass rigs by Accoustic amplifiers.

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I · H A V E · B E E N · P L A Y I N G · the drums since I was 12 years old. I got a simple drum set. Later I bought a Tama set. An other drummer playing Tama is Tim Alexander from Primus. Learn more on his work on his website
The image above shows me playing the big studio set at the Vintage Recordings, a studio I use to coop with.

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T H E · V I D E O · G A M E ·F A I R · A N D · E X P O · D 3 · in Copehagen starts today with attendance for professionals and press plus a video games award cermony. The event is held in Øksnehallen in Vesterbro from friday to sunday 10.00–18.00 each day. D3 Expo

The organization Nordic Game Program aiming to support North European independent upstart game developers will be represented on the expo. Nordic Game Program

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D R E A M H A C K · world’s biggest lan and demoparty is soon to be arranged in Jonkoping Sweden. From 29 November to 2 December 5000 attenders are comming to the event. Several eSports competition are taking place this year. The winners of the Demo competitions are this year awarded with prize money SEK 65.000 (EUR 6.500) for their efforts.

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S W E D E N S · L E A D I N G · I T · and science cluster. The home arena for Ericsson and IT University of Stockholm. There are also a big shopping mall and food court there for the IT workers to enjoy. Click on the thumbnail to get the complete image