Flower Of Cables is the music of composer & digital marketing director Pär Almqvist. Nu-jazz, electronica, house, broken beats, ambient dub, break beats, drum & bass, dubstep and whatever else floats our boat.

Flowerofcables.com is a musical repository. It is also a mental vent that taps into the current thoughts and inspirations of Pär Almqvist, the guy who makes music under the name of Flower Of Cables.

Music

I’ve been playing and making music since I was 5 years old. As enjoyment, and as a way to deal with the things that happen in this freeflowing, fantastic, fleeing, floating life.

Distribution

Flower Of Cables is solidly opposed to DRM (Digital Rights Management), and futile attempts by the likes of RIAA to stop P2P filesharing.

Of course, I still claim copyright over the music I’ve composed. But that doesn’t mean you should have to buy it to listen to it, to enjoy it for personal use. That choice is up to you.

I know that if you like the music, you’ll either buy some tracks from iTunes Music Store, get the album from Amazon or another online store, pay a visit to your local record dealer, use the PayPal donate button, or come to a live gig. And if you don’t, that’s ok too — just promise to give something back to the creative community. Support your local artists. Whatever floats your boat.

Philosophy

Soon, a selection of songs will be equipped with links to .zip archives, containing N number of individual tracks that comprises the song. You download, then rework, remix, mash up, destroy. Whatever’s the float of the day. When you’ve composed something out of this information, get in touch and we’ll have a listen together. If it’s awesome, we’ll release it together. Or mash it up again, together. Or just kick back and feel groove. Whatever feels right.

Look at it as open source music. Or a distributed experiment in collaborative composition. Or something else vague and non-descriptive you want to call it. Let’s shut up and make some music!

Site

Your comments on the site are much appreciated. Read the post “The anatomy of a website” for further information on the thoughts behind flowerofcables.com, and add your comments.

The site is powered by Wordpress (using the “FOC” Wordpress theme, soon available in open source), hosted by One.com, and only uses properly validating XHTML & CSS.

Insane flash programming by Oskar Sundberg / Dread (.fla files soon available in open source, packaged with the “FOC” Wordpress theme).

Stylish F.O.C. logotype by Scamed.

Content & design is © 2007 Pär Almqvist / Flower Of Cables.

Floating boats since boats were first floated. And then some.

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