2025

FWSC FastTracker Music – Personal History

The musical side of FWSC was probably never planned, structured or even meant to become a “project”. It was very much about learning applications. The name grew naturally out of the same world as FreeWare Data and FreeWare Data/2 (FidoNet...

30 November 2025

FWSC – The mid 90s developer project

During the mid 1990s, roughly between 1994 and 1999, I ran a bulletin board system called FreeWare Data. I got into the BBS world during my upper secondary school years (Swedish “gymnasium”) through new friends who introduced me to FidoNet,...

30 November 2025

SoundCloud monetization terms update: what’s new and what matters

SoundCloud has posted a new “SoundCloud Monetization Terms of Service” for both On-Platform Monetization and Off-Platform Distribution. The terms page shows “Last Updated: October 31, 2025”. SoundCloud’s notice to artists says the update will take effect on November 24, 2025....

6 November 2025

“Beats of Gaza” – releasing this friday!

It’s not often that I step outside my comfort zone in the House and Drum & Bass genres, but I felt it was finally time to experiment, now that Suno – as they claim – has achieved near-perfect sound quality....

6 October 2025

“Magdalena” utnyttjade högern – blev ett algoritmiskt experiment

Låten “Magdalena” ingår i musikserien “Ballader För Det Bruna Sverige” och kommer ligga på volym 2. Serien är en musikalisk satir över svensk politik, där flera tidigare låtar fungerat som rena roasts av högerregeringen. Ursprungligen var idén att volym 2...

4 October 2025

Spotify’s 75-Million Purge – what actually happened, who it hits, and how real artists stay clear

Spotify has recently admitted to removing over 75 million spammy, AI-generated tracks in the past year. This information is being circulated by both legitimate and half-dis-informative sources – but most explanations are vague. Many people panic, thinking their own shitty...

28 September 2025