The Montana Musical Experiments Podcast

Alex finds the time and piece of mind to record one of two podcast episodes on stuff the he hasn't made yet. Apparently a lot can, and will happen, but for the time being this is a magical look into the future of a weird man with an even weirder plan.

Alex and his Resistance Radio tackles the psychology of Christmas music with special performances by The X-Friends, Alex himself, something akin to Frank Sinatra, Anthony Daniels and the Beatles.

It's a touchy subject but someone has to deal with it. Alex and his Resistance Radio goes raunchy and talks about pop music and sexuality.

Alex runs for president and campaign by playing blues and handing out cheeseburgers!

Alex hijacks a german radiostation to host a 30 minute show highlighting some of his musical friends as well as talk in depth about politics in music.

Alex hijacks a german radiostation to host a 30 minute show highlighting his musical friends and collaborators on the new track "No Trust".

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. Welcome to the BCP Show! 1. Welcome to the BCP Show 2. Little Brother Rabbit 3. You get used to it 4. Evil Clown (mostly in Swedish) 5. 30 Seconds over Tokyo 6. BCP says goodbye No moneyback guarantee. Batteries not included. For consumer #1 - Wurdah. May he have lived another year.

"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 and Nine Inch Nails with a heavy nod towards "The Wall" and "Year Zero". The music is filled with a soundscape of masterful storytelling woven together with emotive and expressive vocalizations. It is like being in the calm of the storm just before all hell breaks loose and you get sucked into the centre of a tornado. Stand up, defy and be the revolution.

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, 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 and Nine Inch Nails with a heavy nod towards "The Wall" and "Year Zero". The music is filled with a soundscape of masterful storytelling woven together with emotive and expressive vocalizations. It is like being in the calm of the storm just before all hell breaks loose and you get sucked into the centre of a tornado. Stand up, defy and be the revolution.

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 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 and Nine Inch Nails with a heavy nod towards "The Wall" and "Year Zero". The music is filled with a soundscape of masterful storytelling woven together with emotive and expressive vocalizations. It is like being in the calm of the storm just before all hell breaks loose and you get sucked into the centre of a tornado. Stand up, defy and be the revolution.

"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 and Nine Inch Nails with a heavy nod towards "The Wall" and "Year Zero". The music is filled with a soundscape of masterful storytelling woven together with emotive and expressive vocalizations. It is like being in the calm of the storm just before all hell breaks loose and you get sucked into the centre of a tornado. Stand up, defy and be the revolution. In this first episode Alex takes you on a trip through the first prototype of the evil clown pig president project. A BCP offshot that would take three years to complete!

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 there is no more issues to adress. But we may be back....maybe!

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 ikea-boy think he's a hoodnigga and so many more questions to be ignored.

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 the consequences that it has on the world in general. Be warned, this episode of the podcast contain cursing and adult themes.

Part 2 of 2, now on regular black coffee, hybrid twins Nalx and Ilex discuss the making of the gloomy soundtrack to chicken as well as broken dogmatic rules and the "real" reason for the podcast.

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 sober enough to retell the story correctly. This is part one of two.

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 but what the hey, If you feel the need to fill that time, pick your nose!

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 statement that would signal the end of the BCP collaboration. 

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, performed in all non-native English by Mr. Nils Pihlblad.

Alex and Axel finally conclude their extensive talk about the making of "Contrary to Public Belief" by diving into the story of where "Little Brother Rabbit" came from and how the album nearly was lost due to a technical malfunction.  As always with Alex Ahlstrand and Nils Pihlblad.

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 continue.

Episode 2 of 3 in a short special series chronicling the wonderful world of BCP. Nah...we're two geezers talking about old times.

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.

Alex Ahlstrand and Nils Pihlblad had a band. It was cryptically known as BCP. In this special episode Alex and Nils discuss the genesis of BCP over a box of red wine. Featuring: Nils Pihlblad.

In a special episode Alexander Ahlstrand pays special tribute to his father.

Due to karma, the middle segment of the MMXP story is temporarily lost. That means that BCP is postponed for the time being.Instead Alex takes us on a ride into the politics and drama of online bootlegging and a rare showcasing of two cover performances of tracks made famous by the Pink Floyd.

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. Listen to the full recording of the week here: soundcloud.com/mmxp/ Also check out instagram: @mmxpmusic

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. Listen to the full recording of the week here: soundcloud.com/mmxp/ Also check out instagram: @mmxpmusic

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. Listen to the full recording of the week here: soundcloud.com/mmxp/ Also check out instagram: @mmxpmusic

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. Listen to the full recording of the week here: soundcloud.com/mmxp/ Also check out instagram: @mmxpmusic

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. Listen to the full recording of the week here: soundcloud.com/mmxp/ Also check out instagram: @mmxpmusic

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 Fiction and Ahlstrand leap into a new, much more colorful musical universe. Listen to the full recording of the week here: soundcloud.com/mmxp/ Also check out instagram: @mmxpmusic

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 to the full recording of the week here: soundcloud.com/mmxp/ Also check out instagram: @mmxpmusic

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 instagram: @mmxpmusic

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 to the full recording of the week here: soundcloud.com/mmxp/ Also check out instagram: @mmxpmusic

Mr. Ahlstrand - the unknown swedish guy who recorded a lot of unreleased music, dissects the short live history of the band Soundescape, in late 1997 and early 1998. The recording is available on soundcloud.com/mmxp This is the second and final chapter in the story of Soundescape.

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 soundcloud.com/mmxp This is the first of two chapters in the story of Soundescape.

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!

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 into an album. But let's not get ahead of our selves. The demo is available on soundcloud.com/mmxp This is the story of "Behind her, in front of me" - told by the weirdo that wrote it!

Mr. Ahlstrand dissects the creation of "Symbolisms" - A demo created specifically for an event and which the very first time Ahlstrand attempted a coherent concept production.

Ahlstrand recounts the making of "For Promotion Only" - A demo based primarily on tapeloops, vinyl scratching and an offbeat, slightly untuned, rendition of a little known song by Pink Floyd. The episode also offer thoughts on what you can use for rhythm when there is no drum machine.

In this premiere episode, first time podcasting, Ahlstrand recounts the motivation for, and beginning of the Montana Musical Experiments Project, as well as providing insight on his small scale recording facility and lyrical inspiration.