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Marko-V / Salakapakka Sound System

Vote with a brick part 4

To celebrate presidential elections of Finland... here is part 4 of Vote with a brick series, in glorious WAV.
mediafire - megaupload - Free Music Archive (mp3)

2012

Is this the moment when I am supposed to say "happy new year"? In your dreams, honey. This year there´s going to be much more misery, famine, economical downfall, extreme and harmful natural phenomena, random and acts of violence, political/religious/social unrest, dictators taking over in some distant barren third-world wastelands etc. And guess what? I´ll make a song or two about them.

video stuff

There is interesting short film including music of SSS behind this link.

New remix track

I am proud to announce that Salakapakka Sound System has one remix track on a brand new Derek Piotr´s remix album "Agora Regathered". Salakapakka Sound System made a remix of his track Behaviour state. Get it from bitsquare or from Experimedia.

Rapidshare files deleted

Rapidshare has announced that most of my files will be deleted since I did not extend my RapidPro. That means I have to upload some older stuff at mediafire and megaupload. That is going to take some time. Luckily, most of SSS stuff is available at other places as well. If there is some specific files you´re after, just let me know.

New compilation track

Salakapakka Sound System track untitled piece for kantele #1 is part of a new web compilation "Soinoise vol.2: SIDS". Remember the kantele which got my hands on recently? As you can guess by the title, this track is made entirely by using that particular instrument and a few effects. Here is what Pawel, the person behind soinoise, has to say:

"The second installment in the Soinoise cycle has become a fact. A fact strangely intriguing and painful, not to mention – international.
This new reality has been subordinated to the sound of musical instruments. That was the starting point – as little electronics and as much live sound as possible. With time, it has evolved a little towards a game with the audience – a game of pretenses and outright trickery. However, the plan of constructing a coherent and constructive statement on instrumental music has been fulfilled.
This compilation lets us lean over certain somewhat forgotten (sometimes literally) instruments and see (or rather hear) if they still have anything to offer. We can analyze single sounds as well as their combinations that dissolve unintelligibly into one another. This freedom, openness, lends itself to the structure of the compositions themselves. Some of them are complete and well thought-out, for some, the word improvisation becomes a none too accurate euphemism.
One should remember that, rather than mere listening, our experience of music is a form of communion."
Tracklist:
01 Untitled Piece for Kantele #1 - Salakapakka Sound System
02 Flowers of Romance (PiL cover) - Pineal Eye
03 Przepis na Naleśniki - Social Cream
04 Bux - Gamid Group
05 Laughing Pig - Sense From Nonsense
06 Krimsun und Klover (Tommy James & The Shondell cover) - Count Brent von Himmel & the Ziopin Choir
07 Perpetual Motion Holder - Pythian Whispers
08 Kshatriya - Indo
09 Divine Times - Merkabah
10 Traffic - Limited Liability Sounds
11 Le Matin des Magiciens - The Day of the Antler

Get SIDS here

New stuff

There has been a number of times when someone asks about or suggests that I should find a "proper" label for releasing my stuff. Now there are two brand new releases ready to go and I am (quite inactively though) searching for labels which might find them interesting enough for a "proper" release.
First one is a full length called "Penetrating angel". It is kind of mixed noise and dark ambient stuff. Four tracks lasting nearly an hour. Second one is a 3" cd called "iDiot" and it is mostly 'rhythmic dark dance music with experimental edge'. This doesn´t mean that I quit releasing stuff for free... far from that.
All interested parties just take contact. Otherwise I end up selling only physical copies of them at my site. Until then you have to deal only with cover pictures. Believe me, they are probably the best stuff I´ve done so far.

Physical copies available

Good news for all you lovers of physical cd-copies. All Salakapakka Sound System releases are available as physical cd-r´s with pro-printed or hand-made covers. E-mail for prices and remember that I am more than willing to trade them for your releases.

DEREK PIOTR / SALAKAPAKKA SOUND SYSTEM: Behaviour State

Brand new collaborational album with Derek Piotr. It is basically a remix-of-a-remix-of-a-remix... album. Here´s what Derek has to say about this project: "I have always had a great adoration for Finnish music, from the fiddle driven beautiful folk music, to the coarse sounding joik, to electronic Finn wizards Pan Sonic and Vladislav Delay. in fact, Antye Greie (known as AGF) is the woman who programmed much of the original Behaviour State track, and she lives with Delay on an island off the coast of Finland. Much of this year has seen me rubbing elbows with Finnish producers, from Jari Pitkänen to Marko V, of Salakapakka Sound System. I have admired his work for a long time and after over a year he and I finally connected. one of the first exchanges we had happened when he decided to send me base files of a track he was working on, called Motorond. these stems eventually became my track Behaviour State, which is in a nuanced way a statement on social networking and passive mind-control. AGF then processed what I had built from Marko's files to create a poweful track indeed. I brought this to Marko and we decided that since I had "remixed" his work, we should continue the flow with a full remix split effort. the end product is what you see here."

I am a man of few words so I have absolutely nothing to add except I´m glad I did it. You can download/listen individual tracks at Free music archive, or you can download whole package at megaupload, rapidshare or mediafire.

There is a nice interview with Derek here where he talks about this particular project and his brand new remix album.