LA MUSIQUE CONCRÈTE part 1

I was committed to making "Mekonium Baby" so hard that I almost forgot I had this in progress as well. As you can guess from it´s name, "La Musique Concrète part 1" is concrete music using only field recordings and pre-existing sounds as material. Even though this is part 1, this ain´t my first exploration into concrete music. Lot of people who downloaded previous Salakapakka Sound System items seem to have missed my very first post "Kahden Kulttuurin Ääniä".

For now "La Musique Concrète part 1" is available for download at excellent Because God Told Me To Do It blog and Kill Your Godz site. Uncompressed formats available later at Internet Archive. Go to those sites to enjoy "La Musique 1"; shitload of strange sounds mixed with ambient noise, church acoustics, construction site noises, religious chants etc.

tracks:
1. God´s gift [4.37]
2. Tebe poyem [4.35]
3. The end of christianity... as we know it [5.57]
4. Henki ei kulje [6.02]
5. Descend into hell 1 [7.44]
6. Descend into hell 2 [30.00]

UPDATE: now available uncompressed here.
Or get whole mp3 set here.

Compilation track

Salakapakka Sound System appears on free web-compilation "Because God Told Me To Do It vol1: Formulation". Track Celebration of the Moon is a droning piece for two guitars and synth. So far it is available nowhere else.

Go get the whole compilation HERE

KiLL yER GodZ

Now you can find Salakapakka Sound System (and related) at Brad Miller´s KILL YOUR GODS website which is dedicated to artists of experimental and non-commercial nature. Check it out, there´s going to be extra tracks not available elsewhere sometime in future.
I also encourage you to visit Brad´s excellent blog Because God Told Me To Do It if you are even remotely interested in Psychic TV/GP-O, Sleepchamber, Blood Axis, martial/neo folk etc. One of THE best blogs out there.

Visit KILL YOUR GODS
Visit BECAUSE GOD TOLD ME TO DO IT

coming soon...

MARKO & MYKY: MEKONIUM BABY

Finally it is ready! Celebrating my daughter´s one-year birthday here is Marko & Myky: ”Mekonium Baby” 3” CD-R. Participants were Marko-V (born 1970) and Pinja (born 2008). All sounds are vocal voices and other noises produced by Pinja.

First track Sandman features distorted sounds of Pinja´s whining which sounds a lot like overdriven guitar. There´s also metallic rhythm of her banging on a can.
Title track Mekonium baby is longest track. It is slowly evolving stuff divided in two separate parts. This track includes only whining and breathing sounds even though the rhythm of the second part sounds like warped drum machine.
Toy synth v1.0 and v2.0 include sounds of Pinja vocalising and playing children´s toy keyboard (which has by now gone to graveyard of old electronic gadgets, R.I.P.). Actually she managed to get the keyboard malfunctioning and producing strange sounds which are presented here. I never managed to get such a great sounds out of it.
Voi itku was presented here on Ikuinen kaamos blog before. Slowed down voices of Pinja remind me of Whitehouse´s track Baby from Quality Time CD.
Retarded lullaby ends this mini album and features also sounds of Pinja before she was even born. The clicking sounds of the latter part of this song are originally produced by machine which monitors child´s heart rate just before birth begins (oh yes, I had recorder with me in maternity hospital).

Enjoy, it demanded hard time and effort doing this.
Review here.

Download MARKO & MYKY: Mekonium Baby
here (various different file formats), or few tracks here.

New download options

Because not everyone has a Rapidshare account, I have decided to make downloads (uncompressed WAV, compressed lossless FLAC and VBR mp3) available also via Internet Archive. There you can preview and/or download individual tracks instead of whole zipped packages.

Gear-a-holic part 4

Eagerly awaited FM3 Buddha Machine 2.0 with new loops has been released. This time it features also pitch bend wheel. I haven´t got it yet but FM3 are kind enough to provide loops in mp3 format here. Expect "Buddha Machines on Fire part 2" sometime in distant future. Small feature of "Buddha Machines on Fire" here.

Things are going slowly. I wish "Mekonium Baby" mini-cd will be finished until the end of february. Three tracks are ready, couple more are on their way. "Mekonium Baby" was originally supposed to be a little softer material but it is getting louder and noisier than I previously planned. It is always a surprise where things are evolving.

Gear-a-holic part 3

Now this is interesting sounding gadget called Meinl Helix Bowl. It is... as you can guess... a metal helix attached to hollow bowl. By stroking or beating helix with a metal stick produces fascinating spacey sound.


I was supposed to put a sound example here but it evolved into a full track called Ins'allah which will be included in "Kallokontrolli" CD-r. Just wait until it gets finished. (UPDATE: ...fuck that, it is here)

Gear-a-holic part 2

Just recently I bought this interesting pocket size synth-looper Korg Kaossilator. Nice little toy to play with. It includes plenty of synthetic sounds which you can control by touch pad in a same manner you control effects in Kaosspad (another fancy toy from Korg). You can also create nice loops which you unfortunately cannot save for later use (that´s why portable recorder is handy companion tool).
Here are two very different tracks I made by Kaossilator. First track One Minute_11 is a short new age/ambient track which will be featured in upcoming "60 Minutes" CD. Second example Piper of the Wasteland is long (nearly 12 minutes) slightly edited track which is based on growing layers of loops. At best there must be about 20 different sounds looping around.

Download One Minute_11 here
Download Piper of the Wasteland here

Upcoming stuff

Long time and not much to post here. I´ve been busy spending quality time with family and doing this and that etc.

I have been working on various musical ideas simultaneously. Upcoming releases include the following:

1. Marko & Myky: "Mekonium Baby"
2. "Kallokontrolli" (noise)
3. So far untitled series of musique concrete -cd´s. Recently I´ve been working on a half-hour lasting concrete ambient track Descend into Hell.
4. "60 Minutes", collection of sound sketches and minisongs each lasting one minute.
5. There exists also various tracks which do not fit into any of above mentioned releases. They will be collected on cd´s sometime in future (or they will be posted here separately in time).