open call for remixing

I am planning a Salakapakka Sound System remix EP. I have already two lovely fellows who have agreed to do a remix/reworking of SSS material. If you feel like toying with SSS tracks, feel free to contact me. Any style or genre is accepted.

I´ve made lately some remixing/reworking myself. Latest remixes will hopefully materialize in one form or another in near future. One of the strangest remixes I made is available for streaming here. It is an experimental remix of Sarah Fimm´s song Everything becomes whole using only Sarah´s voice as a sound material. Don´t be fooled by the fact that it appears in a remix contest. I never believe it is going to win, I only made it because I felt like doing and trying something totally different compared to original track. What bugs me about majority of today´s remixes is that they tend to be unimaginative trance/dance/whatever remixes aimed mostly at dance floor audience. I am sick of hearing that bumping drum and bass wankery. Well, making a dance mix of some power electronics track might be quite ...challenging (not to mention how much would it piss noise fanatics and trance airheads off).

Bloody hell... this was a 100th post on this blog. Raise a glass of absinthe for me.

Gear-a-holic part 10

This is my new toy. I call it junknator 1. It is basically just a bunch of small iron and springs attached to each other and piece of wood. Contact and close micing + some delicate chosen effects give some nice sounds. I haven´t yet made any track by using it but sometime in future you will hear it in action. Maybe junknator 2 will materialize too.

And here is my latest purchase, Indian shruti box. I love the sound of Indian instruments but unfortunately it is nearly impossible to try and test them anywhere near where I live. I sold some records which I don´t listen anymore to finance this charming (but slightly dysfuncional) unit. Just can´t wait until I have enough spare time to toy with it.

stream Penetrating Angel

Now you can stream the unreleased album "Penetrating Angel" right here or at soundcloud.

soundcloud

Soundcloud seems like a nice place, so now I am officially part of it. Go check me at http://soundcloud.com/salakapakka-sound-system
There will be some tracks for streaming and/or downloading.

more video stuff

One of the good things about releasing stuff copyright-free is that you can find your stuff sometimes at curious places, like underground short films and advertisments.
There are few more video shorts where SSS music is involved. Here are the links:
Bad Taste 3.0: Jammer-Party (trailer, made by Marcus Wojatschke) - another link



Still More Worrying (short film made by Yan Kouton)



Frame (advertising the independent film project)

Vote with a brick part 5

Presidential election of Russia next sunday. It is a really hard guess who will win... (yeah, right)
Get Vote with a brick part 5 here. Quality of mix and democratic situation in Russia are equally good.

update & video stuff

Just back from Thailand just to notice that one of my external hard drives malfunctioned badly and finally died away. That means a lot of my sound material (field recordings, random effect sounds, samples etc.) has gone for good. Maybe from now on I´ll learn to back up important stuff more frequently. That means two things: A) "La Musique Concréte part 2" will be delayed & B) "Buddha Machines On Fire part 2" will be delayed. Maybe there is a good side in all of this: I´ll renew my whole computer system and get rid of lot of junk and start making music from an 'empty table'.

There is impressing experimental short film I Wake at You Tube which uses SSS´s First week as a background music. I´m glad they used my music for that. Watch it.

Megaupload down

"Dear United States Department of Justice. You have decided to shut down megaupload. Well... fuck you and everything you stand for."

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
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.