Remixes from the North - Vinyl and Digital Release

Artificial Latvamäki remix release is out! Digital and 12" vinyl distributed by Zwart Goud. Featuring remixes from amazing artists: Recue, CRC, New Gods, Robert Engstrand, Dick Volvo and Forehard.

Remixes from the North is an Electro/Techno/Disco vinyl record with 6 remixes from Artificial Latvamäki's Suunta Trilogy, featuring artists such as Recue and CRC (one half of Morphology). The two sides of the record explore two different approaches: murky and scintillating. Travel through the wormhole and find unity through wisdom and elevation.

A1. Eerie (Recue Remix) 04:09

A2. Collision Disco (CRC Remix) 07:15

A3. (New Gods Ritual Revamp) 08:39

B2. Eerie (Robert Engstrand Remix) 07:27

B2. Collision Disco (Dick Volvo Remix) 03:25

B3.  Arp Tetris (Forehard Remix) 08:32

Get the 12" vinyl from: zwartgoud

released February 12, 2021

Mastering by Virtalähde (virtalahde.com)

My next album is almost finished!

Over 50 minutes of melodic techno ranging from deep and slow vibes to nintendoesque old school beats and even to banging high adrenaline polyrythmic techno. The album is going to be called "Suunta", which means "direction, heading, bearing" and it going to be released hopefully this spring 2020.

I have worked with these tracks for ages, not because they needed the polish, but because an entity like album is such a tricky format to create. I wanted it to be diverse enough to show a lot of what I can offer, but also feel good as a listening experience. After wrestling with it for years, I decided to give some decision power to Romain Lanteaume from Goldmin Music. With his support we've gathered the songs to create this album and the history of the songs span through my whole techno career.

It's going to be 6 tracks on vinyl and 8 tracks on digital and I have just this week received the master files.

Now I need help with the last push. I'm contacting video people, marketing people and graphical artists to help me get the marketing push at least to the right direction. If you want to help. Let me know!

Working with the Berlin - Symphony of a Great City movie score

While planning what to do with the movie score, which I briefly talked about in my earlier blog post. I found this great tool from the web called Cinemetrics. Which can evaluate the lengths of the individual shots in the film. This made the planning of the different moods much easier. I decided to use more percussive material for parts with quick edits and more ambient moods to the slower parts. Here's an image of a quick plan I made.

Cinemetrics data image with musical parts and lengths

The parts are marked like this Red (Very Fast), Orange (Fast), Yellow (Medium), Green (Slow). I really love these movie nerds that come up with databases like these. Saved me hours of watching and taking notes, could dive faster into the actual music part and thus helping tons with my workflow. Thanks Cinemetrics!

I'm working on a techno soundtrack for a 1927 movie "Berlin - Symphony of a Great City". It will be performed live in Oulu in an event by Oulun Juhlaviikot.

Here's a test video I did with an unreleased techno piece. Watch out, there's bass all over the place, haven't yet started working on the mix. It's a lot of work to get the 60 minutes of music in that I feel that fits the different moods of the 5 acts in the movie. Let's see how much live action I can squeeze in there, the schedule is tight!

Nevertheless a cool project.

I'm planning to combine the moving images of Berlin with dreamlike experimental techno, with the purpose of deepening the visual obsevation of what's going on in the great city. Also music should help the immense amount of information provided by the fast pace of editing. The tracks will be both released and unreleased material from my "Artificial Latvamäki" archives. New and old. All of the music will be manipulated real-time while observing the feeling of the venue and the images portrayed in the movie. All of the tracks in the set will be re-programmed and re-mixed just for the movie. Because it really deserves it.

Testing my new BX-800 mixer (read: distortion unit)

My Boss BX-800 mixer just arrived in the mail. The first impressions with dry/unprocessed TR-808 samples through a Motu Ultralite and a Boss RDD-20 in the FX Loop got recorded into this low quality iPad video.

Planning to mod T.Bone SC400

I recently acquired a modkit for my T.Bone SC400 cheap donor microphone. The microphone was used and I got it for 30 EUR. The modkit I'm going to use is The "Pushbutton Filter" Mod by Microphone-parts.com - They offer a variety of capsules, but I definitely wanted to get the RK7 low heavy/vintage style capsule. After the hassle with customs the modkit finally arrived and I've got almost everything I need to start modding.

I'll be doing before and after tests with my trusty Roland JX-3P playing a filtered saw bass through a crappy Ampeg BA110 bass cabinet. Posting more when it's time!

A Tall Moonflower radio set available for download

Available for a limited amount of time my set for Maxin Ryzhkov's A Tall Moonflower show on Proton Radio (http://www.protonradio.com/show.php?showid=556). Including a lot of old tracks, some even slightly edited.

Edit: Download is offline (most of the songs can be found from http://latvamaki.bandcamp.com)

01. Artificial Latvamäki - (Song to the) Machine That Built The Sun [edit]
02. Artificial Latvamäki - Se Tuli Aavikolta [edit]
03. Artificial Latvamäki - Really Broken Up and Built Again
04. Aki Latvamäki - A Bath Tub of Full Mutated Bees
05. Artificial Latvamäki - Konstaapelin Ajan Juoksu Yöllä
06. Artificial Latvamäki - Äkta Smak och Sprödhet
07. Artificial Latvamäki - Diana Next Door
08. Artificial Latvamäki feat. Eini Pesälä - Kun Minä Unohduin ja Se Olitkin Sinä