It Is Now Also Not EP - Out Now

I just finished uploading "It Is Now Also Not" EP to Bandcamp. Many people have been asking for this EP to be released because it features the epic "It Is Not Now Either" supported by Ellen Allien and James Zabiela amongst others.

This EP concludes the old releases that I will be uploading, next up it's going to be brand new material. And later, my album. Stay tuned. Now listen to this:

Pöly EP digitally remastered and digitally released

Pöly EP is now out in bandcamp. Remastered and ready for listening and cheap download.

The nice thing with bandcamp compared to beatport for example is that the royalty% going to the artist is 75% in bandcamp when for me it's 5-10% in beatport, which is something like 0,122 euros or less per song. So in conclusion downloading from bandcamp supports the artist and dowloading from beatport supports shit. Happy listening!

Directions

New cover for Mänty EP

Today I decided to start releasing music in digital format. No matter how much I love vinyls, I've always been very dissatisfied with record labels and their performance, contracts and lack of vision. So I did some research and ended up choosing bandcamp about which I initially heard from Blamstrain. After choosing the way to go I went and remastered my first EP, Mänty, which was released on trapezltd back in 2005 and put it up there and set up a special, cheap price for it too.

Now I'm thinking about putting the next EP, Pöly, up there as well. However, I don't know if they limit the amount of songs I can upload, I hope not, because I think the freedom that comes with being able to choose what I can release on my own will boost my interest in working with music. I've already made plans for future releases, and I will release my album this way in the near future.
So here's my bandcamp page!

Have You Finnished Yet?

I was asked by Dimitri of Halo Cyan imprint to do a promotional mixtape consisting entirely of Finnish music and focusing mainly on techno sound. Here it is, "Have You Finnished Yet?" - Some of my favourite artists from Finland and couple of my own songs as shameless promotion.


And the tracklist:

Op:l Bastards - Blue Light Toilet
CRC - Influence Device
Blamstrain - Fwd: More 5'exual P1eesure
Juho Kahilainen - Essence Of You
Artificial Latvamäki - Se Tuli Aavikolta
K-X-P - 18 Hours (Of Love)
Aavikko - Syntaksis
Äänijännite - Departures
Mesak - Keinoteko
Hannulelauri - Injury Time
Aki Latvamäki - Tämä Tuli Järvestä
Morphology - Dark Days Are Gone

Old B-side from times of Mänty EP

I found this old song from my computer. It brought back a lot of memories from 2004. Quite different style than what I've been doing later. It was done at the same time as Mänty EP, which was released on Trapezltd.


Artificial Latvamäki - 2 sides

Under the sun, new is born on the earth

Everything is a blur... I've decided not to move towards a more touchable life. With me here I have playing: Sauveur Mallia - Stone Roller - and it's enough for me. A few days ago I mashuped some popular shit, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6K7FskXwyU  - whee. Fuck that. Now I'm listening to my c64 remix of Alden Tyrell's Love Explosion, it's in the HVSC if anyone cares.

Take a listen to this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/848631/drumkit2.ogg

It was done about five years ago. I was banging the drums through a shure 58 onto a cassette deck and then brought back to sample.

Also I've played some guitar, like this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/848631/aki_latvamäki-pakaste.mp3

Cheers, cherries & peace!

97 minutes

Today I started collecting together all the unreleased good-quality material that I have lying around and noticed that taking only the best ones I am looking at 97+ minutes of songs, that would easily make a long player and with little effort, 2 long players.

Here's the tracklist. Some of them can be found as a demo version somewhere, like from the LWE podcast, or here from this blog. Final versions will differ, naturally.

7:26 - 01. Artificial Latvamäki - Torture Chorder
8:17 - 02. Artificial Latvamäki - It Is Not Now Either
9:04 - 03. Artificial Latvamäki - Mandolin
7:49 - 04. Artificial Latvamäki - We Had Our Good Moments
8:19 - 05. Artificial Latvamäki - Diana Next Door
7:30 - 06. Artificial Latvamäki feat. Eini Pesälä - Kun Minä Unohduin Ja Se Olitkin Sinä
7:42 - 07. Artificial Latvamäki - Super Jumi
5:36 - 08. Artificial Latvamäki - Now A Series Of
8:16 - 09. Artificial Latvamäki - Senap Bröd
7:48 - 10. Artificial Latvamäki - A Song
10:50 - 11. Artificial Latvamäki - It Is Not Now Either (Remix)
9:04 - 12. Artificial Latvamäki - Äkta Smak Och Sprödhet
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1:37:35 - total time

So good record labels out there. Let me know ;)

I'm also working with a remix for Sistol at the moment. Feeling quite good about it. Catch you later!

Failures (in remixing Guy Gerber and in life)

Once upon a time, back in 2007 or so. Cocoon asked me to remix Guy Gerber. I was thrilled! And up for it. I did four different remixes for them -- 3 got rejected and one (the third one, the best one in my opinion) was rejected because "it was not a remix, but my own song." We were also in talks to release that one as my own song together with another piece, which was ready. None of this got out! It was a difficult situation in life for me in many other ways too, and this continued rejecting without any concrete feedback really broke my back. I stopped writing music for atleast 6 months and decided to pursue to get my life back together. I was working with 2 albums back then, both I threw into the trashcan. Now listening to the first remix I did back then brings back memories, good and bad. But I think it's good and I don't see a reason not to release it. Here it is. The first of four attempts. Haven't listened to Guy Gerber since.

Guy Gerber - 2 birds 1 stoned (Aki Latvamäki Remix) by Latvamäki

I'm planning to strip these versions of the crappy berber-material and make them my own songs one day and release them on a CD-r if not on youtube. Other 2 versions can be found from my soundcloud page.

"Now A Series Of", A study of techno ambient

Here's something I did yesterday, while reversing some samples and sampling everything that came into my mind. Featuring chinese opera singer and demonic indian speech. I thought this sounded a bit like old Kompakt stuff with a new twist. However... these days... I'm so frustrated with record labels, that I don't even feel like sending it to anyone, or even finishing it. So here it is, straight out from the drawing table, first rendering of "Now A Series Of". If you like it, I could try to write more of similar songs. MP3 also available on request.

Artificial Latvamäki - Now A Series Of by Latvamäki

THJKB Single

This is the first Single out with our band Tuomas Henrikin Jeesuksen Kristuksen Bändi.

Day off from Music

Today I had my day off from music. Or I was supposed to have a day off, but instead I only worked with music... Now I'm finishing it off by uploading some music. Here it is.

Diana Next Door by Latvamäki

She lives next door. She has a high pitched voice. She's named after a princess. A dead princess.

Broken Gear

Everything seems to be breaking apart. I wonder if there's something wrong with my apartment's electricity, as everything else seems to be fucked up, so why not that too. First my mixer (cheap & shit Soundcraft EPM-8) broke down, now one of my crappy monitor speakers (KRK RP5) stopped working in similar fashion. They just don't power up. I seem to have the worst of luck when it comes to electronics staying intact. I just recently bought a Roland JX-3p with a PG-200 controller and on the first show I tried to play them, the controller didn't work. I don't have the finances to get a new mixer or new speakers. So I guess I am not producing anything before I do.

Are modern electronic appliances only meant to last for 2 years?

Stay away from these models, if you can.