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

Music Video for "We Had Our Good Moments"

Today I was pondering really hard how should I promote my music. I hate promotion. I don't like pushing my stuff to anyone. Why cannot it do it by itself? Well. I was angsting for a while and got this idea for a music video where nothing would happen. Kind of the music video for slow living people. Have you heard of slow traveling? That was the initial thought. Then I saw these ice crystals in the porch window (see picture). I really wanted to film those. And the opposite of them. Fire. Sauna! Yep, that's the story. And here is the video.

Jäkälä, Album #2 out now

My second album "Artificial Latvamäki - Jäkälä" got finished today. It was a long process. These songs have seen a lot. Use the player below to listen to it or go to http://latvamaki.bandcamp.com

The album is out there on "pay what you want" basis. Feel free to pay nothing for I am truly honored if you enjoy the music and share it with your friends, that's enough for me.



Here's what I wrote about it.

Back in 2009 when I started working with my debut album, I noticed that I have too many songs to release just one album, so I divided them into two different groups with different styles. Jäkälä (Lichen) is the follow-up album to 2011 released album Rauta. Featuring 6 tracks with more organic approach to electronic music where Rauta (iron) was more synthesized and industrial in some way.

Most of these songs have traveled a long road with me. Some have started their journey over seven years ago. At some points along the process I thought they never see the light of day and reach the ears of the listeners. Fortunately some of them were leaked out unfinished to the internet many years ago, and I received a lot of feedback about them. This feedback was a driving force for me in my aim to cross the finishing line and apply the finishing touches to the music.

However, I didn't feel like polishing the music endlessly. In the process of mixing and mastering them I had to constantly revert to versions which dated many years back, just because they were much more original and intuitive in their unprocessed form. I had to find a balance of rawness in every track. While listening, you will find instruments and sounds that are clearly bit too loud or unnecessarily harsh. This is something I have preserved. It makes the songs play out more dangerously and unexpectedly and as such they much better serve their purpose of being mirrors into my soul.

Artificial Latvamäki Album #1 Out NOW!

Finally. Fucking finally. After years and years of working to the point of breaking down and rising again like lego brick towers to the sky - I've finally put it out - my debut album "Rauta".

After frustrating myself, trying to get record labels to release it like I wanted it to be, not like they would like it to be, I have decided to put it out for free - pay what you want. Atleast for the first couple of weeks. Or for as long as the free downloads last (yeah, like they would run out, hah).

It's 7:36 in the morning and I've been working all night for this. I hope it's worth it to someone out there listening. It's a beautiful spring friday morning, my name is Dallas Wayne and I say Yeeee-Haa!

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.