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!