{"title":"Mika Vainio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMika Vainio (born 15 May, 1963, Helsinki, Finland - died 12 April, 2017, France, aged 53) was a Finnish electronic musician, composer and producer. He began his musical career playing electronics and drums as part of the early Finnish industrial and noise scene. In 1993, together with *Ilpo Väisänen* and *Sami Salo*, he founded the minimal electronic group *Pan Sonic*. Sami Salo left Pan Sonic in 1996 and the project continued as a duo until disbanding in 2009. Vainio then established a successful solo career, often collaborating with experimental French composer *François Bonnet*.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, Mika Vainio pushed boundaries and experimented with various sounds to create unique compositions. His music is characterized by its minimalist approach and incorporation of industrial elements. With his distinct style, he became an influential figure in the electronic music scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome artists who share similar styles or influences with Mika Vainio include CoH, alva noto, Ryoji Ikeda, Frank Bretschneider, Komet, Grischa Lichtenberger, Aleph-1 Byetone Mark Fell Ø Kangding Ray Taylor Deupree Senking Akira Rabelais Oval Vladislav Delay Stephan Mathieu SND David Toop Jan Jelinek.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fermionit-kulmamomentti","title":"Fermionit \/ Kulmamomentti","description":"\u003cp\u003eMika Vainio was recoording a new Ø-album since 2014. He almost got it ready before his too early passing in 2017.\nMika's girlfriend Rikke Lundgreen from Oslo has been going through his notes, numerous versions and takes of the album treacks. Now the collection of the tracks is completed.\n\n\nThere were two tracks that Mika thought should not be included the album. They make this release. The shorter track Kulmamomentti is edited slightly longer by Jimi Tenor and Timo Kaukolampi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sahko","offers":[{"title":"Black 12\" - 2218061","offer_id":50380200706379,"sku":"2218061","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_d50b186e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726210717"},{"product_id":"25082016235210179-live-at-berlin-atonal","title":"25082016235210179 - Live at Berlin Atonal","description":"\u003cp\u003eBerlin Atonal release Mika Vainio’s live performance at the 2016 edition of the festival. Accompanied by the artwork from Vainio's personal archives, its soft lack of focus is reminiscent of the natural looseness in his sound programming, lending itself to jazz as much as any form of electronic music. Right at the tips of his fingers, sparks fly unhindered by background noise, left to saturate in his universe of swollen intent. This pared-down, sensitive, and serious music has no parallel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep, throbbing analogue laments emanate from the outset reaching far into the furthest fissures of Kraftwerk’s main hall, a chasmic exercise in arching minimalism. Between crisp, upfront sonic assault and backset rhythmic work, it morphs about the cavernous hall exploring to the core the relationship between sound and architecture. Unrelenting and icily atmospheric, the haptic saturation arouses a body of nerves. As ever the scope of Vainio's poignant work is vast, with limited tools at his disposal. Motifs are revisited and reiterated, calmly rendering confrontational and extreme mechanisms. Feedback blasts buzz over and destroy passages, punctuated by sparse rhythm. As the performance draws towards a close, percussive sounds come to the fore. Rhythmic patterns hint but never falling into predictable repetition, always manipulated, Vainio etching away with his machines. A long-form performance, of ebbing passages, it grows in quasi-orchestral style as mountainous sounds vie for daylight in a thick sound horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berlin Atonal","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2.","offer_id":50401857634635,"sku":"1106187","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6fa9c3af-52b2-4eba-8783-d7122a2065f8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726525667"},{"product_id":"reat","title":"Reat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first release in 8 years on EMD. Sublime electronic scapes with a poetic approach from the late Mika Vainio. 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It took place at Cave12 on 02.02.2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe needed time to listen to this archive again, which we did in situ in June 2020 with Cindy Van Acker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efter this listening, we felt invested in having to make this archive public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded 02.02.2017 at Cave12, Geneva by Benjamin Ephise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit by Stephen O'Malley \u0026amp; Carl Michael von Hausswolff at EMS, Stockholm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMastered by Denis Blackham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVinyl cut by Andreas Kauffelt ar Schnittstelle, Berlin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtworks by Franz Graf, Mika Vainio Archive, Oslo and Cm von Hausswolff collection,\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50463162925387,"sku":"1113193","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/bef26e76-887f-479b-bf86-64c60dd799af_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727262255"},{"product_id":"arc-1-1","title":"Arc 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eMika Vainio left behind a lots of unfinished projects and unreleased music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis archive series is presenting some pieces which can be considered as completed works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume comprise of two selections from the 48:22 long untitled recording Mika Vainio did as Ø for the radio project Ambient City at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki 1994.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50483650756939,"sku":"1068710","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c456dd0c-376c-478f-937e-89fdab08f386_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727571221"},{"product_id":"kilo","title":"Kilo","description":"\u003cp\u003eMika Vainio's first solo album for Blastfirst sees him return to his  classic power electronics, heavy beats approach that made his Pansonic duo with ilpo vaissanen  garner a world wide reputation. The album developed from Vainio's recent live sets to make ten tersely titled tracks apprently inspired by the shipping container industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blast First","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50491315388747,"sku":"364152","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/88862dd6-e6d0-4099-988b-bd5ee0ccaa86_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727685285"},{"product_id":"lydspor-one-and-two-blue-tb7-series","title":"Lydspor One and Two (Blue TB7 Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMika visited the Moog Sound-Lab in April 2015. He made one his last known solo studio recordings in the form of two vinyl sized side long pieces. Entitled \u003ci\u003eLydspor\u003c\/i\u003e - Danish for Soundtrack. Mika worked almost exclusively with the lab’s Moog Modular System 55. This UK sound -lab instrument is the sole prototype model (containing several golden filters) of moog’s recent Sold out reverse-engineered edition (55 units only) recreating the 1970’s classic. On completion of his sessions Mika announced ‘i could work with this machine for the rest of my life….I would need nothing else”. A second moog session was planned but tragically Mika died in an accident in April 2017, shortly after he had approved the vinyl mastering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moog Recordings Library","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50497805484363,"sku":"1033882","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/00c925b4-bbea-48f3-8b54-06263f3d68d8_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727733159"},{"product_id":"m-t-v-15-05-63-12-04-2017","title":"M.T.V. 15.05.63  12.04.2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 260 page, full colour, hardback book. 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The title, Sysivalo, is invented by Vainio by combining the Finnish words sysi (dark or sinister) and valo (light).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike life itself, the album carries a quiet darkness - honest and full of hidden light. The many of the tracks are beatless subtle soundtracks of eclipsed emotions. Like an incapacitated creature waiting for something to happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe closing track Loputon (Endless) is maybe the most beautiful tracks Vainio has ever written, Vainio's last word.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sahko","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53379358884171,"sku":"R9978-5943","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cover.ki-1_0375dd65-5cb1-4f0a-8faf-d5ef28e66298.jpg?v=1757785888"},{"product_id":"aste","title":"Aste","description":"\u003cp\u003eMika Vainio's recordings from 1991-1992, mostly his blueprint tehno style but also some ambient tracks. 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