Mika Vainio

Reviews 5

Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

LISTEN: Russell Cuzner’s Rum Music Best Of 2015 Mix

Confounding Found Sounds (Unfounded): Rum Music For November

Hazy Euphoria: Things The Quietus Learned At Sónar 2015

Mika Vainio
Kilo

Articles 2

Books

Proper Obscurity: Arc Light Editions

In an exclusive extract from his new book for Omnibus Press, Listening to the Wind: Encounters with 21st Century Independent Record Labels, Ian Preece talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about Arc Light Editions and the aporias of the modern record label

A Quietus Interview

Alternating Currents: An Interview With Mika Vainio

Using a stripped-back arsenal of hardware, former Pan Sonic man Mika Vainio opens up chasmic sound worlds that bridge noise, techno and the early electronic avant garde. In a rare interview, he speaks to Russell Cuzner about new album Kilo and the importance of emotion in music

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Baker's Dozen

The Pleasure Of Discomfort: Siavash Amini’s Favourite Music

Siavash Amini discusses his 13 favourite albums with Jennifer Lucy Allan, including the power of romanticism, weeping over the death of Leonard Cohen, and why Nils Frahm has a lot to answer for. Photo by Selma Pour-Amin

News 20

Mika Vainio’s Final Live Performance Released By Editions Mego

The show took place in Geneva almost four years ago just months before the Finnish artist's death

Berlin Atonal Brings Back Label With Two New Releases

The Berlin festival's label arm will release a compilation as well as a live recording of the late Mika Vainio's 2016 appearance at the event

Muslimgauze & Zoviet France Remixes Of Pan Sonic Unearthed

The previously unheard remixes were released via Sähkö Recordings over the weekend

Mika Vainio’s Final UK Performance To Be Released

The recording of the set had been thought to be lost for 18 months

Sähkö To Launch Mika Vainio Archive Series

The first in a series of archival Mika Vainio recordings dates back to 1994

LISTEN: New Vainio & Vigroux

Listen to 'Feux' lifted from the upcoming EP by Mika Vainio & Franck Vigroux, their first release since the former's death last year

LISTEN: New Vainio & Vigroux

Cosmo Rhythmatic will release a posthumous collaboration from Mika Vainio, working with Franck Vigroux

New Touch Compilation Features Mika Vainio And More

Touch label unveils new compilation and book featuring music from Mika Vainio, Wire and more, as well as photography by Jon Wozencroft

LISTEN: Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda & Alva Noto Collaborate Live

Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda and Alva Noto explore characteristically abstract electronics on track lifted from only live recording captured between the trio

Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda & Alva Noto To Release Live Album

Noton will release Live 2002, the only known recording of Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda and Alva Noto performing together, in January

New Mika Vainio Album Announced

The record was in production before his death last month

RIP Mika Vainio

Finnish producer dies aged 53

WATCH: New Vainio / Vigroux Video

Producers share visual for album track 'Parabole'; watch the video below

Vainio and Vigroux Collaborative Album

Pair team up for collaborative album that has been three years in the making

New Event From Berlin Atonal Team

Berlin Atonal organisers ready a 30-hour event at Kraftwerk Berlin featuring appearances from Actress, Mika Vainio and Kassem Mosse

Things Learned At: Elevate

Tristan Bath heads to Graz to experience a multitude of modern music buried within the city's underground network. Photos by Lupi Spuma

INTERVIEW: Skull Defekts

With Stockholm miscreants The Skull Defekts releasing their latest album with Daniel Higgs this week, Nick Hutchings catches up with the band's Joachim Nordwall to discuss concerts-as-rituals and the "known unknown" between waking and sleep

Things Learned At: Kuudes Aisti, Helsinki

Luke Turner heads to the hot hot venues of Finland to get balls like dim sum and see all sorts of stern and wonderful music from Mika Vainio, Cold Cave, Savages, Vatican Shadow and more. Photograph courtesy of Ilkka Vuorinen

Mika Vainio: New Album Details

Kilo set for release in May, following Carter Tutti support slot

Carter Tutti To Play Heaven

Mika Vainio and Excepter on the bill! Photo by Chris & Cosey

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Black Sky Thinking

Strategies Against Estate Agents? On Gentrification & The Avant-Garde

The recent London Contemporary Music Festival, held in a Peckham car park, provoked a debate about the role of leftfield art in deprived areas. Joe Kennedy examines some of the knotty debates around gentrification, the arts, and class in Britain today

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Reviews 5

Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

LISTEN: Russell Cuzner’s Rum Music Best Of 2015 Mix

Confounding Found Sounds (Unfounded): Rum Music For November

Hazy Euphoria: Things The Quietus Learned At Sónar 2015

Mika Vainio Kilo

Articles 2

Proper Obscurity: Arc Light Editions

Alternating Currents: An Interview With Mika Vainio

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

The Pleasure Of Discomfort: Siavash Amini’s Favourite Music

News 20

Mika Vainio’s Final Live Performance Released By Editions Mego

Berlin Atonal Brings Back Label With Two New Releases

Muslimgauze & Zoviet France Remixes Of Pan Sonic Unearthed

Mika Vainio’s Final UK Performance To Be Released

Sähkö To Launch Mika Vainio Archive Series

LISTEN: New Vainio & Vigroux

LISTEN: New Vainio & Vigroux

New Touch Compilation Features Mika Vainio And More

LISTEN: Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda & Alva Noto Collaborate Live

Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda & Alva Noto To Release Live Album

New Mika Vainio Album Announced

RIP Mika Vainio

WATCH: New Vainio / Vigroux Video

Vainio and Vigroux Collaborative Album

New Event From Berlin Atonal Team

Things Learned At: Elevate

INTERVIEW: Skull Defekts

Things Learned At: Kuudes Aisti, Helsinki

Mika Vainio: New Album Details

Carter Tutti To Play Heaven

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