New Moods

”New Moods” Spotify Playlist selected by Twisted Krister

1. Jaga Jazzist – Swedenborgske Rom
2. Oskar Sala – Langsames Stück Und Rondo Für Trautonium
3. Orbital – Adnans
4. Gentle Giant – Acquiring The Taste
5. Depeche Mode – The Great Outdoors!
6. Recoil – Freeze
7. Squarepusher – Rotate Electrolyte
8. Aphex Twin – Tha
9. The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds - Live '93 Version

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America

”America”, a Spotify Playlist selected by Twisted Krister

Rakkaudella, Amerikka / Greetings from the great old west!

1. Simon & Garfunkel – America

2. Kim Wilde – Kids In America

3. Frankie Lane – Riders In The Sky

4. Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman

5. Bruce Springsteen – State Trooper

6. Suicide – Ghost Rider

7. Stevie Wonder – Living For The City

8. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five feat. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee – The Message

9. Kool Moe Dee – Little Jon

10. Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #2

11. Nico – These Days

12. Stephen Emmer & Lou Reed – Passengers

13. David Lee Roth – Coconut Grove

14. Elliott Smith – L.A.

15. Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart

16. John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads

The Stuttering Steps

Another Spotify Playlist selected by Twisted Krister
Teknologiavetoista katkotanssia! / Cut-up Beats 'n' Paste Allsorts!

1. U-Ziq – Hasty Boom Alert
2. Luke Vibert – Belief File
3. Laurent Garnier – Cycles D'Oppositions
4. Michael Black Electro – Agape
5. Moderat – Let Your Love Grow
6. Squarepusher – Planetarium
7. Adam F – Music In My Mind
8. MF Doom – Coffin Nails
9. Tidy Kid – Smell
10. Spring Heel Jack – Sweep
11. Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Hill
12. Reuna – Upwenta
13. Ty – Wait A Minute

MALLISTO On YLE's AVARUUSROMUA Broadcast

"Avaruusromua" [Space Debris], Jukka Mikkola's program for all things ambient, experimental and electronic opened with Mallisto's "Halkio Beats" last Sunday (which incidentally was also Finnish Independence Day).

The whole program can be heard (in Finland only, sorry) for a week from here.

Mallisto: Juhannus 3008 reminder

Erikoisdance 13, "Juhannus 3008" by 90's synth-folk masterminds Mallisto is finally out! New weird forest synth of Finland. Every copy of the first edition comes with a randomly selected, authentic 90's snapshot of the band in action.

Erikoisdance editions vary from Super to Not That Limited on the CDr Availability Scale, and can usually be bought from the Clone Records, Ektro Records and If Society web shops, plus in Helsinki from Pitkämies (records, comics etc.) and the Myymälä2 Gallery.

Also, you can buy the record directly by dropping an email at www.myspace.com/erikoismies

Twisted Krister interview! (In Finnish)

Uusi Colossus Magazine sisältää tuoreen Twisted Krister-haastattelun, jolla kerron muun muassa piakkoin julkaistavasta Ringbahn-levystä.

Colossus Magazine is the publication of Finnish Progressive Music Society. The latest issue includes a Twisted Krister interview among tons of other interesting stuff.

On the Beach

On the Beach Playlist for Spotify by Twisted Krister <- please click

Contemplative and energetic tracks for your shoretime moments.

Mietiskeleviä, mutta myös reippaita tunnelmia horisonttiin tuijottelua ja rantakävelyitä – niin todellisia kuin kuviteltujakin – varten.

1.  Regina Spektor – Eet
2.  A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
3.  Empire of the Sun – Standing on the Shore
4.  The Movies – Creation Lake
5.  Minnie Riperton – Les Fleurs
6.  Boards of Canada – Roygbiv
7.  The Thrills – Big Sur
8.  Wagon Christ – Shadows
9.  Stereolab – Gus the Mynah Bird
10. M83 – Kim & Jessie
11. Talking Heads – Listening Wind
12. Massive Attack – What Your Soul Sings
13. Cherry Ghost – People Help People
14. Boom Bip – Awaiting An Accident (Lali Puna Remix)

RINGBAHN recording sessions finished!

I'm back from the trip to Berlin where we recorded the last missing bits on location and with Dijana for "Ringbahn". Release coming ever so soon!

Blue Eyes

A Twisted Krister mellow mix for Spotify <- please click

1. Chromeo – Mercury Tears 2
2. Jay-Jay Johanson – Rocks in Pockets
3. Thomas Dolby – Cruel
4. Depeche Mode – Suffer Well
5. Nelly Furtado – Say It Right
6. Eels – Woman Driving, Man Sleeping
7. Beck – Nobody's Fault But My Own
8. The Blue Nile – Let's Go Out Tonight
9. Elliott Smith – Twilight
10. Robert Palmer – Johnny And Mary
11. Joni Mitchell – All I Want
12. Sonic Youth – Superstar
13. Cliff Richard – We Don't Talk Anymore
14. Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman
15. Martin L. Gore – I Cast a Lonesome Shadow
16. Jori Hulkkonen – Lo-Fiction
17. Elton John – Blue Eyes

 

Keyboard Chops

Armageddon Animation

Rainy Day Somewhere in the 21st Century

Lost Boys

A split release from TWISTED KRISTER and ERIKOISMIES coming soon

Twisted Krister / Erikoismies split CDr
will be released Q4 2009 on Erikoisdance!

Twisted Krister is currently finishing a new e.p. “Ringbahn”. All the tracks were initiated and sketched into form on spot around the different boroughs and areas of Berlin, Germany using a portable synth / sequencer. The aim was to capture the atmosphere and mood of these places. The current tracklist:

1. Morituri te salutant
2. Moss World
3. Ringbahn
4. Monolog
5. Music For Dealers
6. King Everything

“Ringbahn” is getting its first release on the minuscule yet prolific Erikoisdance label as one half of a split record shared with Erikoismies's “S.I.M.O. Tracks”. All information regarding the contents of Erikoismies's half of the disc is still shrouded in a veil of unpenetratable mystery.

Release is scheduled for Q4 / 2009.

MALLISTO's "Juhannus 3008" e.p. out on Erikoisdance

Erikoisdance 13
Artist: Mallisto
Release: "Juhannus 3008" (CDr)
Release date: August 2009
Running time: 18+ minutes
File under: electronics, ambient synth folk, psychedelia, pop, home recording

Mallisto, founded in Helsinki by Christer Nuutinen (kb/v) and Jukka Vallisto (bg) in the mid-nineties, was active off and on for several years with slightly varying lineups, Nuutinen and Jenni Rope (kb/v) being present in most of the incarnations. Either as a duo or with Vallisto, and later with Ilja Karsikas on guitar.

A year or so of semi-active live playing (at events ranging from ordinary club gigs to art show openings and private house warming parties in tiny student flats) gradually saw the bands output evolve from childish instrumental electro pop to a peculiar lofi sound, mixing synth pop and psychedelia. The only recording to enter the public sphere during Mallisto’s active phase was the self-released EP Polku, performed and produced in 2000 by Nuutinen and Rope as a duo.

Quite sadly, as the band continued to further refine its trademark sound — finally matured into their very own specific blend of Lofi Ambient Folk Pop — their active phase also seemed to slowly but firmly grind to a halt. Today, not even the members of Mallisto themselves are sure if the group still exists.

Juhannus 3008 compiles 5 tracks, originally recorded in separate sessions, during a timespan of almost 15 years, but still managing to sum up as one solid body of work.

Here a charming array of old electric pianos, organs and beautiful analog synths are paired with frail lullaby vocals and the occasional hand picked guitar to a most enchanting effect.

Melodies — melancholic, warm and inviting — hover mid-air, gently held afloat in the almost invisible, ethereal embrace of buzzing oscillators, reversed tape loops and a strange kind of audible silence. The bands instantly recognisable sound is simultaneously both rich and humble, intimate and spacious. A remix provided by Erikoismies is also included.

Erikoisdance online:
www.myspace.com/erikoismies