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Kiteet
Boomkat Product Review:
No fewer than three unreleased Mika Vainio works resurface alongside quieter highlights of his catalogue in a 23 years-overdue compilation originally made for an exhibition in Milan.
First commissioned for the Snow Crash exhibition in 1997, ‘Kiteet’ now sees a posthumous release, reminding of Vainio's subtlest solo standouts in the likes of ’Syväys’ and ‘Radio’, sequenced beside three diverse, unreleased gems of the late, great composer at his piercingly focussed and minimalist best - utterly crucial listening for fans of his seminal mid-’90s output circa ‘Metri’ and ‘Olento’ for any Ø head or lovers of C.20th minimalist music.
For the uninitiated, the album serves as a handy primer on Mika’s most pivotal period, aside to his Chicago-inspired techno, when he forged a style of improvised live electronic music that hold up as some of the purest and most hauntingly life-affirming in a generation. The icy 12’ expanse of sliding sine waves describing endless tundra in ’Syväys’ is a total classic, while the 9’s of hypnagogtic drone and ether voices in ‘Radio’ is another, and ‘Halli’ is the closest we’ll come to shivering in an ice cave in the Arctic. We can now add the whistling bleeps and frozen synths of ‘Kiteet, Pt. 1’, and the characteristically cranky grip of its pulsating ‘Pt.2’, from the album’s unreleased highlights, to that list.
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Boomkat Product Review:
No fewer than three unreleased Mika Vainio works resurface alongside quieter highlights of his catalogue in a 23 years-overdue compilation originally made for an exhibition in Milan.
First commissioned for the Snow Crash exhibition in 1997, ‘Kiteet’ now sees a posthumous release, reminding of Vainio's subtlest solo standouts in the likes of ’Syväys’ and ‘Radio’, sequenced beside three diverse, unreleased gems of the late, great composer at his piercingly focussed and minimalist best - utterly crucial listening for fans of his seminal mid-’90s output circa ‘Metri’ and ‘Olento’ for any Ø head or lovers of C.20th minimalist music.
For the uninitiated, the album serves as a handy primer on Mika’s most pivotal period, aside to his Chicago-inspired techno, when he forged a style of improvised live electronic music that hold up as some of the purest and most hauntingly life-affirming in a generation. The icy 12’ expanse of sliding sine waves describing endless tundra in ’Syväys’ is a total classic, while the 9’s of hypnagogtic drone and ether voices in ‘Radio’ is another, and ‘Halli’ is the closest we’ll come to shivering in an ice cave in the Arctic. We can now add the whistling bleeps and frozen synths of ‘Kiteet, Pt. 1’, and the characteristically cranky grip of its pulsating ‘Pt.2’, from the album’s unreleased highlights, to that list.
Boomkat Product Review:
No fewer than three unreleased Mika Vainio works resurface alongside quieter highlights of his catalogue in a 23 years-overdue compilation originally made for an exhibition in Milan.
First commissioned for the Snow Crash exhibition in 1997, ‘Kiteet’ now sees a posthumous release, reminding of Vainio's subtlest solo standouts in the likes of ’Syväys’ and ‘Radio’, sequenced beside three diverse, unreleased gems of the late, great composer at his piercingly focussed and minimalist best - utterly crucial listening for fans of his seminal mid-’90s output circa ‘Metri’ and ‘Olento’ for any Ø head or lovers of C.20th minimalist music.
For the uninitiated, the album serves as a handy primer on Mika’s most pivotal period, aside to his Chicago-inspired techno, when he forged a style of improvised live electronic music that hold up as some of the purest and most hauntingly life-affirming in a generation. The icy 12’ expanse of sliding sine waves describing endless tundra in ’Syväys’ is a total classic, while the 9’s of hypnagogtic drone and ether voices in ‘Radio’ is another, and ‘Halli’ is the closest we’ll come to shivering in an ice cave in the Arctic. We can now add the whistling bleeps and frozen synths of ‘Kiteet, Pt. 1’, and the characteristically cranky grip of its pulsating ‘Pt.2’, from the album’s unreleased highlights, to that list.
Boomkat Product Review:
No fewer than three unreleased Mika Vainio works resurface alongside quieter highlights of his catalogue in a 23 years-overdue compilation originally made for an exhibition in Milan.
First commissioned for the Snow Crash exhibition in 1997, ‘Kiteet’ now sees a posthumous release, reminding of Vainio's subtlest solo standouts in the likes of ’Syväys’ and ‘Radio’, sequenced beside three diverse, unreleased gems of the late, great composer at his piercingly focussed and minimalist best - utterly crucial listening for fans of his seminal mid-’90s output circa ‘Metri’ and ‘Olento’ for any Ø head or lovers of C.20th minimalist music.
For the uninitiated, the album serves as a handy primer on Mika’s most pivotal period, aside to his Chicago-inspired techno, when he forged a style of improvised live electronic music that hold up as some of the purest and most hauntingly life-affirming in a generation. The icy 12’ expanse of sliding sine waves describing endless tundra in ’Syväys’ is a total classic, while the 9’s of hypnagogtic drone and ether voices in ‘Radio’ is another, and ‘Halli’ is the closest we’ll come to shivering in an ice cave in the Arctic. We can now add the whistling bleeps and frozen synths of ‘Kiteet, Pt. 1’, and the characteristically cranky grip of its pulsating ‘Pt.2’, from the album’s unreleased highlights, to that list.
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Boomkat Product Review:
No fewer than three unreleased Mika Vainio works resurface alongside quieter highlights of his catalogue in a 23 years-overdue compilation originally made for an exhibition in Milan.
First commissioned for the Snow Crash exhibition in 1997, ‘Kiteet’ now sees a posthumous release, reminding of Vainio's subtlest solo standouts in the likes of ’Syväys’ and ‘Radio’, sequenced beside three diverse, unreleased gems of the late, great composer at his piercingly focussed and minimalist best - utterly crucial listening for fans of his seminal mid-’90s output circa ‘Metri’ and ‘Olento’ for any Ø head or lovers of C.20th minimalist music.
For the uninitiated, the album serves as a handy primer on Mika’s most pivotal period, aside to his Chicago-inspired techno, when he forged a style of improvised live electronic music that hold up as some of the purest and most hauntingly life-affirming in a generation. The icy 12’ expanse of sliding sine waves describing endless tundra in ’Syväys’ is a total classic, while the 9’s of hypnagogtic drone and ether voices in ‘Radio’ is another, and ‘Halli’ is the closest we’ll come to shivering in an ice cave in the Arctic. We can now add the whistling bleeps and frozen synths of ‘Kiteet, Pt. 1’, and the characteristically cranky grip of its pulsating ‘Pt.2’, from the album’s unreleased highlights, to that list.
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