Name: Black Telephone Of Matter
Brand: Mika Vainio

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The Orchard/SPV (Membran)

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Release date

2009-08-04

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TOCD72

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5027803147225

Artist

Mika Vainio

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To&Go

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Electronic

Mika 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*.

Throughout 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.

Some 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.

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veteran finnish electronics maestro and one of the most fascinating producers of our times, mika vainio returns to the touch label, the recent home of some of his most uncompromising work. last years 'oleva' and the preceding pan sonic album remain examples of the finest electronic albums of the last few years, but they were surely also some of his most accessible. for 'black telephone of matter' we hear the contrarily noisy and contemplative side of mika, no beats, but plenty of completely devastating aural views surveying vast abstract landscapes. 'roma a.d 2727' weaves sinewaves sculpted into brutally effective and nerve stimulating squalls. 'silence traverses des mondes et des endes' opens with the horrific cackle of a murder of crows before sharply focussed bass blasts with ever encroaching proximity and unrelated shards of textured noise dynamically ascend before crashing to point zero. if you've ever experienced one of his frightening but life affirming live shows, the album's centre-piece 'bury a horse's head' should help you relive the life-changing intensity of his powerful drones with 11 mins of austere oscillator experimentation, only you'll have to turn the volume up for the full body tactile effect. paralleling this is the set's other extended composition 'a measurement of excess antenna temperature at 4080 ml/s'. a reduction of excess to the bare minimum of electronic hum with brain massaging waves of subbass that'll make your eyeballs vibrate if you're paying attention on good headphones. nobody else comes close to this man's sonic imagination or level of execution, this is another essential purchase for fans of cutting edge sonics and good music everywhere. immense....

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