As some of you may have heard, I’ve been working on a solo album this year, and I’m happy to say it is now available for enjoyment by humans. The album is called 800 Memories Per Second and it’s a collection of mostly live improvisations recorded over a period of two years or so.

The album should appeal to fans of the more ambient side of Älymystö.

Here’s where it resides. It’s available as a free download and under a Creative Commons license, so feel free to spread the word and/or the files. Do it now.

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ITEM! 19:38:00 by ATYD/Älymystö will be coming out on vinyl in May. The graphics look damn nice.

So, tomorrow (that’s Thursday the 28th of May) we’ll finally be hitting the stage at Kuudes Linja and we’re happy to tell you the other performers of the evening will be the lovely Burlesque Polaire.

Guys in gasmasks and girls in corsets sounds very appropriate to me. Hope to see you there!

Time for a quick update and showcase of the remixes in thus far!

We’ve received four mixes so far, and it’s been nice to see the song go into so many decidedly different directions. Here we go.

The first remix (download) came to us from Lacuna Origin, and boy, it’s a slow and heavy one. The melancholy twang of the original takes wonderful a pummeling from the rhythm section.

Number two (download) was quite the departure from the first one. The huge jump from Sweden to Australia seems pretty appropriate, as Very Sharp Knives came to us with a very abstract and glitchy reworking. The guitar is drenched in delays and reverbs, and as for the vocals:

The vocals are still there, and I think they’re audible at high volume, but they have a denoiser set to remove the entire voice part, leaving the weird random beep artifacts, and only mixed in for the choruses.

The third remix (download) was done by Invisible Waves, who make the whole affair sound like your neighbours are really up to no good. Nice ambience from the reversed samples here, and a surprisingly eastern shift in the tonality there, too. I picked up a bit of CMI vibe as well, although I’ve no idea if that’s just me.

The last one so far download) comes from Zha and I guess it was about time we got our dubstep on. I’ve personally been on a huge dubstep kick lately, so this one put a big old smile on my face and a nod in my neck.

Lovely work, you guys. Keep them coming!

Oh, and happy mother’s day, people! We luvs the mums.

The Finnish writer, RPG designer, poet, screenwriter, spy and renowned adventurer Mike Pohjola made a short film last summer and used our music as a soundtrack. The film is a post-apocalyptic story called Taivas ja Helsinki 2018 (Heaven and Helsinki 2018) and it’s now on YouTube in all its 7 minute glory.

The songs used here are Antithesis and Lodges; a couple of the new ones, in their earlier incarnations. Oh, and that’s me gunning down a graffiti artist in cold blood.

The film is in Finnish, but I think the gist should come across pretty well.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz794z0263U

It seems the Internet Jesus has a new project in the works.

“More gold from EnglishRussia: detailing the revival of the practise of turning old railway carriages into churches. I suspect these may make an appearance in a project I’m developing with the working title ATOMGRAD.”

Should be interesting, and if you haven’t checked English Russia out before now, go and do so. Great stuff, and a goldmine if you’re into Urban Exploration and abandoned places. Surprise surprise, we are.

(Also, if that title sticks, we’ll be SURE to get muchos dinaros in royalties, yes? And Suicide Girls, doubtless.)