So, things remain to be rather silent for Älymystö, but that doesn’t mean we couldn’t play live in different projects. In this summer I toured as a member of NEGA, a shapeshifter-project founded by Mr. Pilvari Pirtola around 10 years ago. My time is too short to fill you in with all the details, but we played in 2+ Year Anniversary of Servataguse Muusika @ Tallinn, Estonia & 4th Kuucvaals industrial festival @ Lielauce, Latvia. This time NEGA was Mr. Pilvari, Mr. Paalanen & me – and to maximize the live effort, the tour also included solo performances of both NOSFE & TAPHEAD in both locations (for me, one show per event was enough and I decided to be just merrily drunk, enjoy the events and catch the latest news from all my Baltic friends). All in all, it was the best weekend of this summer for me, so a huge thank you for everyone involved.

So, here’s a video from our 22th of July live show at Kuucvaals. The sound quality isn’t perfect, but that will be fixed later on as the whole show will be released as mp3s on a certain web-label. Stay tuned for that.

The stream should be online around 21:30(+2 GTM), and the first show is scheduled to start at 22.00.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Älymysto-live

Live Video streaming by Ustream

21:00 DJ
22:00 Oorchach
23:00 Älymystö
00:00 Vilkduja

As some of you might have noticed, things seem to have been relatively silent for Älymystö lately. The reason for that is simple: all of us have been more or less busy with our personal lifes. Especially Mr. Vuorensola, who has been focusing on directing the Iron Sky movie, which is now in production phase, due to be released to theatrical distribution world-wide in early 2012.

However, I managed to steal a couple of days from his time and as a result Älymystö will perform live at 26th of February 2011 in Dog’s Home, Tampere, along with Vilkduja and Oorchach. The show will present you some new goodies along with the more traditional pieces of our live set.

In other news, the 12″-split vinyl release of 19:38:00 has been post-poned until further notice. To tell you the truth we don’t know much more about it either, from our part the material has been ready for release for well over a year now. All inquiries about that matter should be directed to Skithund Records. Regardless of the fate of vinyl release, we are planning to release a CD version of our side of 19:38:00 with some added bonuses somewhere in the future.

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.

(Also feel free to follow me on Twitter or on Facebook.)

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

The split release with And Then You Die is finally up on Spotify. Took three months, but hopefully it was worth the wait.

Click here to listen. Spread the word far and wide.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are happy to have you join us live @ Kuudes Linja. Here we go!

EDIT: The gig is now available as a recording. Click to make go. Yes, next time we’ll be using something other than the built-in mic on the laptop.

EDIT2: We cleaned up the clips a bit, so there’s no dead air there.

Enjoy!

Hey, gang.

The split release with And Then You Die and it is now available at least on iTunes Music Store. Spotify should follow soonish. There will be a collectors’ edition 12″ vinyl picture disc of this available on April 1st, at which time we’ll also put up a free download of our half of this split vinyl.

Meanwhile you can listen to our half of the whole thing on our website by clicking on the Sounds of Waking Dreams in the banner.

Here’s a press release on the proceedings as well as the mini tour we’ve got going.

Onwards toward 2010!

So, we have good news for all of you Spotify fans out there. As of today, our full length album Atomgrad is available in Spotify, so just click here and tune in.

Right now our latest publication, a split vinyl EP, is still in the production line, but things are certainly moving forward. Also, we have a new tour coming up, so stay tuned!

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.

Right, we mentioned this on the Band Camp report, but now we can actually go ahead with this. We’re putting the unmixed tracks for an upcoming tune called Revitty online for remixing.

We hesitate to call this a competition, since music is never one, but we’d love to send some swag to the remixes we dig the most. Say, a copy of Atomgrad and a lovely Älymystö t-shirt? Unfortunately we only have XL sizes left, but they make a lovely tent or a stylish nightie! If you’re located in Finland, we’ll throw in a free pass to a gig and will even buy you a beer! We’ll keep this deal open until the end of May.

All this is now within reach!

Click here for the tracks in WAV format (240.6 MB).

or

Click here for the tracks in 200 kbps VBR MP3 format (50.3 MB).

These are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, which means you can freely distribute these files and remix them, as long as you attribute the original material to us, aren’t making any money off them, and share the remix under these same conditions.

Drop us a note in the comments, we’d be happy to host your remixes here as well. (With the proper attributions and links of course.)

EDIT: The tempo of the original is 94 BPM.