Written by Herra Paalanen on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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 [...]
Written by Herra Paalanen on Monday, January 26th, 2009
Exhibit B, your honour. Last year Trent Reznor pulled a coup and released five CD’s worth of material for free under a CC license. The first batch of these was a four CD collection of instrumental material – not radio friendly pop to say the least. So how’d that gambit work out? In case you [...]
Written by Herra Vuorensola on Saturday, December 27th, 2008
In 2004, a man named Chris Anderson came up with a theory he was calling The Long Tail. It was an idea of the future of shopping in the environment where shelf space is unlimited – that is, of course, online. Mr. Anderson’s theory dictated that in the future people will start buying a much [...]
Written by Herra Paalanen on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Because we also love free music that doesn’t involve the words “invitation-only beta”. The (awesomely named) band Singularity Jones have done a nice thing and put their Falling off the face of the Earth EP up for grabs on the internets. Shoegazey e-bow and delay workouts sound like just the thing on these grey December [...]
Written by Herra Vuorensola on Monday, December 15th, 2008
Making an Internet service that just works is both hard and rare. Think FaceBook: what an enormous amount of totally useless crap around the fact that it’s a communication channel with people I know. It’s even harder and rarer when working on a media format that’s known for complicated copyright issues – that’s books, audio [...]
Written by Herra Paalanen on Sunday, December 7th, 2008
The fine psych-folk group Kemper Norton have their new EP available as a free download until the 10th of December (the link is in the title of their post). The record is called A23 and is based on their experiences on and regarding said motorway, and the download includes some nice liner notes about the [...]
Written by Herra Vuorensola on Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Today, I had a nap and celebrated my birthday. Waking up, I, for some reason, had a feeling that a friend of mine, M Dot Strange, has released *something*. I knew that his new film won’t be coming out in ages (neither does mine), but alas! I went to FaceBook, and there it was, shining [...]
