10 Years of Älymystö
Written by Herra Paalanen on Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Dear friends. Tonight marks our 10 year anniversary. We shall celebrate the occasion at Club Infektio in Helsinki, TONIGHT. Join us.
Live in Riga, January 9th
Written by Älymystö on Saturday, January 9th, 2010
We’re on a lovely mobile broadband connection here, wishing you were here. EDIT: And that’s that. Unfortunately mr. Eskola decided to protect the streaming computer from his wild stage antics by closing the lid of the laptop. Hence, no video from Riga for you.
Älymystö Live @ Tallinn, January 8th
Written by Älymystö on Friday, January 8th, 2010
This is live video and audio stream from Tallinn / Club Rockstars. Älymystö will perform at 23:00 (in 40 mins), followed by ATYD around midnight. Enjoy! 11PM local. 9PM GMT. 4PM EST. 1PM PST. EDIT: Unfortunately justin.tv had a hiccup just as we were saving the stream, and nothing got archived. Which is annoying, as [...]
Shout Out to Nice Customer Service
Written by Herra Honkonen on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
People usually blog about restaurants and bars only when they get crap service, some exceptions aside. I thought I’d write a bit about nice customer service I, or we, got in Helsinki’s Schönes Freulein restaurant. In the last Band Camp I realised that my second theremin (aka sparemin) was missing from my instrument bag. The [...]
Quotes on piracy
Written by Herra Vuorensola on Saturday, February 14th, 2009
(Photo by Graphixar.) Almost every day we can read or hear some of the old-guard media assholes slowly turning their heads and understanding that piracy in it’s current, most common form – the digital download – is not a crime. But there’s still a long road to travel. Luckily, there are people in the influential [...]
(Not so) Long Tail.
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 [...]
RIAA stops suing individuals
Written by Herra Vuorensola on Saturday, December 20th, 2008
RIAA has stopped suing individuals, but makes the ISPs the Judges of the Internets. “I will bang my fist on this concrete wall until it crumbles down”, he said. “It’s not going break, however hard you hit it”, they said. “Fuck you, I’ve got bigger fists and harder knuckles than all of you together,” he [...]
The Merry Men
Written by Herra Paalanen on Friday, March 7th, 2008
Backstage in Riga, November 2007.
Redemption
Written by Herra Haapanen on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Greetings children. We will play a live show in Dog’s Home, Tampere, 8th of this month, which happens to be next saturday. The event has free entrance so come along and get merrily wasted while wondering what does our fresh mind do on stage.
Wash your sins
Written by Herra Vuorensola on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
The teaser of AJ Annila’s, the director of Jade Warrior, horror film Sauna has just been released, and to accompany it, a website with a nice little text game, with the background soundscape by Älymystö (song Periplaneta A. from Atomgrad. The trailer: And visit the website here. – Mr. V.