mixtape

Here is a virtual mixtape I made by request from Jani, mastermind behind The Day Of The Antler.

new track

Salakapakka Sound System covers an old traditional song God be with you until we meet again. Underneath the layers of distortion and echo mess you can actually hear a hint of original melody.
It is here.

and some more video stuff

Now here is something you can almost call a music video in a sense that audio and video are actually synchronized and it uses a whole SSS track (in this case Time is running out).
Video is called La Cigarre and it was made by Sebastian Spohr. Thanks, Sebi!


La Cigarra from Sebastian Spohr on Vimeo.

SUBCONSCIOUS ROLLERCOASTER

New diy-tape, 120 minutes, two tracks. Downloads are tape rips, not original masters.

track 1 from mediafire
track 2 from mediafire

Free music archive... hmmm, seems like the embedded player codes of FMA audio player doesn't work quite fine so here is a straight download link.

more eye candy

Here is a trippy piece of avant-garde cinema by Justyna Sirecka called "Road to Nowhere". God's gift as musical background. I think the sound and visuals work well together in this one.

Road to nowhere from Justyna Sirecka on Vimeo.

There is also a full length movie "Decay", a zombie film made and set at the LHC, by physics PhD students. Three SSS tracks have been used in it. It is available for free online, under a Creative Commons license.
Trapped underground at the world's largest particle accelerator, a group of students make a deadly discovery.
Here is a trailer.

Go get it at Decay web site.


UPDATE:
Here is more trippy video art accompanied by L'internationale backing track .



Motion Colour will be screened at ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN Film Festival this summer.

Back from Malaysia

Just back... with new sounds to mess with.

Few things that make my life whole lot better:

Something I brought back from Kuala Lumpur (gotta love that cheesy asian pop and easy listening)

Love the smell of durian, the king of fruits

Words of advice for young people

 Danger from above

Now there's a festival I'd love to participate

 Angry bird food

Holle Kitty.... WTF ... ??? Is that some kind of copyright issue or just plain fuck up?

Asians really know how to sell tobacco

See the box in the upper right corner? Makes me wanna sing: "b-i-n-g-o and bingo was his name"

 

Muslims love KISS (maybe it stands for Kings In Saddam's Service)

a short taste of what's coming later

Leaving soon to Malaysia for two weeks. So it is material hunting season.

Along the months I've (very unfrequently) made some raw material for future releases and even couple complete tracks. Some thoughts about the future releases but better left unsaid until there is something decent finished. Lots of raw unfinished/unmixed/unedited tracks lying in my HD but it demands a lot of work to sort them out. BUT... here is a short teaser collected from sounds I've been working on. Get it and remember: I'm not out of business yet.

SSS teaser

and some more video stuff

Untitled (Sound for Manilism) from Richard Coronel (Kuro) on Vimeo.
Presented as a looping sound art, the track features urban sounds from the streets of Manila: teens playing basketball, tricycles and jeepneys, women vendors, etc. Made using Adobe Audition v3.0.1, different effects were put in these various ambient Manila street sounds and mixed with part of the track "God's Gift" by Salakapakka Sound System to produce a hypnotic chaos.

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Self Obscure from James Davis on Vimeo.
Digging deep through hypnosis to discover the elusive self – dreams and reality are one. Images and sounds from public domain footage, Prelinger Archives. Entry for the FMA Prelinger past becomes present contest.

Screened at Anthology Film Archives 2012.
Music: Salakapakka Sound System: Tebe Poyem

Gear-a-holic part 12

Some stuff I have bought in a last half a year or so.

Latin percussion Multi Guiro

This is mainly for latin percussion use but amplifying the scraping sounds makes a hell-of-a-noise.

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Korg Kaossilator 2

I updated my older Kaossilator for this new version. Some useful improvements like dual loop recording banks with cross-fade ability, memory card slot for saving loops and recording via internal or external mic (very useful feature). Even if you didn't like readymade synth sounds, it is still very useful and a nice little gadget to toy with.

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Lite2Sound PX

This is funny little thing. A portable sensing device that extracts a sound from ambient light by responding to rapid but invisible changes in brightness. Check Eric Archer's web site for more info and sound bites.

some more video stuff

Justyna Sirecka 35 mm from Justyna Sirecka on Vimeo using Down in the dark... by SSS vs. TDOTA.




Pic du midi de Bigorre from Peyo84 on Vimeo using Äiti joku tuijottaa meitä metsästä.