Mika Vainio | Lydspor One & Two (Blue TB7 Series) [Moog Recordings Library 2018]

Moog Recordings Library is new record label established specifically to release limited editions of recorded works, sessions, concerts and audio experiments utilising The Moog Sound Lab UK (Est. 2015). Mika visited the Moog Sound-Lab in April 2015. He made one his last known solo studio recordings in the form of two vinyl sized side long pieces. Entitled “Lydspor” - Danish for ‘Soundtrack’. Mika worked almost exclusively with the lab’s Moog Modular System 55. This UK sound -lab instrument is the sole prototype model (containing several golden filters) of moog’s recent Sold out reverse-engineered edition (55 units only) recreating the 1970’s classic. On completion of his sessions Mika announced ‘i could work with this machine for the rest of my life….I would need nothing else”. Pt.1 finds him taking a tentative minute to find his bearings before precipitating a swarming cluster buzz that engulfs the track, shelling down blunt force bass hits and torrential drones for the first 14 minutes or so, then panning out into eerie darkness in a manner so timelessly associated with Vainio as to send chills. Pt.2 gradually picks up another head of dense drone steam to choking effect, calving away into black cloud dynamics of corrosive intensity keeping time with a metronomic, doom-laden bass pulse that edges us nearer to some abyss; full of dread and nervous energy. These are growling, engrossing, important recordings that provide another reminder of Vainio’s ability to create intense pieces of music from seemingly not very much. In his hands, elemental sounds take on a visceral, hard-hitting quality that are so full of life and energy as to genuinely defy explanation. It’s an alchemy that many have tried but few have mastered; in Vainio’s absence it now fees like there’s a vast chasm where there was once an unstoppable force.. A second moog session was planned but tragically Mika died in an accident in April 2017, shortly after he had approved the vinyl mastering. All rights reserved for the producers of these tracks. If the owner has a problem with uploading on youtube, please contact me, and I will remove it immediately.