Sähkö Recordings News

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Two raw minimal cuts from '94 that will piece up any self respecting dance floor;
Mika Vainio, Ilpo Väisänen & Sami Salo at the controls - an ESSENTIAL 12" from Sähkö Recordings, TIP!

Debut album from Irrflug, the Berlin-based project of Mark Kanak.
Irrflug is a changing artist group rather than a fixed band. In Silver it's comprising Ian King, BoBo (Christiane Hebold) and Ella Sturmvogel and some others. 2 tracks feature Blixa Bargeld's voice.
Silver extends Sähkö vocabulary into new directions. ”rhythmic studies of corroded atmospheres” says Mark Kanak

Al Wootton is a Kent based DJ and producer doing percussive dub, experimental techno and psychedelic electronics.

E123 is a compilation EP.

The tracks are made between 2007 and 2017.

Written and produced by French Jean-Yves Leloup together with Maxence Cyrin, Villeneuve & Morando and François-Eudes Chanfrault and Hélène Vogelsinger.

Kuvio is one of the all time classic techno tracks.
B-side is Mika Vainio's richer original veresion of Sähkö Movie soundtrack Scene 1.

2024 repress

Ryoji Ikeda is one of the most influential minimal electronic musicians and sound artists of our time. He also works as a cutting edge visual atist. He creates poetic art reducing the elements to extremes.

Ryoji Ikeda was born in 1966 in Gifu, Japan. He lives and works in Paris, France and Kyoto, Japan.
These two tracks are taken from his first and third album from early/mid 90's and are previously never released on vinyl. Space was newly mixed by Ryoji Ikeda for this EP.

Includes a CD featuring all tracks from the compilation

Osmo Lindeman is one of the main developers of electronic music in Finland.He was active in Europe, USA and Finland from 50s to end of 70s.In the beginning Osmo Lindeman studied and worked as a modern classical composer. During the 1960s he shifted making electronic music only at his home studio.

Lindeman is a Finnish hybrid of Monty Norman, Krzysztof Penderecki and Edgar Varèse
There is no album of his electronic work before this.

Written and produced by French Jean-Yves Leloup together with Maxence Cyrin, Villeneuve & Morando and François-Eudes Chanfrault and Hélène Vogelsinger.

Produced by 2 Lithuanian producer/djs/multi-instrumentalists Manfredas Bajelis and Marijus Aleksa.

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A compilation of old cassette demos from the beginning of 80's plus few new tracks.

All very exclusive and maximally random. Compiled by a 80-90-2000-influencer, punk zine maker and record collector Piitu Lintunen.

Produced by 2 Lithuanian producer/djs/multi-instrumentalists Manfredas Bajelis and Marijus Aleksa.

Mika Vainio left behind a lots of unfinished projects and unreleased music.

This archive series is presenting some pieces which can be considered as completed works.

The first volume comprise of two selections from the 48:22 long untitled recording Mika Vainio did as Ø for the radio project Ambient City at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki 1994.

Ismo Laakso's very well produced and spaceously mixed Ofelia (from 1996-99) is a blend of industrial, avant garde, modern classic, bleeps and clicks. The narrative of this album sometimes undefinably blurs the lines between recorded material & samples, and also juxtapose the main grooves with highly psychedelic sound effects and (beautiful) melodies.

Konstellaatio is another Mika Vainio masterpiece as his original alias Ø on the native label Sähkö Recordings that Mika co-founded in 1993.

British art-rock band No-Man (Tim Bownes & Stewen Wilson w Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri, Steve Jansen, Ben Coleman) recorded Heaven Taste in the studio sessions in summer 1992. It got first released as a complete 21 mins version on Painting Paradise EP on One Little Indian (1993). The track drew attention in the rising ambient techno scene and got played by DJs like Mixmaster Morris.

The track fuses ambient techno with art rock and features a distinctive fretless bass solo by Mick Karn.

This super sound 45rpm 12" features a Steven Wilson edited 11.21 mins version of the original and on B-side Jimi Tenor's rearrange with some solos with flute and keyboard.