Sahko Records-what's good these days?

My bad. Stargazer was later, which makes Le Mutant all the more interesting, because it is pretty accessible stuff. Yes, I also have som Fred Gianelli (Telepathic...something) and Impostor Orchestra, which is excellent in parts. Also like the Nicole Willis (JT's wife) stuff, but I don't think it's on Sahko.

there's a full Sähkö/Puu/etc visual discog in the Willis booklet. looks like they kept going strong long after my attention wandered. time to pick up the trail, maybe.

and, yeah, i think you're right about Nicole being Mrs. Jimi Tenor. don't know why i mated her with Fulton. though 'Soul Makeover' does have a bit of a menage a trois feel to it. (:

is there a Fulton thread (maybe in re: Mu)? cuz i don't remember seeing anything here about 'Boof'. and that's a damn good album.

This stuff is extrememly hard to come by, even on slsk this stuff is rare. Sahko was a super cult Helsinki label that started in the early 90's by a man named Tommi Grönlund. He started the label mainly to put out the work on Mika Vainio (aka Ohm, aka Philus, aka Panasonic). The aesthetic of the label was high-art minimalism taken to the point of nihilism. Super minimal landscapes of vicious analogue drones and pointilistic, nearly non-existant 808 percussion. Sahko is probably one of my favorite labels of all time, right behind Basic Channel and Transmat. Sahko is like the underground techno label that that separates the men from the boys; every corny indie fuck in the world has the BC catalogue in a silver EFA tin, but not too many people know about Sahko.

Stuff I would recommend would be Metri, and Tulkinta by Ø (pronounced Ohm). Hyper minimal difficult electronics, not for tourists or the faint of heart. The Röntgen and Kvantti EP's were reissued on Ø's Tulkinta in 1997 so you don't have to track down the actual records. My favorite records on Sahko were the Philus records, search pH EP, Kolmio EP, Happi Ep, and Tetra. I think these records are probably my favorite minimal techno records of all time. There is other stuff on the label, a lot of it I have not heard. I can tell you that Mike Ink's record was an absolute piece of shit, and is to be avoided at all costs. The Bruce Gilbert, Kirilian, Fred Gianelli, and Sil Electronics records I have not heard, so I cannot comment.

The WIRE and Magic Feet both did their part to make Sähkö something of a household name. but it amazes me how often people still refer to it as "Mika Vainio's label." ok, he was Säkhö's undeniable MVP. but no love for Tommi?

like the man said, all three Ø CDs (also pronounced "null set," according to Mika) and the Philus are totally essential. i just love everything Brokesch has done, and for me her Sähkö 12" ranks just behind the one on Cheap. these records were also hugely influential on certain members of Vienna's improv elite and on the mates who started Mego and.

haven't heard the Ink 12" - looks like no great loss there - but i do wish someone would compile Kirlian's two "Porzellangaße Grooves" on disc. now that was minimalism.

Mike OTM with the Philus and "Ohm" stuff.

;p

Mike Taylor to thread for confirmation plz!!

Listen to Sherburne; he is like way jetset and knows these things.

SAHKO-05 JUST GOT REISSUED KID.

YO MIKA WHAT UP DOE??? HOLLA AT ME DOG , MY NEIGHBOR WANTS YOU AND IIPO TO PLAY AT AT HER DAUGHTERS QUNICE ANOS. HIT ME BACK AT 512-MINI-MAL!!!

WE WILL HOOK YOU UP WITH TOSTADAS AND SHIT DOG, FO REAL THO.

anyway it's an elaborate prank. 11 obscure jazz/fusion tracks in a 2-disc vynil edition, extensively credited to improbable bands. Nice moody sunset-like cover and a blurry picture of sprawling hippies on the back, plus massive liner notes by one Claus Jarvinen, allegedly penned in 1976. Easily the weirdest Sähkö release of all.

tulkinta is *SICK*

http://www.sahkorecordings.com/images/artwork/sahko-022_artwork.jpg

awesome record

yo what's it like

sounds like akira rabeilas remixed by porter ricks. can anyone tell me about this (non sahko) release: http://www.discogs.com/release/832642

They also put out a really limited 12" release on their own label last year. The previews were good but I could not get a copy because the release was so limited.

Thanks for mentioning this, I will look into it.

also on non standard productions, there's tobias freund + ricardo villalobos' release as odd machine, also very nice.

winston, that CD "plays non standards" features max loderbauer playing piano improvisations, and tobias running them through various processing. sounds to me like paul bley playing scriabin at the bottom of one of pauline oliveros' cisterns. which, to my ears, is a good thing.

since there isn't a specific NSI thread, and they released their last album on Sahko, this may as well go here--

NSI - Sync

"Max Loderbauer & Tobias Freund prod. 24 pieces for drummachine and sequencer"

http://hardwax.com/62302/

samples sound extremely cool

http://www.cahiersdufootball.net/images2/2009_08/sakho_fonds.jpg

new stuff : http://www.discogs.com/Bastian-Wegner-Elmsfeuer/release/2587618

um this is really pretty awesome
http://www.sahkorecordings.com/sahko-026.php

Oh man, I remember that happening in 1994! A local radio station here in Helsinki called Radio City had a project called "Ambient City" where a temporary station was set up, and it played nothing but non-stop ambient for a few weeks... No commercials, no talking between the tunes, just 24 hours of ambient music a day. That was pretty much my proper introduction to the genre, though I didn't know Atom Heart was involved in the project. Have to check that one out for nostalgia's sake.

I was 14 or 15 at the time, and I remember coming back home on Friday or Saturday nights at 3AM or something, lying on the floor and listening to the ambient station, and just thinking... ...this is the future, this is it! Great times! But what happened to the idea techno was the future? I miss that.

lol aww

I love that Atom TM.

Future is a feeling.

Like house.

And it's funny, Tuomas. A radio station that never stopped the music to talk would be illegal in America. Stations here HAVE to identify themselves at the top of every hour. I do think it's a shame for the art.