[Statik Entertainment 09] Kajaani Issues - Teil 1​/​2 cover

[Statik Entertainment 09] Kajaani Issues - Teil 1​/​2

Released

The first of two compilations of material from artists aligned with Finland’s FAK Records. Finland was a curious stronghold for minimal electronics and techno through the nineties – think also of the artists circling around the Sähkö label, figures like Pan Sonic and Jimi Tenor. FAK, and artists like Turku Coll. or Restore, comes at things from a different angle, but there’s maybe some similarity in the sheer single-mindedness of vision. The sound is slightly cranky, roughly handled, full of burbling acid patterns cranked to burst, thudding rhythms cracking open icy silences, long stretches of nothing much happening – but that ‘nothing much’ is more compelling than endless busy-ness. Maybe this is projecting a set of cultural assumptions onto the music, but it feels vaguely arctic, and as though it’s broadcast, through chill winds, via shortwave radio – landing scattered, fuzzy, but thrilling, in your ears.

Jon Dale

Suggestions
Halber Mensch cover

Halber Mensch

Einstürzende Neubauten
Flies Inside the Sun cover

Flies Inside the Sun

Flies Inside the Sun
Sei Note in Logica cover

Sei Note in Logica

Roberto Cacciapaglia
I get along without you very well cover

I get along without you very well

Ellen Arkbro, Johan Graden
Live II cover

Live II

Fushitsusha
Alles Wieder Offen cover

Alles Wieder Offen

Einstürzende Neubauten
ABC123 cover

ABC123

To Rococo Rot
Last Glass cover

Last Glass

Kim Pieters, Peter Stapleton, Bruce Russell