Mika Vaino

Finnish label Sähkö Recordings is launching a new archival series of unreleased work from its co-founder Mika Vainio. The late Vainio left behind plenty of unreleased material after his passing in 2017. Arc 1 represents the first in a series of releases that draw on Vainio’s archives.

The material here was constructed for a 1994 radio project, entitled Ambient City, that Vainio performed as Ø. Both sides here begin with perturbed ambient synth-scapes - grumbling LFOs, digital noise, that sort of thing - before settling into long tonal drones.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• Ambient City 1994 A ....... 20:11

• SIDE B
• Ambient City 1994 B ....... 13:19