Blamstrain — Juho Hietala

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"For All The Dreamers In" on YouTube.

REMIX A SONG FROM "FOR ALL THE DREAMERS IN"!

Grab a remix pack of "Before Now-Again" and take part in a remix competition! Send your finished, unmastered FLAC/WAV file to me (on SoundCloud or as a download link to [email protected]) before July 31st. I'll pick the best remix to be on an EP later this year!

Download here: https://soundcloud.com/juho/sets/before-now-again-remix-pack

Any style.

No minimum/maximum length.

Use whatever samples you like from the remix pack, outside the remix pack, or sample any of my other songs if you like.

The samples are CC-A licensed, so you can use them on other songs if you like.

I invite you to join me in an online listening session before the release of my new album "For All The Dreamers In" on Friday the 4th of April (that's this week) at 9:00PM Amsterdam time at my Mixlr page (mixlr.com/blamstrain).

"For All The Dreamers In" is my best work so far; the most psychedelic and accessible record I've done. Digital is out this Friday, CD in June (limited to 100) and a GREEN vinyl in September!

New Finnish Electronic Music

New & unreleased music from 1in10, Bad Loop, Brothomstates (Airliner Series), CRC, Eero Johannes, Kepes Mode, Matti Turunen, Mesak, Randy Barracuda & Stiletti-Ana, Recue, SOFA, Tainnos, Toiminto, Varia, V.C..

Hosted by Blamstrain.

The "Magic" mix (done with 1in10 as Varia) started out as an ordinary demo tape mix done in half an hour. A lot of the Varia tracks (of which there are probably thousands by now thanks to the ever productive 1in10) are sketches, and the mixes I did back then, meant as a caricature, tried to retain the feel of quick, hurried, cobbled together "post-modern" art.

The second sketch mix (done in late 2009/early 2010) took its influence from raw 90s hiphop mixes where the fader would just be slammed from one side to another (or channels toggled on and off), and also sometimes these mixes would feature a few film samples here and there. This sketch laid the groundwork for the next iteration as we discovered weaving the film samples together with the music would give a really good effect when done right - here it still is very loose and incoherent as it was more fun to stick more samples in rather than take non-working ones out..

The third time around we laid down the 10 first minutes of the mix almost flat out like it is in the final version. Cuts were made and this version contains a few other songs that didn't go on the final. The big "worthless" breakdown makes a first appearance in this version and gets to stay till the end - it is one of the key points in the mix when first our influences are spread out during the first 10 minutes and then it gets "too technical", lashing out violently at the implied maker to get back to the idea of abandoning the vast yet ultimately senseless energy. Focus gets shifted with the “Are you OK?” sample afterwards to bring tension down and take the listener to another energetic episode, which was cut as it wasn't fitting in with the vision of the mix being more of a melting hot pot of sound from the past decades of popular music, rather than a spectacle of remixes of big hits.