Space Camp Gathering… Space Odyssey… What next? What’s the third space party this year?? We live and we see ;) I don’t know myself, but I’m sure something beautiful is on the way!

Also, I have created a Soundcloud page. There you will probably find work-in-progress tracks, maybe remixes of old tracks, and so on… So it will pay to check that out now and again! For now there are two new versions made with my new analog synths of tracks from Kotiin haltiakansan luo, that I was not happy at all about when the album was released. Also some sneak peeks at the new album can be heard there :)

And the new album? Definitely coming out before summer, I have already concluded most talks with the printing house, I think we will see something very special indeed, and finally a professional printed CD that will last for decades hopefully!

That’s all for now, love & light forever!!! – Kim :;)

I will also most probably come to Israel in the spring, but the details are not yet closed. But if it happens, I can tell the lineup will blow some minds :D

And the new album? Well basically it’s ready, now I just need to listen to the tracks at different places, and hope to try them out at some parties, before I send it to the press… Now saving also money so finally there will be a pro quality product available :) Still not sure about the CD for Kotiin haltiakansan luo, since I’m not happy with the sound, so maybe the people who donated for that, get the new album first before anybody else, or something, I will see… And maybe if I manage to remaster all the tracks, I might make some small run on that too later, I’ll have to see.

I made that donation for Finnish ancient forests, 500€ from the latest gig fee + generous donations from friends made the fact happen that approx. 1000m^2 of Finnish old growth forest will be protected! Thank you everybody who made this happen!

Trance.lation goes as such: “Kim Åke has done a donation to Luonnonperintösäätiö, by which 1000m2 of Finnish ancient forest is going to be protected. The fund aquires permanent protection to all of the forests under it’s ownership. Luonnonperintösäätiö thansk you warmly for your donation for endangered forests in their natural state.”

The new album is going on great, I hope it would be a new Goddess Guerrilla, I have for the first time in six years or so comfortable space for working and mixing, and I’ve been getting some proper analog gear so I think it’s something to look forward to! ETA somtime next spring/summer.

I have also been doing remasters of many old tracks that are unplayable because of bad sound/mixing, I was thinking of making a separete release of them, once I have enough…

The CD version of Kotiin haltiakansan luo is finally happening, but I want still to work on some of the tracks… The quality is still not up to the level that would warrant a proper CD release. So keep waiting :) I think this might be out in the spring too. Or then maybe make a double release from that and the new album? Will have to see.

It’s 21.12. soon, that means the winter solstice and the end of the world/dawn of a new era/doomsday of foil hat people… So light some candles and tell people they are beautiful, we need to support each other in the middle of this most dark time of the year! (yeah still waiting for snow here this year….)

I will donate my latest gig fee from the Belgium gig IN FULL to Luonnonperintösäätiö, to protect old growth forests in Finland. The sum is 300€, which totals to about 600 square meters of forest in average.
However, I will take on donations for two weeks before I pay, so you can contact me if you want to participate. (paypal, IBAN transfer)

Viulukkalampea ennen majavan tuloa. 11.6.2006 Ilpo Piiroinen.

Mäkrämäki on Luonnonperintösäätiön 28. suojelualue ja toinen Etelä-Karjalassa

More pictures from forests the organisation has thus far protected: http://luonnonperintosaatio.fi/suojelualueet

Every 5€ buys 10 more square meters of endangered old growth forests in Finland.

The fund I’m supporting works by buying old growth forest, and then setting it aside for protection. There’s little expenses, so most of the money actually go into buying land!

I will wait until 1.12. if other people want to participate, and then transfer 300+ all donations to the organisation.

Finland is often seen and advertised abroad as a country filled with vast wilderness areas, when in fact in southern Finland less than 0,5% of the forested areas can be considered as old growth (past the usual age of a forest “ripe” for commercial logging). And of these old growth forests, even fewer can be considered as so-called wilderness forests, where there are no signs of human activity.

In the long run, goal is to set 10% from my profits aside for purposes like this. Im recent years I’ve been so chronically poor though, that this has not been possible. So I consider this a delayed payment from the last few years :)

The latest (direct, it’s important!) flight to Brussels generated en estimated 370kg of co2 emissions. Old growth forests have been estimated to tie in around 2+ tonnes of co2/year/hectare. So 600m^2 is about 1/17th of a hectare, using this data I could say that the flight will be offset in less than three years. AND remember that if that same are would be felled, it would generate 12 tonnes of co2!

AND the fact that about 30% of all endangered species in Finland depend on old growth forests! AND the fact, that old forests are plain awesome! And I want to preserve awesomeness in all it’s forms :D

And what else…? The gigs in Belgium and at Playground in Helsinki went great, it was fun to test the new tracks on the dancefloor, and play some more peaceful 8-bit style sounds for a change :)

The new album is progressing, still about 60% done, now been honing the tracks already finished before moving to new stuff. Style will still be closer to Kotiin haltiakansan luo, meaning more peaceful and atmospheric stuff as  opposed to my old acid tracks… BUT! I have started aquiring analog gear & am building my own modular synth, so I’ve been thinking of doing a new Summamutikka album, throwing all stupid artistic ideas away, and just make an albums worth of blasting crazy morning acid tracks :D And also probably make new versions of some old Summamutikka tracks, there’s some material on the albums that seriously would be playable if I just mastered it again, and added maybe some analog bubbly sounds to give some colour to Dream Station’s signature sound…

I will have some new tracks from the upcoming album, waiting forward to seeing how they work on the dancefloor :)

Alea Present

 October 29th

 Halloween Disguise Party

 Live

 Aavepyörä
 2h live
 (Aavepyörä Records / Finland)

 Dj's

 Matka
 (Ganja Tree Records / Belgium)
 4h dj set of the craziest Forest sounds

 Skeleton Hex naar Anoebis
 (Suntrip Records / Belgium)
 3h dj set from Forest to Suomi

 Inada
 (Cronomi Records / Belgium)
 4h (Acid)trance set

 ... More to confirm ...

 Halloween Disguise Recomended 

 Decorations By G-Visions 
 Damage: TBA 
 Location:Oost vlaanderen
 Sound: Turbosound (makers van Funtion One)

Pictures are up at the parties section, take a look!

Also, WTF Trimurti != Trishula, I remembered I was at Trimurti last year too, but that was Trishula :D:D I’m so stoopid. But was the location the same? It looked the same definitely at least :P

Well, now it’s back to slooowly, ever so slowly working on the new album, and the usual summer lazyness & stuff. I’m maybe coming later this year to Israel too, so keep an eye on those fliers!

Also, I will be performing in Belgium later this year, more info on that coming up later.

See you on the dancefloor!

What else? All the planned parties for this summer have been cancelled, which is a shame, especially since I have been on counting on getting that money and spending accordingly. And I want to travel! So all prospective party organisers make note ;)

I finally also have more time now that I’ve graduated, so I’ve been thinking of releasing all my Psycle files for people who are interested in remixes and such. I don’t know though how much of use those files are, since the songs use a lot VSTs that people probably don’t have, and the worst of all because of the way Psycle handles automation, replacing the missing ones with something else will lead into the old automation still being redirected to the new machines, which gives for some interesting random effects… And since the automation data is interspersed with the note data in the patterns, removing the automation takes a lot of time too.

Still, I want to do that! I’ve also made new versions of some of my old tracks that I thought need reworking… I’ll think of how to release them, maybe make an own Bandcamp page just for the new versions so they’re easy to find and I’ll keep the old albums as a kind of snapshots of the time when I released them…

That’s all, have a nice day and remember to love your garden! And if you don’t have one, get one, it’s great :)

Kiitos ihmeiset, oli ihan sikasiistiä soittaa, ja meininki kohdallaan! Dekot näytti hyvältä, ja sunnuntain kolehtibileissä oli kyllä jotenkin omanlaisensa rento groove päällä. Kansa, vaatikaa lisää!