Artificial Latvamäki (Trapez, Curle, Cocoon)
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Biography
Dirt. That's everywhere. And dust. Especially when you're not vacuum cleaning enough. Everything seems broken, chaotic and ready to collapse, yet there's some kind of thin feeling, that keeps growing and growing until overflowing like a bath tub with too much water in it.
It's the everyday things that I put into my music. How hard they are to handle, the harder the music is to understand when listened afterwards. When there's no-one around to talk to all that dirt must go somewhere, and in to the songs it goes. My life is not polished, it's not nearly always even fun, it is now also not. But what it is always, it is genuine. At best I don't have a clue what happened to the song, or where did it come from.
I believe in accidents, I believe in sounds coming from outside, from an open window. I trust my bedroom's reverb, and I trust my broken guitar. All the best sounds come from my own recordings, from moments when I decide to insert kitchen utensils between the strings of an instrument and play notes that just do not exist.
Most of my music is written to the people I know or have known. We all change, usually for the worse.
(Promo photos by Pekka Heinonen)
Music
LWE Podcast
Se Tuli Aavikolata
Ratts Leaving The Sinking Ship In Nortt
Videos
Charts
All time 'club' top 10
- Blamstrain - Fwd: More 5'exual P1eesure
- Zombi - Sapphire
- Rebolledo feat. Matías Aguayo - Pitaya Frenesí
- Marc Houle - Thirds In Threes
- Underground Resistance - Transition
- Parallax Corporation - Slowflight / Runner
- Legowelt - Sturmvogel
- Alex Smoke - Chicca Wappa
- Tolga Fidan - Tanbulistan
- Donnacha Costello - Grape
All time 'other' top 10
- Darkthrone - Wreak
- Esbjörn Svensson Trio - The Unstable Table And The Infamous Fable
- Red House Painters - Byrd Joel
- Autechre - Bike
- Lok - Scudmissil (Den lede fi)
- Amorphis - Magic & Mayhem
- Cornelius - Another View Point
- Äänijännite - Island Hideout
- Joe Hisaishi - The Huge Tree in the Tsukamori Forest
- Tuomas Henrikin Jeesuksen Kristuksen Bändi - Margot (live)
Discography
EPs:
Morse, morse011 12"
-Aki Latvamäki - Mielikutitus EP
Curle, curle015 12"
-Artificial Latvamäki - Ratts EP
Mezzotinto, MEZZO02 12"
-Artificial Latvamäki - It is now also not EP
Budenzauber, buza003 12"
-Aki Latvamäki - Pöly EP
Trapez LTD, trapezltd034 12"
-Artificial Latvamäki - Mänty EP
Splits/Compilations:
Curle, curle008 split with Reynold 12"
-Artificial Latvamäki - Kutsun Satamat
Curle, curle004 split with Dub Kult 12"
-Artificial Latvamäki - Se Tuli Aavikolta
Curle, curle001 split with Mark August 12"
-Artificial Latvamäki - (Song to the) Machine that built the sun
Cocoon, Cocoon Compilation G with several artists 6x12"
-Aki Latvamäki - Tämä Tuli Järvestä
Collaborations:
Escape From Synthesis, collaboration with Michael Diekmann 12"
Wav - Morceaux Gelés
Curle, curle012, collaboration with Michael Diekmann 12"
Wav - Nyquist Plot
Remixes:
Stolen Moments, STM004 12"
-Taras Van De Voorde - Larize (Artificial Latvamäki remix)
Compilation appearances:
Ellen Allien - Fabric 34 (mixtape)
-Artificial Latvamäki - It Is Not Now Either
James Zabiela - The Appliance Of Science (mixtape)
-Artificial Latvamäki - It Is Not Now Either
Triple R - Selection 4 (mixtape)
-Artificial Latvamäki - Mänty
Lexy & K-Paul - U60311 Compilation (mixtape)
-Artificial Latvamäki - Mänty
Pictures
Photos taken by (in order):
Pekka Heinonen (1)
Pessi (2+3)
Reeta Sakki (4)
