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I don't know what to tell you about this one. This newsletter comes out mid-March, thoroughly missing the possibility of letting you know about a gig held in Myllypuro, Helsinki on the 17th of February. Well, at least we got a video of the whole set.
Anyway, this turned into a newsletter about videos. Sure, there's the Chillage Idiots interview/jam session, yet another remix appearance, an interview/article published in Spanish, a compilation release and two podcasts. However, the rest are all video. Oh, and an available-only-to-streaming-Finns Esa Ruoho Avaruusromua Special.
Who knows, maybe the next newsletter will just tell you about a forthcoming gig and another remix appearance?
Ready steady go!
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Avaruusromua and me go a long way back. I still have the e-mail Jukka Mikkola sent in 1999, asking for a copy of CDR#2 so he could play it. He explained what his show was all about, but he needn't have had to. I'd been completely addicted to Avaruusromua ever since I accidentally discovered it on the radio.
I always sent him CDs of my records, and later on switched to sending him promotional copies in digital formats via the ever-useful WeTransfer -service. It was magic, him playing new Lackluster / Esa Ruoho tunes and a few gig excerpts (Sähkökirjasto, 33h Live Ambient Festival and Suuri Aika, to name three) on the Finnish radio. His essays are really enjoyable. He writes these long, elaborate, sometimes well-researched and sometimes eccentric articles for each of his weekly shows.
So far, he's spoken via the radio frequencies to the nation of Finland about Nikola Tesla and Wireless energy transfer, Viktor Schauberger and water vortices, Cold Fusion and the possibility of clean and free limitless energy. You can probably guess that the first essay was related to On the Hangar of Spaceship Earth, the second to the twin EPs (The Stationary Trout Ep and Flows Ep) and the third would see it's genesis via him playing a few tunes from my newest album, Lexicon of Goods.
I always wanted to do something special and unique for Avaruusromua and Jukka Mikkola, but never got around to it. Until now. On the 6th of March, Mr. Mikkola broadcast the Esa Ruoho Avaruusromua 2016 Special. If you have your automatic translating services handy, run this article through them.
The broadcast is unfortunately only streamable for those with a Finnish location (or methods to claim to have a Finnish location...), and will no longer be available come the 6th of April 2016.
Regards the recording, we will see what I'll do with this, and it's little sister - which is already in pre-production.
Needless to say, meaningful chunks of the recording would not be possible without devices created by LOM Instruments.
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One of the last things I did in Ireland before leaving for Finland was to be a guest on the legendary Chillage Idiots show, run by Mick & Paul Chillage. Yes, that's that Mick Chillage I eventually created three remixes for, all released on Nice & Nasty Records - which is still run by Desy Balmer, another acquaintance from 2005.
I was gratified to find out that it popped up on Mixcloud a few months ago. There are a couple of rarities + some jams of Wrist Control etc on there.This was made about 2 years before Repulsine Ep was released on SLSK Records.
The Chillage Idiots meet Lackluster, 2nd October 2005
Stream it via Mixcloud
A relatively incomplete tracklisting available via JunoDownload
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Speaking of Desy and Nice & Nasty Records, here's a digital EP consisting of three re-imaginings of Soul Deep by Samuel James. Jimini, Andrew Duke and me all contributed a remix each.
More info via the release-page on the Lackluster website
You can stream the release on Spotify or stream via rival Apple Music.. Or maybe you prefer to just go the regular iTunes / Amazon / JunoDownload route.
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Lackluster LL180905 (also known as Introduction To Lackluster) features on 'Helenium', a mix created by Nachtschade for Finest Ego
https://soundcloud.com/finestego/finest-ego-nachtschade-helenium
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Continuing with the Sunday Morning -series originally thought up by DJ Danny Daze, both LL200105 and Lanorv feature on the Sunday Morning Podcast #07 created by Deroboter.
https://soundcloud.com/dannydaze/sunday-morning-07-deroboter-2
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Lo and behold, here is the easter egg release from Newsletter#007.
Originally performed at the 33h Live Ambient Festival in Pori, Finland..
Esa Ruoho: Incoming (live) features as the 86th track on the Unexplained Sounds Group: The First Annual Report -compilation. Enjoy!
https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/unexplained-sounds-group-the-first-annual-report
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Someone seems to resemble your chosen moniker. What do you do?
Well, if you're me, you wind up delivering two remixes for them. After all, that is exactly what happened when Lake Lustre popped up on my radar. He released on a Finnish label called called Abflug Records, and I thought the similarity in names was, well, interesting, so I decided to get in touch with Joe Scerri all the way back in 2004. He was game, and about a decade later, the results popped up on YouTube, of all places.
Lake Lustre: A Foreign Scene (Lackluster Remix 1)
Lake Lustre: A Foreign Scene (Lackluster Remix 2)
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Lexicon of Goods Schmexicon of Schmoods
It's been ages! Why you going off about that again? Well, because Sebastián Agulló happened, that's why. We did a long interview and I filled him in on all kinds of details about the record, MFMP and musicmakin' and he published it on Culturama.es, a Spanish-language blog about music and stuff.
Here it is: Lexicon of Goods: Estilo Propio
("pues dentro del género IDM ha conseguido lo que pocos consiguen, esas dos palabras que tanto dicen: estilo propio.")
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I've been holding onto these three for far too long. Here we go.
Yep, my music has been used in three videos about surfing, mostly in re-tellings about something called bombing, whatever that might be. Probably related to surfing on sommat, right?
Surfline Productions: ONE BOMB TO RULE THEM ALL: THE 2014-15 OAKLEY WAVE OF THE WINTER
Surfline Productions: GREATEST WIPEOUTS: DAVE WASSEL AT MAVERICK'S
Surfline Productions: GREATEST WIPEOUTS: RUSSELL BIERKE, CLOUDBREAK
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Did you know this about Lackluster? (Lackluster Factoid #06)
Ooh, the controversy! Apparently SLSK - that software we all used (or at least checked out) and then claimed we didn't, had a very specific album mentioned in the Help / Tutorial for usage of the Search Filters.
The album was Lackluster: Container. Don't believe me? Feast your eyes on this screenshot.
Would you believe I only found out about this eight years after having worked with Nir & Roz of SLSK Records to schedule Repulsine Ep, Undulate Lp and Expulse Ep for release?
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One last video. Honest. This is a collaboration between the programmers at The Digital Artists and me. The size of this audiovisual demonstration is 4096 bytes or 4Kb, if you like.
It placed 3rd at the Assembly 2015 4Kb competition, and can be run on your Mac OSX computer, if you were to want to try it out. If not, just check out this 60fps version by clicking on the image.
The music was created using Komposter, a neat little light-weight music composition tool.
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Warning. Warning. The next newsletter is going to be all about cramming CD + Vinyl down your throat. Whether you want it or not. Well, hopefully you want it. Oh yes you do. You want it, don't you? I knew you did.
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