Ilpo Väisänen

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Ilpo Väisänen at a Pan Sonic gig in 2006
Väisänen (right) with Mika Vainio at a Pan Sonic performance in 2006

Ilpo Väisänen (* 1963 in Kuopio ) is a Finnish musician in the field of electronic music . His works can be assigned to the genres of minimal techno , industrial techno and ambient . He has released solo under his real name and pseudonyms such as I-LP-O In Dub , I-LP-ON , Liima and Piiri as well as together with Mika Vainio as Pan Sonic (formerly Panasonic ) and with Dirk Dresselhaus as Angel .

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Väisänen went to Turku to study art in the mid-1980s . There he was involved in various art and music groups. Around 1987 he met Mika Vainio at a DJ performance. In the summer of 1993, both founded the Panasonic group , whose first EP was released in 1994 on the Sähkö Recordings label founded by Tommi Grönlund . In 1994 Sami Salo joined the group, who left the project two years later.

In 1998 the album Endless was released under the project name Vainio / Väisänen / Vega as a cooperation with Vainio and the suicide singer Alan Vega . At the end of 2001 Väisänen released two 10 ″ singles as Liima on the short-lived Raster Noton sub-label Kangaroo . The originally long-term cooperation as the operator of Kangaroo did not materialize. Together with Dirk Dresselhaus , Väisänen has been producing several albums since 2002 under the project name Angel , later renamed Die Angel , with a mix of industrial, minimal and noise music .

In January 2010 Väisänen and Vainio announced that they would no longer pursue the Pan Sonic project after the album Gravitoni was released.

In 2013, the Upper Austria Architecture Forum presented the Sharp Sine Square Wire Chamber Trio sound installation, which was created in collaboration with Clemens Bauder , as part of the Architecture and Sound exhibition .

Since 2015, various solo albums have been released as I-LP-O In Dub and I-LP-ON on the Austrian label Mego / Editions Mego. In 2018 the album Äänet was released there , a homage to his companion and friend Mika Vainio, who had died a year earlier.

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 2001: Ilpo Väisänen - Asuma ( Mego )
  • 2005: John Duncan, Mika Vainio & Ilpo Väisänen - Nine Suggestions (Allquestions)
  • 2015: I-LP-O In Dub - Communist Dub (Editions Mego)
  • 2016: Ilpo Väisänen - Syntetisaattori Musiikkia Kuopiosta (Kvitnu)
  • 2017: I-LP-O In Dub - Capital Dub Chapter 1 (Editions Mego)
  • 2018: I-LP-ON - Äänet (Editions Mego)

Web links

Commons : Ilpo Väisänen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sähkö 20 Years Anniversary Special Interview with Mika Vainio & Tommi Grönlund . In: cargocollective.com, accessed May 28, 2020.
  2. ^ Pan Sonic: A Short History . In: blastfirstpetite.com, accessed May 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ Vainio / Väisänen / Vega at Discogs , accessed on May 28, 2020.
  4. ^ Pan Sonic: Gravitoni (Blast First Petite) . Review on themilkfactory.co.uk, June 22, 2010, accessed May 28, 2020.
  5. ↑ Architecture and Sound . In: afo.at, accessed on May 28, 2020.
  6. ^ Sharp Sine Square Wire Chamber Trio . In: vimeo.com, accessed May 28, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Väisänen, Ilpo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES I-LP-O In Dub (pseudonym); I-LP-ON (pseudonym); Liima (pseudonym); Piiri (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish techno musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuopio , Finland