Mika Vainio

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Vainio at a performance in 2006
Vainio (left) with Väisänen at a Pan Sonic performance in 2006

Mika Tapio Vainio (born May 15, 1963 in Helsinki , † April 12, 2017 in France ) was a Finnish musician in the field of electronic music . His works are mainly attributable to the genres of minimal techno and ambient . He has released solo under his real name and pseudonyms such as Ø, Kentolevi, Philus and Tekonivel and together with Ilpo Väisänen as Pan Sonic (formerly Panasonic ).

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Vainio was born in Helsinki as one of two sons to a bank clerk and a nurse. His family first moved to Lapland when he was a teenager and then settled in Turku a few years later , where Vainio grew up.

In the 1980s he first played drums and later synthesizers in various bands on the Finnish industrial and noise scene. From 1983 to 1985, when Vainio was still working full-time in a slaughterhouse, he was active with Janne Koski and Tapio Onnela in the industrial band Gagarin-Kombinaatti . From 1985 he performed as a DJ and initially played industrial and hip-hop, later mainly acid house . Together with Tommi Grönlund and Esko Routamaa, he organized the first Finnish rave under the name Hyperdelic Housers in the summer of 1989 . Together with Pertti Grönholm , Vainio founded the Corporate 09 project in 1991 .

Vainio had already met Turku's Ilpo Väisänen in the art and techno scene around 1987, who was also active as a DJ at the time. 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. The year before, Vainio had published his first two EPs, Röntgen and Kvantti, also on Sähkö under the pseudonym Ø. In addition to his work with Panasonic, he has published numerous solo albums and collaborations with Carsten Nicolai , Fennesz , Christian Zanési , John Duncan and Sean Booth from Autechre . In 1997 he settled in London , but moved to Barcelona the following year .

In 1998 the album Endless was released under the project name Vainio / Väisänen / Vega as a cooperation with Väisänen and the suicide singer Alan Vega . In 1999, as one of 12 artists, he published part of the series 20 'to 2000 - twelve releases about the cutting edge of the millenium on the German record label Raster-Noton . In 2003 Vainio settled in Berlin .

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

In addition to his musical publications, Mika Vainio has been artistically active again and again since 1997 and has realized numerous installations. These works as well as his various soundtracks (among others for dance projects) were first listed chronologically in the book Mika Vainio - Time Examined (Raster-Noton / rn 109).

Most recently Vainio lived in Oslo with his partner Rikke Lundgreen . He died in April 2017 while on vacation after falling from a cliff in northern France.

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 1994: Ø - Metri ( Sähkö Recordings )
  • 1996: Ø - Olento (Sähkö Recordings)
  • 1996: Kentolevi - Keimola (Cheap)
  • 1997: Ø + Noto - micro macro ( Raster-Noton )
  • 1997: Ø - Tulkinta (Sähkö Recordings)
  • 1997: Mika Vainio, Pita & Charlemagne Palestine - Three Compositions For Machines ( Staalplaat )
  • 1997: Mika Vainio - Onko (Touch)
  • 1998: Philus - Tetra (Sähkö Recordings)
  • 1999: Mika Vainio - Ydin (Wavetrap)
  • 2000: Mika Vainio - Kajo (Touch)
  • 2001: Ø + Noto - Well-Tempered (Raster-Noton)
  • 2002: Vainio • Fennesz - Invisible Architecture # 2 (Audiosphere)
  • 2003: Mika Vainio - In The Land Of The Blind One-Eyed Is King (Touch)
  • 2004: Christian Fennesz & Mika Vainio & Christian Zanési - GRM Experience (Signature / Radio France)
  • 2005: Ø - Kantamoinen (Sähkö Recordings)
  • 2005: John Duncan, Mika Vainio & Ilpo Väisänen - Nine Suggestions (Allquestions)
  • 2006: Ø - Aste (Sähkö Recordings)
  • 2006: Mika Vainio - Revitty [Torn] (Wavetrap)
  • 2008: Ø - Oleva (Sähkö Recordings)
  • 2009: Lucio Capece, Mika Vainio - Trahnie (Editions Mego )
  • 2009: Mika Vainio - Time Examined (Raster-Noton)
  • 2009: Mika Vainio - Aíneen Musta Puhelin / Black Telephone Of Matter (Touch)
  • 2010: Mika Vainio - STATION 15, ROOM 3.064 Parts 1-5 (Atak)
  • 2010: Mika Vainio, Kouhei Matsunaga, Sean Booth - 3rd Telepathics Meh In-Sect Connection (Important Records)
  • 2011: Mika Vainio, Vladislav Delay , Lucio Capece, Derek Shirley - Vladislav Delay Quartet (Honest Jon's)
  • 2011: Mika Vainio - Life ... (It Eats you up) (Editions Mego)
  • 2013: Ø - Heijastuva (Sähkö Recordings)
  • 2012: Mika Vainio - Fe 3 O 4 - Magnetite (Touch)
  • 2013: Mika Vainio - Kilo (Blast First Petite)
  • 2013: Mika Vainio / Joachim Nordwall - Monstrance (Touch)
  • 2013: Äänipää (Mika Vainio / Stephen O'Malley ) - Through a Pre-Memory (Editions Mego)
  • 2013: Ø - Konstellaatio (Sähkö Recordings)
  • 2014: Arne Deforce & Mika Vainio - Hephaestus (Editions Mego)
  • 2015: Vainio & Vigroux - Peau Froide, Léger Soleil (Cosmo Rhythmatic)
  • 2015: Joséphine Michel / Mika Vainio - Halfway to White (Touch)
  • 2016: Mika Vainio - Mannerlaatta (iDEAL Recordings)
  • 2017: Mika Vainio - Reat ( Elektro Music Department )
  • 2018: Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda & Alva Noto - Live 2002 (Raster Music)

Web links

Commons : Mika Vainio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olaf Nicolai: Mika Vainio. Escalier du Chant, archived from the original on April 15, 2015 ; Retrieved April 14, 2017 .
  2. ^ Ilkka Mattila: Elektronimusiikkiartisti Mika Vainio on kuollut . Helsingin Sanomat , April 13, 2017, accessed April 14, 2017 (Finnish).
  3. ↑ a b c Sähkö 20 Years Anniversary Special Interview with Mika Vainio & Tommi Grönlund . In: cargocollective.com, accessed April 20, 2017
  4. ↑ Mika Vainio has died . In: The Wire of April 13, 2017
  5. ^ Mika Vainio Biography / Discography. Media Loca website, archived from the original on August 1, 2013 ; accessed on April 14, 2017 (English).
  6. ^ A b Pan Sonic History . In: phinnweb.org, accessed April 19, 2017
  7. ^ Parker Freeman: Mika Vainio's early Gagarin-Kombinaatti recordings get first ever release . In: factmag.com from January 19, 2016
  8. ↑ a b Sähkö Recordings History . In: phinnweb.org, accessed April 20, 2017
  9. ^ A b c Pan Sonic: A Short History . In: blastfirstpetite.com, accessed April 19, 2017
  10. ↑ Vainio / Väisänen / Vega at Discogs , accessed on April 14, 2017.
  11. ↑ 20 'to 2000 . ( Memento of November 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) raster-noton.net, accessed on April 14, 2017 (English).
  12. ^ Pan Sonic: Gravitoni (Blast First Petite) . Review on themilkfactory.co.uk, June 22, 2010, accessed April 14, 2014.
  13. ^ Mika Vainio: Time Examined . ( Memento of July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) raster-noton.net, accessed on April 14, 2017 (English).
  14. ↑ a b Rob Young: Mika Vainio 1963-2017: Finland's great stone-faced sonic violator remembered . In: The Wire , April 2017
personal data
SURNAME Vainio, Mika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ø (pseudonym); Kentolevi (pseudonym); Philus (pseudonym); Tekonivel (pseudonym); Vainio, Mika Tapio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish techno musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2017
Place of death France