"Some of Mika Vainio’s final recordings surface in original and edited forms,, lighting the way for a posthumous release of his final album in this mode, painstakingly assembled by his nearest, and hopefully due later this year.

Prior his untimely passing, Mika Vainio had been working on a new Ø album for several years. Ø was his longest running project, characterised by a run of 12”s and albums that, aside to his work in the Pan(a)sonic duo with Ilpo Vaisänen, defined techno at its iciest and most piercingly evocative during the ‘90s, before shifting into more etheric and downbeat forms during the 2000s, up ’til 2013’s ’Konstellatio’. 

These newly unveiled works have been sifted from Mika’s archive by Rikke Lundgreen, according to his notes on the work in progress, and revolve around three works not intended for the forthcoming album. The unedited original ‘Fermionit’ frames his pendulous swing and hyaline melody in arcing, glistening pads. Jimi Tenor’s edit of ‘Kulmamomentti’ reveals a more brute bass groove below stereo-glancing horror score-type inference, passing out to near silence and a teasing coda, whilst Timo Kaukolampi takes license to extend and dub the same parts with more cavernous and hallucinatory effect. -- Boomkat"

Sähkö, 2024