I was at Berlin 24.10–29.10 vis­it­ing my girl­friend. Just got back home. While I man­aged to miss Ark­tista Vim­maa –fes­ti­val, I did see some great live acts at Berlin. On my birth­day 25.10 we went to see Bonobo at Lido (first time in Berlin btw). It was great, we both enjoyed it very much. It is inter­est­ing to notice how Bonobo has evolved from sam­ple based artist to a full grown soul/acid jazz band. They did play cou­ple of Ani­mal Magic clas­sics tracks too! Recommended.

On fri­day we went to Club Maria where an event called “Bessere Welten”(a bet­ter world) took place. It con­sisted album release gigs by Mag­num 38 and Uusi­talo (aka Luomo/Vladislav Delay). I did know what Uusi­talo was going to be but Mag­num 38 was a bit sur­prise. Sort of techno/glitch/noise with grasp of punk. Well he has his roots on punk and rock music as I learned later. Sur­pris­ingly dance­able music though.

I was a bit anx­ious to hear Uusi­talo and it didn’t dis­ap­point me. Now I know why his other alias is called Vladislav Delay. It was all about delay. Well the night was good in all aspects but after lis­ten­ing min­i­mal techno six hours straight up, we decided to leave 5 am, most sat­is­fied.

As if those weren’t enough, we had booked tick­ets for Prefuse 73’s gig on sun­day at Berghain/Panorama bar (with sup­port by Nobody). Friend of mine told me that when he saw Prefuse live, the sound was all fucked up. And it sure was. I have always pref­ered Prefuse 73 as beau­ti­ful, melodic lis­ten­ing expe­ri­ence but in live it was anno­ingly noisy. Still, the rhythms were quite angu­lar and assertive. Mostly because of the live drum­mer. Fur­ther­more, the night ended unex­pect­edly early. The gig started like 22:30 and the place was closed by mid­night so in that way it wasn’t very rounded evening at all.

All in all it was great trip to Berlin, again.

Yay, Kyny­Nasty was sup­posed to be about movies too, but I haven’t wrote any­thing about movies yet. So here is a bunch of selected reviews from past few weeks. I’m not the right per­son to do any kind of “in-depth analy­sis”, so this is my style of review. What kind of feel­ings it invoked, sorf of key­words to myself.

Im Staub der Sterne (In the Dust of the Stars) (1976 DDR)
Direc­tor: Got­tfried Kolditz
Sci-fi
Source: TV (Yle-Teema)
Feel­ings: Psy­che­delic, silly, sur­pris­ing, non-sense, didn’t-see-it-coming, 70s, retro sci-fi, ddr,
star trek, adven­tur­ous
Clos­ing com­ments: Hilar­i­ous bearded man in a blue jump­suit
Worth watch­ing? Absolutely, if you are look­ing for rare east­ern bloc sci-fi
***

Star­dust (2007, UK/USA)
Direc­tor: Matthew Vaughn
Fantasy/adventure/romance
Source: The­ater
Feel­ings: British, charm­ing, fab­u­lous, queer pirate, witches, jour­ney, unex­cep­tion­ally good, based on novel, not corny, not-the-usual-fussy-action-comedy-disney-crap, eye candy.
Clos­ing com­ments: Grandma would like this too.
Worth watch­ing? Def­i­nitely. Some­thing for every­one.
****

Tide­land (2005, Canada/USA)
Direc­tor: Terry Gilliam
Fantasy/Gilliamism
Source: The­ater
Feel­ings: typ­i­cal for direc­tor, sur­re­al­is­tic, black com­edy, Alice in wonder(gilliam)land feel­ing, child­hood, annoy­ing retarded per­son, slant, pup­pets, talk­ing ani­mals, nos­tal­gia, amaz­ing per­for­mance, per­verse
Clos­ing com­ments: Airy fairy phan­tas­magoric play.
Worth watch­ing? Yes, for fans of Terry Gilliam. A plot would be nice.
**

Daft Punk’s Elec­troma (2007, French/USA)
Director(s): Thomas Ban­gal­ter, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo
Sci-fi/Experimental
Feel­ings: art­ful, demand­ing, hik­ing sequence, need-to-focus, non-movie, silent, exquis­ite, stun­ning sound­track, androids, kär­lek, emo­tion­ally chal­leng­ing
Clos­ing com­ments: Silent exper­i­men­tal mas­ter­piece about robots
Worth watch­ing? As a fan of Daft Punk yes, the sound­track is absolutely bril­liant (no Daft Punk though)
****

Check this end­ing scene of Elec­troma. Not quite any­thing I’ve ever seen before. Not much hap­pen­ing but the song (Jack­son C. Frank — Dia­logue) is so touch­ing! Be care­ful, you might burst into tears.

New Finnish release! All the music on this record are sam­pled or influ­enced from a Finnish movie “Lentävät Luupäät” (1984). Here is a vid I made a while ago. It com­bines the best moments of the movie. (don’t bother unless you under­stand Finnish.)

The movie includes this infa­mous bassline by Aarno Rani­nen. Big up for releas­ing this!

Phew. Last night Tes La Rok and Dead-O were play­ing dub­step at Ilahu, Rovaniemi. Though there wasn’t enough bass it was still jolly good. Lots of dub­plates and unre­leased “finnstep”. Few clips, check it out.

Too much!

Is tonight!

EXCITED! I finally received those Fin­lando 12“s (2½ weeks deliv­ery is just too much…)