Crankshaft

Mikko Karvonen, Mika Laitinen, Kjell Lemström and Juho Vikman: Applying Mathematical Morphology for Content-Based Music Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR 2010), Málaga, Spain, June 2010.

I recently participated in a remix competition of the biggest cult hit “Oi Beibi” of a legendary Finnish rap band Raptori, who were mainly active in 1990-1991 and make a comeback every 10 years (2010 being their second comeback). I was selected as one of the Top 5 finalists. If you are on Facebook, you can listen to and vote (i.e., “LIKE”) my remix right here! Thank You. \o/

MJÖLK got silver in Vuoden Huiput 2009 (the annual Best of Finnish Advertising and Graphic Design awards) in the visual identity / corporate design category. The visual identity was masterminded by Pekka Toivonen, with me and Niko Punin as web designers, lol.

See the posting here (in Finnish only).

SongHi Entertainment is a “Music 2.0 company making musical applications for the web and mobile platforms”. Early 2010 they released the first demo of their SongHi web service. Since then I’ve been consulting the company and project on several fronts, such as Flash/Flex development, audio DSP optimization and integration issues. The project bears many similarities to my old music startup Splice (which, by the way, continues living its own life under RemixGalaxy.com), so it’s kind of refreshing to revisit an old passion. ;)

Check out the SongHi Demo now!

I have been working at Sauma Technologies since 2008 as one of the lead developers of an ambitious project: a Flash-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) based on WW2, entitled Hours of War. The game is currently in open beta, so go check it out!

A remixed / remastered version of an old (unreleased) Yolk & Legend tune Point Taken was used in my friend Juha Fiilin’s Short film Tocar la Gorda. The film features lots of crazy shit by various persons..

The film premiered at the Rakkautta & Anarkiaa Helsinki Film Festival in 2009.

Download the MP3

There will be Mjölk. Whatever that means, you can try to figure it out HERE.

And we even made it to the Vuoden Huiput (the Finnish Best of the Year advertising competition) 2009 shortlist!

Made a small temporary Web site for MJÖLK, a new Finnish TV Ad Production Company. We’re currently working on the actual site, should be up and running in a month or so.

Check the site

Yay! Chilling Cuts Vol 4, the ambient / chill out compilation by Raiden from Sundial Aeon is finally out! It contains the classic 1999 Crankshaft vs. Brothomstates track “wekilldaenemy”. Order your copy here: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/flr/flr1cd924.html

Long time since the last update… Just wanted to let you know that the 1999 classic by Crankshaft & Brothomstates, “wekilldaenemy”, will be released soon on an ambient compilation called Chilling Cuts Vol 4. Audio samples and complete tracklisting (and ordering!) here: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/flr/flr1cd924.html