Crankshaft

I could have blogged about Hitlantis already a year ago when I was involved in programming the first version of it. But better late than never!

For the past few months I’ve been working on the Flash client of Hitlantis again. Bug fixing, adding new features and slowly but surely optimizing the existing codebase. I admit it, the current version is still rather slow, but I feel confident that during the autumn we can sort out many of the performance issues.

So, what is Hitlantis? It’s a new Music Web Service, often dubbed “the Spotify of indie music”. You can use it as an end-user who’s looking for new, previously unreleased music or as an artist who’s promoting himself and selling his/hers/their songs on the Internet.

Do not hesitate to go check it out at Hitlantis.com! You can log in with Facebook connect if you don’t want to register yet, or even use the sneak peak mode, which is limited in features but gives you an overall idea of the service. Oh BTW: Flash Plug-in 10.1 recommended for smoothest operation!

I even created an artist page myself:

http://www.hitlantis.com/#/crankshaft

…and there are others, like http://www.hitlantis.com/#/aisth and http://www.hitlantis.com/#/blamstrain etc.

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).

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!

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

I created an artist page for myself at Last.fm, check it out here! I uploaded most of my older material in good quality audio, so feel free to listen to it… Check out the “Albums”. (And ignore the heavy band, there’s nothing I can do…)

Crankshaft produced the Website for Yatta Ltd. Check it out here!

The site is a clever mash-up of several Web 2.0 techniques, taking advantage of WordPress 2.5, Prototype and Scriptaculous JavaScript libraries, 24-bit alpha PNGs and some custom code. :)

After an extraordinary four-and-a-half years of living in Catalonia’s capital Barcelona, I’ve moved back to Helsinki!

I’m currently busy working at Fake Graphics and can’t accept that many freelance work offers anymore… However, I’m still happy to hear about interesting projects (preferably audio work), so don’t hesitate to contact me.

Crankshaft was commissioned to execute the technical production of the tailor-made retail store sites for NunnaUuni. The site uses AJAX techniques for fast page updates, a search engine for NunnaUuni products, and a back-end that supports several language versions and customized views for the retailers, where they can access and update only the data that’s relevant to their specific site.

Some example sites:

Omakotimaailma
Uunikas
Mariebergs

Client: Ozo / Knockout