Mika Vainio

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Boiler Room to screen online premiere of Sähkö The Movie
Boiler Room to screen online premiere of Sähkö The Movie

Rare 1995 VHS film about the Finnish label will be streamed online for the first time
Essay
Tommi Grönlund of Sähkö Recordings remembers Mika Vainio
May 2017

A month after his death, the Sähkö founder and friend recalls a musician who “created a language of his own”
Essay
Mika Vainio 1963–2017: Finland’s great stone-faced sonic violator remembered by Rob Young
April 2017

The Wire's Rob Young recalls the trouser-shaking subsonics of Pansonic’s “Nordic King Tubby”
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Mika Vainio has died
Mika Vainio has died

Electronic music producer and former member of Pan Sonic has died
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Listen: Vainio & Vigroux Peau Froide, Léger Soleil
October 2015

Listen to exercises in “sensitive intensity” on Mika Vainio and Franck Vigroux’s new album collaboration
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Mika Vainio opens Touch Folio book series
Mika Vainio opens Touch Folio book series

Touch has started a book imprint, with the first publication a collaboration between Mika Vainio and photographer Josephine Michel
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Future Everything hosting The Space Lady's first European performance
Future Everything hosting The Space Lady's first European performance

Mika Vainio, Source Direct, Evol, Dean Blunt, Evian Christ, Tim Hecker and more at the music arm of Manchester festival.
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Pan Sonic to release first album in three years on Kvitnu
Pan Sonic to release first album in three years on Kvitnu

Finnish noise makers Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen tot release on Ukranian label Kvitnu

Issue 350
April 2013
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Mika Vainio releasing new solo album on Touch
Mika Vainio releasing new solo album on Touch

Mika Vainio's next solo album is on the way via Touch music, titled Magnetite it's due for release on 3 September. The seven track album will...