Whitechapel - Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-11-23T06:08:15-08:00

Hey Whitechapel!

My band ÄLYMYSTÖ just put up our new web site and since we're already operating on a Creative Commons license we put up quite a bit of free music as well. Our first album Atomgrad is now a free download (direct & torrent) and copying is highly encouraged, as are comments.

We've got elements of ambient, noise, industrial, triphop and god knows what in the mix. (If any of you can come up with a suitable genre description, feel free to let us know. We're stumped.) The record has an ass-backwards structure, so if the first songs are maybe a bit harsh, there's smoother seas up ahead.

Direct Download HERE.
Torrent HERE.

(We've got some store links on the web site, too, in case you want to give us your money, but the free music and feedback is the main thing here. Thanks!)

Oh right, we also released our first music video -- for an old, old song -- to go along with the new site:
Älymystö - Kilpisjärven talvi

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UPDATE: A gig on the 26th in Tampere. We'll hook up a webcast. Details at the end of the thread.

Yours,
Älymystö

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-11-23T07:41:19-08:00

I have downloaded and shall listen during my daily activities.

Thank you for the gift.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-11-23T09:11:12-08:00

Something to listen to on the trek to work. Thank you :)

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-11-23T11:08:33-08:00

Fantastic. I'm going to attack the torrent now - thank you!

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-11-23T11:11:02-08:00

I fucking love Älymystö. Thank you.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-11-23T15:23:58-08:00

Your band is pretty good. Don't forget your whitechapel buddies when the 2nd album comes out, k?

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-11-23T17:43:14-08:00

@ All: The pleasure is all ours. We eat love. NOM NOM NOM go our mouths.

@ Butoh:

Well, at the moment we're all pretty much hardcore pro-CC people so I see no reason this distribution philosophy would change any time soon. More stuff coming early next year, I'd imagine; I've just been listening to the early mixes tonight and they're pretty nifty!

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-11-23T19:09:50-08:00

Well this is pretty awesome of you. Downloading through the torrent to save you bandwidth, and will seed throughout the night.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-11-23T19:16:14-08:00

Ditto on the seeding. Thanks for this.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-01T18:01:18-08:00

(Just a quick necrothread for some kudos and an update.)

We seem to have gotten about 120 downloads over the week, which I think is pretty good. Thank you for downloading, and extra karma points for seeders! <3 <3 <3

Like I mentioned above, comments are more than welcome, especially as we're planning a shift in our direction after the upcoming split vinyl. (Despite the vinyl thing, we're shooting for digital downloads as well.)

So. Thanks!

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-01T18:11:58-08:00

Utterly forgot to blog this. Have fixed.

A mere 120 downloads? Jesus.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-01T18:16:39-08:00

Hmm. The zip file wouldn´t open for me.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-01T18:21:52-08:00

I had no problems with the zip file.

Thank you for the music. And I am awake now. Awesome.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-01T18:28:32-08:00

@ warrenellis: Much obliged! (120 is mere? Could be the scene has taught us to be overly cautious...)

@ undulatingungulate: Any error messages? What's your operating system? (I'd suggest retrying as a first remedy, but if that doesn't help, we'll try and debug.)

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-01T18:49:23-08:00

Thank you, this seems right up my alley :) Nice website too!

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-02T16:25:05-08:00

Incredibly cool.
Thanks for the tunes!!!

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-02T21:03:10-08:00

this is the kind of thing I always imagined was going on behind the scenes at my orthadontist's office...

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-03T16:25:54-08:00

@ warrenellis: Well now. The blog post seems to have spawned 250 downloads in TWO DAYS. We love the hordes of Internet Jesus. <3

@ Ev: Glad you like it!

(I have to have a bit of a nerd-out here: The website was designed by a friend who went and built the whole thing up from scratch. Apparently going through the documentation for the loop Wordpress uses to cough up the pages was not entirely trivial.)

@ Matt_r: I've spent about 7 years of my life with various bits of metal stuck to my teeth, so maybe it's subliminal at this point.

Sidenote: The mixes for the split are possibly (we hope) just about done. Droney postrock dirges and punky surf industrial? I swear we're not trying to be obnoxiously tricky.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-03T17:49:18-08:00

@taphead please say you'll be posting the remixes too. I very much enjoyed Atomgrad.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2008-12-03T17:59:37-08:00

@ scarecrow: Unless the folks releasing the split expressly forbid it for some reason, we will. Not remixes either, all new material. About time, too.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2009-12-24T20:57:23-08:00

Hey, gang.

Our latest thing is a split release with And Then You Die and it is now available at least on iTunes Music Store. Spotify should follow soonish. There will be a collectors' edition 12" vinyl picture disc of this available on April 1st, at which time we'll also put up a free download of our half of this split vinyl.

Meanwhile you can listen to our half of the whole thing on our website by clicking on the Sounds of Waking Dreams in the banner.

And here's a press release on the proceedings. And the mini tour we've got going.

Happy Holidays,
Älymystö

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2009-12-25T08:12:29-08:00

Oh what the hell, I'll just embed it here, too. Enjoy!

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2009-12-25T10:50:26-08:00

... the awesome is making it hard to respond....

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2010-01-02T13:21:48-08:00

Good to hear!

It seem Spotify is slow to add new stuff, but hey: LAST.FM IS ON THE CASE for the folks who want to hear it for free.

All comments are, once again, welcome. We're just too damn close to the results to actually hear them for the next two years or so. As a quick comparison with Atomgrad, this is a much more poppy piece of music, and has what you might go as far as to call "beats".

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2010-01-02T14:08:24-08:00

I listened to it about an hour ago on Last.fm.

I said this to taphead in IRC about the new stuff as I was listening to the material.

20:49 <~Ginja> Right, I'm on track four of Alymasto's half of the EP. This is good stuff. Easier to listen to than Atomgrad (that isn't hard) and still as interesting as an aural experience.
20:55 <~Ginja> It just takes the edge off a little. I can imagine seeing this live as well.
20:55 <~Ginja> Atomgrad, less so.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2010-01-02T14:57:23-08:00

Thanks for the front paging, Warren. Always appreciated!

Oh, and since some of you may be wondering, we haven't put up a free download yet, because the nice folks at Skithund Records would like to ephasize streaming and digital sales first. We felt it was a reasonable enough request from an independent label.

That said, it is still CC licensed, so distribution is not frowned upon, we just won't be doing it ourselves, YET.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2011-02-18T05:45:20-08:00

Hey folks.

We'll be performing in Tampere on the 26th, along with some Lithuanian bands. We'll hook up a webcast, and stream the whole thing LIVE. It'll go up on our website once we have all our ducks in a row, but here's a heads up about the whole affair. Hope to see you lot online then.

Cheers.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2011-02-18T06:19:24-08:00

Don't forget that line I gave you!

hahaha have an awesome show!

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2011-02-26T10:40:15-08:00

The stream will be up at about 21:00 (GMT+2) and the first band will start at 22:00.

Our show starts at 23:00.

Webcast will be up here: http://www.alymysto.com/2011/02/23/26th-of-feb-webcast/

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2011-02-26T12:03:34-08:00

The sounds you are hearing are a damn fine example of Baltic dark ambient. Also, the first act is about to start.

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2011-02-26T13:52:14-08:00

Rawk stars!

Älymystö - Webcast Gig on the 26th

2011-02-26T14:20:47-08:00

\m/

The most pants you can have with fun on!