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Another track where I wanted to combine retro video game-y synths and the piano. Ikiyö was also heavily inspired by one of my all-time favorite bands, Kraftwerk, as I made the original concept for it after trying my hand at making a cover version of a couple of tracks by them.

Studying those Kraftwerk songs in-depth and making a full cover of the song The Man-Machine taught me an incredible amount of things and definitely helped shape this album. The most important thing for me was to realize that chasing after complexity for complexity's sake in music doesn't lead to great music, especially if it's not what you actually want to do, but instead might just lead to an awful, unlistenable mess. Kraftwerk's basic building blocks are extremely simple, but they have this unbelievable knack for taking those simple bits and making them work together, weave in and out, and build on each other so that the complexity grows naturally out of the simplicity. There's no extra fat or trickery in their compositions. Ikiyö, too, originally had more synth parts, but Kraftwerk made me realize just how unnecessary they all were and trim the track down into what it is now - and it works so much better this way than before! This minimalist thinking influenced the rest of the album greatly as well.

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from Er​ä​ä​nä ikitalven y​ö​nä her​ä​sin yksin j​ä​ä​tyneiden aaltojen keskeltä, released August 18, 2013

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Electronic instrumental music from Helsinki, Finland.

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