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mika vainio & joachim nordwall - monstrance - touch - vinyl

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Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. Alloy Ceremony
2. Live At The Chrome Cathedral
3. Midas In Reverse
4. Irkutsk
5. Praseodymium
6. Promethium
7. In The Sheltering Sanctus Of Minerals

Mika Vainio was a member of the legendary minimal electronic duo Pan Sonic. Emerging from the Finnish industrial and rave music scene in the early 90's, they became one of the most important electronic music acts.

Vainio's solo works goes from abstract drone to minimal and experimental techno, under his own name or as Ø for labels like Touch, Raster Noton, Sähkö and Editions Mego. He has worked with Alan Vega, Keiji Haino and many others. His music is always extremely physical and present Joachim Nordwall runs the iDEAL Recordings label since 1998, releasing intense electronic music of various kinds and organizing club nights and festivals around the globe.
"Monstrance" is a place where Vainio's and Nordwall's backgrounds as musicians and composers meet, and something new and extremely powerful is born. Something deep, raw and direct...