Category: Henkka Kyllönen

Artist: H.Kyllönen
Title: test406
Label: Milk
Catalog #: rel#86
Release Date: 2000/08/26

You might have used to hear mind blowing hard core iem-tunes from mr Kyllönen but on “test406” he takes direction towards the world of electro. Various distorted bass/lead lines play the main role in this tune. The drum beats are quite simple electro beats but at times they get more complex. You can hear influences from 80’s electro and 90’s Ovuca style craziness on this track. A nice tune with quaranteed quality. Not too much happening but not too boring either.

[90%]
-S.Louhela

Tracklist:
01 – test406

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
MILK0086 [NFO] [PNG]

Artist: H.Kyllönen
Title: Personal Gain Vol.1 (Promo)
Label: Milk
Catalog #: ep/lp release #14
Release Date: 2000/04/20

H.Kyllönen’s milk-promo for Personal Gain Vol.1 contains 2 tracks from the original 7 track ep. Henkka goes back to the noisy and distorted sound world of no Xivic CD1 with tracks Lika and Little Sister 2. Althought these tracks sound very much like the nxCD1 tracks they have a cleaner, crispier and a bit punchier sound.
Both Lika and Little Sister 2 are fast tunes with the distorted hard core idm beat playing the main role. The drum beats are effected with filtering and heavy altering of EQ settings. Lika has probably a bit more variation in the sound selection with telephone speech samples (distorted, of course) and different kinds of effects (the reverbed machine ambience at the end completes the track perfectly). Little Sister 2 has a more recognizeable melody (as Lika’s melody is in the background as a distorted bass line) but the sound world is a bit poor and there’s not much of happening.
If you like fast intelligent hard core then you should get this.

[87%]
-S.Louhela

Tracklist:
01 – Lika
02 – Little Sister 2

Artwork:
Front Cover
Back Cover

Additional Files:
02_h.kyll�nen_-_lika [DIZ] [PNG]
03_h.kyll�nen_-_little_sister_2 [DIZ] [PNG]

Artist: H.Kyllönen
Title: fourfour
Label: Milk
Catalog #: rel#76
Release Date: 2000/02/16

The track starts with a sound of someone walking along with speech samples of K.Ylikulju. Then a depressing feedback noise which lasts for the rest of the tune joins in to the background making you expect something… something hard maybe? Well, you get it. A very aggressive bassline/bassdrum sequence with hard compression and modulation/filter combination gets rolling on. The rest of the track is based on this sequence which never repeats the same, the occasional pauses are filled with more speech. This is a very aggressive and depressing tune which could do with more instruments and variation though (like some additional drum sequences or another more melodic bassline?) but you get a hiquality hard iem tune that won’t leave you cold. You might need some ear protection though.

[92%]
-S.Louhela

Tracklist:
01 – fourfour

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
MILK0076 [NFO] [PNG]

Artist: H.Kyllönen
Title: on the buses ep
Label: Milk
Catalog #: ep/lp release #11
Release Date: 1999/12/16

“On The Buses” is a happy tune with lots of different instruments playing in harmony. The drums are very fast and tricky: there’s some retriggering and variations in the beat used here and there. The melodies are at times a bit confusing and even a little daft. This is actually quite a funny track but I still think the rest of this album is better.

“On The Buses (blakeymix)” is more of a serious track. The melody and the sound is nice and warm. Some kind of a choir pad and speech samples on the background and a nice slightly filtered instrument. There’s not much similarities in blakeymix and the original edit except for some samples.

“On The Buses (beauty)” takes more ambient side. The track starts with weird samples forming a rhythmic loop with some filtered noises joining in later. The moody melody is played mostly on strings. Later some kind of sine bells join in with the strings – result is a beautiful combination and a very good ambient track.

“On The Buses (calm pherm)” is the best ambient track I’ve heard for long time. The melody is very good, even sad, and has a very nice sound in it. This track has very much the same feel as Samuel Barber’s “Adagio”, which is one of my favorite pieces of classical music. The first half of this song is played only with the beautiful strings and pads with some effects. Then the minimal percussions and drumloop give some more edge to the tune without breaking the over all harmony. This one goes to the list of “my favorites of Henkka Kyllönen” for sure. It’s just a shame about those little looping problems.

S.Louhela [92%]

Tracklist:
01 – On The Buses [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
02 – On The Buses (blakeymix) [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
03 – On The Buses (beauty) [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
04 – On The Buses (calm pherm) [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Artist: H.Kyllönen
Title: ciproxin ep
Label: Milk
Catalog #: ep/lp release #7
Release Date: 1999/08/30

The album starts with “qap19”. A very powerful track which instantly introduces Kyllönen’s style to the listener. Fast complex beats and high tuned distorted bleeps with clipping treble make your ears bleed. Sweet and relaxing pads and the harsh beats together as contradictions build up a very efficient tune. I love this one.

“Iteca liqer” is a very hard distorted track with tricky beats and distorted speech samples. Not much melodies here except the distorted sweeping bass and almost random like bleeps. There’s nothing radically new in this I think but a great track for hunger of fast and hard beats. Reminds me of AFX’s older works (the harder ones).

The third track “waterworks” is smooth ambient and fits in just perfect after two harder tunes. The filtered watery rhythm effects and effected child-like vocal samples run along with the minimal strings just nicely. To me this certainly isn’t the best track on the ep (well, this is one of Kyllö”nen’s older tunes).

“Qap19” and this fourth track “Threethree” are my favorites on this ep. I just love those pads on “threethree” – the pad sample itself is a very nice humming sample and the melody is really really nice (the best I’ve heard for a while). The comp again is very fast in Kyllö”nen’s style. The track is just too short – if you asked me it could go on for over twice it’s present duration. I was really positively surprised when this one came 6th at assembly music compo. I really love this one.

“Celedo” is something that I had heard long before the rest of the tunes. The melody played with strings, female voices and an ethnic like instruments got to me then and I still think it’s very catchy. Again in this track is a fast beat played with many kinds of percussion and other effects.

The ending track “lost” is FSOL like ambient with reversed pianos and different over reverbed sounds and other effects. Smooth strings and flutes come along playing melancholy tunes. There come different loops of samples like ring modulated rhythmic noises and a nice wind bell loop at the end of the song. This is a great chill out track that suits nicely the end of a great ep.

Although this album would do very nice without some of the older tracks like “iteca liqer” and “waterworks” there are some pearls here too such as “qap19”, “threethree” and “lost”.

90%

-S.Louhela

Tracklist:
01 – qap19 [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
02 – iteca liqer [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
03 – waterworks [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
04 – threethree [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
05 – celedo [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
06 – lost [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]

Artwork:
Front Cover

Additional Files:
Ciproxin INFO [TXT] [PNG]
CIPROXIN [HTM]

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Artist: kyllönen
Title: no Xivic CD1
Label: Milk
Catalog #: ep/lp release #2
Release Date: 1999/04/22

Weird, noisy, distorted, mind blowing. They would be good words to describe the album. Although there are people for sure who can’t stand this kind of music, I love it.
The first tune “Sammalkorva” has cleverly used drums and effects that get to your head and eat your brain, ahem. No melodies here, who needs ’em anyway?
The second track “hieno ihminen” consists mainly of weird drumsequences (heavily flanged at times and effected, of course) and feedback noise on the background. Kyllönen must have heard R.D.James’ Vaz Deferenz a little too many times ’cause the background beat sounds just like it. There are even some bits of melody in this one in the end part: some random sounding little bleeps.
Third track, “retrospektro”, is again something weird (all of them are actually). If this was commercial music it Kyllönen would probably get sued because of this track’s sampled musical bits (Ettei vaan olisi Abbalta?). At times the beat vanishes in the chaos of distortion and noise – this was almost hard listening even for me but I guess I’ll survive from the ear damage.
“Kehoruoska (kolmas muoto)” has the same wicked formula. This one also has some strings (whoa!) playing little one note tunes. This track probably has the least to give because of its minimality, although this has some good ideas too. When I listened this I began to feel uncertain about my speakers when the track came towards the end.

This album is really something that you shouldn’t recommend to someone who has a narrow mind in music or who listens only “musical” and mainstream music. A high quality professional album this one. I say brilliant – can’t wait for CD2.

[ 92 %]

Tracklist:
01 – Sammalkorva
02. – hieno ihminen
03 – retrospektro
04 – Kehoruoska (kolmas muoto)

Artwork:
Front Cover
Inner Sleeve
Back Cover 1
Back Cover 2

Artist: kyllönen
Title: sit and joy
Label: Milk
Catalog #: release #42
Release Date: 1999/03/26

Tracklist:
01 – sit and joy [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
MILK0042 [NFO] [PNG]

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