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odkid

make music not war

About Me

odkid "Space Filler Tracks" out now!
You can get it from U-Cover mailorder in Belgium and from Duotone Records in JapanTo order it from the vu-us label, send a mail to [email protected] It's 9,5 € + shipping costs ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ Personal projects I've been making odkid songs with minimal equipment at home since 2001. odkid was freakbient, dark ambient, lo-fi-sound & experimental. The recent music is more varied and more slow, more warmer and optimistic too. Lo-fi still somewhat applies. The thing's going more and more towards ambience, simple melodies and minimalistic structures.I am now recording new material and fixing the ideas together. I've debated for long with myself about productivity and releases. Seems like some music makers put out an album every 3 months and that's cool if they're good. That's just not my thing, I want to give more time to the ideas to develop and grow. So that the songs have an actual meaning and a place in my day-to-day life and that they come from real people, events and situations. Anyway, I will try to release something(s) in 2008 and am quite sure that songs will develop by themselves.I've done black country and some folk as O'Joe songs in the last couple of years, some are found here .Projects with other people (some of them) I play bass, acoustic guitar and sing in my good friend Lauri 's (he's on my top friends) band the Sun Machine . I play bass in my cousin Drowsy 's record Snow on Moss on Stone (released by FatCat Records) and in some of Drowsy's gigs and other songs.I've also been in involved three records by Avarus and Maniacs Dream . They're different names for an improvisation psychedelia group which is mostly active in Turku in southwest Finland.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/19/2006
Band Website: reverbnation.com/odkid
Band Members: OTGV
Influences: My 'Top Friends' are partly a mental & musical reference of artists' which I believe have a good & constructive attitude towards music and especially what can expressed through it... Some of them are simply personal friends and other closer acquaintances - things I'm more or less involved in.
Could you please tell me something about yourself/your thing if you send a friend request? I have nothing against having hundreds of friends but it'd be kind to have at least some kind of 'connection' - if not a musical then a mental one. I don't mean you'd necessarily have to send a long message or comment etc. but it would be great if there's some kind of reference between you and me.
Sounds Like: nature, trees, funny shaped clouds that look like the many faces of everything, rainbows, day, night, darkness, light, distant airplanes, abandoned buildings, trains, rain, sunshine, birds flying across a clear sky, snow falling slowly, trash cans, random objects that make one think, hope, believing, silence, emptiness, distance, space, ideas in general, genuine smiles & tears, questions regarding god's existence, the way that the same things (those buildings there, these objects in this room) seem close and distant depending on how you feel about the world and the universe, all possible worlds you can imagine to exist and which in this sense do become reality, memories from times that can never come back (so it's pretty nostalgic), kindness, love, justice, the strive for understanding the entity of it all
Record Label: vu-us
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

some more news...

Hello you,I'll be playing this friday as O'Joe in Rovaniemi, perfoming what i call "black country" music.I'm concentrated more and more into singer-songwriter material, expect some things from that fr...
Posted by odkid on Tue, 13 May 2008 04:13:00 PST

random odkid news...

Hi friends,As you can hear/see, new odkid material is on my player. Samvega: The oppressive sense of shock, dismay, and alienation that comes with realizing the futility and meaninglessness of life a...
Posted by odkid on Thu, 08 May 2008 03:24:00 PST

odkid plays noise tomorrow with les pommes noisettes!

Hi friends,Tomorrow i'm playing a show as a member of Les Pommes Noisettes. It's on Radio Säteily and you can listen it here. I think it will be some kind of noise, let's see what'll turn out...stay g...
Posted by odkid on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:20:00 PST

odkid mixtape is out!

Hi everybody,Now the mixtape is officially out! check it out here --> http://playmytape.net/page.php?id=58odkid - PMT43 Shards from The Potions I DrankAbout the record: «Here’s some of the music...
Posted by odkid on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:38:00 PST

Mixtape & stuff...

Hi good friends,I’m glad to announce that the mixtape i made for http://playmytape.net is outtomorrow 9/04/2008. It’s titled "Shards from the Potions I Drank".I saw Low on saturday and man...
Posted by odkid on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:30:00 PST

the Solar Apparatus appeared

Hi good people,Recently I visited my good friend Lauri and we were going to do demos of our other band, the Sun Machine. Somehow we ended up doing something completely new and quite different from the...
Posted by odkid on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:36:00 PST

100,00 views...

Thank you all people for being here and listening! Very soon there will be new songs. Patience.otto
Posted by odkid on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:36:00 PST

the Sun Machine myspace

Hey all girls/dudes,Not much has happened recently on the odkid department but soon there are some things coming... You'll see. Anyway this message is for letting you all know that the band i play bas...
Posted by odkid on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:22:00 PST

Space Filler Tracks review by damian

Here's a review damian wrote on my new album:"odkid, Otto Venäläinen, Finnish. A very nice young man. Writing music. Nice, good ambient that i haven't listened to for a long time. Charmant, grazioso, ...
Posted by odkid on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:17:00 PST

Space Filler Tracks available from U-Cover, Belgium

You can now order my album Space Filler Tracks from U-Cover mailorder in Belgium, HEREHope you're good everybody....
Posted by odkid on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:54:00 PST