Brainbashers: 2012 Fest
Kovaydin Vastarinta loudly presents:
: 2012 Fest
At Brainbashers events we play hard, fast-paced and sometimes also experimental underground electronic music, which challenges the present-day mainstream’s views of dance music. The present-day, that has forgotten the pulse of intensive tribal dancing that can be felt in ones entire organism. The concept however is not puritanically focused on dance music, the listening experience is also important. Boundaries crossing extreme subgenres of electronic music can be found in for example industrial, digital punk, drum’n’bass, techno, psytrance and avant-garde. The core of the action however has always been hardcore. The speciality of the events has been to offer a wide scale of different *core styles.
Kovaydin Vastarinta has been touring Finland throughout the year 2012 spreading its Brainbashers concept and making people dance to distorted bassdrums. Now the tour culminates in a 2-day underground Brainbashers: 2012 Fest in Kovaydin Vastarinta’s hometown Tampere. Besides 2 nights of partying there will also be workshops held on Saturday afternoon. This will be the final Brainbashers party in the world as we think we know it.
Date:
23.-24.11.2012
Schedule:
– Party @ about 21-06 on Friday
– Workshops on Saturday afternoon
– Party @ about 21-06 on Saturday
Location:
Underground/Tampere
URL:
https://www.kovaydin.net
Lineup:
Friday:
COMA [LT], DoomsDay Sounds LIVE, 62 LIVE, Moerkoe, Mornaor, Noison, RujoNic, Shatterling LIVE, The Untitled LIVE [NL], Waily b2b Skitzofrenik
Saturday:
Jamqpa LIVE, K-levi, Koelse LIVE, Mother Mary LIVE [LT], OrZo, Stak Etop, Tres LIVE, Valovoima LIVE, xybo, Zutsuu=Teknoaidi LIVE
COMA [LT]
COMA is a dj who has played hardcore in various types of events in Lithuania from the Tundra electronic music festival to small (mostly Vilnius-based) underground parties. He plays at a Vilnius-based underground music club called Cechas48, which is located in an old audio-electronic device factory. COMAs musical choices can be described as industrial hardcore, Deathchant style and breakcore.
industrial hardcore/breakcore
DoomsDay Sounds LIVE
DoomsDay Sounds is a one man hardcore/terror/speedcore army from Riihimäki. The gentleman produces music mainly for his own joy and for the annoyance of others. Besides a few gigs abroad (Sounds of Chaos in Stockholm and Finnish Night in St. Petersburg) he has played mainly at Kovaydin Vastarinta crew’s parties as well as being an organizer.
hardcore/speedcore
Jamqpa LIVE
Jani ”Jamppa” Lamminpää is a Hardcore artist and Kovaydin Vastarinta’s active member from Pori. He has made core since 2005 and his first webrelease was on GvC Industry in 2007, after which he has done 4 more webreleases. His first live gig was in Tampere at Brainbashers: Autumn Depression Cure in 2009, after which Jamqpa has played gigs in Tampere, Pori and St. Petersburg and has been organizing with the crew. Main styles: Industrial-Hardcore and Speedcore.
industrial hardcore/speedcore
K-levi
Understood the power of dance before he learnt to speak. The nowadays Tampere-based k-levi does not believe in genre restrictions, he lives music with feeling. His partly aggressive style takes inspiration from definitions such as metal, hiphop, dubstep, reggae, dnb, jazz, rock and punk. He has found a common thread from these and strives to put them all together for the delight and annoyance of others.
hardcore/breakcore
Koelse LIVE
Association of experimental electronics is a group of experimental elecronics enthusiasts. They gather old consumer-electronics and transform it into sound producing devices. With these devices they play concerts, build installations out of them and teach how to build similar things. Koelses projects have been seen and heard around Europe on festivals, museums, galleries and alternative art spaces since 2002.
speedocore
62 LIVE
The project ’62’ from Tampere was born in early 2011 and is mainly focused in breakcore. 62 is also a part of RK that was founded around 2007-2008. While RK is a Digital Hardcore project of a few angry men, 62 is walking its own, mainly experimental, path.
breakcore
Moerkoe
Moerkoe is the newest reinforcement in Finland’s growing underground hc techno scene. So far we have heard dark rattle and hysterical clinking from Moerkoe.
hardcore
Mornaor
doomcore
Mother Mary LIVE [LT]
The Lithuanian musician Mother Mary has been making core music since 2005. She has released her music on the Atrum Artifex Records weblabel as well as on online compilations. She describes her core as dark, industrial, melodic and atmospheric. Her music has a sense of innovativeness, a spirit of experimentalism, breaking boundaries and searching for new things, which are in balance with more usual sounds. Being an independent spirit, Mother Mary has not been part of crew actions. She has played gigs on rare occasions for a few years at underground clubs and outdoor festivals in Vilnius and now we will hear her for the first time in Finland. Lithuania’s best kept secret who has remained in the background will be setting quite a mind explosive set free for the collective consciousness of the Brainbashers visitors!
hardcore/industrial hardcore
Noison
Noison is a one-man band from Vantaa, that produces sound in almost all its forms, the main style being the more heavy and experimental sound. The project has been active since 2004 and is nowadays focused more on dj’ing than music making. Noison joined Kovaydin Vastarinta in 2009 and has been an active ever since, maintaining the Finnish underground scene to his best ability. The first gig was in 2010 at the Brainbashers: Ydintalvi party, after which he has played at nearly all events of Kovaydin Vastarinta.
idm/breakcore/speedcore/extratone
OrZo
OrZo from Kouvola started playing vinyl in 2009 and he played his first gig in 2011 at the Brainbashers: Russian Night party in Tampere. After this he has also done gigs in Helsinki. His record collection consists mainly of heavy and dark core and dnb.
dnb/crossbreed
RujoNic
Jedi Ahvenus aka RujoNic started creating music at the age of 13 when he got his first guitar, but soon after that hardcore music took his heart and he started creating his own sounds with FL studio. Years went by and he started thinking about playing in front of a live audience. In early 2007 RujoNic got his own set of equipment and not long after that he had proved his talent to the Finnish audiences. He’s currently running the Kolina-Produktio club in Tampere and is one of the resident dj’s in Kovaydin Vastarinta’s Brainbashers events. His music consists primarily of breaks influenced core and aggressive distorted basslines as well as experiments with noise and speedcore.
industrial hardcore
Shatterling LIVE
Shatterling produces industrial hardcore, drum’n’core and breakcore with an experimental, but often also a beautiful and melodic attitude. His genre selection isn’t limited though and he often takes influences from speedcore, dubstep, classical music and jazz. This live artist and dj from Espoo has, besides Kovaydin Vastarinta, also been a member of the now defunct Divaani Records and he has also signed his tracks on Noisj.nl and Abraxis Productions labels among others.
hardcore/crossbreed/breakcore
Stak Etop
The nowadays Tampere based Stak Etop has spinned vinyls since 1999 and is also the founder of Tenkale crew and label. He has also released a 12″ on the now-defunct Skeletor Records as well as a 10″ recently on the French label P’tit Gris Records. This time Stak will dig some experimental and industrial breakcore from his record case.
industrial breakcore/experimental
Tres LIVE
Electronic music productions since 1993 – first public performance in 1995. Brawl tracks/HC/Polka as Tres since 1997. DJ sets in unexpected locations, with different names (Kivipuutarha, Ampumavälikohtaus, Sarcom0x, jne), with music such as hard core, tekno, hard tekno, full-on psy. Linked to event organizations: Rauta, Antenniosasto, Inkvisitio, Päiväkerhosedät, Helsinki Turbo.
hardcore/speedcore
The Untitled LIVE [NL]
The Untitled, the name which Jacob Slofstra started off making and playing hard electronic music, mainly hardcore techno and/or dutch known gabber music. Based in The Netherlands, The Untitled initially started as a producer in 2001 and as a live act on raves in 2005.
In 2006 the first releases saw daylight, numerous collaborations with dutch speedcore producer Noisekick resulting in various appearances on wellknown cd compilations and several vinyl releases.
Meanwhile playing as a live act on events in Belgium, Germany, England, Italy, Spain, Finland and all over The Netherlands. Performing live on stage with a hardware sequencer, sampler and effect unit for crowds over 1000 ravers, each performance of The Untitled can be considered as a madhouse.
Nowadays The Untitled has joined the dutch industrial hardcore techno label Noisj.nl run by Carnage and Cluster. Introducing his new hardcore acid sound to the public which The Untitled had been working on behind the scenes during a
year of no public appearances and gigs.
This will be The Untitled’s second visit to Tampere and a premiere for his new sound!
acid hardcore
Valovoima LIVE
”I found rhythmic electronic music through industrial/noise culture in early 2000’s. In the year 2005 I found myself at Antenniosasto’s beach party and I was stunned; for once I could hear electronic music that was excessive by all definitions. After this I organized many hardcore techno related events around southern Finland.
Nowadays I don’t have enough time to organize events, so I focus on composing music. I like distortion, low frequencies and floating soundscapes. I also try to mirror these elements in my music.
At Brainbashers: 2012 Fest we’ll see if I succeed!”
experimental/acid-/flash-/core
Waily b2b Skitzofrenik
Waily:
Ville Immonen has been driven to all kind of music as long as he can remember, but the closest thing to his heart has always been electronic music. After listening hardtrance and hardcore for the very first time… there simply was no turning back.
Main reason for Waily to start Dj’ing was the lack of real Hardcore music in Finland. Waily loves hard banging sounds and that can be seen in his performances. By playing Darkcore and Hardcore with supreme attitude and wild tricks, over the the years he has earned his place as a member & promoter of wellknown finnish hardcore concept: Mindcore. In 2008 Waily joined the Baltic Storm Artist Agency after numerous successful gigs in Estonia. Currently Waily Represents impMusic´s sublabel Hardcore Malice.
Waily has been producing his own sound for more than 10 years, as his main project he produces Hardcore under the name of Waily. In the year 2007 he launched the project Novistador for more darker and evil sounds. Waily has co-ed with many artists such as Dave Dope, Pagan, Nomic, Dj Neon, Input C, Skitzofrenik etc.
Expect some turntablist shit!
mainstream hc/induhc
xybo
Oldschool hardcore guy who does gigs rarely these days. A few speedcore vinyl releases in 1999-2000. Nowadays more interested in tb-303/analog and 90’s frenchcore/industrial sound. The first live in 1995 was gabber, after 17 years it is yet unknown what is to be expected.
tbacore
Zutsuu=Teknoaidi LIVE
The Tampere-based founder of Kovaydin Vastarinta, Zutsuu, has made various kinds of hardcore techno since 2003. Zutsuu’s tracks have been released on CD and web compilations in various continents and besides Finland he has played underground, street and club gigs in various EU countries and Russia. His fresh alias, Teknoaidi, is ”shamancore” which combines world music from near and far, atmospheric and psychedelic soundscapes and intense distorted bassdrums.
Zutsuu – Bankrupt Terra music video
Teknoaidi – Ulddat music video
hardcore/shamancore/speedcore
Timetables:
Friday:
21:00-22:00 Mornaor (doomcore)
22:00-23:00 Moerkoe (hardcore)
23:00-23:30 62 LIVE (breakcore)
23:30-01:00 Waily b2b Skitzofrenik (mainstream/industrial hardcore)
01:00-02:00 The Untitled LIVE (acid hardcore)
02:00-03:00 COMA (industrial hardcore/breakcore)
03:00-03:45 Shatterling LIVE (hardcore/crossbreed/breakcore)
03:45-04:45 RujoNic (industrial hardcore)
04:45-05:30 DoomsDay Sounds LIVE (hardcore/speedcore)
05:30-06:?? Noison (idm/breakcore/speedcore/extratone)
Saturday:
21:00-22:00 Valovoima LIVE (experimental/acid-/flash-/core)
22:00-23:00 OrZo (dnb/crossbreed)
23:00-23:30 Jamqpa LIVE (industrial hardcore/speedcore)
23:30-00:30 Koelse LIVE (speedocore)
00:30-01:30 xybo (tbacore)
01:30-02:30 Mother Mary LIVE (hardcore/industrial hardcore)
02:30-03:30 K-levi (hardcore/breakcore)
03:30-04:30 Tres LIVE (hardcore/speedcore)
04:30-05:30 Stak Etop (industrial breakcore/experimental)
05:30-06:15 Zutsuu=Teknoaidi LIVE (shamancore)
Workshops:
Koelse Drum Workshop
At 19:30-20:30, unless otherwise specified!
Koelse’s Drum Workshop is an exploration into the spiritual dimensions of urban space as well as an technological actualization of a shamanistic energy network. A spirit journey will be done through urban space connecting with its spirit powers. During the journey we try to meet your own energy device and open a connection with it.
Koelse’s shamanism team has been researching the connection between shamanism and technology since 2010. The research started due to a disappointment towards traditional shamanism’s way of distancing urbanites from their natural environment. The workshop has been organized before in Helsinki and Berlin.
The workshop is in Finnish and free of cost. There is a limit to the amount of attendees, you can attend by e-mailing oturpe@iki.fi.
Valovoima’s Renoise workshop
UPDATE: The workshop will be moved to about 19 o’clock or early evening and will be held at the backstage.
Renoise is a modern digital music tool which is perfectly suitable for writing rhythmic electronic music. I have used Renoise since the year 2006 and during this time it has developed into a diverse software, which is still maintaining a low processor usage and a good usability. I also teach Renoise because its trial version can be downloaded for free and a 10 update license only costs 58 euros. I especially recommend the workshop for those who have been limited by technological barriers. In other words, the workshop is suitable for beginners. I also try to give advice to those who have worked with other softwares.
Instructions:
Invitation only! The party info will be sent to everyone on the invitation list about 1 week prior to the event. You can get on the invitation list by e-mailing your first name and surname to the address brainbasher.crew [a] gmail.com with the title ”Brainbashers: 2012 Fest”. Please also let us know in advance whether you will participate on both days or only on Friday or Saturday. You can also add your friends on the list with the same e-mail, the same info is required from them. Naturally it’s good to send the e-mail early (read: well before the party day) than too late, even if you are still uncertain whether you’re coming or not. If you don’t speak Finnish you can also request the info in English.
The event elsewhere:
https://www.facebook.com/events/392413977491994
http://irc-galleria.net/community/3403066-brainbashers-2012-fest
http://klubitus.org/tapahtuma.php?id=25116 (day 1)
http://klubitus.org/tapahtuma.php?id=25117 (day 2)
http://vk.com/bb2012fest
