Finnish electronic music legend, Lackluster's entire Bandcamp output has since yesterday been put to pay-what-you-want until the end of the year or until as he puts it: " until I run out of free downloads"
The albums are at
http://lackluster.bandcamp.com/: Take advantage and tell your friends, if you like.. Now's your chance to hook up "Container", "Wrapping", "Spaces", "Places", "Molies", "Compcomp", "On The Hangar of Spaceship Earth", "The Invisible Spanish Inquisition", "Scattered Harvest", "Repulsine", "Aeration", "Compilationtracks 2008-2010", "Portal", "Riversmouth", "What You Want Isn't What You Need", "Slice" and "CDR#2"
Seriously good music, and one that we hope to get to do a Dirtymix for dirtyRadio in the near future. Stay tuned to the forums and to the dirtyRadio website. Meanwhile, download some albums, and pay the man something while you're at it.
Website:
http://www.lackluster.org/
Discogs:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Lackluster
Esa Juhani Ruoho is one among the up and coming ambient electronic artists in Finland today. His first major label release, Container (deFocus, UK) was well received by critics and the electronic enthusiasts alike. He has after that had releases thru labels like Merck (Miami,US), Rikos Records (Finland), U-cover (Belgium), Inc.Us (Belgium), Zeal Records (Belgium), Psychonavigation (Ireland), New Speak Records (Sweden).
Born October 26, 1978 in Helsinki, Esa first became interested in computer music when he was 6. Some of his early favorites were the songs created for C64 games, later modules by such luminaries as Aleksi Eeben, Niko Nyman, Sami Järvinen, and others, on the Commodore Amiga. By 1994, Esa had shifted his musical interests to ambient/idm and has later on flourished as a member of the Helsinki scene, providing music for various netlabels like monotonik and kahvi.
Currently, Esa continues to release thru several international labels and explores new tracks & techniques at his flat in eastern Helsinki.