Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

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.

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

Omg, thanks, I'm gonna totally go to a free wi-fi place and get it for free-free. Oh, & my song of the day is Radiohead's Treefingers.


I was really being grateful! Love ya stimpee!

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

wow. such sarcasm. you try and do people a favour...

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

Steve- thanks!
I've loved ESA for YEARS. glad he's still making music.

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

Oops, I accidentally let the free-for-all continue till November 2014. But rest assured, they all cost something now. Whether that's good or not is debatable!

I've added CDR#1 (a, well, slightly rare, slightly historical, original cd-r from 1999) and Moments (a 2014 lp).

I'm going to be adding a Merck Carepackage with vinyl-only releases, and a deFocus Recordings Package with more vinyl-only-releases -- we will see what this second one will change into.

There is also an album coming out this year, called Lexicon of Goods..

Tell me more, Stimpee. My email is esaruoho@gmail.com and i'm always open to something.

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

Aww! Yes, I'm still around, and Undulate LP is still not released.. Hanging onto that for dear life. Started work on fixing up a second album.. slowly.
Mostly been doing remixes and giving tunes to compilations.. like the excellent V/A: Touched -series..
Which you might be aware of due to who else is on the compilations too! :)

http://touched.bandcamp.com/

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Thanks ESA! Glad you are still kicking it! We used to email YEARS ago. back in 2000/2001.... Looking forward to hearing your new stuff!

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

Lackluster / Esa is an underrated musician. Check out his stuff on bandcamp and throw a few dollars / euros / pounds his way so he has money to buy food!

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

Hi crank! I can now confirm that Lexicon of Goods is now out on JellyFish Frequency Recordings. It's a pay-what-you-want on their bandcamp page.

All income from that LP go as donations to the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project (#MFMP) at http://www.quantumheat.org/ - historically important alternative energy research.

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

Thanks Man! Heading there now!

Esa! "So There Spherical" holy cow. AMAZEBALLS.

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

Wow! Thanks for liking that track - wasn't sure how it would be received.. :confused:

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

Why? It's great!

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

This new Lackluster album is brilliant. Buy it here. https://jellyfishfrequency.bandcamp....xicon-of-goods

How does one make a resounding career statement in 2014, to establish it over their two decades of previously released music? Does one go for an obscure minimalist affair, a concept album based on the inherently wonderful sounds of a metallic bucket, a piece of cardboard and a lead pencil? A simple best-of?

Nope, if you’re Esa Ruoho a.k.a. Lackluster, you’ve gone for a wide spectrum covering everything from barely beatless late-night sensuality ("Purple Rooms") to hobbling, beats held-together with pieces of gum and bubblewrap, with massive doses of melodic layers ("Falling All Over The Place”, “Urban Sprawls").. Then you trail it all at the end with skittery skattery drum’n’bass ("So There Spherical") and pure ambience laced with electric interference ("Calming Presence”).

Much like a sonic dictionary, this album, unlike any other previously released, thoroughly covers the various moods and modes of Lackluster.

The sources of inspiration for these tracks range from the -45 Celsius to various historical computers, to Free Energy inventors and researchers, nutrition and health, human energy and, fashionably late to the party, mr. mysticism.

As regards the artwork, the human being is like a typewriter, which the world - or the universe - plays, and the instrument resonates the chord onwards and outwards.

“This is an entire Lexicon of your work, I hear so much.” said Dj Konvndrvm aka John Hammond, the label boss of JellyFish Frequency Recordings upon hearing “Lexicon of Goods” for the first time.
To fit in with the title of the album, the tracks are in alphabetical order.


1. Basketface (05:23)
2. Beep Terrace (02:50)
3. Calming Presence (09:57)
4. CombiA13 (07:11)
5. Ender 2 (02:00)
6. Falling All Over The place (06:04)
7. Flaccidity (04:26)
8. Fraasit (08:47)
9. Purple Rooms (05:38)
10. So There Spherical (04:08)
11. Urban Sprawls (05:19)
12. Windup (04:23)

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

I'd second this review...

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

except it's the press-release :)

there's currently 0 reviews of Lexicon of Goods..

BTW, I posted it on my bandcamp too:

Lexicon of Goods on Lackluster.Bandcamp.Com

Re: Lackluster / Esa Ruoho: Music now Pay-What-You-Want on Bandcamp till end of 2013
 

Haha! I thought Steve was writing that! :) oops! it's still great and I still second the "Review" :)