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FUTURE ECHOES
With Finish producer / DJ / artist Resound taking a much needed break from his
studio to visit the UK, Knowledge figured it would be rude not to hang out with
him and have a few beers.
With Finish producer / DJ / artist Resound taking he explains about AUX Media, “like sound I think people would just get bored. The venue
a much needed break from his studio to visit the engineering, radio commercials, mixing projects, holds 350 people. We’ve had Sabre, D-Bridge,
UK, Knowledge figured it would be rude not to mastering and computer game soundtracks. We Doc Scott, Noisia, Seba and Loxy is coming back
hang out with him and have a few beers. did one for a big online Japanese computer game in September. When people see the logo in the
called C21. I did like 30 tracks for it and only street they know what’s coming up and they’ll start
Resound is in London to finish off his album had three months to do them. I still get loads of talking about it and make it a real event. It’s always
and perform on the Horizons Music Takeover hits from that website which is great. They gave a total surprise. Sometimes we don’t have any for
on D&BTV LIVE #48 along with Survival, Data, me pictures and key words and I had to imagine about six months and sometimes we have one every
Insight, Blocks and MCs Stapleton and Fokuz. these things when writing. They accepted almost two or three months. There are five of us involved
Knowledge heads to Old Street tube where, even everything. There were just a couple of tunes they and I usually take care of booking artists.”
after being left waiting for nearly half an hour, asked me to change.”
we are greeted by a surprisingly chipper face and Resound admits that it’s not just the threat of
head to a noisy, local boozer. Resound, aka Ilpo Kärkkäinen, hails from boredom that keeps him juggling so many plates
Tampere, a city in south Finland. With a at once but that age old affliction everyone in
“That’s a very tough question,” retorts Resound population of just over 200,000 people, the scene feels - keeping food in the fridge. Like
after we hit him with a stinker and ask him to Tampere is quite a small city and has been likened all of us, he’d like nothing better than to be in
choose his favoured profession. “To be honest, to Manchester for its industrial history. Whilst a position to make all of his money from drum
there is no one thing that I would choose above music is a popular past time, drum & bass is quite & bass, but isn’t, so throws the net far and wide.
the others. I’ve never really been able to stay far down the pecking order with locals preferring Not that this proves to be a problem for someone
within just one thing for long because I get bored rock and black metal, a trend common across whose music tastes stretch far beyond the realms
too quickly. So I like to always switch things up Finland – remember Eurovision winners Lordi! of the scene anyway. We concur on being fans of
to keep it interesting. I think if I was to focus on Resound admits that d&b falls behind even house U2 of all things and he echoes the words on his
something, I’d find myself in a dead end after a and trance in the popularity stakes. Never one blog, citing their latest album ‘No Line On The
while. I just do what I feel at that moment. I try to to be deterred though, he has persevered and Horizon’ as one of the best albums he has heard
make something interesting and to see how far I helps to promote a series of one-off drum & bass - ever.
can go with each thing.” parties in Tampere called Pressure. This he feels
is a cultural responsibility, with any profit gained Whilst it’s common nowadays for drum & bass
Having graduated in 2004 with a bachelor’s being sunk straight back into the next party. producers to have varied music tastes, it’s still rare
degree in Music Technology and Business in my experience for one to get quite so excited
Administration, he then set up a company, “We only do it two or three times a year,” he about a popular artist. “I don’t really listen to a
specialising in urban music production and tells us. “It’s a small scene so we don’t want to lot of drum & bass to be honest,” he admits. “I
sound design. “We do a lot of different stuff,” over do it. If we were to do it every month then listen to what I do, to what people send me and
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