Crass' album, Yes, Sir, I Will, was possibly the most angry and hard hitting attack on the political/military/industrial complex ever consigned to vinyl. Penny Rimbaud presents a reworking of Crass's album, Yes, Sir, I Will (1982), titled Yes Sir, The Truth Of Revolution. 45rpm cut by Christoph Grote-Beverborg D&M, Berlin.
It's an often sublime and necessary addition to any collection of classic ambient electronica and a firm reminder of Mika Vainio's full spectrum electronic dominance and purity. Vacillating poignant emotive clarity with forlorn abstraction, this expansion and contraction between deep, wide and relatively longer-form pieces, and a high frequency of shorter, starry-eyed passages, lends the album a more broken, strangely resolved flow than many other Mika Vainio records, and with a twinkling luster that refocuses the ear with an ancient yet timeless sort of depth perception and atemporal appeal. Taking in 16 tracks in just under 50 minutes, it's notable for including a number of exquisitely succinct - or tantalizingly short - glimpses of Vainio at his sweetest, even most sentimental, especially with the breathtaking "Tuulessa / In Wind" and the frosted harmonies of "Talven Henki / Winter Spirit", as well as the rare appearance of vocals (the voice of Oskar Sala recorded by Hans Ulrich Obrist) in the armchair transportation of "Äänikuva / Sound Picture". The album is a go-to disc for hazy daydreaming and post-club head salvage alike, drifting between iced out instrumental rhythms and chasmic spaces interspersed with moments of indelibly heart-rending melody. Kantamoinen is perhaps the most intimately beautiful yet little known LP in the Ø canon, bridging the gap between his classic '90s minimal techno productions - compiled in the vital Metri (1994) and Olento (1996) collections - and the project's subsequent turn to more ambient, cosmic and dub-wise dimensions in the coolly brilliant Oleva (2008) and Konstellaatio (2013) albums. It is re-sequenced here for the double LP format. It was originally recorded between 19 and issued on CD only under his revered Ø alias for Finland's Sähkö Recordings in 2005.
Boomkat Editions present the first vinyl version of Mika Vainio's (Pan Sonic) Kantamoinen.
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