Philus ‎– Tetra

Well well.. Actually Mika Vainio was the man who introduced this minimal world to me while ago. And this was one of the first releases I ever purchased from this type of music.
I can understand that why most of the people don't think this as music. It's very minimal, lots of bleeping and stuff. But I have to say that thank god there are people who does this kind of music, because - for example- this album is everything that you can expect from minimalistic music. It's simple, and each time you listen to it you can find different things, different sounds, effects etc. And what's the best thing, this type of music never dies, never gets old. These are not one hit wonders, and you can't get tired to this type of music.
Also in the era of digital music and illegal downloading, we, who really love music, can still enjoy our CD's and vinyls, because without this kind of "alternative electronic" music, I'm sure that physical formats would have been dead for a while.

I loathe to use the word MINIMAL, but i'm hard pushed to find a better word to describe this LP. Very clinical in it's sound, track titles & packaging, the premise seems to be centred around pharmaceuticals. Which was probably influenced by time spent working in a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Finland. Musicaly, some of the pieces sound like some lost & forgotten biological experiments left to fester in the bottom of an old petri dish. However, the real shift from prelimenary cell study to full lab trial is delivered in the shape of ANKSIOLYYTTI. Twelve & a half minutes of deep black space. Like Brian Eno's NEROLI but without the pastel shades. Where NEROLI offered the listener a chance of escape via passive listening, ANKSIOLYYTTI comes over like a brooding, malignant tumour. Engaging until the end. . . . . . . .