RI:SA making a return with a new album

I have opened a new website: RI:SA_sys, to promote the upcoming album of my industrial rock project RI:SA. There's a slight possibility that I will use the same domain for other related projects in the future, so it kind of takes the place of late TOD. Enjoy the trailer and be sure to check the new bandcamp.


- sami

CD shipping discontinued 19.7.2013

Hi everyone, and thanks to all who have ordered our releases! Time has come to close our self-manufactured catalog. This doesn't mean TOD will never release physical albums again - future releases will be issued in larger quantities.

All releases up to this date (19.7.2013) will be available for download only. Each copy of these albums was individually hand-crafted!

Once more, thank you! And stay tuned!


EDIT: TOD is dead. Looking forward to start a new label. Thanks to everyone involved.

- Sami

Some news and videos for you...

 Vrum has released its third album, 'Pew Pew'! Enjoy the music video for 'So Far...', the opening track of the new album. It is very 90's-esque and actually inspired by the game Parappa the Rapper for the Playstation. And Katamari Damacy, obviously:

During the last months there has been going on a project involving the members of Chalice For Your Loss, Vrum and more. A drastic change of style compared to these former groups can be expected. The group looks forward to start as a new band with a new name. See it for yourself, this is a trailer from their recording sessions:

And finally, watch Vrum perform a mellow version of 'Mosquitoes Are Swarming This Summer' joint into a newer track, 'For Aino...' here:

New Vrum video!

Vrum has released a video, in which he treats the piano in a quite rude way in order to perform a new song called "Calling For The Wolves", which would appear on the upcoming album "Pew Pew". The tracklist of the album will look like this:

1. So Far...

2. Is There Something/Someone?

3. Melatonin

4. Calling For The Wolves

5. Kid

6. Pew Pew

7. Do You Have Anything To Do?

8. For Aino...

9. "This Is Our Krautrock"

Quite interesting track titles there...

Two new releases!

 Since the world didn't end and christmas is over too, we can finally announce the two new releases I mentioned in the last blog entry. Here they are:

 Keep the CD requests comin' and happy new year!

Finally!

The CD printer has returned from maintenance and most of the pending orders have been shipped! Feels good man.

In other news, two new releases can be expected in the following weeks; one digital-only and one physical release. Stay tuned!

Announcement regarding all waiting album orders

Hi,


First I want to say sorry to everyone who still waits for their desired albums to arrive. We have not forgotten any single order - instead we have faced the breaking of some essential equipment to produce the CD:s, which has been a huge financial backlash to us. It has surprised me that even running a record label of this size can drain so much money.

The good news is that we are finally starting to get hold of these issues and we'll be getting back to business in the following months.


Regards,

Sami

TOD Presents: Living Room Sessions!

For every episode of the Living Room Sessions, the artists arrange a one-song live performance in their own living room. The Living Room Sessions-videos are simplified and filmed with the artists' own equipment, to give an intimate and humane feel to them. In the first one, we'll visit Vrum's living room, where they perform 'Pandas With Tambourines 1' from their album ';__;' with a very small line-up: Sami on vocals and guitar and Ville on lead synth. Enjoy!

Everything went butter than execution

We are happy to announce that after the opening of the new website the amount of album requests have topped all our expectations! Especially for Chalice For Your Loss' debut album, which has been sent to almost 20 people already. Also MKDELTA and Vrum has got their share of orders. Thank you everybody, so kindly!
 We've also got few donations already, which we truly appreciate over everything. This helps us a lot, as we've been encountering some lack of resources in the last few days. Nonetheless, everything is just honkey-dory!

For future plans, we can't say much yet. We've been planning some kind of special gifts to donators, like t-shirts or some other kind of neat little gifts. Who knows, we'll come up with something eventually. We've also been doing some field work; last Friday three semi-tactically picked individuals at a local bar got a free copy of Vrum's ;__;-album. Some cute girl even gave us some change for the trouble!

That's all for now, keep ordering the albums, spreading the word about us!
A lot of love.

Putting the 'Distribution' back in 'The Outsider Distribution'

Hello everyone! This is a great day to The Outsider.

www.theoutsiderdistribution.net has been opened.

It will be our official website from now on. Also note that CD distribution has officially launched. The first instances of 'Chalice For Your Loss - Stars Were Too Bright To Be Brought Down Here' have already been shipped! Go get yours!

MKDELTA - Otherness (2012) / Vrum - ;__; (2012)

RI:SA releases a compilation album

The industrial rock band RI:SA has been keeping up the noise for about 5 years now. The band was formed by Sami and Riku who started recording music in their home studio Sami had been building into his garage in summer 2006. After having released 6 records over the course of 2006-2011 and gaining something of a cult status among the industrial circles of Mikseri.net, the band's been silent for a while now. This is what the band writes in the info file of their new compilation release:

this compilation of RI:SA-works from 2006 to 2011 (compiled by both members) marks the end of the first era of RI:SA, which consisted of noisy, synth-driven angsty industrial rock that sami and riku produced in their small studio later called "the vault72". today the vault72 is being teared down and the paths of sami and riku remain unknown, but for RI:SA this only means refreshment and a chance to pick a new direction to march on. after all, the silence of our muted misery still needs to be broken!

RI:SA - remains 2006-2011 (compilation) (TO0009)

While the compilation is a good way for new listeners to get to know RI:SA, it also offers something for older listeners: the unreleased 2009 b-side 'kanssaihminen' (also being the only RI:SA-track with finnish lyrics), the hidden track of 'The Maggots Are Satisfied... And They Remind of Their Substrates' without the annoying 13-min silence in the beginning and the title track of their first EP 'Reflection' from 2006 which is a quite rare thing. Get it now!

Surprisingly, we're still somehow alive.

It's been quiet for a few months now. The Outsider Distribution is still in the baby's shoes, and all the upkeepers of the website have been working on different projects (including summer vacation, those lazy ass musicians) for the whole time. Now it's time to put things back on trail!
Firstly, we are happy to announce few new releases from our great artists, and some other news too. Now, the latest releases!


Begga(R): Antimacassar (TO0007)

Begga(R) has released his first EP called Antimacassar. Lasting approx. 41 minutes, Antimacassar takes its listeners into their own individual flight. Meter by meter, the flight will pass the clouds, reaching the orbit and eventually the space. Antimacassar includes four ambient/shoegaze-influenced tracks which the last one, Eilam, is over 20 minute long ambient work full of down-to-earth yet heavenly euphoria. The first track Therps Ikhore mixes complex IDM rhythms but the second track shares dreamful yet devastating shoegaze elements. The third track Clocking Å adds more clockwork like percussions and deep guitar layers. Antimacassar feels better during summer! Strongly recommended for fans of organic, warm and at some parts melodic atmospheres.

There's also a bonus remix of the track "Clocking Å" available in Soundcloud, check it out!




Vrum: The Symbols And Their Meanings EP (TO0008)


Once again, Vrum has changed its course to new tides of music. This time, our stunning one man band has made a math rock/indie-pop EP in the footsteps of Mew. Melancholic, massive, melodramatic and somewhat experimental 5 -song EP leaves you wordless (unless you are die-hard Mew-fanatic)! Glitched nintendos, complex riffs and sky-high, mellow vocals, if that's what you love, this EP is for you.

You can also find it from Spotify, along the Debut Album of Vrum!


These are the new official releases, enjoy! They all are for free download, of course. Unfortunately we've been continuously encountering problems with printing physical CDs, so temporarily we can't provide you any physical products, sorry. We are working hard on this, and will inform you when physical versions of releases will be available again. Stay tuned!



Back to happier news, we are happy to announce this one special piece of music!
Sami Jokinen, known from Vrum and RI:SA, started a new project called The Vault 72 Orchestra. It's practically a tribute to Thee Silver Mt. Zion, and the new main outlet of all his post-rock fantasies. The project is still in progress, but 3 amazing songs have seen the release in mikseri.net, go give them a try!






Also, we've tentatively made a deal with a new artist, Heijala. This finnish darkwave -artist has made music for many years already, but as he said: "nobody wants to release my music, so would you like to do that?" And we certainly want to! His cryptic, poetic finnish lyrics combined to beautiful synth walls are something you really can't miss.
Anyway, the actual release of the album is still somewhere in the near future, so stay tuned!
Check out Heijala @ Mikseri.net!

The debut album of Chalice For Your Loss is still in progress, mostly because of the CD-printing issues, and partly because the cream-ass-motherfucker-lead singer isn't happy with any of the proposed cover arts. But it will come, sooner or later!

MKDELTA has propably been the most active artist while we've been on summer vacation. This industrial-post-apocalyptic-crush group has been doing live shows, gathering fame and finishing up their upcoming debut album Otherness. You will certainly hear from these guys in future, they are aiming high, and road seems straight and clear! Already over 1,000 listeners in last.fm, wow!

Us, we are pariahs among the pure
We, are doubt among the true

So, that's all for now! Hope you all had a great summer, now it's time to get depressed and listen to some good, Outsider music, cheers!

New releases!

The first months of 2011 have been quite productive for The Outsider's artists, particularly in the field of post-rock music. Chalice For Your Loss are on their way recording their full length album and the creation process of Vrum's debut album has been finished and it's up for download!

But there is more! 26.3. was the day when the Earth Hour of this year was held. This meant new tracks by MKDELTA, Vrum and dark ambient/drone artist Nescient, when each one of them created a 20-minute track to form a soundtrack for the hour the lights went down. Earth Hour has already passed this year, but the release is still up for download! Please check the downloads-section!

Let's take a closer look of the new releases mentioned:

Vrum: The Debut Album of Vrum (TO0005)

The Debut Album of Vrum is an atmospheric and emotional mixture of art rock, electronic ambient, post-rock and electronica, all homebrew but with high level of production. Vrum has utilized an interesting scale of instruments on the record including violin, piano, harmonica, circuit-bent toy synths, saws, tape player and egg-cutter!

MKDELTA/Vrum/Nescient: The Earth Hour Project (TO0006)

 This digital split-album ended up becoming a really interesting package and truly deserves to be listened to more often than once in a year! Shows interestingly the way each artist proceeds to create a 20-minute song.


MKDELTA has written a good journal describing the deeper details of each track.






Chalice For Your Loss - 2011 Sampler (Instrumental)


Chalice For Your Loss - 2011 Sampler (Instrumental) by The Outsider Distribution


And here we have a sampler to give a foretaste of the upcoming CFYL-release! The sampler is instrumental, for the vocal tracks have not yet been recorded. But our patience will be rewarded!

OH LAWD....

... And The Outsider Distribution has born! We're all happy to announce
that the best finnish alternative music is now available. We offer you
a wide selection of alternative genres, everything from neofolk to post-rock
and IDM to ambient. Absolutely everything! Our guideline is to offer
a change to get international attention for music which doesn't have that
much fanbase in Finland. You can read more from "about us" section!



Rock might be dead, but there will always be sound!