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17 Jan 2010 - Fragments

Phew! It has been almost 5 years since the release of ::Luo on One Netlabel, and since then I have been playing live performances and passively working on a new album on the background. Last year was very unproductive and in general a very shitty year for me. So, to break this time of inactivity and celebrate new wonderful year, I decided to blow the dust off some songs that I have made purely for live performances and work on them for a few weeks. Fragments takes you to slightly harder, darker and at times hectic side of bad loop, with mauling baselines, harmonic soundscapes and glitched beats topped off with ripple-like melodies. I would like to thank the people involved for their patience, Ossi at ::Soft Phase for assistance and ::Pedro Julien for the lovely cover art.

Take care of yourself and your loved ones in 2010, and remember; bad loop loves YOU!

Fragments

1. Sinner
2. Nth
3. Sometimesrmx
4. Pinta
5. En Sure Sinua
6. Nth (Planet Boelex Remix)

Download Fragments in high quality mp3 or lossless flac formats for free at ::bandcamp.com

25 Oct 2009 - Ghostly Figures

Aside all things bad loop, here is something from my dear friend and partner in music, Jolea:
"Ghostly Figures" is the debut album of Helsinki based producer Jolea. The five track EP is a lightly conceptual album portrayed as a panorama of feelings, those ghosts of the past are creating the layers of music that almost become tangible. The album begins with a bittersweet taste of dub-based longing, and it goes through a cold, melancholic IDM-flavoured phase with broken textures and misty soundscapes. Jolea combines organic sounds and instruments with electronics so subtly you don't always hear the difference. The essence of Jolea's music lies in her vibrant and intimate vocal work.

You can download the album for free, or purchase a limited edition CD from ::www.audiobaum.com

18 Oct 2009 - Eksklusif Massif Interview..

"Residing in Helsinki, Finland, Bad Loop is an IDM electronica music band fronted by Petteri Karjalainen. Started in 1991, Karjalainen is a pioneer of IDM, ambient and down-tempo electronica. Bad Loop provides a unique sound, tripped, harmonic and discordant. As an avid listener it was an honor to get the chance to interview Petteri on matters musical and material". ::Read more...

17 Aug 2009 - Sentience

"This is an animation for Assembly Summer 2009 short film competition, that I made over a two week period in July 2009.
It placed 5th in the competition with 1861 points. For the soundtrack I originally intended to have a track from my yet to be released album "Sorina", but in the last week of rendering my dear friend wrote a song "Human Desire" that I decided to include in this video. The song was written and performed by Joonas Naskali and arranged by me, and Joonas. Inspiration for the animation comes from a very difficult time in my life of losing someone very close to me, and how that has changed many aspects of my life. As for the actual skills of animation, I have none as you can see. I learned everything while working on this video for two weeks so I hope the most critical 3d wizards of you can forgive me for that."

You can watch the video on ::Youtube, or download the 720p high definition video from ::Scene.org.

-Petteri

20 July 2009 - At a loss..

Unfortunately I have suffered a great personal loss recently that has changed everything in my personal life, and thus it has greatly severed my plans to release the album known as "Sorina". I will have to take some time off to figure out my priorities and how I shall continue my daily tasks as at the moment things are not looking too bright. I am very sorry to disapoint any people who have been waiting to hear the album for some time now. I greatly appreciate all the lovely supporting emails I have received over this process of creation and I try to reply to all of them.

On a positive note, there will be something new released at this years ::Assembly, of which you can see a teaser screen shot above. Also I will be making something very special available for the badloop.com mailing list members in the forthcoming weeks so if you are not a member, now is the time to join. And lastly, be sure to check out my ::Myspace page for fresh new music.

Take care of yourself and your loved ones.
-Petteri Karjalainen / bad loop

08 February 2009 - Updates in the minor mode

Yet again it seems like ages since the last update, but I did some minor maintenance work on the ::music page so everything should be up to date now. On a more sour note, my love with Logic Studio did not last too long and I finally gave up.. I'd rather cut myself into little pieces with a rusty spoon than try to do the most mundane tasks in music production with
Logic Studio. it has been quite frustrating converting all my work back to Ableton Live, still the album is nearing it's completion and there are plenty of exciting announcements to be made here in the near future. Thank you for your kind emails and your support over these last few months.

-Petteri

07 July 2008 - UMF5

On the 26th of July, one bad loop will be performing at Uuden Musiikin Festivaali (New Music Festival, UMF for short) in Turku, Finland which is "one of the largest electronic music festivals in Northern Europe". UMF is being held for the fifth time and it has been responsible for bringing artists like Autechre and Justice to come and play with us in Finland in the past years. This year Autechre nor Justice are attending, which is a shame.. but bad loop is.. together with whole bunch of other brilliant artists, so why dont you head over to the official UMF website at ::www.uudenmusiikinfestivaali.org and check it out for yourself.


date: 26th of July, 2008
time: 19:00
place: Kupittaanpuisto, Turku, Finland
tickets: 40 euros in advance, 45 euros from the gate


For more information visit ::www.uudenmusiikinfestivaali.org

Robot Dreams

Sometimes you make a song and you never really like the way it came out and sometimes you stumble upon an idea that what if you had made it this way, it would sound better? Well this is what happened with "Sometimes", originally released in 2006 on now defunct Kuurort Records.. and now remixed and re-released on compilation album "Robot Dreams" for ::Kahvi Collective. The album is downloadable via ::Beatport so go on and throw your money to support your favourite artist's perversion for music equipment. Thank you

-Petteri

14 May 2008 - Moscow

On the 22nd of May 2008, bad loop will be performing in Russia for the first time at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow. This time experimenting with a live improvisation of selected instruments and one rather peculiar ::drum machine, the performance should be filled massive soundscapes and unexpected darkenestesestesestness!! ...

or maybe it won't.. who knows..

::NCCA Audio-Visual Reportst
date: 22nd of May, 2008
place: National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
tickets: 300 Rub.
lineup:
bad loop (One)
Esem (Merck, Kahvi)
Planet Boelex (Monotonik, Kahvi)


For more information visit ::http://ncca.ru/

7 April 2008 - Wavering

Yes my dear friends, It has been a long time. Things have slowed down to a pace of a limping snail for I have been busy trying to figure out technology and how it is not playing nice with me. Out of frustration I have been buying, selling, buying and selling gear left and right and almost nothing so far has worked out for me. Out of boredom I even purchased a Mac, and I ran into trouble I thought was not even possible at this age. To put it mildly: I hate it, I hate everything about it. But on the brighter side of things, I fell in love with Logic, which seems to be the only sane purpose to buy this apple thingy in my opinion.. and for the first time in two years, I am having fun making music and I can continue making the album...



And in other news, my dear friend ::Recue is releasing and album on ::Rednetic Recordings on the 12th of May 2008. The album contains nine tracks including remixes by ::your's truly and ::Eero Johannes.

Also there is a some new video footage taken from
::Klusa Daba ambient music festival which took place in Riga, Latvia on the 25th of August 2007. You can see it on ::Google video or you can download a high resolution 720p divx.
There will be more updates in the coming weeks on live events and music, but for now, be kind to eachother.

-Petteri Karjalainen

9 May 2007 - Beatnicks

Oh we do feel the love of the German press again, for this month's issue of ::Beat magazine features an interview
of the loopster on the making of ::luo , live performances and music in general. There is even a small mentioning
of the forthcoming album..so if you are in or around germany,be sure to pick up an issue for your reading pleasure.

Also, for the 2 year anniversary on the release of Luo,
I have decided to release the album in FLAC
(::free lossless audio codec) format on a
dedicated ::microsite for those who care enough about the higher fidelity.

16 february 2007 - Fish 'n Chips *UPDATE*

bad loop will be performing for the first time in
United Kingdom on the 23rd of February at GlitchNight in Bristol AND on the 24th of February at Glinlik in London. You will be treated to a brand new nordic flavoured dancefloor idm live set played back to back with Recue and for visual pleasure, Jari Saukkonen has brought his ever-evolving-real-time-3d-graphics-eye-candy-engine, so if you're nearby.. say England.. you are welcome to join us for a night of electronic music, visual arts, friends and booze. ... and have a good time ofcourse.

::GlitchNight
date: 23rd of February, 2007
place: The Arc Bar, Bristol, BS1 2HG, UK
tickets: 8pm-2am Free before 11pm £4 after.
lineup:
Sunosis
Fletcher Munson Effect
sonix
Jim Westwoods


For more information visit ::http://www.glitchnight.com


::Ginglik
date: 24rd of February, 2007
place: Ginglik, 1 Shepherds Bush Green, London, W12 8PH, UK
tickets: 7pm-2am, Full members free. Pay as you go members and guests free before 8pm £5 after. No entry after 12:30am
lineup:
Plaid (warp)
Sunosis (rednetic / colony)
Abstract Knights (colony)
Kone-R (uncharted audio)
Little Shining Man (sonic 360)


For more information visit ::http://www.ginglik.co.uk

13 october 2006 - time out

After somewhat hectic spring and summer of 2006, I am taking some time off to write a new album and some other odd releases while concentrating on the matters of the heart and things that are most important to me.

I want to thank thank all the people involved in making all my live appearances possible so far this year; Dj burdock for the wicked night at Butane club, Kaido, Anti and Kaarel of Kuurort Records for the loveliest time in Tallinn on several occasions and the all the people at Assembly 2006 for .. well .. assembly :)
Also I want to extend my thanks to all the people that have sent me the loveliest, most encouraging emails. They really make my day.

There are some minor updates in the gallery and there is also plenty more live gigs in the works. If you are an organizer and wish to have me perform at your event, don't hesitate to contact me at bl (at) bad loop . com.

For now, take care of yourselves and your loved ones.

-Petteri

30 july 2006 - Assembly 2006

bad loop will be performing with recue on saturday, 5th of August at Assembly 2006 which is held at Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland and will again feature the jaw droppingly gorgeous, midi-controlled-custom-made-realtime-3D-visual-engine
by Jari Saukkonen of the Coral fame. So all the nintendo neck-boys and irc-galleria-chicks come and join us for chilled IDM experience at the Assembly 2006 Rave brought to you by ::Sequence

time: 07:30(am)
place: Seminar hall (Lapin Kulta restaurant)
tickets: Entrance is free of charge to ASSEMBLY '06 visitors.


For more information visit ::http://www.assembly.org/2006/program/rave

12 july 2006 - Sun Dance Music Festival 2006

Last years Sun Dance Music Festival was such a success that them Estonian girls just couldn't handle a festival without the Loopster. So to satisfy the needs of the beautiful laydeez of Tallinn, Bad Loop and Recue, together with the visual wizardry of Jari Saukkonen, are all coming to Tallin, Estonia on the 15th of July to play new, never heard before, fresh tunes at Sun Dance Music Festival chill out tent.

For more information visit ::www.sundancemusicfestival.com
see you all there!

20 june 2006 - Plosive - One remixes

"Collaboration has always been an important factor here at One - whether it's through music, technology or artwork. In this spirit the return of Plosive brings us a showcase of covers, mixes and overhauls of many favorite releases from the past couple of years - including reworkings of Bad Loop, Jack Haberfield, Iua, Emil Klotzsch, Paranerd, Partikel and Recue."

::plosive "one remixes" (one027)
::onenetlabel.com

19 may 2006 - Earthlings

I have a rule that I don't post views or opinions of any kind, nor do I take any part in political, religious or environmental issues on my website, but I saw a very powerful documentary titled ::Earthlings and I felt I needed to do my part in making people aware of this informative, thought provoking film. ::Earthlings is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research, but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby.

This is a must see for everybody old enough, but I must warn that it contains highly disturbing images of animal abuse by humans.

You can find out more on ::www.isawearthlings.com and you can watch the documentary in full lenght at
::Google video

- Petteri

16 may 2006 - myspace

yes.. I am now on ::myspace too so go on and add yourself.

07 march 2006 - new video!

We have finally managed to edit the video footage from last years Sun Dance Music Festival event in Tallin, Estonia into a nice 42 minute long documentary. The footage was filmed between 15th and 17th of July 2005 and is subtitled in English. Following performances are included:

1. Intro
2. Nio
3. Dreamshores
4. Orchard Rd.
5. Favourite Things
6. Lumme
(+ all additional background music by bad loop and recue)

you can download the video at ::scene.org
Running time: 41min 52sec
Filesize : 293mb
The video uses Divx 6.1.1 codec which you can download from www.divx.com
I hope you will enjoy this as much as we enjoyed playing.

14 february 2006

<3*plim

happy valentine's day to everybody.
I hope everybody has somebody close and special to love and care for today ^___^

hugs.
- petteri

24 december 2005
merry christmass and a happy new year to plosive, tiggls retrostar, recue, jobie, riina, karoliina, dazzt, apo, mervi, kim, clive, makunouchi bento, ronny pries, niroku, brothomstates, blamstrain, aleksi virta, diskreet, lackluster, orkidea, all of #buzz, everybody on the mailing list, all the fans <3, mum, katrin, john, alex, todd and all those special people that I might have forgotten.. you know who you are

- petteri

18 november 2005

::if:then:goto "another syntax error" (one022) qualifies simply as good song writing. Nothing tech, nothing too fancy - just good production, soulful vocals, inspiration, and catchy choruses. A mixture of brit-indie, guitar, and electronic music taken down his own path. To top it off and spin things up, 'ASE' is closed out with 3 remixes from favorite One artists - including Emil Klotzsch, Bad Loop and Recue. "easy" (bad loop remix) is somewhat of a tribute to late 80's / early 90's synthpop that I used to listen to as a kid.. so get those shoulderpads shaking. download it all at ::one.dot9.ca

15 september 2005

willkommen!
i am getting some sweet love in the german media! firstly ::beat magazine has a review of ::luo in their september issue(10|2005), which is available for a read in ::german and ::english. secondly ::spiegel online has written an ::artist spotlight about the bad loop.
bless 'em for i am very happy.

22 july 2005
::download live at the sun dance music festival 2005 (.mp3 61mb)
a somewhat different version of the liveset is available at ::kahvi.org in .ogg format with the crowd mixed in and some levels manually corrected.

1  00:00 intro
2  01:05 nio
3  06:38 dreamshores
4  13:11 himanka
5  17:28 eri valeire
6  24:05 afterglow
7  29:00 silversands
8  32:55 untitled
9  33:38 krikkit
10 38:48 favourite things
11 43:32 ruoste
12 48:10 her wings of wax
13 51:16 lumme

57:50 -end-

tracks 2,5,8,10,11,12,13 produced by bad loop.
tracks 3,4,6,7,9 produced by recue
all tracks were performed and more or less remixed live by bad loop and recue

9 july 2005
tallin, estonia; gorgeous city with the most beautiful women i have ever seen in my life. the ::sun dance music festival was a fantastic event to play at, and i would love to thank the people of ::kuurort records for inviting me to their beautiful country. thanks to the audience at the event. the response of the crowd left me speechless, you are fantastic people. also a very special thank you goes to riku "recue" annala who was kind enough to come perform with me; it simply would have been lame without you.

.. and the icelandic ::sprinkler was amazing!

03 june 2005
Luo ep reviewed at ::igloomag by Mark Teppo

19 april 2005

it's been too long in the making but finally I give you ::Luo, a 6-track e.p. of light-hearted electronica released by the fantastic people at ::One. I thank everybody who supported me over the past few months .. you know who you are. hopefully you will find this more enjoyable than I did at times making it. now go on .. throw them panties on the stage and reach for the lasers..

14 april 2005
if you didn't make it to the fantastic event held in Espoo for some odd reason, no need to strangle yourself with your underpants, for it isn't very comfortable and also we have ::live footage of the event. we also tried to get the live performances recorded on minidisks but sometimes you just can't avoid days when technology lets you down and you end up with one minidisk filled with whining r'n b music.

i also want to thank everybody involved with organizing this lovely event, especially Apo, Mervi, Riku, Tevya, Joanna, the boys from Kotka, Dazztypooh, the stars of the evening Lassi, Juho and Hosni + everybody who's names i don't know.

18 march 2005
live dates updated. my favourite.

10 march 2005
was it broken? the badloop.com server had some issues of varying seriousness these past couple of days, so sorry for the inconvenience.. everything is fixed now and the new improved creamy goodness of bad loop is back online.

07 march 2005
Yes! It is a new website just in time for the festive season of 2017. a big thanks goes to a couple of really special people at ambientia for making this website. note: still under construction for gallery area.

24 december 2004
merry christmas to everybody, new EP out soon(ish) so be good to yourself.

22 september 2004
minor adjustments. new site layout is finally in the process.

13 august 2004
badloop.com is now kindly sponsored by ::domatic.net

01 may 2004
minor adjustments and fixes.

17 august 2003
kahvi collective special on YLE Q radio featuring ::new release and interview

09 august 2003
feature on asm tv about buzz with myself and mikko apo. a non working video clip available for download at ::scene.org

14 april 2003
::www.badloop.com now active.

09 february 2003
::new release for Kahvi YLE Q radio special.

08 february 2003
welcome to my overly 'minimal' new site.