Gagarin Kombinaatti | 83-85 [Sähkö PUU-41]

Gagarin Kombinaatti | 83-85
Label: Puu ‎– PUU-41
Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12", Album, Compilation, Repress
Released| 21 Feb 2020

Keenly-awaited compilation of Mika Vainio’s earliest work with Janne Koski and Tapio Onnela in pioneering Finnish industrial/noise unit Gagarin Kombinaatti circa 83-85.

Until now, the only locatable evidence of Gagarin-Kombinaatti’s existence was an intriguing listing on discogs - a single track featured on a 2CD of early Finnish avant-garde - but now Sähkö prove they were a real, and rather wicked band, taking strong cues from TG, Einstürzende Neubauten and Test Department, and moulding them into a brace of cranky, funked-up garage industrialisms.

It’s very easy to hear Vainio’s signature noise laced throughout the collection, from the bladesaw blizzards of Survos, to the cold, clipped drums and brooding bass tone of Reikäkorttia, or the windswept atmospheres of Osat, for instance.

But they’re only component elements of the band, which, thanks to the rudimentary recording techniques, sounds as though they’re soldered together, sparking up expressive, freeform jams ranging from the cold swagger of Tiedonantaja to proto-techno drum patterns and workshop noise in Ukaasi and the dirgey crawl of Raskas / Chemical Weapons.

- Recorded 1983-85.
- Edited from original cassette recordings by Mika Vainio 2014-15.
- 2020 Re-press.

TRACKLIST:
A1     Survos
A2     Vartioparaati
A3     Toisto
B1     Tiedonantaja Kirjoittaa
B2     Ukaasi
B3     Reikäkorttia
C1     Massa
C2     Protonisuihku
C3     Alkuperä
D1     Polvella
D2     Osat
D3     Raskas / Chemical Weapons

# Industrial # Experimental