Well helloooo. Its been a while. So what we’ve been up to? Well, I’ve played shitloads of GTAIV, we have C64 with prophet 64, we’ve written new songs, been training and rewriting them quite a bit and now we are preparing for our summer gigs. Next friday we’ll be at Klubi here in Turku. We’re playing with Goodnight Monsters, should be interesting. After that, its going to be GRILLIN festival at Suomensaari, Tampere, with all of our friends and foes, I guess we are playing another Killskreen Skwadd-gig (Us+Fossa D+Johnny Cityzen rapping). After that its UMF 5, which Im pretty excited about, I’ve been to three of the earlier (cant remember if I were at the first one or not) ones, and its a one hell of a festival, this is our first year playing, and Im sure sure we’re gonna fuck some shit up OR die trying (propably both). Other artists include M83, Shit Robot, Annie, Eero Johannes, Johannes Rojola, Edu + Stigg Dogg and about 42949532 other cool acts.

Check out UMF site here:
http://www.uudenmusiikinfestivaali.org

Theres tw0 new live recordings from our last gig on myspace. They are called Tissikuvat and Dupi Sep, check them out, they rock.

GOT BRAINS? Stream (from Vimeo)

GOT BRAINS? Hi-Quality Downloads (from absolute-0.org)

Its finally done, our first proper video! Song’s called “GOT BRAINS?“. It’s a song that’s been KINDA named after our previous album, and personally I feel the video kinda captures everything what we’re about (getting our ass kicked by a giant mushroom, especially). Video has got huge amounts of plays in just couple of days, hopefully it keeps going that way! There’s a youtube version coming very soon. There’s at least one remix coming from the video song too.

I would like to say huge “whoa” to both of the creators, Niina and Ville ( the other half of the band, oOh, secret identity has been broken!!) for making this video, totally superawesome. And thanks to our friend Fossa Douglasi for collaboration on the track + co-starring the video, everybody should check out his stuff too, theres a link to his myspace on our link thingy on the right->

In other news, there are couple of more bigger gigs coming, new songs, etc.. we are hard at work writing new material and remixing older stuff, we try to put some new rough demos here and to myspace as often we can. Oh and there’s article about Finnish Chiptune scene on new Basso-Magazine (2/2008). There’s interviews of Huoratron, 64Mula and Videovalvontaa. Pretty cool.

If you are here for the first time, check out our music-page to download pretty much everyone of our releases.

-Dkstr

Hey hai!

Just stopping by to say that this coolicoolcool thing that we have been bablin’ about will be released tomorrow! The birthday of mika and something else! WOOT WOOT!

So finally we got our older material up and running. Head to the music section to download our debut EP and Any Dupes! / Electroclas Ohlson EP. Check out ..Need Brains too if you havent yet.

If you’re not conviced yet, maybe these will help (or make it even worse):

Adam Sampler (from Any Dupes!)

Leave Me Alone (From EP 2005)

Hey Weirdo! (From EP 2005)

So, download, spread it, seed it, remix it, whatever.

There’s also one new track coming later this week to myspace and/or here, Maybe we even do little minisite/page here for the new stuff. We’re doing some pretty great tracks with some veeery talented & cool artists, but more about that later, dont want to jinx it,right? New stuff is right now little bit all over the place, some have very familiar VV sound to them (like Easter Dicks and new video song) and some are little bit more to directions where we havent been (more danceable, I think?).

New track Easter Dicks & Flesh Prince Of Bel Air (Zombie Jesus Remix) @ myspace.

Check them out!

There’s new demos on our Myspace. Tracks are called Goofy Snacks and Retarded Adapter.

Go. Listen. Learn.

http://www.myspace.com/videovalvontaa

-dkstr

What is this hunh?

Looks like someone i know?

-Keff

EDIT: Looks like theres something up on myspace also

So Trent released new album straight to web and partly free. Pretty cool songs (Ghosts I), i like the jam feel on them and truly believe his new business plan is the way music biz is going to be around in future. In some way that’s the way I would like to do stuff too, you can download some of it for free, but if you want to show support / get nice packaging and other bonuses, then you pay something.

In other news:

I bought Roland mc-303, pretty bitching little machine. And n00b like me dont mind about its limited capacities, I think we’re gonna do some badass music with that grey box. We’ll prolly remix our older songs so I dont have to carry around computer anymore, w00tw00t. Dont worry, we will still sound messed up, out of sync and too ______!

Just noticed that elder statesmen of finnish electro, Mr. Velcrofastener have the same color layout on their site that we do, they probably have had it for years. Ooooh snap.

-dkstr

Woo, discography updated. There’s some random cd’s missing that we have sold on gigs and blahblah but almost everything is there. Head to music page to check out my lame ramblings and more.

On related news, our rad german friend Näd Mika released Kopfsprudelbad Remix CD Album, which contains our remix of the title song, we are apparently doing it undercover, as we’re named Videovolvantaa;) Our remix is like Peaches meets River City Ransom meets surf-rock!

Check it out and buy it from here http://www.nadmika.com/blog/music/

And I uploaded some of our youtube-videos to our new and fresh Video page, well whoopde-doop.

Also if you’re finnish, check out this 5min. short documentary about gaming called ‘64 Vuonna 86′:

-dkstr

I forgot to mention that there’s been some stuff why we’ve been kinda quiet for couple of months. My old computer (LEO) died, and most of our material is there, luckily I had some backups done for some files used at gigs, so we’re not completely fucked up. Also, I got a new job and kef is doing his final exams (VV&Pixel-related stuff,very neat) so we are kinda busy. I even did one solo show and erva did one DJ-show solo.

At the same time we are working on some new material, at the moment we are writing songs for our very first rap/hiphop-gig! MC called Johny Cityzen is coming to Lisäelämä for a gig and we are the backing band for him! With us there is our good buddy Fossa, and our band is called Kilskreen Skwadd. Also some other new tracks are on the works, they sound mean, pissed of and very groovy. There’s going to be an interview of us at Basso-Magazine in coming months, so be sure to check that out too.

Keff and his gf are on their way to Stockholm to watch the Cure on saturday, they even have a blog for it: http://nilleviina.blogspot.com/ Kinda cool,huh? Im going to see Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto on monday, but still I’m jealous as fuck and I hope ol’Bob is fat and falls asleep middle of the show or something.

BTW, Im not sure why we are writing this in english, I know theres couple of people who read this and are not from Finland. Sorry for the extremely bad writing skills.

-dkstr