This is a little surprise release! To prove that we’ve not been just slacking, here’s five new songs from our last gig this year. The gig was at place called Cosmic Comic Cafe, which is basically like the coffeeshop in Friends but filled with comics, graphic novels etc that people can read for free. We had hell of a good time playing, with christmas lights and all. We cut out 2 olds songs from this “EP” but sound itself is straight from our mixer and you can actually hear the crowd at times. And drunken babbling between songs. Playing is nowhere perfect and sound balance is little bit off at times, but I think it caught some of the live playing and livejamming magic and nice warm energy that surrounded the place. And for all the people who loved Lori Konkero version that was upped sometimes ago, check the version of this gig, the offbeat out of sync synth is fixed and this version has some true noise magic by Kef!  

Tracklist:  Videovalvontaa - Cosmic Live  

1. Dubisepi

2. Hiro

3. Raivokesä 

4. Laiha Lynch 

5. Lori Konkero 

6. Last Xmas (skit) 

Sendspace link (if someone wants to host this, that would be really cool) http://www.sendspace.com/file/pcco4n  

3 first songs are also available on our Myspace.  

Merry Christmas to everyone! 

Update of whats been up!

Here’s a new demo song Lorikonkero !
[It’s on myspace too]. It’s recorded live and will chance a bit for the upcoming record.

We have 2 gigs in Turku soon, check the gigs section. We try to do things a little differently on a Pikkujoulu gig, Keff vs. Dkstr battle, what does that mean, even we don’t know. But it will be oowsom as usual.

On the other news, i bought Korg Er-1. Nice little drummachine!

Yours trulie

-Keff

So! Quick notes about stuff:

3 gigs:
11.10. Helsinki22.10 Tampere30.10 Turku (Not 100% confirmed)1 remix coming up for Viola  ,1 song coming up for a web-based game/learning app. 1 album coming up with title ‘Big White Porcelain Truck’, most of the songs are written, now it’s just up to us to get our lazy asses up record them. Oh and I got the beta key to Little Big Planet, so most of this stuff is probably never gonna happen, YOINKS!

You will see it when it’s too close. Like a rabbit in headlights.

Check out this awesome game! It’s out now on n-gage and PC. You can play full game free on PC!! You’ll find Keff there under the nick Nixy. Add me.

Theres now some old tracks in our last.fm page. There’s also a new record called “Demo” where we will add some random ramblings now and then. I just uploaded “Videoradio” semi-live-improvisation-DS-MC303-track.

Grillin’ was goodnes, UMF will be godnes.

AAAAnd, the last.fm page is findable here http://www.last.fm/music/Videovalvontaa

Hello, hello!

You might wanna come to see us play live on the best Finnish festivals.

Grillin’ this saturday.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18720298837&ref=ts
http://www.myspace.com/grillinfestival

And UMF (Uuden Musiikin Festivaali) nextweeks saturday.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=48318520331&ref=ts
www.uudenmusiikinfestivaali.org

We’ve got much much new material coming up, some of them are already on myspace, and some we will play live, and somethings later. In UMF we are planning to play with Commodore 64 live for the first time! ROKSO!

Keep up those Ghettobottles!

So last week when I was visiting my parents I stumbled to these awesome, accurate drawings of different game characters.By me. Yes. These are from 1993 or 1994 and these are pretty much the most awesome find I’ve found from my youngr years. Most of the stuff is from Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II. Its funny because I’ve been thinking about SFII related tattoo for a while. So lets get a picture-by-picture play out of these:

DKSTR’s Fan-art gallery, VOL.1: 

Whoa, so Scorpion has only one, tiny hand?

Sagat, the happy-go-lucky-noseless raver from the beach party. Shame he has only three toes per leg. But I bet they are deadly.

Note the awesome perspective AND shading on this one! And cool typography too!

Three toed Ken with no mouth! THUMP!

I think the face is pretty badass, shame about those toes again! 3 and 4? I mean, come on..

And finally..

It’s no wonder hitchhiking Blanka is kinda mad to everything. No ride for this ugly piece of drawing.

Well, im off to drink couple of beers, play some KROKETTI and then see Mad Caddies. Theres couple of new songs in the works and the first rough plan of our new album. COOL.

-dkstr

• There’s new demo up on our myspace . Song is called Ruina and its basically just a test with our new c64 equipment. Lots of crackling bass-lines and dirt in form of some sort of hip-hop. If you are a rapper, please download it, rap, record, send back. It has little bit of Techno Animal vibe on it.

• We made a remix for this jam/noisy rock band called 0123456789. You can hear Ultimate Warrior (Straight To Video Mix) at their (quite cleverly named!) myspace site: myspace.com/paradiselesbo

• UMF5 timetable is up at the site now. We will play on saturday 26.7, exact timeslot for the gig later when it clears up.

• There might be SEEECRET Live & semi-acoustic @ outdoors gig before our UMF gig, at Official Sonny Crocket Croquet Mastership Tournament. More about that later too!

Tonight we play a show at Klubi, Turku. Other band is Goodnight Monsters. 5e, 2nd floor. If you wanna see some crab-pit action, be there. Oh, here’s a random geeked-out-look-what-we-got-how-cool-we-are-photo of our gear ATM:http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=506016&id=6673454478&saved  Audio Blog called Danger!Danger! featured us yesterday. Parteparteeh!