Lackluster warmup set in preparation for a gig

Lackluster warmup set

Alley

Swelter Alley

Coffee Bean Alley

Fog Alley

Cinnamon Alley

Vanilla Alley

Ginger Alley

Pepper Alley

Performed live at Tikkurilan Kirjasto (Library of Tikkurila), Vantaa, Finland, 25th of February 2023

HLER is Heikki Lindgren & Esa Ruoho
http://hler.bandcamp.com/
http://facebook.com/hlermusic

HLER Live at Tikkurilan Kirjasto, 25-02-2023

waiting for bandcamp friday 1

waiting for bandcamp friday 2

waiting for bandcamp friday 3

waiting for bandcamp friday 4

Released on Kahvi Collective -netlabel.
Writeup by 4T:
"Since the very start of Kahvi, one artist has been an almost regular fixture releasing frequently throughout the years. Not only on Kahvi but also on many commercial labels, and touring the world with his unique live set.

Lackluster is a familiar name in electronic music circles and we're happy to feature his latest ep entitled Swansong.

There is a selection of older and newer tracks from Lackluster's extensive archive of tracks, minimal and subtle like in shonuff shoreditch to epic and loud in preposterous. Swansong is slightly more of the underground and glitchy side of Kahvi but still refreshing in it's outlook to clear away the cold winter months and welcome in the summer at last!"

http://kahvi.org/releases.php?release_number=354

Life goes on

Preposterous

Booking: booking@lackluster.org

Old text follows:
"lackluster 07.05.2005  http://www.pidays.com, lyon, france, 
00:00  untitled (unreleased)
06:35  11/11/99 (lackluster: showcase CD (merck015cd))
13:32  aatu  (unreleased)
19:07  starcell u.k. (lackluster: container CD (foc350cd))
28:20  MEDLEY  in passing (lackluster: wrapping CD (foc369cd))
       MEDLEY  close enough (lackluster: wrapping CD (foc369cd))
       MEDLEY  catch22 (lackluster: container CD (foc350cd))
43:20  14/07/02 (lackluster: slice CD (ucover024cd))
48:50  tumbling around (lackluster: slice CD (ucover024cd))
53:10  proem: standard.naming.convention (lackluster 80bpmmx) (lackluster: remixselection_one CD (psy012))
57:30  manta: sitting pretty (lacklustermx) (lackluster: remixselection_one CD (psy012))
63:25  01/12/03 (unreleased) 
68:58  easy does it (unreleased)
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unfortunately recording was cut before the encore (which would've been "yoggi")."

Lackluster on Bandcamp

Live at Pidays, Lyon, France, 07-05-2005

Booking: booking@lackluster.org

"a guest appearance by Lackluster. He appeared with a live set at the largest demoscene meeting in Scandinavia this past August, Assembly 2007. High quality recording throughout, featuring exclusive tracks from his commercial releases which you can find scattered throughout the internet on various distribution sites as well as a couple of previously unreleased specials. Playing time just under 74 minutes,"

Bandcamp

Live at Assembly, Helsinki, Finland, 04-08-2007

Booking: booking@lackluster.org

lackluster live@festival accès(s), pau, france, 10/12/2005 (dd/mm/yyyy)

00:00 untitled
02:20 untitled
08:25 11/11/99 improv jam (lackluster - showcase (merck015cd,2003))
14:51 05/12/03a - unreleased track "hello frenchplace" improv jam
17:55 tall#5 improv jam (lackluster - wrapping (foc369cd,2002))
23:12 14/07/02a - plastic1 improv jam (lackluster - slice (ucover024cd,2005))
29:40 improv medley - close enough, in passing (lackluster - wrapping (foc369cd,2002)), catch22 (lackluster - container (foc350cd,2000))
43:12 08/07/02 - tumbling around - improv jam (lackluster - slice (ucover024cd,2005))
48:50 yoggi - improv jam (lackluster - repulsine ep (slskep002,2007))
53:11 manta - sitting pretty (lacklustermx) improv jam (lackluster - remixselection_one (psy012cd,2004))
60:41 07/12/03 - unreleased track "windup" improv jam
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65:15

esaruoho@gmail.com
http://www.lackluster.org/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC1xGaKqFAQ

Merck

Lackluster
Aujourd’hui Lackluster a une maîtrise remarquable des textures et des mélodies synthétiques. Il offre des atmosphères très personnelles, denses et lumineuses, un monde libéré de toute temporalité et pourtant en perpétuel mouvement. Hip Hop futuriste, ambient flottant, IDM aux rythmiques progressives et parfois subliminales, Lackluster multiplie et superpose les chemins pour emporter l’auditeur dans son univers à la fois spacieux et désinvolte.
Sa vision originale et complexe de la musique électronique fait de lui un personnage incontournable de la scène internationale.
Avec le soutien de l’Onda.

Live at Festival Accès(s), Pau, France, 10-12-2005

Remix by Lackluster of a song by Sleepy Town Manufacture.

Sleepy Town Manufacture: Latatoo (Lackluster Remix)

Booking: booking@lackluster.org

Yours truly visited Poland back in 2006. Here is the set from the 27th of July 2006. The other one was in Gdynia. 

Both gigs were organised by Tomek Hoax ( https://www.mixcloud.com/tomek-hoax/ ) 

Yours, Esa
http://www.lackluster.org 
http://lackluster.bandcamp.com/ 

Live at Mandarynka, Sopot, Poland, 27-07-2006

here's the second remix  I did for Korpi Ensemble's Rely. It, like the original remix, was never released.

Korpi Ensemble - Rely (Lackluster Remix 2)

just some noise i found i had made before my vaio gave up the ghost

Batter Up

HLER is Heikki Lindgren & Esa Ruoho - an improvised ambient drone duo from Finland.

booking: hlerdrones@gmail.com
to find out what we sound like at gigs: http://soundcloud.com/lackluster/sets/hler 

HLER combines the initials of Heikki Lindgren and Esa Ruoho. It also describes the improvisational creative process of this ambient drone duo from Finland. 
A couple of years ago, Heikki came across a second-hand Peruvian synthesiser. The machine quickly revealed its potential for endless sonic creativity, mainly because Heikki found it almost impossible to recreate the exact same sound twice. He soon introduced the machine to Esa, and together they decided to explore the machine's inherent sonic instability in a live setting.

Each performance follows the same creative process, but with wildly different results every time. Digging in to the Mochika XL's front panel, Heikki begins mining for sound. Esa then processes Heikki's discoveries through his laptop, revealing hitherto undiscovered facets to Heikki's freshly unearthed sonic gems. Then, with the twist of a dial, Heikki introduces something new to Esa, and the whole process continues onwards and upwards.

"We are always surprised by the spaces we find ourselves in, and the directions the sounds take during a performance. We cannot repeat anything in exactly the same way, even if we wanted to! Just turning the Mochika XL synthesiser off and back on, keeping all of the knobs untouched in exactly the same position, leads to a changed sound."

"It has been incredibly rewarding to work as a duo, as the unpredictability of the creative process is so refreshing. Thanks to the unstable nature of the Mochika XL synthesiser and the intuitiveness of Esa’s live processing, each performance is unique. The whole live situation is based on improvisation and the sonic discoveries extracted during the encounter."

File under: organised improvised noise, clicks, hums, drone, "Hey, this sounds kind of like space music from the '70s!", a captured submarine humming in the hangar of a space station, "Are you sure you guys are alright and that the cables work?"

https://hler.bandcamp.com/track/skathi-dusk

HLER: Skathi Dusk

HLER Live at Equinox Ambience 2018, Fiskars, Finland on the 22nd of September 2018.

Fully improvised ambient drone music performed live by Heikki Lindgren and Esa Ruoho

For booking: 
hlerdrones@gmail.com

http://soundcloud.com/lackluster/sets/hler 
http://facebook.com/hlermusic
http://www.instagram.com/hlerdrone

HLER combines the initials of Heikki Lindgren and Esa Ruoho. It also describes the improvisational creative process of this ambient drone duo from Finland. 

A couple of years ago, Heikki came across a second-hand Peruvian synthesiser. The machine quickly revealed its potential for endless sonic creativity, mainly because Heikki found it almost impossible to recreate the exact same sound twice. He soon introduced the machine to Esa, and together they decided to explore the machine's inherent sonic instability in a live setting.

Each performance follows the same creative process, but with wildly different results every time. Digging in to the Mochika XL's front panel, Heikki begins mining for sound. Esa then processes Heikki's discoveries through his laptop, revealing hitherto undiscovered facets to Heikki's freshly unearthed sonic gems. Then, with the twist of a dial, Heikki introduces something new to Esa, and the whole process continues onwards and upwards.

"We are always surprised by the spaces we find ourselves in, and the directions the sounds take during a performance. We cannot repeat anything in exactly the same way, even if we wanted to! Just turning the Mochika XL synthesiser off and back on, keeping all of the knobs untouched in exactly the same position, leads to a changed sound."

"It has been incredibly rewarding to work as a duo, as the unpredictability of the creative process is so refreshing. Thanks to the unstable nature of the Mochika XL synthesiser and the intuitiveness of Esa’s live processing, each performance is unique. The whole live situation is based on improvisation and the sonic discoveries extracted during the encounter."

File under: organised improvised noise, clicks, hums, drone, "Hey, this sounds kind of like space music from the '70s!", a captured submarine humming in the hangar of a space station, "Are you sure you guys are alright and that the cables work?"

HLER Live at Equinox Ambience 2018, Fiskars, Finland, 22-09-2018

Released on the Dusk Transmission compilation, out now on the Lawrence, Kansas label Moody Drones!
https://moodydrones.bandcamp.com/album/dusk-transmission

HLER is Heikki Lindgren & Esa Ruoho - an improvised ambient drone duo from Finland.

booking: hlerdrones@gmail.com
to find out what we sound like at gigs: http://soundcloud.com/lackluster/sets/hler
http://hler.bandcamp.com/

HLER combines the initials of Heikki Lindgren and Esa Ruoho. It also describes the improvisational creative process of this ambient drone duo from Finland. 
A couple of years ago, Heikki came across a second-hand Peruvian synthesiser. The machine quickly revealed its potential for endless sonic creativity, mainly because Heikki found it almost impossible to recreate the exact same sound twice. He soon introduced the machine to Esa, and together they decided to explore the machine's inherent sonic instability in a live setting.

Each performance follows the same creative process, but with wildly different results every time. Digging in to the Mochika XL's front panel, Heikki begins mining for sound. Esa then processes Heikki's discoveries through his laptop, revealing hitherto undiscovered facets to Heikki's freshly unearthed sonic gems. Then, with the twist of a dial, Heikki introduces something new to Esa, and the whole process continues onwards and upwards.

"We are always surprised by the spaces we find ourselves in, and the directions the sounds take during a performance. We cannot repeat anything in exactly the same way, even if we wanted to! Just turning the Mochika XL synthesiser off and back on, keeping all of the knobs untouched in exactly the same position, leads to a changed sound."

"It has been incredibly rewarding to work as a duo, as the unpredictability of the creative process is so refreshing. Thanks to the unstable nature of the Mochika XL synthesiser and the intuitiveness of Esa’s live processing, each performance is unique. The whole live situation is based on improvisation and the sonic discoveries extracted during the encounter."

File under: organised improvised noise, clicks, hums, drone, "Hey, this sounds kind of like space music from the '70s!", a captured submarine humming in the hangar of a space station, "Are you sure you guys are alright and that the cables work?"

Dusk Transmission

HLER: Speakable Silurian

For sale at https://lackluster.bandcamp.com/album/vistas

Vistas

Esa Ruoho: Vistas

Made with Soundbox, a HTML5 based tracker, for the Zebrain 4Kb intro - the first ever demo made with Matlab. 1st place at Demosplash 2019 Modern demo competition.

Check the intro out at
https://youtu.be/gI6j0lZlytM
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83691
https://demozoo.org/productions/270162

Code by Pestis/bC!, Ascii by Apollo/bC!, music by Distance/TPOLM (Lackluster)

Zebrain Song

Performed live at Maunula-Talo in Helsinki 12.11.2020.

Excerpts from a 6 hour gig, with Heikki Lindgren on guitar + pedals, and Esa Ruoho on Ableton Live and Pure Data.

Image from Desert pavement Myrdalssandur.JPG taken by Laurent Deschodt
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desert_pavement_Myrdalssandur.JPG

HLER: Maunulan Tiedeviikko Excerpts 12-11-2020

Esa Ruoho a.k.a. Lackluster - the maker of Paketti - a tool for Renoise.
http://paypal.me/esaruoho
http://www.lackluster.org/
http://lackluster.bandcamp.com
http://facebook.com/LacklusterOfficial
https://linktr.ee/esaruoho

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