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Minor Patterns (aka Ghoose) releases their debut EP, channeling the likes of Jon Hopkins and Amon Tobin into an evolving work of bleeping, organic electronic music. Accompanying this release is a slew of remixes from Special Species family members, bringing unique perspectives to the EP's five tracks.

Tape/Digi: https://specialspeciesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ssr027-minor-patterns-ancient-sounds

SSR027: Minor Patterns - Ancient Sounds SNIPPETS

A song for late night train rides home. Mastering boost by Nikita Pavlov & music video by Jussi Simonen. <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vwdsrB7Lv8

other way

A collab track from 2019 with the one and only lo-fi house mastermind wshdway from Estonia. Released by Special Species Records. Let's hope he decides to release more of his music at some point in the future...

wshdway & otto taimela - elusive [SSR017]

EABE's seasonal mixtape series might be on an indefinite break, but that does not stop our new Commixioned series from continuing with a sweet winter themed mix by Otto Taimela (@otto-taimela).

TRACKLIST

nthng - disappeared but not forgotten
earth trax - denial 
florist - sail
wax - 700007
barker - terminal
charles murdoch - annoying
Andrea - TP
Terrence Dixon - unconditional love
OTTO - microplastics in my bloodstream
Stenny - Dew
Kangding Ray - Trade on Azul
Konrad Wehrmeister - TDA
Otto Taimela - Equity
Earth Trax - After hours
Yuki Uno - Lunar Base Under Black Helmet - Mute (Vril Remix)
Adlas - Arrival By Air
VC-118A - plonk
Kaczmarek - IIIIIIIIII (Vril Remix)
Space Afrika - Lose You Beau
Andrea - Hera
Leonard Cohen - A thousand kisses deep
Traumprinz - Love (What that feels like)
 Burial - Loner

Commixioned #5: Untitled Winter Mix by Otto Taimela

old track from a few years ago. The LP is sold out from the headquarters, but check your local record distributor! From SSR030: Special Species' Anthozoa Anthology. 

It's such an honor to be included in such an amazing album with so many great artists.

C1. i know how u feel (SSR030)

sunflower

inevitable

Dream

Buy the album!

Dream 2 〚CUD25〛

maxima

Written and Produced by Otto Taimela 
Artwork by Jet Smith 
Mastered by Karsten Osterby 

2022 Cudighi Records

buy the tape

Dream (full cassette) ﹝CUD25﹞

imagined U

Otto Taimela mixin' it up with style for OK mix number 15. Otto is well known for his professional skateboarding skills and also as a skilled pianist / producer. He even has his own grand piano at home!Having releases on local Helsinki labels Vieno, EABE, Ultraääni and others, his sound covers a broad style from ambient & experimental to breaksy atmospheric tunes.

A very cool mixtape for the cooling Autumn weather. Exactly an hour of stylish mixing ranging in the  ambient - downtempo - dubby house / techno spectrum mixed in a way that surely you on a trip. Many own productions in the set as well.

OK MIX Vol.  15 - Otto Taimela

Tracks from dj healer, space afrika, otik, and unreleased music by Otto Taimela himself... 


https://soundcloud.com/otto-taimela

Otto Taimela

Taken from Rainface pt. 1 
https://soundcloud.com/otto-taimela
out 16th of December!

PREMIERE // Otto Taimela - Clueless

Recordings from the darker part of wintertime from the years 2021, 2022 & 2023. Cover art pieces by Eetu Heiskanen.

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RAINFACE l & ll

https://ottotaimela.bandcamp.com/album/rainface-pt-ll

https://soundcloud.com/otto-taimela
https://www.instagram.com/vhs.vhs.vhs/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2bfnN87vIJ9DhQ02kXgh44

PREMIERE // Otto Taimela - Prayer

"like a distant thunderstorm - knowing it's power, yet not feeling it's presence..."

quiet thunder 2.0

"Finite Source returns with the first Various Artist compilation from the label, hosting a plethora of genres from the music spectrum. The combined effort from Ghoose, Otto Taimela, DJ JAVASCRIPT and Haunted Ghost manage to intertwine house, breaks, jungle, electro and ambient into a cohesive record - fun for the whole family!" 

The ethos is truly alive - raw tunes to make you dance 

Limited run of vinyl also available for the hardcore

released February 3, 2023

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Angel Attack [FSVA001]

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Reflections presents the sixth instalment of their various artist EP series, ‘Reflections 06’, welcoming a new wave of talent to the label.

Following his re-work of Mark Barrott’s ‘Kyoto (京都)’ on Reflections last month, Tokyo-based Lycoriscoris returns to the label to open the EP with a pensive, stripped-back ambient mix of his 2021 Anjunadeep release, ‘Shizumu’.

Followed by a first-time collaboration between Swedish-based musician and visual artist, Amparo, and Montréal-based producer, Lost In City. Their emotive track, ‘Generative’, combines gentle strings with delicate piano lines.

Seoul-based producer, Moon Kyoo, returns after his contribution to Anjunadeep Explorations 19 and stellar 2022 remix of Qrion’s ‘It’s All Over’, to deliver the drone-influenced ’Detached’. Next up, producer Odeon combines elements of downtempo and lo-fi on his ethereal, guitar-led remix of mind&machines’s 2021 Anjunadeep release, ‘You’.

Rounding off the EP is the fourth and final Reflections debutant, Otto Taimela. Hailing from Finland, Otto has described his style of production as “music that sounds like childhood”. Featuring nostalgic field recordings layered beneath whimsical pads, his track, ‘The Prettiest Pearl’, certainly delivers on this tip.

‘Reflections 06’ is out now.

Release date: 28 August 2023

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Reflections 06

The Prettiest Pearl

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Otto Taimela - The Prettiest Pearl

pumpuli (w/unhumdrum)VIENO001

kökö & otto taimela - maisemia

ariel (ULTRA-0024)

gone (SSR009)

- ʇɟᴉƃ ǝɥʇ sᴉ uoᴉʇɐlosᴉ -

élégie

trust

take care (feat. посторонний)

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Mörkblå

brokken. + otto taimela - Mörkblå

walking away (прочь)

none of them felt like this

Published by Special Species Records in January 2020. Limited cassette release of 50 copies. Purchase album here: https://specialspeciesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ssr009-otto-taimela-city-lights
Tracklist:
intro
ssri tears
healing
I felt it everywhere
suicidal
unspeaking
my face is melting
gone

Cover artwork by Haunted Ghost.

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city lights full cassette (SSR009)

mist

senseless

Мечтательный

These are some of the most precious pieces of music & sound that I've came across. 
Tracklist:
Gigi Masin - The Kasparian Circle
Barker - Models Of Wellbeing
Olli Aarni - Pohjoisen Kesä
Pascäal - Xo
Harry Case - Air Dancer
wshdway - plastic
n u a g e s - still
Aphex Twin - Aisatsana (live at Barbican Hall, London 2012)
samoyed - Fawn
Gonima - Hidden Colours
XXYYXX - Pay Attention
Stenny - Blind Corners
Bearcubs - Elegy
Burial - Dog Shelter
Huerco S. - 'linzhiid
1991 - Reborn Ice Horn
marraskuu (unreleased)
kosta - First Rays
Ous Mal - Merilaulu
Oval - Do While
Anenon - Open

Poetry read by Tom O'Bedlam

<3

жизнь - Elämä - 生活 - Life (mixtape)

2nd track from the upcoming album "A Road To Somewhere" dropping 1.3.2021. Cover Art by the one and only Santeri Mortti Valtanen. Mastered by Nikita Pavlov.

the forgotten

Opening track for the Special Species Records "Shared Quarters vol 3". Four tracks per producer. Support the label!

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A1. Forgive (SSR025)

Self-released work from 2020. Mastered by Nikita Pavlov. Cover artwork by Santeri Mortti Valtanen. 

Equipment used in this album:
Digitakt x2 
Digitone 
Korg Volca Drum 
Tascam Portastudio 414 
Eurorack MX 802A 
YAMAHA DSR-2000 
YAMAHA MX 12/4 
tc electronic SKYSURFER reverb 
D-seed Digital Delay 
Samplr 
Spacecraft 
Komplete Kontrol s88 +various other usb-keyboards with Logic Pro X & Ableton
credits
releases March 1, 2021 

Otto Taimela 
Mastered by Nikita Pavlov (White Wishes, PH, Rái)

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a road to somewhere (full album)

:p 
contact: otto.taimela@gmail.com

label releases:
Reflections 06 (various)
Finite Source FSVA01 (various)
Stars & Silence - ULTRA-039 7” (vinyl only)
DREAM - CUD25 CASS 
Bluebird - Vieno003 
Anthozoa Anthology - SSR030 (various)
Finite Source - FS 003 EP DIGITAL
Shared Quarters vol 3. - SSR025 CASS (various)
EABE DIGITAL XV (various)
Discontinuity - EABE DIGITAL XXXIII EP
Kimmeltie - ULTRA-025 LP (vinyl only)
City Lights - SSR009 CASS
AAAAA - ULTRA-024 CASS (cassette only)
Emotional Listenings Pt. 1 - Vieno001  (various)
syvennys - ULTRA-017 CASS

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