Nemesis

Artist: Ashen Simian (Nemesis)
P: 2016
The new solo album from A. Simian. This time the music is more ambient with spacy moods and meditative sequencing. A section of the liner notes, tells about the idea behind the album: "This album is a special one for me as it was in the summer of 1985 when I got my first synth (a Micromoog). I really took the time to learn to use it and managed to make a 45 min. C-cassette of my own music with it. Now, 30 years later I decided to try a similar approach to creating and recording music; fast and simple and with minimal gear. Therefore, many of these tracks are produced with just one synth, three at best. ... the experience was very purifying and helped me to find my way back to the original inspiration of 30 years back…" For those with a deeper interest in synthesizers, the liner notes (in the bonus material) will tell you what synths were used on particular tracks.

Artist: Ashen Simian (Nemesis)
P: 2013
The second solo album by one of the Nemesis musicians. More rhythmic and driving than the more ambient stuff by the main band. Lots of old and new synths in use, from 70´s analogs to ipad synths. Musically the style varies from 70´s retro sounds via 80´s synth pop to ambient and psychedelic techno electronica.
The idea is to blend the classic synth textures to more straightforward beats and sequences. If you imagine that 70´s german synthesists would have made use of modern rhythm units, the results might have been a bit like this. This is perhaps most true with the long title track of the album. It melts together vintage elements with hectic sequences and is perhaps the most elaborate track so far by A. Simian.
The rest of the album is shorter tracks with quirky synth pop elements and ambient textures. All material on the album is instrumental as usual.

Artist: Ashen Simian (Nemesis) & P.Savolainen
P: 2019
The music is quite a bit like earlier NEMESIS material with a bit of a 90's flavour here and there. Panu is a long time NEMESIS fan so it was very natural and easy collaboration for the pair, and he and Ami exchanged backing tracks and recorded all the overdubs (leads, pads, effects, melodies, etc) to each other's backing track. It was a fun project, and one day there might be more, says Ami.
Savolainen & Simian have produced ‘Oumuamu’ using: Moog Voyager / Jomox SunSyn v2 / Studio Electronics Omega-8 / Studio Electronics SE-1x Red Eye / Future Retro XS / Novation Bass Station 2 / Quasimidi Polymorph / Korg ES-1 / Korg O1 / Wfd / M-Audio Venom / Kawai K1ii / Kurzweil K2000S / Oberheim 2 voice / Soundscaper (ipad) / Sunrizer (ipad) / Microkorg / Kantele / Violin / Glockenspiel / Kalimba / Assorted Percussion / Electric & Acoustic guitars / Field recordings.

Artist: Michael Brückner
P: 2012 / 2022
10 years earlier, in 2012, Michael released his first label release on SynGate Records, which was also his 100th album: "One Hundred Million Miles Under The Stars".
Since then, this album has been one of Michael Brückner's personal favorites among the albums he recorded. The new re-release is now much more than a re-release, in fact completely new tracks were created when the individual pieces were not only remixed but completely reinterpreted by other artists that Michael had invited to this project. The excellent participating artists on 100 MILLION MILES UNDER THE STARS are:
- Dave Bessell
- Johan Tronestam
- Joerg Schaaf
- Esteban Menash
- Ami Hassinnen (of Nemesis)
- Hollan Holmes

Michael says: "I'm really impressed and happy how the new versions have taken shape through the hands of the immensely talented artists.
The double album offers the remix with the artists involved on CD1 and the original album from 2012 on CD2.

Artist: Nemesis
P: 2003 / 2007
Gigaherz is Nemesis' first album on Origo Sound. Featuring music that was composed betwen 1996 and 2003 and updated for this new album, the 15 tracks make up an epic audio journey that presents mankind's evolution from sea creatures to extinction. Says Ami Hassinen, founding member, about the theme of Gigaherz; "The nature is a very important issue to all of us. And the recent developments concerning the changes in climate makes one think quite a bit. Actually, I have no worries about the fate of the planet, as everything finds its balance in due course, but will there be any human beings left to witness it? I don´t know. For the mankind, I am sure that the next 100 years will be an increasingly challenging time. Musically, this inspired us to tell a story about the Earth in audio format.

Artist: Nemesis
P: 2012
Living Statues is a sort of theme album inspired by the life and work of Veijo Rönkkönen (1944-2010), one of the most legendary outsider artists in finnish art scene.The CD with a elaborate artwork and eco-friendly WowSpiral insert.
 

Artist: Nemesis
P: 2021
LTD 300
Ami Hassinen & Joni Virtanen, two protagonists of the legendary Finnish ambient explorers Nemesis, join their creative soundscaping insignias with their fellow drone bass guitar wizard Juha-Matti Rautiainen and ingenious mastermind Kimmo Heikkilä, the illustrator and designer behind all maps and artwork for this project. This quartet of gifted and soulfully connected artists takes us into magnificently evocative territories, no matter if authentic, terra incognita, historical, futuristic or imaginary. Thrillingly immersing and topographically abundant "Off the map" journey fully reveals all its infinite magic during these strange times we are now confronted with.
A true oasis indeed, both aural and visual!

Artist: Nemesis
P: 2007
Live Archive Vol. 3
Here is third and the final part of the Nemesis live archive trilogy. This time the focus is on the more recent years, when our live sets featured even more improvisation than before. There´s good bits from he legendary Pauanne outdoor night concerts in 2004 and 2005, a hectic and rather heavy sections from a set in DBTL festival of Turku in 2000 and a few other things from the past. Almost all of the material is previously unreleased in any form, only the third section of ”Kaiku” is previously released, but this is a rare live version.

Here is the last copy!

Artist: Nemesis
P: 2014
The new album by Nemesis. A varied collection of textures, ambiences, gentle beats and melodic elements. This time based less on improvisation. Some tracks have almost songlike structures, but the general mood is the one you would expect from the band. Most of the tracks are recorded live in studio and one is even a concert recording. This ensures organic feeling to playing and there´s genuine human emotion and expression involved, although the album is fully electronic with some guitar work here and there.

Artist: Nemesis
P: 2001
We assume the title of the album is a humorous tribute to Brian Eno but nonetheless this is an excellent album mixing both rhythmic and wonderfully dark tracks, many running into one another. We start off with one of the dark ones, 'Occultation'. This is an extremely cosmic piece.
Dark crashes echo away into the vastness of space. These are joined by rising and falling electronic whooshes and various other tinkling / bleepy and even watery effects. The whole feel is very sparse and uncluttered, each sound being heard in isolation. In the thirteenth minute shimmering pads come in and we are immediately transported from foreboding darkness into the light. It is as if we are coming to the end of some nerve wracking journey and nearing the familiarity of home. Atmospheric music really doesn't get any better than this. An excellent 70s style very analogue sounding sequence propels 'Kopernikus' forwards. A more contemporary rhythm then enters complimenting the sequence perfectly. We chug along at a steady pace with lovely little melodic touches skipping from beat to beat. It's all so cool! We are back to the atmospherics for 'Geological Justice'. A drone, sounding like some vast engine or generator, provides a backing over which various spooky sounds warble and throb. Again this is quality stuff.
'Terraforming' carries on in similar mood. Another sequence then starts up. This one has something of a menacing feel to it, the sinister mood being heightened by little percussive effects and half heard vocal samples. More pulsations are added but all then subsides to atmospherics in time for 'The Steer'. Things get eerier and eerier. All areas of the sound spectrum are used from bass so deep you can feel it rather than hear it and twittering runs that start low then become so high they are almost shrieking. A deep throb pulses out at the beginning of 'Dazzling Shadow'. Subtle rhythm comes in creating quite a moody atmosphere. 'Microcolony' is another syncopated number mixing interesting loops and beats. Things get even better after the half way mark as a sequence is deployed alongside the existing rhythm. The first minute of 'The Launch' features some narrative imagining what it must be like to be a bug on the top of a rocket during take off with appropriate sound effects in the background! We then get some cosmic bits as presumably the poor old insect finds itself in space.
'Talisman' mixes dark drones, percussion and solar winds to create yet another extremely moody soundscape. Gentle, deep flute gives proceedings a slightly Easter feel. This feeling is heightened in the fourth minute when some slow, almost funereal, rhythm is added. Plucked string melodies impart that little bit of detail here and there. This is a very different album to 'Sky Archeology' and 'Cyberiad' being much more atmospheric with a rather mean attitude but like those albums it just oozes class.