Swaeg in Latvia

Swaeg: Toiminto, Sire, Alexcore, Tremont, Waisted Flander, MC John Cityzen @ Dirty Deal Cafe (Riga, Latvia) (31 March 2009)

Swaeg.Net

Swaeg @ MySpace

Swaeg: Forthcoming Releases

Swaeg 2 Years


Swaeg Tampere


Toiminto live @ Ratakatu, Tampere, 26 July 2007

Tampere IDM/dubstep/etc. music collective Swaeg announces forthcoming Net releases:

SWG009 - TOIMINTO - FLEA CIRCUS TAKES;
coming soon! [Some tracks to be heard at Toiminto MySpace page.]

SWG008 - DKSTR - I R;
coming soon!

"DKSTR from Turku, Finland is one half of Videovalvontaa. DKSTR signed up for year 2009 RPM Challenge. Idea was to make record during february 2009. In 28 days, 10 songs or 35 minutes of music. Debut album “I R” is mostly made by sampling my Yamaha SHS-10, so it’s kinda lofi stuff. Songs are mellow and slow, but there are some more banging parts here and there."

http://www.last.fm/music/DKSTR/I+R

Earlier releases still downloadable at:

http://www.swaeg.net/

Forthcoming events:

11.3.2009 @klubi tampere AKAHILJANE/GOEK/ TOIMINTO/ sssoooiii/ sire/++
27.3.2009 @vastavirta tampere SWG;DUBS TBA
31.3.2009 @dirty deal, riga WAISTED FLANDERS/TOIMINTO/ sire/alexcore/ tremont/jnasty/ ++

Swaeg 3 Years, 26 May 2007

Swaeg presents:

Swaeg 3 Years
Saturday 26 May 2007
@ Klubi, Tampere
tickets 5 €

with:

V.C. live
Waisted Flanders live
Kurvin Grilli live
Videovalvontaa live
Toiminto live
Swg DJs

Toiminto: Lost In Low Frequencies

I told you some time ago about Tampere's club and Net label Swaeg, run by Joonas Toivonen (born 1981) a.k.a. Toiminto and some friends. Now Toiminto has his new Net release out, an album of eight tracks; promising "adventures in dubstep-ish dimensions". You can download the whole album as MP3s or one ZIP file from http://www.swaeg.net/.

Artist: Toiminto
Title: Lost In Low Frequencies
Cat.No: SWG-005
Label: Swaeg
Length: 43 minutes
Date: April 2007

Track list:

01. Mondiw
02. Tuesday Flow
03. Bandpass Workshop
04. Drugged Monkeys
05. Wednesday Dubbin
06. Bared Out
07. Thursday Steppin
08. Tuesday Flow Dub

The whole album as ZIP file

Swaeg: Sounds From Tampere Underground

Swaeg is an audiovisual collective working on non-profit basis and organising clubs here in Tampere, and at their parties you can hear some of most twisted brands of underground electronic dance music from IDM/electronic listening music to break-noise-death-whatever-core (à la the notorious British freak label V/VM) to dubstep; the Swaeggers themselves describing their sound as "idm - waltz - breakcore - medley - mash up - mortar rave - worst case scenario - neurodrunk".

Mostly headed by Joonas Toivonen (b. 1981), who also creates his own hilariously demented music under the moniker Toiminto ("Function"), Swaeg has organised over 40 parties (where yours truly has also DJed a couple of times) and a few festivals (among all Australia's Casionova and Lappland's old-school computer game sound monsters Desert Planet have been heard in these) since June 2004; also promoting visual art in the form of flyers, posters and videos -- summer 2006 saw an exhibition of Swaeg art at Tampere's Huoltamo mini-gallery.

Alongside these activities, the Swaeg posse is responsible for some Net-only music releases, including SWG001 (an MP3 compilation of Finnish electronic music, featuring such artists as Blamstrain, Roger That Jr, Oreia, Videovalvontaa, Toiminto, etc.), Demonic 1's "Die!" EP (dubstep from Tampere, SWG002), Waisted Flanders' "Lost" EP ("bass-boosted lo-fi whatstep", SWG003), and "Esoteris" EP by P2 ("psy-idm-arcade-jazz-darkambient-breakcore", SWG004). Joonas Toivonen has also promised his own dubstepish longplay should be out under Swaeg soon.

See, hear, download:

Swaeg: official site
Swaeg @ MySpace
Toiminto @ MySpace

Swaeg - pHinn's Contribution

Here is my contribution to Swaeg's street art gallery, to be held here in Tampere this July. Swaeg is a local audiovisual organization, run by Joonas Toivonen (a.k.a. Toiminto) and his cohorts who have had excellent underground electronic music parties, where I have also DJed a couple of times.