• St. Laurent & Trisector present a fine new Science Podcast #15

    There’s a fresh new Science podcast available at Sciencehki.net, a truly recommended podcast. I was happy to see that my track Jupiter made it to the tracklist, much appreciated guys :).

    science hki #15 – st. laurent & trisector [download and listen]

    01 method one : sequential – dub
    02 flame : watcher – med school
    03 furi anga : the day my unicorn died – shadybrain
    04 pieter k : one of them – inperspective
    05 polska : google plex – subtle audio
    06 commix : underwater scene – soul:r
    07 seba : valley of the moomins – good looking
    08 naibu : discrete – horizons
    09 abstract elements : essence of time – exit
    10 kr4y : steed – t3k
    11 histibe : pulsar – offkey
    12 data & k2 : kyoshojutsu – cylon
    13 fistfunk : tetsuo – lightless dub
    14 heavy 1 : you’ll be over – he:digital
    15 k : trackspill – thermal
    16 dak : skunk – lightless digital
    17 mineral : jupiter – indajungle
    18 naraka : outsider looking in – vampire
    19 rockwell : noir (ulterior motive remix) – critical
    20 las : dodge – dub
    21 commix : city section – exit
    22 blu mar ten : believe me (bop remix) – blu mar ten
    23 linden : tuva (morphy remix) – nerve


  • Free Track of The Week #16: Puzzle – No Motion

    The Season Two of the free tracks starts with a magnificent tune, “No Motion” by Puzzle. It’s an amazing piece of art, atmospheric dnb with deep vibes. Grab your coffees and start listening.

    Puzzle – No Motion [download mineral.fi_free016]

    Puzzle – No Motion by Puzzle

    Puzzle alias Juho Kavasto is a very talented young musician hailing from Finland. He was featured at mineral.fi earlier with his track “Kumoi“, and now we have the luxury to enjoy and download another fine track by this promising artist. I can’t tell you how much I like the pads accompanied with the deep bass and minimalistic melodies. The feeling in “No Motion” is really atmospheric and somehow unreal – these melodies set up a really unique mood. Hope you enjoy this track as much as I do. And if you do, make sure to join Puzzle’s soundcloud & facebook, the links are below!

    CHECK MORE FROM PUZZLE

    – Puzzle’s facebook: http://www.facebook.com/puzzlednb
    – Puzzle’s soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/puzzlednb

    KEEP ON SENDING DEMOS!

    Finally, thanks to all of you guys who have been sending tracks to mineral.fi. Please keep on sending your music, as its is always a pleasure to listen fresh drum’n’bass, and the best ones will get featured as Free Tracks of the Week!


  • St. Laurent – Mineral.fi Free Tracks Season One mix

    It’s time to wrap up the first 15 Free Tracks at Mineral.fi. I’m proud to present a fresh & brilliant mixtape by St. Laurent including all the Free Tracks (01-15) so far:

    St. Laurent – Mineral.fi Free Tracks Season One [download season one mix]

    TRACKLIST
    01. Furi Anga – The Human Project
    02. Mineral – The Neverending Story
    03. Fanu – Shogun Remix
    04. Wintermute – The Rift Between
    05. Eclipse – Tricky
    06. Naraka – Bent Sky 2k10
    07. Defence – Sight Of Vision
    08. Trisector & InZtance – Something To Give
    09. Ben Kama – Someone
    10. Mineral – Step
    11. Physics – Never The Same
    12. Radicall – Plus
    13. Puzzle – Kumoi
    14. Esc – Kongo Tune (Mineral 2010 VIP)
    15. Burma – Gringo

    All tunes are downloadable at the Free Track of The Week -section.

    At his early teenage years Lauri Hynninen aka St. Laurent was introduced to drum & bass by the boy next door – how romantic! After listening countless hours to the newly released Timeless by Goldie and things coming out from Good Looking Records, there certainly was no turning back. It was exactly those exciting drum rolls, amen variations and deep punching basslines that made him fall in love.

    In addition to being a big coffee enthusiast he’s also spending his spare time running the monthly Funk’it club and being part of the Science HKI cru. And this is the key point to the musical variety of this gentleman.

    Apart from drum & bass, he’s collecting music from soul and funk to jazz and house. Still, the main focus is in drum & bass – all sorts of it. As he puts it, “If it’s jazzy or has a lot of atmosphere and amen break, I probably dig it!”

    Check more mixtape madness by St. Laurent at http://soundcloud.com/st-laurent/


  • Finnish Drum’n’Bass and Dubstep collection 2010 one year birthday!

    The Finnish drum and bass and dubstep collection 2010 was released exactly a year ago. I was really proud to be featured in this CD / digital release with my track “Venus” (check below). Now I want to honour the release at this special birthday. Thanks again for making this collection LAOS-crew!

    Clip Mineral – Venus by largeamountofsoul

    “This collection sets a point in time where a lot of history and Finnish electronic music culture is fitted in one package. It was more than 10 years ago when a few dnb scene affiliates started talking about making a collection of Finnish breakbeat music. Sometimes good things take their time. In 2010 Finnish drum and bass and dubstep scene is more vital than ever. New artists are popping like mushrooms in the rain and established names are putting out albums that get international recognition. There is no better time than this to present the sound of Finnish drum and bass and dubstep to the wide audience”

    Listen to the other tracks in this release and read more

    BIG SURPRISE PLANNED FOR THE NEXT MONDAY

    I’ve got something really special planned for the next monday – make sure to check back… 🙂


  • Free Track of The Week #15: Physics – Never The Same

    One of the most legendary names in Finnish DNB is without doubt Physics, and I’m very happy to promote one of his tracks as the Free Track of The Week #15. Check out:

    Physics – Never The Same [download_mineral.fi_free015 ]

    Physics is the production moniker for drum&bass producer/DJ and label owner Glenn Grip currently recording for Labels such as Metalheadz (Goldie) , MAC II(Randall) Blindside, Fokuz, Jerona Fruits, Jerona Dubs, Phuzion, Phuturistic Bluez, Planet Funk, Vampire Records(Source Direct) and Pivotal Entertainment music and Telluric Recordings. He also runs Finland based label Midnight Sun Recordings and is a co-owner of the digital download shop http://www.digital-tunes.net/ alongside companion William Coates.

    Physics started producing late 90s and it didn’t take long before his music was snapped up by the biggest labels in the industry. Physics music has been supported by international DJ:s such as LTJ Bukem, Goldie, Nookie, Marcus Intalex, Marky&XRS, D-Bridge,Randall, Bryan Gee, Makoto, Phil Source Direct, and many more. Being a busy DJ aswell , Djing work have taken him to countries like Germany, Czech Rep, Slovakia, Sweden, Romania, Denmark, Russia, England, Austria, Estonia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, N Ireland, Scotland, The Netherlands to name but a few, playing the sounds of the Midnight Sun

    CHECK MORE FROM PHYSICS


  • The mineral.fi flyers and posters

    The featured artist and their tracks here at mineral.fi get even more promotion now, as the first flyers and posters are finished and printed out. I actually handed quite a lot of these to the people at the kongocrew party a while ago… 🙂

    Mineral.fi Flyer

    The Mineral.fi -graffiti logo in the corner is by my very good friend, a really talented concept artist Jesse van Dijk. Check out Jesse’s amazing works at his portfolio.

    The photo in the flyer is by Jonne Renvall.

    Big thanks to Kongocrew, Pressure, Indajungle -recordings & Kehto Magazine for the cooperation!


  • Free Track of The Week #14: Radicall – Plus

    I’m very proud to present the Free Track of The Week #14 by a Polish dnb artist Radicall. The track “Plus” is a really catchy and deep track with excellent atmosphere in it. A recommended download!

    Radicall – Plus [download mineral.fi_free014]

    Radicall – Plus by radicall

    Krzysztof Golinski aka Radicall is a Producer, dj and founder of Nightworks.

    In love with the music since day one. His early productions were heavily inspired by jungle/jump up sound, later he induced himself to deeper and heavier timbre of drum’n’bass. In 2002 he became one of the finalists of “Made In Poland” – producers contest which revealed biggest talents of that time. It was his premiere as a producer and a dj under a nickname which he kept till now – Radicall..

    In the meantime his music was still evolving – as a result of his constant search of new boundaries and ideas “Forgotten Horizon” came into being, side-project mainly focused on ambient, flowing, “between dream and reality” kind of sound. His d’n’b repertoire changed. Melodic, trancestep inspired sound was slowly replaced with deeper and heavier neurofunk and atmospheric landscape. In his solo project he focused on deeper, setting-up new boundaries in atmospheric-dnb sound, heavily inspired by neurofunk, technoid, ambient, classic electronic and ocean of other interesting music.

    In his sound space there is one inherent element. It’s deep and full of warm vibrations Katee’s vocal, which perfectly highlights an emotional charge of his music. First of all, music is a matter of imagination, his tracks got very vivid character and they’re infused with very specific emotional charge. His mixes combine energy, dynamics and techstep/neurofunk severity, electrostep melodiousness with deeper breath of atmospheric mood…

    CHECK MORE FROM RADICALL


  • Free Track of The Week #13: Furi Anga – The Human Project

    This week’s Free Track of The Week is by a really special guest Furi Anga from Finland. I’ve been a fan of Furi’s moody dnb production for a long time, and I’ve been playing his tracks in my mixes a lot too. This marvellous track “The Human Project” is all about what Furi does best: moody, melodic and minimalistic dnb. Check it out!

    Furi Anga – The Human Project [download_www.mineral.fi_free013]

    Furi Anga – The Human Project (2011 / FREE DOWNLOAD) by Furi Anga

    Furi Anga alias Antti Viitamäki is a deep soul explorer from Finland, Scandinavia. Listening to his music one gets transported into a melancholic fairy world – sometimes true and beatiful, sometimes dark and grotesque. He gets heavy influences from ascetic finnish nature. “Cold scandinavian moods delivered in a form of drumandbass.”, as Furi describes at his site Furianga.com.

    I’m currently working on a collaboration track “Awakening” with Furi, and it’s gonna be really good! I’ll let you know when it’s finished.



  • Technical problems

    We’re having some technical problems, but I’m doing my best to get things fixed. The site was down for two days, but now it’s back online. Some of the links don’t work yet, but I’m working on it..

    Also, there’s a new track of the week coming soon, so check back! Thanks for your patience.


  • Free Track of The Week #12: Mineral – Step

    The Free Track of The Week #12 is up. This time we have some chilly summersounds to warm up the cold winter days. Check out this liquid dnb track “Step” by Mineral:

    Mineral – Step [download: www.mineral.fi_free012]

    Mineral – Step (www.mineral.fi_free012) by DJ mineral

    Mineral - Step (cover by Maija Paloheimo)

    Free Track of The Week #12 is a chilly and easylistening drum’n’bass track by Mineral. The rolling breaks and beats accompanied with various melodies make this a nice roller. Grab a cup of coffee (or even better: a cold beer), turn up the volume and start listening! Hope you enjoy this track!

    The cover artwork for Step is designed by a really talented graphic artist Maija Paloheimo. She has done lots of amazing works for bands and different websites for example, so check out her portfolio for more art by Maija.

    CHECK MORE FROM MINERAL

    http://www.soundcloud.com/dj-mineral – more tracks at my soundcloud
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mineral-Atmospheric-Drumnbass – follow Mineral on facebook