(added as a new page (as if anyone ever red PAGES online) but i figured this is nice to have here, too, as a commercial break.

♠ Ok, I’m not stupid, it’s kinda music but what IS this Ghost Monkey anyhow?

Ghost Monkey is me, sometimes with friends. It’s not exactly outside genres but I do like to try out sounds I don’t get to hear elsewhere. You get a mixed bag of slow stuff and rough stuff. Serves you right.

I started making music partly to get rid of the constant MTV noise around me, lately I’ve just stopped watching MTV or listening to FM radio! I make music because I love it, if it makes your day better, my job is done and paid in full.*

♠ Thanks.

It’s okay. Here’s the goods:

The Album Page.
Get your music here for free. What is this shit?

Soundcloud
And this stuff seems … unfinished?!

I rarely go to MySpace, lately, to be honest but it’s nice to have so many friends!. See, now, you found me, now you get it here!

* Unless someone good decides to publish it, fair deal, then you get to have Finished Products in digital form and hopefully on wax.

<3 tuukka / poly / all that

Octopedia Dub by polyfonken
Tomorrow Paradise Worksheet by polyfonken
It’s not you, its me and you by polyfonken

Our office has a fax machine. We’re at 358-9-3866038, how about yours?
With the internet and all, faxes should be in the bin now, all of them, but since a faxed contract is a different thing from an electronic, unprinted one (how exactly?), faxes are still needed in some offices.
Since faxing doesn’t cost much at all [...]

ok, boring audio talk with a bunch of odd sci-fi names coming up.
as far as synths and drum machines are concerned, here’s my current kit list:

elektron monomachine
dsi evolver
akai mpc 1000
yamaha rs-7000
yamaha cs-5
yamaha a-5000
jomox mbase01
waldorf micro-q
and i think i’m ready to let even some of those go. the later ones on the list, that is :D
that’s [...]

And now, a truly random selection of links. As in “blog”.

This is still my favourite Little Boots track, ironically, since it’s a bedroom live Hot Chip cover. Not over-produced, at any rate!
The Carousel was the moment I realized that I had to see Mad Men, all of it. Plus, maybe the best soundtrack moment [...]

Pitafel by polyfonken

I really like Logic 9, made some takeaway. Might be a bit harsh on old ears, I’ve done my worst to make fast food joint music. Still to come some day: Iskender Donor, Kbab Donor and Meatigan Menu.
EDIT: MONDAY ADDITION : LOGIC DISTORTIONS AND AMP DESIGNER
I also spent some [...]

(file under: more musical notes after 2am)
When not doing “sketches for real instruments”, I usually tend to sample the sounds I use and wouldn’t want to use a preset or a drum loop someone else has made, unless it’s for the comedy effect. Since I can’t play for shit, I consider the sound, the tonality, [...]

See, I think game music is a genre that shouldn’t exist, in games, anyway. Game Music, as in Reggae, Pop, Communist Lawful Evil and all those other genres. For those willing to retain a shred of sanity on not interested in pointless rants, maybe skip ahead?
At first the music for games was mainly just bleeps. [...]

It’s been nice to do nothing special except a bit of music and recording of random objects! I made this walker (in the beginning of the clip) out of a 9 euro RC battle chopper, it makes brilliant noises as it crashes or is unable to turn. I’d imagine all kinds of toys would turn [...]

Coffee and Soul explained

Crushing vegetables for science.

Flash. Yeah. It’s easy to learn and making it look good is not too hard, either.
All hail the new site, less flashy and hopefully more usable than earlier. For me at least, adding stuff to this is pleasant compared to editing text files to config which songs I wanted the previous Polyfonken site to play… [...]

This batch deals mostly with Coke Studios:

Being kind of lazy for someone who can’t stop for a second, I decided to add the stuff in my former flash portfolio here as single plates. Besides, if you want to see pictures, this is one way.
This post will have a bunch of Habbo stuff. Sulake. Really nice people, good times.

The second ambient adventure record, again, for you, from me.

Here’s the 2008/2009 beat-centric web release dealing with our authors special-ness. Downloadable, for you.

A three-track sampler of Ghost Monkey stuff after Tea. From an album that’s expected in early 2032.

Here’s my first saturday morning ambient record. Download it if you’d like to, thank me if you must.

The Ghost Monkey album from 2001 in a handy downloadable format lives here.