how to measure, cut and fold 50 record-sleeves in five hours or less

although it took us about seven. the following is a tutorial for anyone who wants to do something like this themselves in the future. the work is repetetive and very slightly boring, but it's fun with a friend, and the end result makes it all worth it.



1. measure up an A3 size sheet of 250g/m2 paper, and divide it into three parts in 26cm by 14.8cm size





2. once you have three same-size pieces, give each an 8mm margin on the long (26cm) side




3. fold the paper so that the 14.8cm sides are in line with each other:




4. cut two small triangles either side of the center crease, make sure they don't go over the 8mm line!




5. cut off both margins that don't have the triangle cut near the center crease



6. fold the remaining two margins inside and glue them to the opposite surface before placing them under a press of your choice (we used two atlases and a bowling ball)

athletic burns vol.1 : FF3

we're working towards getting the first in a series of self-released cd-r records finished in time for our gig at vadelma on saturday. the first batch will be one of 50 copies, and it will most likely only be available at live shows to start with.

the song is an alternate extended version of force field 3 in anticipation of the studio-recording we started in january.



photos from the sessions below







next: max designs and cuts up the outer sleeves







next: maija paints the inner sleeves

friction on your rails

everything has been recorded and mixing has begun. we're working on new songs at the moment, mainly parts 1 and 2 of force field, both of which are going in interesting directions. ff1 has five parts and is fairly easy to follow, in that it is turning out to be a nice straight-forward quiet song, even though it uses 3/4, 4/4 and 5/4 time simultaneously, with lots of keyboards and samu using the ringtone composition feature of his old mobile phone through his guitar pickup. ff2, on the other hand, is more likely to go in the opposite direction, sprawling all over the place and featuring some of the most complicated structure we've ever dealt with. the vocals aren't finished yet though, so once emily starts singing, the whole thing will most likely start to sound a lot easier to approach, hopefully consolidating all the various bits and pieces that sound, in turn, like ennio morricone, fly pan am, bacharach & david and 'false advertising' by bright eyes.

click this link to download a 37 minute long jam on one of the parts of FF1.

we have some shows lined up for the spring now too, saturday the 24th of february at vadelma (www.vadelma.org), thursday 29th of march at semifinal with mesmer and murmansk and saturday april 7th at TVO (turku) with navigations, imaginary friend and pocket knife.