Studio Practice: Initial ideas for sleeve

Chosen songs:

Side A: Ø - Syvyydessä Kimallus, 7:45, 2014

Side B: Mika Vainio - Stratostaatti, 7:06, 1996

Both by Mika Vainio under different names

Both under Sähkö Recordings

Mika Vainio:

Was around from the start of the birth of electronic music in Finland.
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2976 ‘Vainio was so prolific from the '90s until his death that even most diehard fans might not have heard every one of his releases or know about every single project. Besides Pan Sonic and Ø, there was his early '80s noise project Gagarin Kombinaatii, the EBM-inspired Corporate 09, short-lived dance-leaning projects’... ‘You could spend months poring over his discography and still not hear everything.’
Well known but also very underground.
Words from listening to his discography: ambient, eerie, extreme frequencies, bold, delicat, heavy, intense, uneasy, blank, vibrating, techno, electric, subtle, power, structured yet disordered, entropy, forceful.
Remixed one of Björk’s tracks ‘Headphones’, featured on her album ’Telegram’. Humming tones, blinking electrical pulse, Björks voice starts out distorted, clarity increasing.

7” sleeve ideas:

Layering
A symbol or phrase (e.g. ‘made in FInland’)
Using floor maps of the uni as a grid
Shape of Northern Lights as path for type
Neon colours to represent the Northern Lights and rave culture
For the inside of the record: stickers, flyer, a zine about the Finnish rave culture, QR code
Soundwave (creating typeface, imagery for sleeve, path for type)
Repetition
Snaking type (flor maps, Northern Lights, soundwave)
Holes in sleeve, revealing imagery/type (relates to underground nature of the Finnish Electronic music scene and the birth of electronic music as it was in secrecy)
Inner sleeve hole revealing the Vinyl label offset to edge (relating to the sound of the music and the isolation of the Finnish electronic music community.
Use thick brown card
Sähkö recordings logo

Self-set briefs:

Studio Practice