Timo Kaukolampi is a Helsinki-based experimental music artist and self-taught composer, producer and meta band leader. His goal and ethos is to destroy and re-create his musical output with every new project and release. In search of uncharted realms of music, he has given us projects such as K-X-P and Opel Bastards. These days he is mostly focusing on his solo art and film music.
He does not believe in competition – he just needs to fill the void that his music is meant to fill. He hates nostalgia. Working closely with Tuomo “P” Puranen (of K-X-P and Opel Bastards fame) in the art of film music, he has also been gaining the trust and recognition of many film professionals. In 2018 they won the Jussi prize for best original soundtrack for the film Euthanizer, which was also selected to represent Finland in the Oscars.
This website is meant as an archive and showroom for artworks and releases. To be updated in a random manner. For Timo's most recent music, please visit the bandcamp of Öm Sound, the sublabel of Svart Records, where Timo curates and releases most of his music https://omsound.bandcamp.com/.
Recent LP/Digital Releases:
Kaukolampi: Inside The Sphere (2023 Optimo Music/Öm Sound)
Tuomo Puranen & Timo Kaukolampi: Mister8 Original Soundtrack LP (2022 Öm/Svart)
Timo Kaukolampi & Tuomo Puranen: Maria’s Paradise Original Soundtrack LP (2019 Öm/Svart)
Timo Kaukolampi: Music from “Station to Station to Station” LP (2019 Öm/Svart)
K-X-P: IV (2019 Öm/Svart)
Timo Kaukolampi & Tuomo Puranen: Armomurhaaja OST (2018 Öm/Svart)
K-X-P: 001 (2018/K-X-P)
Kaukolampi: 1 (2017 Öm/Svart)
K-X-P: III Part 2 (2016 Öm/Svart)
K-X-P: III Part 1 (2015 Öm/Svart)
K-X-P: History Of Techno (2014 Öm/Svart)
K-X-P: 2 (2013 Melodic)
K-X-P: 1 (2010 Smalltown Supersound)
Recent Film and TV work (w/ Tuomo Puranen)
The Shadowland Music for document film, Director Otso Tiainen, BUFO, 2024
Pimeän Vieraat Music for short document film, Director Jenni Pystynen & Perttu Inkilä, ILLUME, 2023
Viikinki Music for document film, Director Lauri Anssi Moilanen & Olli Vuokko, DANISHBEAR, 2023
Next Of Kin Music for TV series, Director Akseli Tuomivaara, BUFO, 2022
Mister 8 Music for TV series, Director Teemu Nikki, It’s Alive Films, Fall 2020
The White Wall, Music for TV series, Director Aleksi Salmenperä and Anna Zackrisson, Firemonkey, YLE ja SVT, Fall 2020
Marian Paratiisi, Music for film, Director Zaida Bergroth, Komeetta, 2019
Euthanizer, Music for film, Director Teemu Nikki, It’s Alive Films, 2017
Recent Art collaborations:
2022-23 Live Music for Emilija Škarnulytė – “Burial”, Performances at Mirage Film Festival - Oslo, Scanorama Film Festival - Vilnius, Docpoint, Helsinki etc.
2022 Music for Nastja Säde Rönkkö – “Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic-Child” 26-HD videos, Lönnström Art Museum, Finland
2022 Music for film “Metamorphosis” by Hannaleena Heiska and Minna Tervamäki
2022 Music for Nastja Säde Rönkkö – “Those Who Kept the Light” 10-videos, Roennbaksholm, Denmark
2022 Music created and live performed for “Kinesis” at Kansallismuseo with Tuomas Toivonen
2020-2021 Music created and live performed for “Riitti” performance by Hannaleena Heiska and Minna Tervamäki
2019 Music for Nastja Säde Rönkkö – Altered Breaths, Future Feelings, Tampere Art Museum
2019 Music for Nastja Säde Rönkkö – for your charred bones and restless soul, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku
2019 Audiovisual installation Silent Sea with light designer Jenni Pystynen, Länsisatama Terminal 2, Commissioned by Helsinki Festival
2019 Audiovisual installation with Nomen Nescio, Helsinki design week
2019 Music for Mira Kautto’s contemporary dance Station to Station to Station, Zodiak - Uuden tanssin keskuksessa
2018-2019 Spoken word Performances with Minttu Vesala, Helsinki & Stockholm
2017 Music for Sukupolvi nyt -installation with Tuomo Purasen kanssa, YLE & Helsinki city
Other random activities
2022 Synaatintori - Synthesizer meeting, Helsinki
2019 Speaker Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
2018 Keynote speaker, Synthposium, Moskova
2014- Öm-Sound record label