Mikko Raita
Mikko Raita

Mikko Raita started mixing, recording and producing music professionally in the early ‘00s, soon becoming in demand among Finland's A-list artists and top record labels, working in a wide range of musical styles with now close to 300 music projects under his belt.

Mikko has worked on film and TV music from the start of his career, in recent years focusing more and more on that with a steady stream of feature film and high calibre TV projects released both locally and internationally. In 2018 he pioneered music mixing in Finland for Dolby's immersive Atmos format, upgrading his control room accordingly.

He also continues to work in the music business, especially sought after for his skills in capturing acoustical jazz and world music ensembles with larger than life results and combining these with electroacoustic soundscapes, as well as for projects where a need to innovate on sound processing and mix techniques is the norm.

He has studied music technology at Sibelius Academy, part of the University of the Arts Helsinki. These days he is also an educator himself, having lectured about score work and Dolby Atmos for film sound students at Aalto University as well as lecturing a yearly music production course for sound design students at the University of the Arts Helsinki. He also teaches sound for games and picture as well as music technology at the Helsinki Vocational College.

Mikko continues to work as a first-call music and sound technology professional, always bringing along his enthusiasm for great music, exceptional sound and telling stories as well as his unrivalled attention to detail to every project.

In 2008, Mikko was awarded the closest thing Finland has to an engineering Grammy for his music work, the Pappa-Pysti - named in honour of the late film sound and record making legend Paul "Pappa" Jyrälä. Many of his music projects have been awarded IFPI Finland's Grammy equivalent Emma Award, as well as being nominated for the Finnish Composers' Copyright Society's coveted Teosto Award. His film score projects have been nominated for the Oscar equivalent Jussi Award, and in 2020 Panu Aaltio's score for the nature documentary Luontosinfonia (The Nature Symphony) was nominated for the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award, mixed and recorded by Mikko for Dolby Atmos. The 2018 HARPA nominee Tatu and Patu (Oddsville Christmas) by Juri & Miska Seppä was also mixed by Mikko.

To view Mikko Raita's full filmography, please visit his IMDB Page.

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