Biography

Mikko Raita (born 1979) started mixing, recording and producing music professionally in the early 00's and is known for his music mixing work on the Best Animated Feature Oscar-winning Flow (2024), Stormskerry Maja (2024), Heavier Trip (2024), 5000 Blankets (2022) and Arctic Circle (2018). He also still works actively on records with over three hundred music projects under his belt, in a wide range of musical styles, and is actively working on Dolby Atmos Music releases as well as Atmos score mixes.

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 caliber TV projects, released both locally and internationally. In 2018 he pioneered music mixing in Finland for Dolby's immersive Atmos format. 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 having lectured a yearly music production course for sound design students at the University of the Arts Helsinki. He has also taught sound for games and picture as well as music technology at the Helsinki Vocational College, as well as educating sound professionals at the Finnish National Opera, the Helsinki City Theatre and Nokia.

In 2008, Mikko was awarded the closest thing Finland has to an engineering Grammy for his music work, the Pappa-Pysti - named in honor 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.

Recently, he has worked on several notable internationally distributed projects and often in Atmos - including the mesmerizing Oscar- and Golden Globes-winning animation Flow, metal-themed musical comedy Heavier Trip, moving archipelago period drama Stormskerry Maja which was the most watched film in the Nordics in 2024 and the Sony US drama 5000 Blankets. He has also worked on several stereo and immersive music album projects for Apple's UK-based Platoon records, including mixing the BBC Symphony Orchestra for several tracks on conductor Dalia Stasevska's Dalia's Mixtape album.

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 unrivaled attention to detail to every project.
- IMDb mini biography by: Mikko Raita