Helsinki-noiseheads return with an hour long soundtrack for the urban struggle. Wipe off your make-up and bow down to the guitars that don´t need your posing. 12 tracks of murder-guitar mayhem and whispers and screams from the suburbs that deserve to burn down.
Four all new 100% electronic Viola-tracks + 6 remixes by some very interesting friends (Hannulelauri, Videovalvontaa, Regina, I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper, Black Audio and Kiva) = one really cool and versatile album.
This record is available for free download from Viola Music Club
Fun's second long play is everything the first record Szklarska Poreba was and a whole lot more - meaner, dumber, tighter, slower, heavier, softer, smarter, faster and a shitload more clever than you, boy!
Viola leaves their geetaars and drums in the closet for this irresponsible adventure into the realms of electronic music that includes 4 new Viola-tracks, 6 fantastic remixes (Boys Of Scandinavia, Verneri Lumi, Kris Kylven...) of older material and Ilai Rämä's video for the song 'Violentia'.
This record is available for free download from Viola Music Club
The sonic equivalent of a serious case of delirium tremens that quite simply rocks the fucking shirts off all of you sad wankers out there. This shit is the real thing: 80's underground indie-rock influences madness that owes a lot to Big Black, Rapeman, Deep Turtle, Charles Bukowski and the god of alcohol (not to mention terrible hang-overs).
Finland's #1 thrashcore outfit are back with an album that will blow the previous three straight off the map with deadly sounds crafted by Antti Malinen from Down My Throat and superb songs that surpass all their previous work by miles. Still, no posing, no time for weak shit...
Finland's #1 thrashcore outfit are back with an album that will blow the previous three straight off the map with deadly sounds crafted by Antti Malinen from Down My Throat and superb songs that surpass all their previous work by miles. Still, no posing, no time for weak shit...
Fun's second long play is everything the first record Szklarska Poreba was and a whole lot more - meaner, dumber, tighter, slower, heavier, softer, smarter, faster and a shitload more clever than you, boy!
Viola's 3rd proper long play is again one step further into the unknown. Melancholic disco beats clash with hope-filled escapism to create something rather unique and special.
This record is available for free download from Viola Music Club
"Sounds of raindrops falling on sheet metal roof melted together with old television's random-dot-pattern-noise. Leena Uotila's soft voice echoed in empty, dusty rooms. Catowls gathered to the sky, appletrees were blooming and waves rocked a barrell against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassette's magnetic tape. I finished our work with prayer only a moment before the cold winds rose from Saimaa."
"Sounds of raindrops falling on sheet metal roof melted together with old television's random-dot-pattern-noise. Leena Uotila's soft voice echoed in empty, dusty rooms. Catowls gathered to the sky, appletrees were blooming and waves rocked a barrell against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassette's magnetic tape. I finished our work with prayer only a moment before the cold winds rose from Saimaa."
Grinderman are Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Jim Sclavunos. They're old, they've been playing all pretty and nice for a while and they needed to R-O-C-K. That they did.
Maybe not as insane as back in the Birthday Party days, but these cats can still throw it down.
Hero Dishonest's two latest long plays on one 12" vinyl (for the price of one long play!) featuring super-cool new artwork by Valse Triste's Raine Liimakka!
Adventurous and playful pop music with a dark lyrical edge, featuring members of Rättö & Lehtisalo, Magyar Posse and other Pori left-field greats + band godfather Mika Rättö.
Second album by this murderpop act from Pori. Songs written by Mika Rättö. Features also members from Rättö & Lehtisalo, Magyar Posse and Low Life Rock & Roll Philosophers.
Second album by this murderpop act from Pori. Songs written by Mika Rättö. Features also members from Rättö & Lehtisalo, Magyar Posse and Low Life Rock & Roll Philosophers.
Hero Dishonest's debut album. Fast thrashy and dirty hardcore with two mentally unstable idiot-savant vocalists barking away vitriols against the world and it's ways.
Adventurous and playful pop music with a dark lyrical edge, featuring members of Rättö & Lehtisalo, Magyar Posse and other Pori left-field greats + band godfather Mika Rättö.
Agricore from Periferia! These dude's have been blasting out their brand of hardcore that's as sensitive as an inbred woodsman with a rusty chainsaw for 20+ years already and they show absolutely no sign of weariness! Finnish hardcore just doesn't get better than Valse Triste!
"Milkwhite Sheets is the third solo album released by former Belle & Sebastian member Isobel Campbell. She said the album was inspired by the works of Jean Ritchie, Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins."
-Wikipedia.org
The opposite of all produced music. Keskitalo's singer-songwriter music is unlike anything else, yet it's strangely familiar... The Finnish and a bit more sane version of Daniel Johnston.
Debut album from 20 years ago by "upper and downer folk" artist Sami Kukka. This lp was a rare collectors' item on vinyl, but is now rereleased on cd by Helmilevyt!
"Finland is the epicenter of collective music making. Under the name Maniacs Dream, members of Finnish bands such as Avarus, Fricara Pacchu, Kemialliset Ystävät, and more come together to create blown out free rock. Their unique/bizarre approach to music making, constantly questioning the construction/deconstruction of sound creates songs at times recalling the electro acoustic clatter drone of Avarus crossed with tribal rhythms and intergalactic kraut rock guitar zones."
All Roads... is record #12 in the long and very very respectable career of No Means No and to everyone's amazement, these granddads still have it in them to push the boundaries of what punk-derived music could possibly be.
The opposite of all produced music. Keskitalo's singer-songwriter music is unlike anything else, yet it's strangely familiar... The Ffinnish and a bit more sane version of Daniel Johnston.
His third album, Kuolema tekee tuloaan (Death on the way), returns to the same quiet atmosphere and the lyrics reach out to envelop the listener. He performs his music alone or in sparse arrangements collaborating with soul mates from the younger generation of Finnish folk: Joose Keskitalo, Paavoharju, and the indie label Helmilevyt.
One of the greatest records made in Finland ever. R&S combine kraut-repetition, cheesy synths, amazing songs, Rättö's unique voice, psychedelic chants and a Kraftwerkian stoicness.
Artsy pop somewhere between OK Computer -era Radiohead and Mellon Collie -era Smashing Pumpkins with a handful of Brian Eno thrown into the mix. Features members of Echo Is Your Love, Viola, Rinneradio, Killer, Siniaalto and others.
Indie-disco grooves that'll have even the laziest asses in the house shakin' to the quarter-note pulse provided by the kick drum. "Like the Smiths produced by the DFA", they say. We say, "fuck that, turn it up, time to D-A-N-C-E!".
"Almost 64 minutes for just 3 experimental rock songs. Maybe songs isn't the right word: compositions might be better. Each composition on F# A# (Infinity) is at least 14 minutes long, consisting of a number of sections which are gently woven into each other. The arrangements move slowly, building from peaceful but dark musical landscapes to breathtaking and powerful pieces of music..."
Call it new age, call it ambient, call it whatever you want, but I prefer to dim the lights, set two speakers on the floor, set my head between the speakers and press play with the volume turned loud enough and - to quote a great band - "Ladies and gentlemen, we're floating in space".
Combat Rock Industry's second label sampler once again boasts some of the most succesful punk acts in our country at the moment, like Endstand, I Walk the Line, Manifesto Jukebox, Abduktio and Unkind + some foreign favorites like Bombshell Rocks and Nine.
Check this shit out if your new to the scene. It's a convenient introduction to finnish hardcore.
Melancholic, dramatic and simply breathtaking music created with the flawless co-operation with the Johnsons' orchestral backing of Antony Hegarty's virtuoso-playing of the grand piano and his unimitable voice with a vibrato that only Marc Bolan can match. This is music at its very finest!
Arguably the finest material this band ever did, the pre-Henry Rollins era. Fast and to-the-point punk rock with all the best songs and all the best riffs.
Ninetynine's fifth full length is everything you'd expect from these Australian sweethearts! The finest in "cheapo-Casio meets vibraphones meets perfect pop-songs meets Laura Macfarlane's velvet-smooth voice meets crazy drumming á la Cameron Potts" -music you'll ever hear!
Grrrrreat melodic punkrock from Finland! Hüskers meets old Apulanta maybe... or something not anything like that at all. You never know with these cats, as they're as unpredictable as the Replacements!
Important music. More so than pretty much anything else out there. May not contain their best songs, but overall is a very qualified contender for the best Pixies-album.
Slint formed in the late eighties and has released two critically acclaimed albums that, to this day, are unrivaled in their intensity and beauty. "Tweeze," Slint's first record, was originally released on the Jennifer Hartman Records label in 1988 and re-issued by Touch and Go in May 1993. "Spiderland," number two for the band and the first released by Touch and Go, saw daylight in April 1991.
The LEGENDARY Black Audio playing a LIVE rock n' roll show in the even more LEGENDARY Torvi in Lahti in front of the most LEGENDARY crowd of 16 paying customers. This shit is LEGENDARY!
It's all here! The insanely cool jam for Lissu's cigarette break, the incoherent in-between songs chatter and the weird train crashes that somehow get turned into fills and riffs. This is the ROCK and the ROLL melding into one sweet thing we call... ROCK and ROLL.
The end of all music. JS666 is just one man, but his powers of musical destruction are limitless. From sanity-threatening happy hardcore -ditties and dirty gabber beatdowns to lewd edits and spastic drum n' bass.
We truly are not worthy! Mother Goose not only influenced a generation of finnish indie-rockers to follow their own path in life and music, but after all these years they still continue to walk proudly in the very head of the queue! This is indie-rock at it's finest and purest form captured on a beautiful 45 rpm 7"-vinyl single.
The Boys' If Society debut is everything you'd expect and more! New Order produced by the DFA is the frame of reference here, so get ready for some A+ danceability and get that party started!
The end of all music. JS666 is just one man, but his powers of musical destruction are limitless. From sanity-threatening happy hardcore -ditties and dirty gabber beatdowns to lewd edits and spastic drum n' bass. 66 minutes and 6 seconds of music that'll make sure your life will never be the same...
Yet another brilliant punkrock band from Finland featuring Teemu from Kakkahätä-77 / The Heartburns! This is the 2nd edition of this 7", that's on red wax!
Artsy pop somewhere between OK Computer -era Radiohead and Mellon Collie -era Smashing Pumpkins with a handful of Brian Eno thrown into the mix. Features members of Echo Is Your Love, Viola, Rinneradio, Killer, Siniaalto and others.
A classic postpunk / goth ep from 1983! Featuring one of the first times the magic collaboration between Nick Cave and Blixa Bargeld, probably the two coolest dudes EVER!
Eppu Normaali's first record may be one of the best Finnish punk records ever and this band brings that stuff to the 21st century! Brilliant melodic punkrock!
New waveish punk-based twisting owing a bit more than just a bit to Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Q and not U and the likes. Great songs, great band. Great great great!
Back in stock on cd! Originally released as a 7" that's sold out.
Finland's rawest just ain't getting any nicer. 4 dirty-as-fuck 200 mph hardcore blasts including an explosive cover of Joy Division's 'Warsaw' with no apologies and no explanations. Mukeka Di Rato play vintage brazilian hardcore so expect nothing less than crazy-assed latino outbursts with a lot of chant-along qualities.
Combine two acts that rank very highly on all Top 50 Most Interesting New Bands Of Recent Times (Anticon's themselves and german melanholic electronics Notwist) and you get something that is utterly dumbstriking. Doseone's (themselves) nasally whining MCing combined with Markus Acher's (Notwist) sighed and velvety vocals on top of superb melancholic electronic beats that equal the beauty of any contemporary pop group. Yet another Anticon release that doesn't just explore the boundaries of what hiphop can be, but makes clear that such boundaries do not exist. Three thumbs up and a slot reserved on the "best records of 2005"-list!
Bradford Reed plays his self-constructed Pencilina, which is like a chapman stick on acid with bells. Astro Can Caravan get cut up by DJ Ohra. Only Astrosounds have been used for this one..
Combat Rock's current flagship IWTL has been getting heaps of attention lately with their streetpunk version of Bruce Springsteen and this new mini-cd / 7" will more than likely just fan those flames into a veritable inferno!
"What is the concept behind One Hidden Frame? We're out to bring you the soundtrack for a better tomorrow.. Melancholic tunes about respecting each other and making a change of attitudes in this arrogant and rotten world. We really wish that we could make songs about how everything's alright.. but then they would only create a comforting illusion."
No-waving punk meets disco stuff that pre-dates the fancy-schmancy production values of the megahit 'Echoes'. Seriously groovy and fucking amazing! The first song (the title track) on this mini-lp is a dance floor filler unlike few others, so it gets a definite three thumbs up!
"The release of this two-song EP marks the end of Slint's brief yet shockingly provocative career. The album contains an alternate version of Rhoda from Tweez, as well as one previously unreleased track, Glenn"
Source: Stickfigure.com
Bruce Springsteen covering Suicide's Dream Baby Dream on the A side + the Suicide original on the B side. Seriously. There's no joke here. Also featured on side B is the song Mr Ray by NY art punk outfit Beat The Devil.
Finland's finest 80's and 90's American indie/punk inspired high-speed super quality lo-fi pop punk!lp: 10 €