Started writing songs together in 1997. Never made a distinction between traditional and modern high tech instruments. An acoustic guitar makes a fine sound, a groovebox makes a fine sound. Digital or analog, hi-fi lo-fi, if it suits they'll wear it.

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• IF-34
  Iron Rhino cd
  Released on 13.01.2006
  Listen: 'Video Store'

Boys Of Scandinavia bridge the gap between post-punk and electro-funk. Already making noise on the underground, their time is about to come.

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• IF-31
  Boys of Scandinavia: 'Kill the Party' cd
  Released 23.11.2005.
  Listen: 'Beautiful as a Person'
• IF-30
  Boys of Scandinavia: 'Why Do You Love Me' cd-single
  Released 02.11.2005.

Out of tune noise rock from Helsinki Finland.
Four guys thrashing their instruments while the girl tries to keep the songs together with her near angelic vocals. Started in 1998 echo is your love has raised from the improvised lo-fi soundscapes and led its way to whole new area of post-punk and hardcore that brings together the best elements of pop, no-wave, post-punk and art core, whatever that might be..

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• IF-35
  Humansize cd
  Released on 03.05.2006
  Listen: 'Peace song' - 'Step in step aside'
• IF-21
  Paper Cut Eye cd
  Released 27.11.2004
  Listen: 'Children In Lines'
• IF-07
  8 Hours cd
  Released in spring 2002
  Listen: A Song For Sea Scouts
• IF-03
  Sheets of blank fucking paper cd
  Released in June 2000
  Listen: Nym
• IF-02
  A Four Band Collaboration RANTINGS OF A FREE THINKER 12" (/w Can Can Heads / Roy and the Devil´s Motorcycle / Warser Gate)
  Released in March 2000
• ROOF-06 / LO-FINN-04
  Split 7" /w Warser Gate
  Released in April 1999
• ROOF-05 / LO-FINN-03
  Split 12" /w Kemialliset Ystävät
  Released in April 1999
• ROOF-03 / LO-FINN-02
  Saw them play like ghosts 7"
  Released in June 1998.

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Twisted, mind-spinning and face-bashing corkscrew-core at it's best.

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• IF-28
  Frivolous vol 2: The False Security Program cd
  Released 24.8.2005
  Listen: 'Maybe This Is a Bit Rich, But' | 'Repressed Memories of a Tragedy'

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Hardest, meanest and tightest noiserock you´ve on heard since man learned to hit his drum and guitar. If you thought Shellac was bitter and heavy enough for your ears, Fun takes their sound even further. Debut album in August 2004 on If Society.

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• IF-40
  Zu-pa! cd / lp
  Released 23.4.2007
  Listen: 'Slonko' / 'Hold It Close'
• IF-18
  Szklarska Poreba LP -cd
  Released 31.7.2004
  Listen: 'I Know Ned Kennedy' | 'Big Lies'

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Sweat, spit & broccoli - short, fast and vmethane fueled old school hardcore since 1999. After four albums, 250 gigs and some minor cuts they still feel like the world needs some more running around on stage, drooling and distortion...

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• IF-27
  Juggernaut + Let Your Poison Scream 12"
  Released 6.6.2005.
  Listen: 'Case #2: Hobo Hobby' | 'Dead Theories' | 'Not Enough Bodybags'
• IF-20
  Split 7" /w Mukeka Di Rato
  Released 20.9.2004.
  Listen: 'Impossible Everything'
• IF-17
  Let Your Poison Scream cd
  Released on 28.6.2004.
  Listen: 'Case #2: Hobo Hobby' | 'Dead Theories'
• IF-11
  Climbing up on the way down 7"
  Released 06/2003
  Listen: Grave Diggers
• IF-08
  Juggernaut cd
  Released in spring 2002
  Listen: Not Enough Bodybags
• IF-06
  Split 7" /w Rebound
  Released in spring 2002
  Listen: the Sword of Righteousness is Buried in My Backyard
• IF-05
  Pleasure / Disgust cd
  Released in winter 2001
  Listen: Enemmän

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Hailing from Melbourne, Ninetynine combine indie rock stylings with tuned percussion and layerings of casio keyboard to create a unique kind of pop music. Variously described as ‘wonderful’ (Melody Maker) and ‘versatile and talented’ (Rolling Stone) the band originally began as a solo project for Laura MacFarlane (the original drummer for Sleater-Kinney) in 1995.

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• IF-36
  Ninetynine: Worlds of Population, Worlds of Space, Worlds of Robots cd
  Released on 04.10.2006.
  Listen: 'Receiving the Sounds of Science Fiction' - 'Thylacine'

The hardest rockin' and tightest funk band you've ever heard. Like The Stooges getting together with James Brown's 1970-era band, the JB's! One of the longest running and most prestigious indie rock bands in Finland!

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• IF-39
  Viisi tähteä
  Released 28.2.2007
  Listen: 'Musta lakana'

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Beautiful and melancholic indiepop where the contemporary sounds of Belle & Sebastian and such meet classic songwriting of The Byrds and Kaseva.

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• IF-29
  Red Carpet: 'The Noise of Red Carpet' cd
  Released 28.9.2005.
  Listen: 'When You Sing'
• IF-26
  Red Carpet: 'Blood, Sweat & Tears' / 'Leave A Light On' 7"
  Released 13.5.2005.

Masters of SURMACORE (homicidecore) - a unique brand of hardcore and thrash where drunken acts of violence set the tone and pace.

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  Rytmihäiriö: 'Saatana on Herra' cd
  Released 14.2.2005.
  Listen: 'Ei mitenkään'

Electronic kraut-rock from Helsinki, Finland. The music of Siniaalto rises and floats, changes shape as the minimalistic and repetitive beats go on and leave you in relaxed state of spiritual awareness. For fans of 70s Tangerine Dream.

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  Tallentumia cd
  Released 05/2004
  Listen: 'Matka alkaa taas'
• IF-10
  Hakala 7"
  Released 24.9.2003
• IF-09
  s/t cd
  Released 07/2002

Hi-fi ambient art-pop in the days when post-rock wasn´t too trendy yet.
sissy spacek called it a day in the fall of 2002 but left behind an album and two cd-eps full of dreamy melodies and the hope for one more album that´s been recorded but still unreleased..

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• ROOF-07 / IF-01
  Telegram Before Departure cd
  Released in spring 1999
  Listen: 'My Society of Soft Technology'
• ROOF-02
  Sad Satellite Light cdep
  Released in spring 1998
  Listen: I Like Sad Satellites
• ROOF-01
  I Hide My Hopes in the Amplifier cdep
  Released 10.10.1997
  Listen: I Hide My Hopes In the Amplifier

Crazy and spastic agricore from Periferia! 20+ years behind them, these cats are still making dizzy with their combo of Beefheart-beats and '82 hardcore energy!

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• IF-38
  VALSE TRISTE: Madon luku cd
  Released on 13.10.2006.
  Listen: 'Oikeaoppiset Vääristymät', 'Takuukorjaus'

Youth gone wild! Mix the hold-nothing-back aggression of Hero Dishonest, the syncopated rock n' roll of Radiopuhelimet and the jagged edge of Fun and you've got one of the most promising bands on the Finnish noiserock scene: VENE!

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• IF-37
  VENE: Pimeä puoli mcd
  Released on 13.10.2006 with Zerga, Verdura and S.U.P.O
  Listen: 'Caralho', 'Desert Strike', 'Maanantaikappale'

Dramatic, melancholic and bittersweet, yet hopeful pop-music that fits the hole in your heart. With material ranging from subtle acoustic brush-strokes to hard-hitting electronic pop-anthems, Viola exists for all your pop-music needs.

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• IF-32
  Anything Can Stop Us cd
  Released 23.11.2005.
  Listen: 'I Don't Know How To Party'
• IF-25
  Melancholydisco cd
  Released 23.3.2005.
  Listen: 'Sad Eyed Disco Dancers'
• IF-23
  Leaving Home On Christmas Eve / Lost Christmas 7"-single
  Released 1.12.2004.
• IF-22
  Split-cdep with Iconcrash
  Released 3.11.2004.
  Listen: 'Violentia'
• IF-15
  Tearcandy cd
  Released 29.4.2004.
  Listen: Lovelights
• IF-12
  Acoustic Romantic 45 for the Jukebox in Your Heart 7"
  Released on 17.10.2003.
  Listen: Summermoon (30-second clip)

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