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J Saul Kane (1969 - 2024)

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The news just came in today that J Saul Kane , the pioneering British breakbeat/electro musician known for such projects as Depth Charge and the Octagon Man, has passed on. He was only 55 years old. [ J Saul Kane tribute by Carl Lorben @ DJ Magazine, 19 November 2024 ] [ Mixmag ] [ NME ] [ The Quietus ] [ Resident Advisor ] I was briefly in touch with him years ago when I kept for my own Website a sort of fanpage of his music and also the record labels, DC Recordings and Electron Industries, that he maintained. (I can’t say I knew him well, but I remember “Nutters but good nutters” was how he commented on the page.) J Saul Kane biography Born in 1969, Jonathan Saul Kane came of age when the first wave of hip-hop culture was just sweeping across the Atlantic from its original birthplace most historians locate to Bronx, New York City, USA. It reached also Powis Square in the Notting Hill area of West London, UK, where a teenage kid called Jon lived with his mother. Nott
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Tampere 1912

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The corner of Hämeenkatu and Kauppakatu, 1912. From the left: the House of Kansallispankki (built 1904-16) and the House of Blom (built 1907, demolished 1955), both by architect Birger Federley (1874-1935). Photographer unknown, the image in public domain (as far as I know). Some years ago I was planning as student work a documentary of Tampere's old Jugendstil (related to Art Nouveau/Secessionism) buildings of the late 19th and early 20th century, many of them sadly demolished now. As there was too much else to do those days, I had to put the planned documentary project on the back burner, hopefully to be retrieved in some form one day... About Birger Federley: Carl Birger Federley (17 February 1874 – 29 March 1935) studied architecture in Helsinki with fellow students such as Lars Sonck and Wivi Lönn, as well as the later world-famous trio Gesellius-Lindgren-Saarinen. In 1892 Birger Federley graduated from Nya svenska läroverket i Helsingfors, Helsinki's
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Jansky Noise - In the Corridors with Santa Anna | featuring Brokli | Born of Black Light LP

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Jansky Noise - In the Corridors with Santa Anna | featuring Brokli | Born of Black Light LP “Track one from the upcoming album Jansky Noise - Born of Black Light (8-track LP). The first release from Jansky Noise in 13 years. In the Corridors with Santa Anna is an epic journey through deeply drenched electronica. Born in Black Light is an 8-track LP which blends Afrofuturism , jazz, avant-garde electronics, power noise, and the spiritual. Each track is a deep dive into the boundless connection between space, the spiritual realm, and the cosmos—a fusion that reflects Jansky Noise's decade-long immersion in the ethnosphere and his exploration of the unseen forces that bind our universe. The album, Born of Black Light , revisits many of Jansky Noise's old projects, pulling content from as early as 1999 and reworking them. Corridors with Santa Anna features Brokli who adds a signature touch with guitar work and vocal harmonies.”
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Finnish Electronic Music – A brief checklist

Finnish Electronic Music – A brief checklist This page will be updated later. Finnish synthesizers In the 1960s and early 1970s Erkki Kurenniemi (1941-2017) designed and built such instruments as DIMI, DICO, Sähkökvartetti (the Electric Quartet), etc. Otherwise Finnish composers, musicians and producers utilised mostly imported US and European hardware, such as MiniMoog, Korg’s synths, etc. One of the Finnish synth pioneers was the musician Esa Kotilainen who imported his first MiniMoog from Germany in the early 1970s. Before that, the use of musique concrète type of spliced tapes and manipulating the sounds of simple oscillators or traditional instruments through a mixing desk were a typical production technique for the early Finnish electronic composers when synthesizers were not available yet. Composers and musicians (also avantgarde/experimental) 1950s – 1980s Pekka Airaksinen (also as a member of The Sperm ) Åke Anderss
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Amuri Tekno interview documentary

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Amuri Tekno are Miika Salo and Miska Väänänen, hailing from Tampere, Finland. Their music is a homegrown blend of Detroit-inspired techno, tech-house, acid house, IDM, and ambient. They have released on such Finnish record labels as Kontact Records, Spin Records and Turun Levytehdas. They are both of the generation who was coming of age during the halcyon days of the early 1990s techno music and rave culture explosion which spread also to some more peripheral regions outside the obvious Detroit-London-Berlin axis, and furthermore, spawned such new musical genres as IDM and drum & bass. For some years now pHinnWeb has been a big fan of Amuri Tekno's music, so it was time to find out about their origins, ideas and views. For the interview, often accompanied by a hearty laughter, they share their insights not only about their own productions and instruments but also of being long-time music fans, discussing their favourite artists, labels and records, Tampere’s local scen
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Kuiskaaja - The Stage Whisperer (2019/2023)

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Tracer by Antero Alli

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Tracer is a 2022 work with some Lynchian touches from American-Finnish independent film-maker/theatre director/author Antero Alli (11 November 1952- 9 November 2023). All Antero Alli's films were DIY productions and available through his YouTube channel . Official synopsis (no spoilers): After seven years of world travel, Erik returns home to reunite with his family. He first visits his ex-girlfriend Polly with high hopes of rekindling their love but Polly has changed. She now channels a Polish ancestor in a vlog on her mission to expose the corruptions of Patriarchy. When Erik visits his father Leo on his yacht, boyhood super-hero fantasies of his dad are tested against Leo's shady, perilous past. Erik finally sets out for his estranged mother Corinna to find out why she abandoned him as a boy. Meanwhile a psychic hitman in the Russian mafia experiments with a new designer drug to increase his remote viewing skills. TRACER is a cat and mouse yarn unravelling th
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