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Amuri Tekno - Mysteeri (EABE Records, 2025)

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Artist: Amuri Tekno Title: Mysteeri Record label: EABE (Helsinki, Finland) Cat. no.: EABE-LXXII Format: 12" vinyl/digital Release date: 5 December 2025 Tracklist: 1. Mysteeri 2. Kuuppa 3. Häive 4. Muutos Stream/Buy: Amuri Tekno - Mysteeri @ EABE Bandcamp / 12" vinyl Being the first-ever vinyl release for Amuri Tekno, Mysteeri marks a milestone for the Tampere duo of Miika Salo and Miska Väänänen whose career pHinnWeb has followed nearly since the project's inception. Previously Amuri Tekno have been featured on digital releases for such Finnish record labels as Kontact Records, Spin Records and Turun Levytehdas. Featuring only four tracks but with a duration of 37 minutes altogether, Mysteeri is not merely an EP but actually the first album proper of Amuri Tekno. Amuri Tekno have absorbed influences from several different sources, reflecting Salo and Väänänen's lengthy path not only as creators in their own right but also as connoisseu...

Mosaic with Frank Robson (1967 – 1968)

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Mosaic - 'Big Boy Now' (1968) Mosaic - 'Crazy Train' (1968) When the short-lived Mosaic recorded their only single 'Happier Man' b/w 'Crazy Train', their line-up consisted of British ex-patriate vocalist-keyboardist Frank Robson (1946 - 2024), drummer Raimo "Raikka" Rautarinne (1948 - 2019), guitarist Vladimir "Nikke" Nikamo (1947-) and bassist Olli Könönen (the latter two previously of The Creatures). Mosaic had been founded in 1967 after the breakup of The Creatures. From the former members of Creatures, Könönen, Nikamo, and vocalist Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin joined Mosaic. The drummer Rautarinne had previously played in bands such as Pems (with Jim Pembroke as vocalist), Roosters, and Blues Section 's very early line-up. Kirka soon moved to Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen's D-Tuotanto roster, and organist Robson became the lead singer. Frank Robson had arrived to Finland at the urging of some ...

Finnish Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from a Remote Northern Country

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It was around the year 2007 when Euphonic , a Finnish record collector, put together an unofficial 2-CDR compilation called Finnish Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from a Remote Northern Country, 1963–1968 . It was modelled after Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era , a 1972 double album of American psychedelic and garage rock from the mid-to-late 1960s. This collection was curated by Lenny Kaye and released by Elektra Records. Nuggets became a very influential release, inspiring several punk rock bands who came to prominence during the latter part of the 1970s. The compilation spawned not only several sequel albums and later, CD boxes, but also other record labels followed in its wake, with an endless series of obscure garage rock collections such as Pebbles , Rubble and Back from the Grave . Music follows its own fashions, there always being that vast undergrowth which doesn't fit into what's currently accepted as "hip" or "authentic...

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (1986)

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Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 'Love Missile F1-11' (1986) "Soon the whole world will know my name." Sigue Sigue Sputnik were a UK act active from 1982 to 1989, being the brainchild of Tony James , earlier of Generation X fame (the band that gave the world Billy Idol ), with Martin Degville on vocals and also featuring guitarist Neal X (a.k.a. Neal Whitmore ), keyboardist Yana YaYa (a.k.a. Jane Farrimond ) and two drummers, Chris Kavanagh and Ray Mayhew . The debut single 'Love Missile F1-11' was unleashed on the unsuspecting world on the 17th of February, 1986, with a music video in tow, directed by Hugh Scott-Symonds . Sigue Sigue Sputnik, supposedly named after a Russian street gang (though it seems the name originates from the Philippines and literally means in Spanish "Go, go, satellite"), were the ultimate 1980s gimmick band and hype act. Their sound can be described a sort of electronic rockabilly. They cited Suicide, the pio...