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Club Telex (Tampere, Finland)

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There’s Bonus Beats , a new compilation from Cold Blow Records that brings up quite an onslaught of memories for me. Inspired by this collection of rare tracks of Finnish electro, I decided to write a bit about what it meant personally for me, back in the day. This is not any exhaustive report of the millennial Finnish electro scene (I hope to write something more about it in the future, though), but a sort of text about our own personal contribution to it all, here where we live. Be forewarned, though: it's not purely about electro but also some other things that all bore the indistinct name "underground". Namely, it's of those times when we had our own Club Telex at Tampere’s Yo-Talo (Student Union House), and also hanging out as punters (sometimes also as guest DJs) at the electro parties in Helsinki (remember Helsinki Turbo ?) and Turku. Some of the dramatis personae (not in any order of preference): Rikos Records (the defunct cult label from Jyvä...
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J Saul Kane (1967 - 2024)

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It was on Monday, the 18th of November, 2024, when they finally broke the news. It was something that we had feared deep down since June, when his Facebook channel suddenly had gone silent, but still hoped it was just a temporary communication breakdown, maybe illness or some technical problems. Or was it that he had only become sick and tired with all the current brouhaha – with the state of music culture, media, politics and all general nonsense going on – and just had decided to take some time offline. Unfortunately, that sense of foreboding turned out to be true. On that Monday the news came in that J Saul Kane , the pioneering British breakbeat/electro musician known for such projects as Depth Charge and the Octagon Man, had passed on. He was only 57 years old. [ J Saul Kane tribute by Carl Lorben @ DJ Magazine, 19 November 2024 ] [ Mixmag ] [ Music Week ] [ NME ] [ The Quietus ] [ Resident Advisor ] [ Tribute by Akio Nagase ] I was briefly in touch with him years a...
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Space: 1999 and other Gerry & Sylvia Anderson productions on Finnish TV

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Updated 23 August 2022 Space: 1999 and other Gerry and Sylvia Anderson productions on Finnish TV The Finnish debut of the Year One of Space: 1999 took place in July 1976. In Finland the series got the title "Avaruusasema Alfa" ("Space Station Alpha"). (The episodes were subtitled in Finnish, as in Finland only children's cartoons are dubbed in local language.) This was not the first Anderson production seen in Finland, though. Gerry Anderson's puppet series Supercar launched as early as 1963 on Tesvisio (also known as TES-TV) and Tamvisio. Both were early Finnish TV channels which were merged to Yleisradio (Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE) in 1964 and became YLE TV2 in March 1965. Stingray was the next TV production by the Andersons that had its run in Finland, as part of Mainos-TV's spring 1965 schedule. The Finnish title of the show was "Kapteeni Myrsky" (translates as "Captain Tempest"). The first episode of Thun...
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