Club Telex (Tampere, Finland)
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...