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“For me, house means liberation from the burden of history and musical tradition. Rock is dead.” Bring the Beat Back! is a 1992 techno music documentary by Finnish director/screenwriter Hannu Puttonen (1960 - 2023), made in close collaboration with video artist Kimmo Sininen who provided visuals for the film. Talo, jonka Jaska jätti rakentamatta ("The house that Jack left unbuilt") is the alternative title for the film. With the length of 45 minutes, the documentary managed to capture the spirit of those heady days when the new electronic dance music culture was loaded with high hopes and expectations, for better or worse. The film had its Finnish premiere on 3 July 1992 at Illusion cinema in Helsinki. Soon afterwards it was shown on Finnish television (YLE TV1, 10 July 1992), with some five minutes left off from the original version. Unfortunately, these days it's very hard to see the film in any format. Hannu Puttonen Hannu Puttonen explained the ...

1994 saw the publication of Tekno. Digitaalisen tanssimusiikin historia, filosofia ja tulevaisuus ("Techno. The history, philosophy, and future of digital dance music", Aquarian Publications, 350 pages). It was an anthology book, edited by Sam Inkinen , with contributions from such people as Markku "Cosmo" Salmi (1950 - 2024), Bello Romano and several other writers. In the early 1990s, despite Finland undergoing a severe economic recession, spirit of the age could still be characterised as "techno optimism" which was reflected in many writings of the book. Tekno was allegedly the first full-length book written in Finnish on electronic dance music, rave and club culture. The book reflects the development of techno, house, ambient and related genres, up to the time of its publication, with emphasis on European, especially German, and British scenes, featuring also a perfunctory chapter dedicated to the Detroit techno pioneers. Finnish scene (ca. 1988...

ex (1994) was a short-lived Finnish large format magazine, with three issues published altogether, concentrating on techno, house, ambient, IDM and other electronic music genres. As to its other content, ex was profiled as an urban lifestyle magazine, with its very title referencing the perceived target group: "Generation X", the people born approximately in between the years 1965 and 1980. The goal of ex was to offer a fresh alternative to the established "city culture" publications in Finland, namely City and Image , that had originated in the mid-1980s which already felt like ancient times. For the first issue of ex , out in April 1994, acting editor-in-chief was Ville Tiikkonen , and the magazine's production and marketing were also handled by Antti Viitanen , who had previously worked at the financial paper Kauppalehti . Samu Mielonen provided a lot of technical groundwork for the ex magazine, also doing his share as one of its writers. Generall...