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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...

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...

Argon took a dork, what we got was Organ Organ took Futu, what we got was bream spawn Soundi 5/1982 Words by: Arto Pajukallio [Suomeksi] Dear readers of Soundi, you may remember the EP sent with this magazine a while ago, as a showcase of Poko Rekords presenting four of their recent albums. Among them was the title song “Organ”, from the longplay of Organ. ”Otimme messiin tuon Eppujen dorkan / nyt Argon-orkan nimi on Organ” [“We took along that dork from Eppu Normaali / now the Argon orchestra is called Organ”] , sang Seppo, and Mikko in turn declared: ”En tahdo enää tutkia lahnan kutua / tahdon, tahdon soittaa futua”. [“I don’t want to study the spawning of bream anymore / I want to, I want to play futu” - “Futu” being the Finnish nickname for synthpop.] Seppo is Parkkinen, Mikko is Saarela, of course. Seppo and Pekka Tolonen formed a synthesizer duo last summer that made the awesome LP “Kone kertoo” [“The machine tells”] for the QUU label – or in the ...