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Updated: 26 January 2026 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 ] [ Tribute b...

The corner of Hämeenkatu and Kauppakatu, 1912. From the left: the House of Kansallispankki (built 1904-16) and the House of Blom (built 1907, demolished 1955), both by architect Birger Federley (1874-1935). Photographer unknown, the image in public domain (as far as I know). Some years ago I was planning as student work a documentary of Tampere's old Jugendstil (related to Art Nouveau/Secessionism) buildings of the late 19th and early 20th century, many of them sadly demolished now. As there was too much else to do those days, I had to put the planned documentary project on the back burner, hopefully to be retrieved in some form one day... About Birger Federley: Carl Birger Federley (17 February 1874 – 29 March 1935) studied architecture in Helsinki with fellow students such as Lars Sonck and Wivi Lönn, as well as the later world-famous trio Gesellius-Lindgren-Saarinen. In 1892 Birger Federley graduated from Nya svenska läroverket i Helsingfors, Helsinki's ...

Finnish Electronic Music – A brief checklist This page will be updated later. Finnish synthesizers In the 1960s and early 1970s Erkki Kurenniemi (1941-2017) designed and built such instruments as DIMI, DICO, Sähkökvartetti (the Electric Quartet), etc. Otherwise Finnish composers, musicians and producers utilised mostly imported US and European hardware, such as MiniMoog, Korg’s synths, etc. One of the Finnish synth pioneers was the musician Esa Kotilainen who imported his first MiniMoog from Germany in the early 1970s. Before that, the use of musique concrète type of spliced tapes and manipulating the sounds of simple oscillators or traditional instruments through a mixing desk were a typical production technique for the early Finnish electronic composers when synthesizers were not available yet. Composers and musicians (also avantgarde/experimental) 1950s – 1980s Pekka Airaksinen (also as a member of The Sperm ) Åke Anderss...

Amuri Tekno are Miika Salo and Miska Väänänen, hailing from Tampere, Finland. Their music is a homegrown blend of Detroit-inspired techno, tech-house, acid house, IDM, and ambient. They have released on such Finnish record labels as Kontact Records, Spin Records and Turun Levytehdas. They are both of the generation who was coming of age during the halcyon days of the early 1990s techno music and rave culture explosion which spread also to some more peripheral regions outside the obvious Detroit-London-Berlin axis, and furthermore, spawned such new musical genres as IDM and drum & bass. For some years now pHinnWeb has been a big fan of Amuri Tekno's music, so it was time to find out about their origins, ideas and views. For the interview, often accompanied by a hearty laughter, they share their insights not only about their own productions and instruments but also of being long-time music fans, discussing their favourite artists, labels and records, Tampere’s local scen...