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Our trusted disco-house afficianado and Nightrunners associate Koobra has just remixed Helsinki's pop-outfit TV OFF and you can get his remix as free download now. The remix features Koobra's signature futuristic disco-house style: spacey melodies, bouncing bass lines and dreamy 80's boogie influenced house that cannot be disregarded by any dancefloor. TV OFF are our friends and hey just supported 30 Seconds To Mars on three arena shows and are about to release the first single from their upcoming second album. Were looking forward to that. Meanwhile, grab a free remix [...]

De app is geweldig. Gebruikmakend van techniek van The Echonest kan je je telefoon laten luisteren naar elk willekeurig stuk muziek, en de app geeft je dan terug welk liedje het is. Ideaal om vals te spelen tijdens popquizzen, maar ook om nieuwe muziek mee te ontdekken. Zo stond ik afgelopen zomer in een willekeurige [...]

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A l'heure où l'industrie du disque se casse la gueule, le lobby des majors et les gouvernements décident de bloquer le reste de créativité musicale. On bride la meilleure invention du XXIème siècle et par la même on prive les artistes émergents d'une reconnaissance nécessaire à la continuité de leur oeuvre pendant que ceux qui sont bien installés en haut de leur piédestal réclament leur moindre sous. Le système de l'industrie du disque ne fonctionne plus et ce n'est pas en essayant de le faire vivre comme la période pré-internet tel un zombie en fin de deuxième vie que les [...]

The Mainz, Germany-based tape label Sicsic has been giving us cause to prick up our ears for a while now, having released music by artists such as Panabrite , Innercity and the recent Congos-collaborator , M. Geddes Gengras . They have a variety of interesting material due out soon, but this forthcoming tape is a particularly intriguing prospect. Described only as an "obscure Finnish duo" and presumably named after the Long-eared Owl , Asio Otus have apparently created a "concept album about UFO sightings in the early 70s in a small town [...]

Siinai – "Victory" Although it has been available in their home country since last summer, the debut album from Finnish krautrock revivalists Siinai, Olympic Games , is set to see a stateside re-release on the 21st of this month through Splendour Records . Judging by their band name, the album's title, art, and track names ("Marathon", "Finish Line", "Mt. Olympos"), the band appears to be paying homage to the ancient Olympic spirit in it's purest form, and as [...]

After spending the majority of my day listening to a whole heap of new music (soon to be featured on Show & Tell), I thought why not spend the whole day listening to music? It's a tough job but somebody has to do it. So I braved the cold and journeyed to the Green Note in Camden to see the very talented singer-songwriter Mirel Wagner. Mirel is a 23 year old singer, born in Ethiopia and raised in Finland, who released her self-titled record on Bon Voyage records in October, a collection of chillingly haunting songs that fit the icy [...]

One wouldn't think there would be a point to hearing a version of "Tightrope" stripped of Janelle Monae 's glorious pipes, Big Boi's rap and that joyride of a funk-fest groove the late, great James Brown would of shook a good foot to had he been around to hear it, but Finnish/ French indie rockers The Dø prove otherwise with this fantastic cover. Clocking in at an epic nine minutes-plus length, The Dø do the damn thing and more on this flip of the 2010 jam, spending the first three minutes by slowing [...]

"Their second full-length album, "Extinctions", will be released in February 21st, 2012. If the debut was a collection of early songs that were not intended to end up on an album, "Extinctions" was written as a consequence of many tragic stories that touched the band. Most of the songs are dedicated to persons or creatures that no longer exist . Finnish indie pop stalwarts Jessika Rapo (vocalist for Le Futur Pompiste) and Henry Ojala (ex-drummer for Cats on Fire) teamed up to form the shambly, synthy duo Burning Hearts in 2006. Burning Hearts' debut full-length, Aboa Sleeping, [...]

"The Dø [are] a Finnish/French duo seemingly intent on rewriting the songbook on pop and folk music with their sophomore album, Both Ways Open Jaws (U.S. release 15 Nov 2011 on Six Degrees). Regardless of national origin, it is an absolute rarity to come across a band as freakishly talented and weirdly innovative as The Dø." [The Musebox] Download Slippery Slope Free Music, Every Day. Subscribe to the [...]

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"Of course, Neverlands vary a good deal" -J. M. Barrie as quoted by Alan Moore in Lost Girls . Recently, Arthur Von Nagel, via Facebook, linked me to an article on the Metal Pigeon blog about top 10 lists and, among other things, power metal. It's a flawed read, but a critical one. Pigeon takes the blogosphere to task for ignoring genres which receive less critical attention: classic metal and power metal. My associate Mr. Street-Jammer has also returned the importance of power metal to my attention. Though the genre rarely grabs [...]

Well, this week Sonisphere finally broke their silence and announced some of the bands that will be playing their Spanish and Finnish festivals this year. As yet there's still no names for Knebworth, and as Metal Hammer noted , some of the names that are playing in Madrid and Helsinki are playing Download in the UK, and therefore seem highly unlikely to make the UK edition of Sonisphere. But it got us thinking - what bands could be playing at Knebworth this year? Now if [...]

Slated for a late February/Early March release, No Sleep EP is the latest offering from Finland's mercurial dubstep export Desto . I listen to so much future garage, post-dubstep and [insert other strangely coined genre here] these days, that I rarely seem to indulge in some good old chest-boxing dubstep, and this is exactly what Desto delivers. Accented with a cold melodious twist that transports me to the Arctic tundra, a blast of 'Monsters About' evokes vivid images of the outpost in The Thing (which is actually set in Antarctica, but whatever). You should probably [...]

More noise from Finland based monsters Throat . This time throwing two new 7-inches at us, one being a split with fellow Finnish sludge mongers Fleshpress. I can't say I've really given much of a listen to Fleshpress in the past, but what I have heard was some incredibly slowed down and exhausting doom/sludge material on their LP Pillars . So, it goes without saying, I was a bit surprised to hear them on this split coming out of the gate [...]

Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird Spinefarm Records 13 February 2012 by Tom Doyle Finland's Swallow The Sun ply a well worn Nordic furrow of gloomy, doomy atmospheric metal that brings to mind snow drifted forests and months without celestial light to brighten moods or music. Their's is a potent brand of ear [...]

Working at the brighter, gentler end of the lo-fi spectrum, this track from Finland's Ous Mal crackles and writhes in all the right ways. It appears on one of the final releases from the young Olli Aarni under his most familiar moniker, a split cassette with Russia's Bedroom Bear on the fantastic Full Of Nothing label. Aarni's sample-based tracks may use a production method similar to that of hip-hop, with cut up vinyl, cassette and radio samples jammed together to form a new whole, but the result mixes spaced-out [...]

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Tweet vaso link Tympanogram Grade: B Sasu Ripatti has produced great electronic music under a number of different guises, but his work as Vladislav Delay stands above most contemporaries in the style over the last decade or so. The scope of his talent can be seen by looking back to his output in the year 2000. He released Multila (Chain Reaction) and Entain (Mille Plateau) under Vladislav Delay, while he dropped the microhouse-tinged [...]

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So, if you weren't on this earth last month - Adam Lambart had a huge violent fight with his boyfriend in Finland's biggest and most famous gay club DTM. Well, now he is on the Ellen Degeneres. So now he's "Juicing and exercising." Ok, then. Related articles (Video) Adam Lambert on the Ellen DeGeneres Show! (Interview + Perfomance) (randomizeme.net) Adam Lambert Arrested, Jailed in Finland (maboulette.wordpress.com) Adam Lambert Arrested in Finland Bar Fight (inquisitr.com) [...]

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars It's clear from the recent rise in Finnish music trickling overseas that there's quite a bit of great music being created in the country; Black Twig is another act determined to share their creativity with the world. Paper Trees is their first proper album for the newly created Soliti Music , and while the label may be small, they've got some huge sounds to promote. There's definitely a diverse sound when [...]

French Films are the real deal. If you haven't given their new album 'Imaginary Future' a listen yet, the time is now. I will continue to buzz about these guys and Imaginary Future will be within hands reach throughout the upcoming year. I wrapped up my best albums of 2011 and Imaginary Future came in at #5. The reason for this is that all 10 songs that are featured work so well together and beg you to listen again and again. The album starts off with a bang with 'This Dead Town', offering a [...]

Stockers! are a four-piece indie rock band hailing from Helsinki, Finland. Their sound is a vibrant mix of bright and catchy guitar melodies backed by intransigent strict drum and bass lines and personal vocals. These remote and reverberating sounds blended with hard pumping rhythms will show you colorful pictures about life you may never seen before. I would compare their [...]