Lin­dell­tron­ics — Avar­rus­funk (320k)

Tommi Lin­dell is a syn­the­sizer wiz­ard of some sorta from the younger gen­er­a­tion in Fin­land. He has had his fin­ger­prints on many things since early 80s through com­pos­ing, arrang­ing, pro­duc­ing or just by play­ing instru­ments on many many Finnish albums. This Lin­dell­tron­ics thing is more or less a project which has ele­ments of humor innit. “Avar­rus­funk” is nev­er­the­less a great instru­men­tal electro-funk cut from Trendibu­umi album (Trendibu­umi is a Finnish word mean­ing some­thing like trend craze).

The older gen­er­a­tion of Finnish syn­thy heroes? Erkki Kuren­niemi and Esa Koti­lainen are per­haps the biggest names.

“Kitkali­itto is a col­lab­o­ra­tive band of 3 friends from Helsinki to flesh out their ideas in music and visual arts.” First release from the guys came out quite recently on Kann Records: the Swamp EP. Deeper ter­ri­to­ries of house with some hints of techno, and def­i­nitely jazz. Get the dig­i­tal release from Beat­port, What­peo­ple­play or Jun­odown­load. As for the phys­i­cal copies, VINYL/WAX I’m refer­ring to here, it’s a lim­ited press­ing but Juno Records got some as does Hard­wax. And then there’s always Discogs. In Fin­land I’d go to Stu­pido.

Swamp EP by Kitkali­itto

And then cou­ple of free­bies. Both are still only demos but sound quite fin­ished tracks to me. Kitkali­itto — Helsinki (Instru­men­tal Mix) — click here to down­load (256kb). Great, deep “gypsy-house”.

Helsinki (instru­men­tal) by Kitkali­itto

Kitkali­itto — Ella — click here to down­load (320kb). Deep house with some jazzy touches of trum­pet. Lov­ing the vocal sam­ple and over­all vibes here. Top notch.

Ella by Kitkali­itto

(Mix of the Week is our not-so-weekly sec­tion where we present good mix­tapes: either our own or found on the internets)

Timmo — Finnish UG Deep Vol. 1 [Platinum.ac Deep Techno] (320k, 113MB, 49:42 min)

Here’s the story — finnish inter­netz forum Plat­inum used to be pretty much num­ber one for some elec­tronic music back in the days. Don’t know about now­days. So, this Timmo guy of a dj decided to make a mix out of “deeper techno” demo tunes he had col­lected from Plat­inum forum dur­ing the years 2000–2003. So here you go, all finnish music.

Oh and never mind the last mix between tunes by Akrid and Har­ri­son Fnord, Ser­ato going men­tal prob­a­bly because of dust on the needle.

TRACKLIST
1. CRC — Durch­sichtig
2. CRC — Sig­nal
3. DJP — Pelto
4. Kalle M — Sprout
5. Kalle M — Paskasaav­ista
6. Kolmio­Draama — Talvi­Uni
7. Juha Vilkamo — You
8. Akrid — Con­nec­tions
9. Har­ri­son Fnord — John­stons Organ

Bianca Morales & Fast For­ward — Get Up And Dance (320k)

Could it be, Fin­land + 1984 + electro-funk with a freestyle feel (the female vocals)? Yes, yes, and yes. This sorta scene — if there ever even was one here in Fin­land — has hardly been doc­u­mented which makes it bit hard to come by with these kinda records with­out some luck. Or exten­sive Inter­netz search. Or by using your social net­work­ing skills.

Any­ways, the basic idea here was to stick a live band and a singer into stu­dio with syn­the­siz­ers and drum machines (besides more “tra­di­tional” instru­ments) to cre­ate a Finnish take on music that some pre­fer to call electro-funk. Traits of boo­gie, hi-nrg, disco, and freestyle are also all over the self-titled long play record where this cut is from.

With this song I dig the cho­rus where they have a mas­sive pub crowd/some-kinda-choir style singing which totally makes me wanna sing along while jump­ing up and down. Some sim­i­lar­i­ties to italo-style cho­ruses there.

Tutti Frutti: Rakas Rakas (320k) (10,43MB 4:30 min)

Tutti Frutti: Pal­jasta Pin­taa (320k) (7,86MB 3:26 min)

Some con­sider Tutti Frutti’s self-titled record being pure camp. Which it of course totally is (and was?) but it con­tains some nice tunes for KynyNasty-minded. Orig­i­nally I was to post only the some­what balearic cut “Rakas Rakas” but then I ended up enjoy­ing obses­sively the italo disco cut “Pal­jasta Pin­taa” for cou­ple of days since its lyrics totally sum up what this sum­mer has been: sun, sun, and more sun, lying on the beach half-naked, enjoy­ing cold bev­er­ages and music. And so on — all good.

So here’s the big ques­tion: Pal­jasta Pin­taa — a seri­ous con­tender for Kyny­Nasty sum­mer hit 2009? Last sum­mer it was Steel City which started to gain more or less fans in Rovaniemi dur­ing autumn 2008, but really didn’t nail it seri­ously until win­ter 2009. Damn hip­sters, always late.

What makes me really con­fused is this: http://paloalto.gmxhome.de/cin_cin_girls/cin_cin_girls.htm. Was the finnish “band” based on a tv series for­mat some­how, huh?