Heroin and your Veins - Nausea (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Atmospheric, Dark Ambient, Post-rock, Finland
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Tracklist :

Part 1 - Midnight Music
01. Intoxication
02. The Trigger
03. The Lady

Part 2 - Death Sits Down
04. Murder Theme

Part 3 - Hangover & Rain
05. Fumes
06. Two Black Dogs
07. The Trainyard
08. A Hallucination

Part 4 - Red Pavement
09. The Chase
10. The Gutter

Instrumental, pitch-black and bittersweet 'film noir' music. A soundtrack for a movie that has never been made. This is the band's second album and a strong follower to the debut Dead People's Trails that came out in 2007 on Solina Records. Melancholic and lovely music for a very rainy day. The second album “Nausea” was released in April 2009 by Verdura Records.

Heroin and Your Veins is one Janne Perttula from Tampere, Finland. The music is influenced by many different genres, artforms and artists, from jazz and rock ‘n’ roll to film noir, David Lynch and Franz Kafka.

Hannu - Hintergarten (2009)

Genre : Electronica, Ambient, Folk, Minimal, Experimental, Finland
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01.Pop
02.Lauttasaari
03.Theme for Grant
04.Valtameri
05.Kimallus
06.Maniac Moshers
07.Kaipaus
08.Tassunjlki
09.Hintergarten
10.Unenviej
11.Valssi

Another unmissable album of crackly, homespun electronica from Helsinkis Hannu, once again released via the Kesh imprint. Hintergarten twinkles into life with the sound of worn-out, lo-fi glockenspiel recordings rubbing up against strings and muffled bass samples. In fact, opening track Pop serves as an excellent refresher course in what makes Hannus music so distinctive and alluring: the sweetest of melodies seem to collide in a manner that isnt quite fully in tune or in time, sounding all the more lovable for their rundown, loose-fitting weariness. The albums sound palette is garnished with overspills of vinyl noise, cassette hiss and the various other side-effects of using battered old recordings for source material. On Theme For Grant you might hear some parallels with something like Four Tets She Moves She, carving mismatching string instruments into sparkling spliced together riffs set against a backdrop of shuffling beats - Hannus music does sound as if it was made a good century or so before Kieren Hebden was even born though. For all the other records it might bring to mind (the music of Colleen and certain members of the Fonal camp offering particularly strong parallels) Hintergarten is unique for the continuous state of winter it plunges the listener into from the album artwork to the frosted charms of tracks like Kimallus and Unenvieja, Hannu evokes a veritable musical Narnia. Anyone for Turkish Delight?

The Gentleman Losers - Dustland (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Electronica, Ambient, Experimental, Finland
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1. Honey Bunch
2. Silver Water Ripples
3. The Echoing Green
4. Ballad Of Sparrow Young
5. Bonetown Boys
6. Oblivions Tide
7. Lullaby Of Dustland
8. Midnight Of The Garden Trees
9. Farandole
10. Spider Lily
11. Wind In Black Trees
12. Pebble Beach

A Finnish electronic duo, Samu Kuukka & Ville Kuukka, The Gentleman Losers seem to branch out of the dead-end post-Morr kitchensinktronica from where they spung, by adding layers of haze to their instrumentals, though underneath all the painstakingly placed decay and static, the songs arent terribly interesting. This is very similar in feel and sound to the Helios album Eingya, but with a more dogged and creaky post Morricone-cinematic-noir quality. Beautifully plucked acoustic guitars dance along with faded tape loops, dusty keyboards,
and trudging drum machines, creating incredibly evocative images of lonely country roads, and wind-ridden tundra. Notthe most appealing idea, but theres a warm and wintery feeling here thats just right!

Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio (2009)

Genre : Psychedelic, Electronica, Experimental, Intrumental, Finland
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1. Vinonaamakasio
2. Mulberg
3. Riddarholmen
4. Fuzzabeth Crackleby
5. Holvikirkko
6. Corda
7. Svileto
8. Ratalintu
9. Nebulus

"With their second album Shogun Kunitoki expand the boundaries of their self-created sonic universe with a wider array of sounds and rhythms. Where their debut, Tasankokaiku, squeezed cosmic dust into fiery balls of molten lava with gravitational push and pull and followed the planets whirring through the void on looping trajectories, Vinonaamakasio zooms in to explore the surface of newfound heavenly bodies, outlines the jagged shapes of exploding volcanoes, rolls with the moonlit waves through the cracks of sleeping, phosphorescent coral reefs, and marches in step with the six-legged insect armies making their trails through the steaming jungle. Every atom of this newborn planet of sound vibrates synchronous to the seething psychedelic stew that throbs under the surface and burns your feet if you let them stop moving.

For those looking for the ultimate psychedelic experience, the Picture LP edition features two animation loops that can be viewed using the Magical Shogun Kunitoki Strobe Light. Please note you need both the Picture vinyl and the strobe light to see the animations.

A true fan will buy the Shogun Kunitoki Strobe Light Kit (FR-62SLK) and build it him/herself. In this video you can see step by step instructions on how to solder the kit together. In addition to the kit you need a 9V battery which is not included in the package.

Available directly from Shogun Kunitoki website and the Fonal Records shop upon the release date 11.3.2009."