I was last Saturday in Jyväskylä (about 100 km north-east from Tampere where I
live) at the Sähköisku - The Electric Phenomena party with Acid Junkies, DJ
Ferenc and Marko Laine performing. Ferenc (aka Interr-Ference aka i-f) was
magnificent!!! He was this balding big guy who I wouldn't like to meet in a
dark alley, but the stuff he was spinning was exactly to my neo-electro
tastes, eg. Kraftwerk's 'Tour De France' mixed to UR's 'Electronic Warfare'
and some more obscure but great vintage electro, with some of his own
(magnificent) i-f stuff and some scary minimal acid too, a la Unit Moebius and
Beverly Hills 808303, towards the end of his set. I was dancing my ass off
when a bunch of people wearing the same kind of black Beverly Hills 808303
T-shirts as me asked me to join them when they were grooving at the front of
the stage where Ferenc was spinning. This kind of "we are not worthy" gig
thing is usually a bit of too silly to my refined (hur hur) tastes but I
thought: "why the hell not?" and joined them. Ferenc must have been amazed
watching us ugly mad Finnish fanboys jumping there just in front of him
wearing their identical shirts, but I thought it was fun.
Finland's own Marko Laine was excellent as usual too; he kicked off his
set with a kitschy version of Bond Theme, 'From Singapore With Love' from
the mysterious Bootsound America album, and his gig then varied from minimal
to scratchy Sähkö-like sounds to pure hardcore, real mutant sound - the guy
keeps getting better all the time. Well, I must say the Acid Junkies were OK
too, but they had a little bit too much populist "raise your hands" stomping
stuff in their performance to my tastes (acid breakbeat?), though even then
they were million times better than someone like Hardfloor can ever be ;)
The best party of the year (well, remember this is Finland ;), hands down.
transmission from the pHinnWeb Bunker over,
ekku aka nemo
the maintainer of pHinnWeb - the old skool, the nu skool and the pHuture skool
of Finnish electronic music
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