Kek About Erikoismies and Erebus & Terror

Kek of Kid Shirt (UK) on Finnish artists Erebus & Terror and Erikoismies:

http://kidshirt.blogspot.com/2008/05/floppy-disk-culture-2-erebus-terror.html

Kompleksi interview @ FACT (UK)

FACT magazine (UK) publishes a brand new Kompleksi interview by Kek (of Kid Shirt blog fame):

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=432&Itemid=52

Kid Shirt On Kompleksi's Video

Kid Shirt, a UK music blog for all things underground, which did an interesting review of Kompleksi's 7", now namechecks our video at http://kidshirt.blogspot.com/2007/03/kompleksi-sara-pain.html:

"... check out their strangely melancholic travelogue-themed vid for 'Sara Pain'"

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"The footage and edits remind me of the sort of homemade promos that Cabaret Voltaire used to put out on Doublevision many moons back. Trust me, the track's a real grower."


Original Kompleksi photo by Tina Ulevik; image manipulation by pHinn.

And more Kompleksi-related stuff found from the Net:

Electronic music producer Scary of Malmö, Sweden comments Kompleksi on his blog.

http://scarypages.blogspot.com/2007/02/kompleksi-finsk-underhllande.html: "... De har hållit på sedan 2002 och gör en nästan organisk elektronika. Jag gillar deras lätt skeva och svårplacerade stil mycket och hoppas verkligen att de kan få släppa det album som de gjort men inte fått ge ut än. [...] Min favorit just nu är Kompleksi vs Citizen Omega-låten 'Ghost at Noon'; het som en utbränd lägenhet."

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Webzine Noise.fi has recently featured some Kompleksi tracks on their Net radio shows.

Musaiikki, 31 January 2007:

Kompleksi (with Polytron) - 'Moscow 1980'

Demolition Derby, 5 March 2007:

Kompleksi - 'SWT NG FCK THNG'

Värinää, 14 March 2007:

Kompleksi - 'Gothic Robots'

Musaiikki, 28 March 2007:

Kompleksi - 'Love Missile F1-11'

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Musasalama show on Radio Helsinki has had Kompleksi even before on its playlists:

Musasalama 14 December 2006:

KOMPLEKSI WITH SONIC TEMPLE ASSASSINS - 'Slick Little Girl'

Musasalama 10 January 2007:

KOMPLEKSI VS. POLYTRON - 'Moscow 1980' (Javelin Remix)

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John Cavanagh of Glasgow, Scotland is a musician-radio show DJ-writer (among all, an author of a book on the early days of Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd and their debut Piper at the Gates of Dawn; also pHinn's personal all-time favourite album).

John Cavanagh's Soundwave @ Radio Six International

Soundwave number 107 - 28th-29th January 2007:

Kompleksi - 'Love Missile F1-11'

Soundwave number 113 - 11th - 12th March 2007:

Kompleksi remix of 'Kirkko Rakkaani' by M.A. Numminen & DJ Sane

Related:

Official Phosphene Homepage

Phosphene Soundwave @ MySpace

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But what is this (and the same in Japanese)...?

A Funny Kompleksi Review

Googling, I just came across a funny review of Kompleksi's 7" at a British blog called Kid Shirt, which I think somehow manages to capture our essence, and I really like the comparisons to (the early) Human League and Devo. I took a liberty to reprint it here (hope you don't mind, k-wex):

Friday, November 03, 2006
KOMPLEKSI: (I AIN'T NO) LOVE CHILD

"'What the Hell are you staring at?' sneers a voice at the start of '(I Ain't No) Lovechild' by Kompleksi, wh/ pretty much sets the tone for the rest of this song: a cynical, whiney, complain-y voice (that sounds like Devo after they finally lost their virginity) over crumpled H. League/Robert Rental tape-drums and synthmooosh-bass and splatchy percussives. There's a jagged, art-punk feel to this: it's charity-shop, not cat-walk... I love the way they've hoovered all the glam out of synthpop and drawn a felt-tip sneer and a Mona Lisa moustache on its face.

It's a Tampere Porno Product, innit.

The flip-side 'Moscow Nineteen Eighty' sounds like it ought to sound like Telex, but opts instead for some sort of parallel universe rewrite of US foreign policy, aided by vocoders, clipped synthetik beats and Daniel Miller's dusty old Korg. It has a strange, twisted, shimmery beauty as it cruises the red-light district of Helsinki with a limp... imagine if Swell Maps had mugged Depeche Mode for their clothes and ended up on TOTP. Yeeeah!

What? Ever? Happened? To? Your? Dreams?" asks the vocalist, on the outro. For a moment, he sounds close to tears. Or drunk."

"[...] yeah, I think you might like this, as it has a feel that directly links back to the Sheffield pioneers, tho' it's wonderfully shamble-y too...there's sposed to be an album floating round somewhere too; maybe we should form a label and put it out for them!"

Then, there's at a French blog called Fluokids a mention of Javelin's remix of 'Moscow 1980':

Sunday, February 25, 2007
Javelin vs. Polytron vs. Kompleksi - 1980 Moscow

I need you to believe. Cette déjà vieille rengaine, botte secrète des raves en chambre pour les années qui viennent de partir, n'a jamais été aussi vraie, et le regard que tu m'adresses pétille de je suis contente d'être là, tu le tiens appuyé comme j'appuierais une touche blanche jusqu'à la crampe, sans gêne, tu te colores tout juste de plaisir à le maintenir là, sans défi ni agressivité, jusqu'à ce que l'accord cède sous le beatmasher, dissone et décède.

And I also found out today that Kompleksi's 'Sara Pain' has entered the British independent chart list Ausfahrt20 at #20!