Kompleksi Live @ Nurja Joukko, Bar Bulldog, Tampere, 7 March 2009

Event: Kompleksi live @ Nurja Joukko
Venue: Bar Bulldog
Address: Teiskontie 8, Tampere
Date: Saturday 7 March 2009
Showtime: After 11.30 pm
Age limit: 18

Featuring Nurja Joukko DJs:
Disco Mutant
Semi Sailor
Simius Tossavainen

electro / disco / new wave / ebm

Free entry! Kompleksi's first gig in Tampere!

Kompleksi sai alkunsa duona vuonna 2002. Perustajajäsenet Mike Not (koskettimet, miksaaminen ja tuottaminen) ja pHinn (vokaalit ja koskettimet) ovat kumpikin tehneet aikaisemmin omilla tahoillaan työtä Tampereen ja Suomen tekno-, elektro- ja underground-skenessä, Mike Not oman Noise Production -sooloprojektinsa parissa ja DJ:nä, pHinn suomalaista konemusiikkia käsittelevän verkkosivusto pHinnWeb.org:in ylläpitäjänä ja musiikkikirjoittajana, DJ:nä ja yhtenä Tampereen Club Telex -elektrotapahtuman taustavoimana. Mike Not on toiminut äänittäjänä, tuottajana ja teknisenä taustatukena niin tekno-, hip hop- kuin goottirock-projekteissakin. Suurinta listamenestystä takavuosina saavutti Nuera Possen hip hop -artisti Petri Nygård, jonka äänityksiä Mike Not oli mukana luotsaamassa.

Kompleksin kolmas jäsen Everhad (läppäri, miksaus, vocoder/taustalaulu, koskettimet) liittyi mukaan vuonna 2008. Everhadilla on vankka tausta kitaristina punkbändeissä kuten Entropia ja AVK sekä omissa, maanalaista kulttimainetta saavuttaneissa, IDM:ää ja nyrjähtäneempääkin ilmaisua edustaneissa elektronisissa projekteissaan kuten Ever Had, Melkoinen ja Kings of Kaivinkone. Everhadin tuotantoa kuullaan Kompleksin tulevilla raidoilla.

Kompleksin ensimmäinen oma julkaisu oli 7" single '(I Ain't No) Lovechild'/'Moscow 1980' Lal Lal Lal -levymerkillä. Sen ohella Kompleksin raitoja on kuultu kokoelmalevyillä, joita ovat julkaisseet legendaarinen hollantilainen elektrolevymerkki Bunker Records sekä Manchesterin Mate Recordings, ja Kompleksin raitoja ovat ehtineet suitsuttaa maineikkaat kansainväliset elektroartistit kuten Legowelt ja Luke Eargoggle. Kompleksin ensimmäinen albumi Sister Longlegs Dances In The Disco julkaistiin 500 kappaleen rajoitettuna vinyylipainoksena lokakuussa 2008 helsinkiläisellä Verdura Recordsilla. Albumi - jolla tuottajakumppaneina ovat Polytron, Unidentified Sound Objects ja Citizen Omega - sai Soundin levyarvostelussa neljä tähteä viidestä.

Kompleksi kuvaa rosoista ja kotikutoista musiikkiaan nimellä "eklektro" eli eklektinen elektro, joka ottaa vaikutteita niin 70- ja 80-luvun taitteen synapop-artisteista kuin uudemmasta elektrosta, teknosta, diskosta ja kokeellisemmasta ilmaisusta, unohtamatta psykedelia-, punk-, uusi aalto- ja dub-vaikutteitakaan: tuloksena taatusti outoa, mutta rullaavaa konesoundia.

YouTubessa voi käydä katsomassa aikaisempien keikkataltiointien ohella Kompleksin ensimmäisen musiikkivideon 'Sara Pain', jonka ohjasi vuonna 2007 australialainen Tina Ulevik. Mainitun biisin ohella kulttisuosikeiksi ovat muodostuneet synapop-henkinen 'Moscow 1980' ja tekijöiden kotikaupungille omistettu 'Porno Tampere', jotka molemmat on tehty yhteistyössä Rikos Recordsille levyttäneen Polytronin kanssa. 'Spiders In The Sky' edustaa glitch-henkistä mutanttidiskoa ja vaasalaisen Citizen Omegan kanssa tehty 'Bioluminescence' liippaa Detroit-elektron suuntaan. Uudemmista kappaleista 'Battlestar Erotica' yhdistelee 80-luvun alun homodiskosoundia jyrääviin EBM-henkisiin rytmeihin.

Kompleksin keikka Bar Bulldogissa on trion ensiesiintyminen omassa kotikaupungissaan kahden menestyksekkään Helsingin-konsertin jälkeen.

Nurja Joukko @ Bar Bulldog, Tampere, 2 August 2008

Vaihe ¼ (@ Klubi, Tampere, 16 January 2009)

MARry presents:
Vaihe ¼
@ Klubi, Tampere
Friday 16 January 2009
9 pm - 4 am
age limit 18
tickets 6 €

live:

Sami Koivikko (Spectral Sound, Shitkatapult)
RRKK (Katusea)

DJs:

SSSOOOIII
Sire (Step Ahead)
Nilk

Vaihe ¼ Tullikamarin Klubilla 16. tammikuuta
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Vaihe ¼ sukeltaa elektronisen dubin ja teknon syvyyksiin

Vaihe ¼ on perjantaina 16. tammikuuta järjestettävä elektronisen musiikin klubi, jonka live-esiintyjät Sami Koivikko ja RRKK kuljettavat illan soinnin minimaalisen teknon ja dub-vaikutteiden taajuuksiin.

Tapahtuman dj:t SSSOOOIII, Sire ja Nilk laajentavat kuvaa kukin taholleen. Dj SSSOOOIII on aiemmin muillakin nimillä tunnettu pitkän linjan suomalainen dj-taituri, joka on palannut vuosien jälkeen uudella soundillaan. Odotettavissa on ilmeisen monipuolinen setti, joka todella kannattaa todistaa paikan päällä.

Pitkä on ollut dj Sirenkin linja elektronisen musiikin parissa, mutta viime vuosina hän on tullut tutuksi varsinkin laadukkaan dubstepin ystäville. Dj Nilk puolestaan tarjoilee kahdella lautasella gourmet-aterian minimaaliteknoa.

Vaihe ¼ on nimensä mukaisesti osa useamman tapahtuman sarjaa. Klubin järjestää elektronista musiikkia ja kulttuuria edistävä yhdistys MARry, joka on ilahduttanut musiikinystäviä muun muassa kolme kertaa järjestämällään manSEDANse-festivaalilla.

Lisätiedot:

Alex Regan
alex.j.regan [at] gmail.com

VCS2600 & Mesak Live @ Music Got Me!

VCS2600 live @ Electro Databahn, 8 February 2007 [more]

Event: Music Got Me! - Vol. 2: Electro
Venue: Out of Juice, Hämeenkatu 23, Tampere
Date: Friday 14 November 2008
Time: 9 pm - 3 am
Age limit: 18
Entry: 0 €

Performers:

VCS2600 (live)
Mesak (Mr Velcro Fastener)

Resident DJs:

TP & Sipitron (oldskool electro set)

Facebook page for the event

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Mesak talks to Skweeelicious!

Oldschool Techno Rave, 13 June '08, Tampere

OLDSCHOOL TECHNO RAVE
DJs Bringing Back The Warehouse Vibe
"Tampere Early 90s"

Friday 13 June 2008
9pm - 4 am
@ Klubi (Tullikamarinaukio 1), Tampere
age limit 18
Tickets: 6 euros

DJs:

Mike Not (Noise Production / Kompleksi) plays acid/new beat
3.14Sami (Big Pop / Hang The DJ!) plays techno/house
Sane (M.A. Numminen & DJ Sane) plays jungle/hardcore

+ strobe lights & smoke machines + a virtual flyer exhibition

This event at Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13575403820&ref=nf

Also @ Facebook:
Tampere Underground 1993-1996 Group

MANASYt (Italy) to Finland

MANASYt interview by Simulacron

Italian electro act MANASYt will hit Finland soon...

Finnish dates:

11 April 2008 - SUPERGUT @ HTC, OULU

http://www.supergut.fi
http://www.myspace.com/supergut

12 April 2008 - HORNY PARADISE @ PLACE X, TURKU

http://www.x-rust.org
http://www.myspace.com/xrust

MANASYt @ Discogs

More MANASYt search results @ YouTube

Life Moving Too Fast For pHinnWeb (At Least, For Now)

My life seems to be in transition now, so I just don't have as much time and energy for pHinnWeb or the "scene" as I used to have. (Don't ask, a lot of it is not a bunch of fun and relates to things post my father's death, but I also started at a new job now.) Anyway, I still try to do some updates when I can. For example, Sakke Karipuro announces that his pics from MARry (the people who brought you manSEDANse) Festival are now online at:

http://sakarik.1g.fi/kuvat/Events/2008/marry_festival_night-2008-03-07/

Energy Flash by Simon Reynolds: Extended Mix 2008

Joey Beltram: 'Energy Flash' (1990)

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to give you this commercial announcement...

Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds is rereleased next month in expanded and updated form.

With six extra chapters and 40 thousand new words, the remixed Energy Flash--a.k.a. Generation Ecstasy--takes in developments in dance music in the decade since its original 1998 publication: the trance resurgence, 2step garage, the nu-Eighties electro sound, microhouse, grime, breakcore, dubstep...

Further information: http://energyflashinfohype.blogspot.com/

UK press enquiries and review copies: Dusty Miller, Picador/Macmillan
d.miller@macmillan.co.uk

From We Sing For The Future Launch @ The Foundry, London, UK

From Walter & Sabrina's We Sing For The Future launch event @ The Foundry, London, 27 October 2007 where Kompleksi's 'Sara Pain' video by Tina Ulevik was also shown. I couldn't make it to the event myself, but Walter Cardew told it went very well.

More images from the event and info @ Danny Dark Records

Kompleksi Video @ The Foundry, London

Kompleksi's 'Sara Pain' video, directed by Tina Ulevik/Spul Films (Australia) will be shown in London on Saturday 27 October 2007 at an event called Disco_r.dance (at The Foundry club), celebrating the release of We Sing For The Future, a new album of Walter & Sabrina on UK's Danny Dark Records.

Walter Cardew of Walter & Sabrina and Danny Dark Records tells of the event: "We are going to have a showing of some of our films in a club in London called The Foundry on the 27th of October. It is part of a night called Disco_r.dance which is organised by a couple of guys who are very interested in all kinds of contemporary music. They will be dj-ing upstairs and in a fair size room downstairs we are going to show a couple of our films. There's normally a good crowd of people there; the club is right in the middle of the Old Street area which is very arty/groovy kind of place".

Saturday 27th October 2007: We Sing For The Future Launch event.

Downstairs at the Foundry in London as part of disco_r.dance. Danny Dark Records will present films by Sabrina (Walter & Sabrina) and Kompleksi/Spul Films. Also live music from Stefano Tedesco's SOLARIS and SKITANJA.
9-12pm; Admission Free.

The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JL, UK.

Disco_r.dance Links:

http://www.discordance.biz/

http://www.myspace.com/discordnce

http://www.connexionbizarre.net/interviews/m_discordance.htm

PS. The Wire magazine has some Walter & Sabrina artwork at: http://www.thewire.co.uk/web/picture.php. And one of their videos at: http://www.thewire.co.uk/web/camera.php.

"Arenas For Experimental Music In Finland"

"There are more events for experimental music in Finland than ever before. The majority of clubs are in Helsinki, but there is an active scene in other major cities too. Despite facing financial hardship, the organizers are contagiously enthusiastic."

"Arenas For Experimental Music In Finland", an interesting article by Juuso Paaso and Taneli Tuominen can be found at Finnish Music Quartely #3/2007:

http://www.fmq.fi/articles/ar_2007_3_jp_tt.html

The same issue also features "Experimental Music In Finland Enjoying A Renaissance?" by Tanja Uimonen, providing more info about the history of experimental sound and scene in this country, and an interview with Jukka Tiensuu, a Finnish avantgarde composer.

FinnScene: The Prehistory @ pHinnWeb

DJ Scotch Egg, Huoratron & Desert Planet @ Café Tivoli, Rovaniemi

DJ Scotch Egg @ Café Tivoli, Rovaniemi, Finland


DJ Scotch Egg, Huoratron & Desert Planet @ Café Tivoli, Rovaniemi

Via KynyNasty: two videos of M-klubi at Rovaniemi's Club Tivoli, 21 September '07, featuring DJ Scotch Egg (JAP/UK) and Finland's own Huoratron and Desert Planet. Lunatics on the loose (this apparently is what arctic hysteria does to a person)!

Op:l Bastards live @ NS.Klubi, Jyväskylä

NS.KLUBI
Saturday 29 September 2007
Op:l Bastards live, DJ Erkko + NS.DJs Rokko, Jiri & Israel
Upstairs: Orkestar Business Class + Hear DJs
@ Ilokivi, Keskussairaalantie 2, Jyväskylä
2200-0300 hours, age limit 18
tickets 7/8 euros, advance Levykauppa Äx

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SUOMIELEKTRON SUPERYHTYE OP:L BASTARDS JYVÄSKYLÄÄN 29.9.

Jyväskyläläisiä hemmotellaan la 29. syyskuuta kun juuri comebackinsä tehnyt Op:l Bastards -elektroyhtye saapuu keikalle NS.Klubille Ilokiveen.

1990-luvun puolivälissä perustetun Op:l Bastardsin ura kulminoitui The Job -albumin julkaisuun vuonna 2001. Elektroa ja diskoa autotallirockiin omintakeisella tavallaan yhdistelleen trion mainetta kasvattivat hurjat keikat klubeilla ja festareilla ulkomaita myöten. Nousukiito päättyi kuitenkin erimielisyyksiin levy-yhtiön kanssa ja unohtumattomaan jäähyväiskeikkaan vuoden 2002 Koneisto-festivaalin päälavalla.

Op:l-miehet eivät jääneet lepäämään laakereilleen, vaan panostivat muihin bändeihinsä, joiden lista on vakuuttava: And The Lefthanded, Uusi Fantasia, Motiivi:Tuntematon ja Kaukolampi, Puranen, Nykänen. Lisäksi yhteistyötä on tehty norjalaisten Annien ja Erlend Øyen kanssa.

Kesällä 2007 bändi teki näyttävän comeback-keikan Helsingin Juhlaviikkojen yhteydessä järjestetyllä Flow-festivaalilla. Samoihin aikoihin uudelleenjulkaistiin myös Op:l Bastardsin aikoinaan loppuunmyyty albumi neljällä bonusbiisillä varustettuna. Tällä kertaa bändin itsensä julkaisema levy nousi heti Suomen albumilistalle. Nyt bändin on tarkoitus tehdä vain tarkoin valikoituja keikkoja, tänä syksynä mm. Norjan Ekko-festivaalilla sekä NS.Klubilla Ilokivessä.

Op:l Bastardsin lisäksi NS.Klubilla kuullaan syyskuussa DJ Erkkoa sekä klubin omia DJ:tä. Yläkerran ohjelmasta vastaavat rovaniemeläisbändi Orkestar Business Class sekä Radio Hearin DJ:t.

7 euron hintaiset ennnakkoliput ovat myynnissä Levykauppa Äx:ssä.

manSEDANse 2007: 4-7 October '07, Tampere

manSEDANse 2007
A festival of electronic music & arts
Tampere, Finland
4-7 October 2007
@ Telakka & Klubi

manSEDANse @ MySpace

From press release:

"manSEDANse convenes electronic communities to Tampere

manSEDANse festival takes place in October with themes of electronic music, art and community-driven content.

The most interesting and intriguing movers and shakers in electronic music are convened to Tampere in the first week of October 2007 by manSEDANse festival. manSEDANse, flying high on full throttle for the second time now, will be presenting the cream of electronic music to brighten the dark Nordic nights with very exciting line-ups. The festival programme will also feature workshops, film screenings and a seminar.

manSEDANse's programme will certainly satisfy many patrons of electronic music and culture. At this point we will give you but a hint: The headliners on Saturday night all hail from Manchester."

About:

"manSEDANse is organised by MadAssRevir ry, a non-profit organization based in Tampere. The mission of MARry is to promote electronic music and culture in Finland.

The roots of manSEDANse festival date back to year 2000 when an underground rave by the name SEDAN 2000 was held at a Tamperean penthouse. After the enthusiastic welcome the underground penthouse turned into a popular club venue and SEDAN 2001 knocked the socks off Tampere clubbers with its cutting edge artists and GIGANTIC visual treats. Simply undescribable.

A series of recurring clubs, such as Comet, Slavic Walkmen, Underground Disco and the New Year Mash-up raves were organised at Klubi between 2002-2005.

The very first manSEDANse festival was organised in 2005. The festival teamed up the original SEDAN line-up with a merry bunch from around Europe: Subjex, Sickboy, Schizoide, Regina, Verde and Pylon among many others. It introduced Tampere to something that was lacking in the Finnish cultural climate: a full-fledged four-day festival of electronic music.

In 2006 MARry was raving to retro tunes with the ultimate glance to the past party, Shake That Acid! manSEDANse also provided the official festival dj's to the Tampere International Film Festival 2007. That was fun!

That's the history. manSEDANse 2007 will be the biggest, boldest and meanest festival in Finland ever. Simply undescribable. Yet again."

Information:
http://www.mansedanse.com/
info@mansedanse.com

Programme:

Thursday 4 October 2007

Location: Telakka | Time: 21-03
Night ticket: TBA

Kemialliset Ystävät live
Fonal (FIN)

Custom Drummer live
Bad Vugum (FIN)

DJs TBC

Friday 5 October 2007

Location: Klubi | Time: 21-04
Night ticket: TBA

Pangaea
Hessle Audio (UK)

Sami Koivikko live
Spectral Sound (FIN)

Toiminto live
Swaeg (FIN)

Dead-O
Clouds (FIN)

Sire
Step Ahead/MARry (FIN)

Matias Nilk
Bass & Beer (FIN)

Visuals by Hello World & Xtra
Location: Telakka | Time: 12-17
Day ticket: TBA

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Copyright vs Copyleft
Mikä on vapaan jakamisen moraali? A seminar focusing on issues of copyright and content sharing (in Finnish).

Saturday 6 October 2007

Location: Klubi | Time: 21-04
Night ticket: TBA

Mr 76ix live
Skam (UK)

Gescom DJ
Skam (UK)

Dcom
X-Rust (FIN)

Waisted Flanders live
Swaeg (FIN)

Sttb
Swaeg (FIN)

Visuals by Hello World & Xtra
Location: Klubi | Time: TBA (daytime)
Day ticket: TBA

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Audiohackers workshop
Modified instruments, modified software, modified sound. Artists have always hacked their tools to create unexpected results. In this workshop, various performers discuss and showcase their equipment hacks and custom-built instruments.

Sunday 7 October 2007

Location: Telakka | Time: 14-02
Day ticket: TBA

Lazy Sunday Video
(Global)

A stream of live music and visuals broadcasted from around the world. As well as receiving streamed performances we will be sending out our own stream.


All acts TBC.

Latino Retro with Odj TG @ Nolla, Helsinki

Ke 29.8. NOLLAssa
Odj TG soittaa Brasiliasta ja latinalaisesta Amerikasta kovalla vaivalla roudattuja lattarivinyylejä 60-70-luvuilta: bossanovaa, jazzia, salsaa... välillä vähän progempaa.

Wed 29 Aug @ NOLLA, Helsinki
Odj TG (Sähkö Recordings) plays 60s and 70s Latino vinyls brought with some considerable trouble directly from Brazil and South America: bossanova, jazz, salsa... occasionally also something a bit more prog.

http://www.lifesaver.net/keskustelut/read.php?f=7&i=19493&t=19493

tai jos et pääse niin kuuntele tosta:
or if you can't make it, then listen here:
http://www.sahkorecordings.com/mix_tg_brazil_pt1.php

BISTRO NOLLA
Fredrikinkatu 56
Helsinki
¡0 € como siempre!

http://www.sahkorecordings.com

http://www.gronlund-nisunen.com

Swaeg 3 Years, 26 May 2007

Swaeg presents:

Swaeg 3 Years
Saturday 26 May 2007
@ Klubi, Tampere
tickets 5 €

with:

V.C. live
Waisted Flanders live
Kurvin Grilli live
Videovalvontaa live
Toiminto live
Swg DJs

Bass & Beer Party, Friday 30 March 2007, Tampere

Bass & Beer Party
Friday 30 March 2007
@ Club Apple, Aleksanterinkatu 29 (upstairs of Café Europa), Tampere
free entry

Dubsteppers, minimal dub, dub, even more dub

DJs:
Mesa-Vatti & Miska Immanuel (Vaasa)
Jere P
Nilk (Bass & Beer)

Bass & Beer Party has been one of the few remaining torch-bearers of electro in Tampere, including in their nights also other styles of electronic dance music, such as drum'n'bass, dubstep and hip hop.

From the introduction on Bass & Beer Party MySpace site:

"Bass & Beer got started when Squash and Bob Ryynänen wanted to organize club where people could see proper lives supported by great DJs. Jere P soon came along as well. After about one year of some parties with various names, 11 September 2004 saw the first official Bass & Beer Party in Telakka, Tampere. Since then, there has been many memorable nights with lives like Huoratron, Dos Noun, Polytron and Blamstrain and some bad ass DJ action by Rikos Records collective, Resound, Sire and Kongocrew among others. When it comes to the residents, Jere P has mainly been playing the lousy slots, driving cars and arranging some women for the afterparties, as Squash and Bob have been doing the organizing and playing the better slots. It must be said that when the afterparties have occurred, it has been Jere to take care of the gals. In the winter of 2006 Bass & Beer did a little tour in Finland, co-operating for example with Ikahu posse from Lahti. 2006 also witnessed birth of Tammerforce club, the fruit of B&B's co-project with legendary Telex.

Always struggling but still there, Bass & Beer for your entertainment."

Swaeg: Sounds From Tampere Underground

Swaeg is an audiovisual collective working on non-profit basis and organising clubs here in Tampere, and at their parties you can hear some of most twisted brands of underground electronic dance music from IDM/electronic listening music to break-noise-death-whatever-core (à la the notorious British freak label V/VM) to dubstep; the Swaeggers themselves describing their sound as "idm - waltz - breakcore - medley - mash up - mortar rave - worst case scenario - neurodrunk".

Mostly headed by Joonas Toivonen (b. 1981), who also creates his own hilariously demented music under the moniker Toiminto ("Function"), Swaeg has organised over 40 parties (where yours truly has also DJed a couple of times) and a few festivals (among all Australia's Casionova and Lappland's old-school computer game sound monsters Desert Planet have been heard in these) since June 2004; also promoting visual art in the form of flyers, posters and videos -- summer 2006 saw an exhibition of Swaeg art at Tampere's Huoltamo mini-gallery.

Alongside these activities, the Swaeg posse is responsible for some Net-only music releases, including SWG001 (an MP3 compilation of Finnish electronic music, featuring such artists as Blamstrain, Roger That Jr, Oreia, Videovalvontaa, Toiminto, etc.), Demonic 1's "Die!" EP (dubstep from Tampere, SWG002), Waisted Flanders' "Lost" EP ("bass-boosted lo-fi whatstep", SWG003), and "Esoteris" EP by P2 ("psy-idm-arcade-jazz-darkambient-breakcore", SWG004). Joonas Toivonen has also promised his own dubstepish longplay should be out under Swaeg soon.

See, hear, download:

Swaeg: official site
Swaeg @ MySpace
Toiminto @ MySpace

Electronic Music Films

I was recently asked if I knew any documentary films that would shed more light on the history and beginnings of electronic music. I did some searches, and subsequently found out that most of those documentaries in existence (well, at least those listed at Internet) concentrate mostly on the latest developments in electronic music, or to be more precise, electronic dance music and rave culture.

The early history of electronic music (before 1960s, an area mostly populated by academic/avantgarde composers and inventors of electronic instruments) seems to be only sporadically (or as footnotes) featured in most existing documentaries, bar perhaps Steven M. Martin's 1994 feature on León Theremin or even Mika Taanila's 2002 Future Is Not What It Used To Be on Finnish electronic instrument inventor Erkki Kurenniemi; not forgetting the films dedicated to Robert Moog or Bruce Haack. If you know of any other related documentary films, please let me know.

Music Arcade: BBC Radiophonic Workshop (UK, early 80s?)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Discovering Electronic Music (USA, 1983)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

The Electric Music Machine, Five Days at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (UK, 1988)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Bring The Beat Back (Finland, 1992)
Credits
Director Hannu Puttonen info

Rave New World (UK, 1994)

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (USA, 1994)
related clips @ YouTube

Universal Techno (France, 1996)

Modulations (USA, 1998)
IMDB entry
trailer @ YouTube

Hang The DJ (Canada, 1998)

Sonic Visions: From Stockhausen to Squarepusher (USA/Netherlands, 1998)

Better Living Through Circuitry (Australia, 1999)
clips @ YouTube

Synergy: Visions of Vibe (UK/Japan/Germany, 1999)
clips @ YouTube

Bass Frequency (USA, 2001)

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be (Finland, 2002)
info @ pHinnWeb

Electro Dziska: Miami 2001-2002
a clip @ YouTube

Radiophonic Workshop -Alchemists of Sound (UK, 2003)
clips @ YouTube
BBC Radiophonic Workshop @ Wikipedia

Bruce Haack: King of Techno (USA, 2004)
clips @ YouTube

Moog (USA, 2004)
IMDB entry
info @ Wikipedia
(see also: Bob Moog clips @ YouTube)

Liquid Vinyl (USA, 2006)
trailer @ YouTube
a clip @ YouTube

Darkbeat, An Electro World Voyage (USA, 2006)
trailer @ YouTube

Feiern (Germany, 2006)
trailer @ YouTube

High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music (USA, 2006)
trailer @ YouTube
another trailer @ YouTube

Put the Needle on the Record (USA, 2006)
a clip @ YouTube

Rough Electro (Romania, 2006)
trailer @ YouTube
another clip @ YouTube

The Sound of Dubstep (UK, 2006)
a clip @ YouTube

What The Future Sounded Like (Australia, 2007)

More related titles @ IMDB:
http://imdb.com/keyword/electronic-music/

All electronic music documentary search results @ YouTube

History of electronic music links @ pHinnWeb

And a silly old text of mine

Dubstep in Tampere

Tammerforce/Bass and Beer Party club's Dubstep special last night at Yo-Talo presented Tes La Rok (a.k.a. Jani Niiranen from Helsinki) featuring MC Rogue Star from London. I checked this with some interest because I couldn't claim to have much idea what this dubstep thing -- supposedly the latest craze in UK's electronic dance music -- was all about.

Well, it turned out to be pretty intriguing: very growling and slow bone-shaking sub-bass sounds accompanied with abstract electronic excursions circling from one speaker to another. In fact, one could say it sounded much like a jungle 45 rpm vinyl record played at death-slow 33 rpm instead. So the tempo was that of dub reggae but the aggressive heaviness -- in fact, downright scary at times -- was clearly from those darker styles of drum'n'bass.

This sound made me somehow think of my old favourites Meat Beat Manifesto, Techno Animal (Kevin "The Bug" Martin's project with Justin Broadrick of Godflesh) or even one my all-time fave tracks, LFO's 'Tied-Up' (albeit as a slowed-down version). So I have to say I quite liked the dubstep sound: nice, dark and hard. (Heh, a comparison for the more rock-oriented people might be of grunge's slower Black Sabbath-like sounds to that of speed metal.)

The only problem with the performance for me was that maybe the BPM/tempo there remained a bit too same-y all through the set; for my own tastes accelerating the tempo and adding more rhythmical variation every once in a while might have probably made it more interesting, but perhaps this would have also lost the idea of what this style is all about. And perhaps it might have been interesting to hear it all as purely instrumental without the Cockney chants from this Brit MC who did his best, though, to lift the audience's emotions and even trying to make them raise their cigarette lighters for Tes La Rok (as they do at UK parties to show appreciation for the DJ; it seems Finnish audiences have not adopted this habit, at least not yet). After the set, Bass and Beer head honcho Bob Ryynänen played some cool electro, the way we haven't heard in ages in this Northern Mecca of milk-white junglists, Morrissey-worshippers and forest folkers; even causing one ol' pHinn to do some rare body movements on dancefloor; a considerable feat in itself these days.

Sakke Karipuro's photos from the event

More on dubstep:


Dubstep - MTV Base "About To Blow"


Dubstep documentary of BBC Collective

Shake That Acid Images

Here you can see some images from Shake That Acid party (Saturday 10 October 2006, Klubi, Tampere), by Sakke Karipuro.