Haastattelu: Mr Velcro Fastener (sorry, Finnish only)

http://www.phinnweb.org/5HT/interviews/mrvelcrofastener/

9. maaliskuuta 2006 - Mr Velcro Fastener eli Tatu Metsätähti (alias Mesak) ja Tatu Peltonen (alias Ted Field) Turusta on saavuttanut nimeä maailman elektropiireissä pian jo vuosikymmenen ajan. Duolla on takanaan lukemattomien maksien, remixien ja kokoelmaesiintymisten lisäksi kolme pitkäsoittoa; viimeisin, nimeltään Telemacho ilmestyi helmikuussa 2006 Velcrojen omalla Stars-Music -levymerkillä. Turun Tatut ovat tosiaankin kiertäneet muutakin kuin tahkoa: Velcro-herrojen live-keikkoja on nähty ja kuultu ympäri maailman. Oli siis korkea aika pHinnWebin laittaa pojat tenttiin, vaikka se kaikkein hölmöin kysymys unohtuikin tällä kertaa...

Haastattelu: Pauli Jylhänkangas (sorry, Finnish only)

http://www.phinnweb.org/5HT/interviews/jylhankangas/suomi.html

8. maaliskuuta 2006 - Pauli Jylhänkangas tunnetaan parhaiten diskohenkistä elektroa tuottavasta Putsch '79 -duosta yhdessä Sami Liuskin kanssa. pHinnWeb haastatteli Samia jo vuonna 2003. Samana vuonna Pauli julkaisi omalla nimellään hollantilaiselle Klakson-levymerkille 12-tuumaisen nimeltä 'Clutz'. Olen törmännyt Pauliin kerran jos toisenkin erinäisissä elektronisen musiikin tapahtumissa Tampereella, joten uskaltauduin kysymään, josko miehestä olisi jo aika tehdä aivan oma haastattelu pHinnWebiin. Pauli suostui, ja lopputulos on tässä. [Paulin valokuva: Sakke Karipuro]

Miss Le Bomb Talks To pHinnWeb

Read the interview here.

Catriona Shaw, a.k.a. Miss Le Bomb ("for all that's wrong"), is a mistress of many disguises. Originally hailing from Scotland, she's not only a talented visual artist, but also sings with the band Queen of Japan (who recently made waves with their cover version of 'I Was Made For Loving You' by Kiss). She has collaborated with such people as Electronicat, Hans Platzgumer, Gerhard Potuznik, Isabel Reiss, Kamerakino, current indie-pop favourites Franz Ferdinand, Bulent Kulkucu, and others. Now she also does her own solo material: her first underground electro pop release on Berlin's Careless Records is out early 2006.

This winter Miss Le Bomb has spent under artist residency in the small town of Rauma, Finland, where she has been working on a project called Freeze Frames, and it was this Finland connection that initially got her in contact with pHinnWeb.

Boys of Scandinavia Interview...

... can be found here.

Alongside Adult.'s Gimmie Trouble, Kill The Party, the debut by Boys of Scandinavia was my favourite album of 2005, released as a collaboration between Manchester's Mate Recordings and Helsinki's If Society. Bleak and lovely: dark new-wavish guitar noir disco about and for no-hopers, underachievers, pessimists, hopeless romantics, losers and people who will never score. Some names to possibly draw comparisons from: Joy Division/New Order, The Smiths, Interpol, DFA, LCD Soundsystem...

The Boys of Scandinavia track 'Worse Than A Girl' was hailed by the critics as the best thing on the 2004 compilation Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) (Mate Recordings). The new BoS single 'Why Do You Love Me?' is a story about a modern "Man Without Qualities", à la Robert Musil.

pHinnWeb talked via e-mail to the Boys of Scandinavia members, Teemu Metsälä (familiar also from Roger, which pHinnWeb interviewed in July 2003), Juhana Lahtinen and the vocalist Tuomo Kuusi.

Lolly Pop/Telephone! interview @ pHinnWeb

http://www.phinnweb.org/5HT/interviews/lollypoptelephone/:

"July 23, 2005 -- Hailing from Minnesota's St. Paul (together with Minneapolis one half of the Twin Cities), comes electro chanteuse and Telephone! front girl Lolly Pop. With a smash dance track ('Elevator Operator') on the recent Twin Cities Electropunk Vol. 2 compilation, and a solo album (Glamorous Life) in the works, life has never been sweeter. Collaborating with UK producer Ricardo Autobahn, Pop has just finished covering Prince's (the Twin Cities' best known son) 'Controversy', from his 1981 album of the same name (you can hear the Pop + Autobahn as an MP3 here.) Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to take a bubblebath with Miss Lolly Pop!"