Electrified
Indie is the new mainstream, and electro is the new dance. In the early 2000s masses of artists fled to Barcelona. Now Berlin has become the unofficial second home of Finnish musicians.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Johannes Ekholm
Indie is the new mainstream, and electro is the new dance. In the early 2000s masses of artists fled to Barcelona. Now Berlin has become the unofficial second home of Finnish musicians.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Johannes Ekholm
The main reference of hypnotic music of K-X-P is krautrock from 40 years back, but they do throw in a few afrobeat rhythms, ominously cinematic keyboard sound walls, hippy Middle Eastern melodies and some dancey pulse.
Text Teemu Fiilin
This ominous and unapologetic 30-minute blast of static old groove doesn’t even contain actual songs – nor give the listener a chance to catch their breath.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Manna’s second album surprises with its new, edgier sound and psychedelic soundscapes.
Text Teemu Fiilin

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