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Luomuhappo "Pog-O-Matic Pogòmen 3000000"
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Freakdance Records in Finland is back with more vodka trance to fill up our speakers. This time we get an album by one of the founders of Freakdance Records, Jere Häkkinen aka Luomuhappo. The cover art is quite funny and unusual as always from Freakdance. The drawing inside is pretty cool too. The track titles are mostly in Finnish language.
Luomuhappo “Pog-O-Matic Pogòmen 3000000” Freakdance Records 2004 (FDCD05)
1. Greatest Of Blessings
2. Vonka
3. Sossumassi Jam
4. Dixie Bitch
5. Luuloterve
6. Linnahomo (Feat. Huopsis
7. Nainen
8. Ghetto-Zen Dub
9. Rauhaa Veljet
10. Haapaneitty
11. Line Out
The first track starts with some guitar playing. A pumping beat sneaks in and we get some very weird melodies. As different as only the Finnish can do it. Reminds me a bit of Haltya, with the happy vibes, but this one sounds a bit more “homemade”. Track 2 goes more psychedelic. A pretty intense psytrance track, we quite a lot of weird ingredients. This sounds more like old school goa trance than modern full on. Track 3 starts with some experimental, jazzy vibes. This continues through the track, but mixes with totally weird melodies and experimental beats. Very funny music in my ears, but it might become too weird for most people. Track 4 goes back to a pumping trance vibe again. Almost nagging, weird sounds and melodies that jumps like mad in there. Typical Finnish vodka trance with tons of variation. Track 5 has a more drifting vibe, but keeps holding on to the weird sound picture, or Finnish Schizo-Disco as some like to call it…
Track 6 is a really funny track with a lot of laughter. Pretty stumping track that will for sure result in laughing fun at the dance floor. Psychedelic for sure! One of the weirdest tracks I have heard this year and definitely one of my favourites on this album. Track 7 is a kind of break beat track, with a sound that reminds me a bit of music from the seventies. We get some guitar and very playful melodies. Definitely hard to describe. Weird, but nice. Track 8 is a chilled, dubby track. Dubby beats and tons of synth melodies. Track 9 continues the chilled vibes with a kind of melodic drum’n’bass track. Beautiful melodies and flute like sounds. One of my favourite tracks on this album. Track 10 is a down tempo track with a melody that I have a feeling that I have heard before, but can’t remember where. The last track we get here has some flamenco vibes, with guitar etc. A chilled track, with a quite happy vibe. It also reminds me a bit of some of the chilled tracks made by the psychedelic rock group, Gong.
I think my head needs some weird Finnish music now and then, and this did good! Several of these tracks sound sort of homemade, but this guy sure has a lot of creativity. So if you are into weird forest trance from Finland, like to hang out in a sauna drinking vodka or just needs something different, check this out.
PK (shivapks@hotmail.com)
