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Luomuhappo "Pog-O-Matic Pogòmen 3000000"
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Review by PKS
Freakdance Records is back with more psychedelics from Finland...
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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)
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Max Laine
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15.11.2004 22:34
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Also remember to check out the retro-psychedelic music video of the track "Nainen" from this album!!!
(mirror 1)
(mirror 2)
(Windows Media Video, approx. 30MB file size)
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Death Posture
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17.11.2004 19:02
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Populäärimusiikkia!
Luomuhappo is 23 year old Jere Häkkinen from Funland and this is his second album on Freakdance Records, which he’s also a founding member of… This is the label’s 5th release following the mega-weird album by Puoskari called The Audio Hustler…
Luomuhappo roughly translates into ‘organic acid’ and I’m guessing Jere had more than a single zip of grandpa Häkkinen’s cough-medicin when he sat down and composed this… But, before we dig deeper into the music, let me just take a second to talk about the cover art, which is among the coolest I’ve seen in a long time… Designed by Jere himself, this is quite the eye catcher with its rustic appearance, simplistic style and naïve old-school cartoon-approach – I like it!
Let me take you thru the tracks…
#01: “Perhaps you got the taste of madness?” Things kick of in a relaxed pace, but soon it gets faster and faster Bolero-style… And before you know it, it’s full-blown Finn-tango-psy… I really dig this track here – though it’s fast, it’s not fast for the sake of being fast… It’s just fast, ok? Also the guitar-action kicks ass! Kinky, but nice…
#02: TV static, breaks, electronic sound forgery, Atari-bleeps, rolling synths, filters, filters and filters… To name but a few of the many elements here… Faster-harder- Luomuhappo!
#03: Brace yourself! Fusion jazz mixed with electro-dubby, single note sound-excursions… Scores high on the old what-the-fuck-was-that meter… But hey, it’s an interesting track for sure!
#04: On this track, Jere takes after his famous family-name brother Mika Häkkinen ‘cause this track goes faster than a formula 1 car… Ripping acid lines, demented steel drums, darkish soundscapes and plain hardcore mayhem… Check out the cool flute! Sweet!
#05: Hard-trancey… Stomping… Organic… Blasting… Hypnotizing …Organ-trance party music! ;o)
#06: This is the oddball track of the album – if you can actually talk about oddball tracks with this kind of music… It incorporates the sound of an eerie laughter and uses it for most of the track – pitched up and down and run thru all kinds of filters… The laugh-track so to speak!
#07: And now we’ve crossed the border into the ‘other part’ of the album – my fav’e part: The more chilled part… This track is kinda chilled w/naïve melodies alongside breakz and random sauna-gibberish… It’s actually very harmonic, and very nice!
#08: Reggae-dub-ska-punk-saiko-grunge! “Most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, talk about it and describe it.” This is the way I prefer to take my Finnish delights – chilled and über-cool!
#09: Laidback Finn-dance sauna-beats… In Finland ambient is faster than anywhere in world – or at least when it’s done by members of the Freakdance posse! Would go well hand in hand with Schlabbaduerst ambient… Nuff said – just close your eyes and imagine yourself on an air mattress floating on one of the thousand Finnish lakes… Sheer beauty!
#10: Electro-chill-dub with wicked percussion… Though very simple, this is so frikkin’ psychedelic… This kind of stuff kicks the shit out of any popular music from Vittula!
#11: Enter hardcore-dub–with-lazy-guitar-territory… Jere is putting the finishing touches on this album with this harmonic little beast…
It’s no secret that after my listen, I liked the latter part of this album best… I’ve often had a hard time digesting larger portions of perverted Finnish trance, and some of the faster tracks were a bit too… ehhm …fast, for my taste… But after repeated listens the first part has grown on me, and I’ve almost grown equally fond of both parts of the album… There are some very interesting ideas unfolding here – some of which work better than others, but for the most part it’s very well done…
It’s an added bonus that we’re also treated to some tracks here that are a bit more chilled – and they outweigh the 150BPM tracks nicely as a striking contrast… I do like this more than the Puoskari album and I’d recommend this to any open-minded fan of out-of-the-ordinary Finnish vodka-trance!
Only 700 copies pressed, so you might not want to wait too long before ordering this… If you’re the kinda pervert into this! ;o)
Favourites: 1(!), 3, 4, 8(!!), 9, 10,
DeathPosture
External links:
Freakdance Records: http://www.freakdancerecords.net/
Luomuhappo: http://www.mikseri.net/artistit/?id=16816
Saiko Sounds: http://tinyurl.com/5jvy2 (Audio samples available!)
StreetBeat: http://tinyurl.com/4k8o2
Chaos Unlimited: http://www.chaosunlimited.co.uk/ (…soon!)
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