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artist ■■ various artists
release ■■ playground vol 6 by nuspirit helsinki
year ■■ 2003
genre ■■ lo-fi
label ■■ eccochamber
catalogue ■■ promo
website ■■ www.eccochamber.com
date ■■ 19-jan-2003
quality ■■ 192kbps/44.1khz
source ■■ compact disc
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01 playground vol 6 by nuspirit helsinki 59:28
playtime ■■ 00h 59m 28s
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kasio stuck his hand in the jam jar of recorded music back in
1983, when he, at the tender age of 12, composed a progressive
tango called 'tunturikukkia' for his uncle eero aven. he was
brought up in bustle of outdoor dance halls in rural finland, an
indigenous culture devoted to the art of dancing, drinking,
fighting, heart-wrenching melodies and other larger-than-lifeness.
the intervening years have seen kasio dabble in a staggering
number of obscure (...you wouldn't know) and not-so-obscure
(amorphis, etc) projects, as well as a few doomed attempts at
studying music.
it was education-borne ennui that drove our hero to the decks.
in 1996, kasio leaned hard on a few dj friends (juhis and bunuel,
helsinki legends both) and after some discussion, he was allowed
to take on the technics at a speakeasy. beat mixing was essential
for survival, as the weirdest things could spontaneously happen.
you might be playing your stuff, look up and see a stage full of
rappers...or instrumentalists.
for kasio this opened a whole new perspective on the act of making
music. together with his partner-in-beats dj anna s, kasio has
been a fixture on the helsinki club stage
ever since.
around the same time kasio was mercilessly sucked into the giant
robot maelstrom. the collective was born out of some chemical need
to play every conceivable party and unleash 2 to 3 hours of
furious slowness on audiences in the form of dub-soaked hip hop.
both inborn and artificially induced confusion was in the air on
those nights. you could smell it...this genesis, where no one
really knew how to play much and it was all about gall and
attitude (and up to 20 people on stage), eventually, after the
first obscure vinyl testament to heavy riffage, birthed a real
band that has since released a number of albums, toured europe
(from reykjavik to paris, berlin to st. petersburg) and wreaked
havoc on sweaty people everywhere. oh, and penetrated the top 10
in finland, as well as some weird german club chart.
kasio's tenure in the nuspirit helsinki collective started around
the same time. an encounter with the ever present and global lil'
tony led to a session playing keyboards at the nsh studio, which
in turn led to more sessions with nsh svengali tuomas k. with
time, a veritable cadre of
top-notch musicians was assembled around this junta of jazzy
beats. kasio's area of expertise in nsh is to inject massive doses
of musical and arranging freshness into the musical mainline.
nuspirit helsinki's debut album has had an astounding reception
worldwide. the press has been ecstatic and gigs have been
plentiful. nsh, too, managed to crack the top 20 in finland. for
15 weeks. the band has been praised by the likes of straight no
chaser, gilles peterson, billboard, mixmag, wire...
since the nsh live circus is a logistical challenge not to be
undertaken by the faint of heart on unsubstantial grounds, the
aforementioned core junta djs a lot. look for shows by
kasio, eppu, ender and lil' tony). the clubs is where music of
this ilk takes its steps.
on the club front, kasio's current project, together with anna s,
is club bundolo.
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