Teaser clip from the forthcoming, amazing Easy & C.O.U. album "Aryayek Machine". Release date 2.9.2013. This song is featuring vocals by Zahangir Alam.

Easy & C.O.U.: Fire Chaowa (teaser edit)

Next Harmönia release 12" & digi.

Easy & Center Of The Universe
Pythagoras Falafel Calamity
(HRMN-15)

Release date 15.3.2011
Official record release party:
26.3.2011
Raum20
Ziegrastr.11
Berlin


Easy & Center Of The Universe HRMN-15 official teaser

2014's first release from camp Harmönia is an untitled long play conceived by a large group of machines some years ago at a remote warehouse studio somewhere at the shadowy outskirts of Helsinki, Finland. 
It was recorded mostly night time between the 23rd and 26th of December using a highly complicated recording system for bringing out sonic nuances rarely heard.
The album's music could be described as psychedelic synthesized funk with a hypnotic and repetitive tone, but over analyzing its aesthetic form does little good. 
In this product it's the function that matters the most.

Today's electronic music has come a long way from its occult and mind-altering roots and has sadly degenerated to a just another everyday tool of the spectacle that's selling people images instead of music.
HRMN-27 hopes to present a different type of approach by offering the listener five instrumental soundscapes with no attached meanings or subliminal messages.
Some of the soundscapes presented on this recording are melancholic, some joyous, some enchanting and some even disturbing, depending on the mindset of the person that's experiencing them.  

"New age" -albums of the 1980s were mostly meant for enhancing the listener's spiritual level or for bringing up premeditated feelings of some sort. 
HRMN-27, on the contrary, doesn't have a hidden agenda of any kind. 
The machines that crafted this album do not want to sell you any kind of ideology or mindset.
Why?
Because people's inner power that helps bringing these soundscapes to life and the capability of attaching significant feelings to these abstract sounds shouldn't be doubted. 
These songs are merely tools for the head and the body and HRMN-27 as a whole is a library album for a life that's just about to happen. 
A possible soundtrack for a secret life to come, if you will.
That's why the interpretation of an active listener is as important as the role of the machines that created this fine music. 


A2 (HRMN-27)

HARMÖNIA FAMILY ALBUM (HRMN-16) 2-LP/MP3
Spring 2006 was both cruel and exciting. Radiating hot Helsinki nights, too much light and vivid, restless dreams about Music. While chucking down a glass of cheap brandy in a local bar the idea finally materialized: Let's start a record label! A label that would bring people together. Proud people. People thinking of Music. People doing their own thing in their own way in their own basements. And most importantly, people who understood the meaning of space between notes.
After 5 years, 16 records, 85 tracks and 44 artists from 13 countries it goes without saying that those restless dreams became reality. And so did the Music.

HARMÖNIA FAMILY ALBUM includes 12 artists from 7 countries giving their own interpretations of skweee, the synthetic Scandinavian funk. This double album features both skweee –innovatorsand brilliant second generation rookies like Finnish dub specialist Levon Zoltar and Japanese child prodigy Neo Hetare. Most of the time compilation albums are just piles of second rate leftover tracks, but that’s not the case with Harmönia. The process of compiling these twelve tracks took more than six months, since each track was carefully handpicked from a selection of more than hundred songs from around the world. Harmönia’s previous ”Skandinavian Skweee Vol. I & II” and ”International Skweee Vol. I & II” –compilations were immediately sold out after release and nowadays go up to 100 euros on internet.

Because skweee owes so much to the so-called world music, we thought of taking the whole thing to the next level and asked our artists to make their own versions of ”ethnic” music. As you will soon hear, the idea took off like a lazer beam in an Ethiopian desert. The results are breathtaking: music so contemporary yet still so archaic! It gives a great deal of pleasure to the listener to hover through the native American mantras of BMMB’s Huuhka-Eno, tribal chanting of Ransta  ongregateand slavic p-funk of Eero Johannes. This Music was not made for everybody, but since you found it we’d like to salute You.
Viva Harmönia!


Harmönia Family Album 2LP TEASER - in a "this is how you check records in a record shop" style

Daniel Savio "We call it skweee" (HRMN-4) and Mesak "Omega Jam" (HRMN-11)

Mesak & Daniel Savio LIVE @ Fusion Festival 2011

BMMB 3x7" album "Dirty Seconds" - release date 4.12.2011
RANDY BARRACUDA
MESAK
MICHAEL BLACK ELECTRO
"Dirty Seconds" album release concert @ Bassment, Helsinki Finland 4.11.2011


BMMB: Horse Power teaser snippet (BMMB: Dirty Seconds HRMN-17)

Randy Barracuda: Streisand Effect TEASER

Taken from STREISAND EFFECT MAXI SINGLE HRMN-12

Release date 30.4.2010

Randy Barracuda: Streisand Effect TEASER

BMMB: Huuhka Eno LIVE @ Tampere Finland

Ya Tosiba: Mad Barber: BaBa ZuLa remix

"Global fusion" is a term coined in 1980's to describe the postmodern transnational mixtures between different cultural heritages. Like Pizza Americana or Peter Gabriel's recordings with Pakistani Sufi singers.

If we adapt the term, we can wholeheartedly say that music can't actually get much more global than it is here on Ya Tosiba's debut ep. On this splendid piece of black wax produced by Finnish skweee pioneer Mesak and sung by Azerbaijan-Norwegian ethnomusicologist/rapper Dj Zuzu you'll find a wide spectrum of influences ranging from Arabic folk music to electro funk and modern R'n'B.

On Mad Barber and Baku Hipster heavy electronic drum beats are high fiving bubbling analogue synthesizers and traditional eastern instruments, deliciously topped with Dj Zuzu's hypnotic Azerbaijani rapping. Bizarre, yet beautiful: Music that is equally suitable for dischotèques and home listening. The fantastic remixes on this record are provided by the legendary German synthesizer visionaries Mouse on Mars and the Turkish masters of mesmerizing psychedelia, Baba ZuLa.

It has been said that the development of communication technology obscures forms of music and increases musical homogeneity and blurring of regional identities. We at Harmönia Records don't believe in that type of gibberish. And we definitely don't think it's necessarily a bad thing for the world to play music together. If you're in doubt, put this record on your turntable, drop the needle to the groove and crank the volume up.

If Ya Tosiba doesn't rock your boat, you're not from our planet anyway.

"you rock ! thanks man ! really good tracks, good sounds, good remixes ;)"
-DJ Elephant Power

Ya Tosiba: Mad Barber (Harmönia, HRMN-20) 
12” vinyl / download
Release date 26.10.2012

Tracklist:
Baku Hipster
Baku Hipster Mouse On Mars remix
Mad Barber
Mad Barber BaBa ZuLa remix
Mad Barber instrumental (vinyl only)

Ya Tosiba: Mad Barber 12" teaser!

BMMB: Horse Power (V.C. Remix)

Tweaking remixes of BMMB's Skweee soul flows. V.C. gives a downslow, iced-out R&B retweak of 'Horse Power' beside Karl Marx Stadt's spooling, minimalist 'Totally Unquantised FM Nightmare' take on 'Follow Your Nightmare' and a trippy deep electro-house club edit of ''Horse Power' by Witch House Jack.

Follow Your Nightmare (Karl Marx Stadt's totally unquantised FM nightmare)

JESSE feat Jimi Tenor / Randy Barracuda remix A side

JESSE feat Jimi Tenor / Randy Barracuda remix B side

Pekka Airaksinen - E (Other Power LP 2012)

Pavan: War. Live @ YO-talo, Tampere FIN 2004


PAVAN: HOLY VOLT ALBUM RELEASE PARTY:
26.2.2011
Raum20
Ziegrastr. 11
Berlin
Germany

Pavan: War. Live @ YO-talo, Tampere FIN 2004

Harmönia Record Shop Day Special 7" is out 20.4.2013 - available at selected shops.

Limited 100 copies, numbered.

A side: Claws Costeau - Svenhön
B side: Levon Zoltar - Falafellaz

Here´s a small taster of Claws Costeau: Svenhön, perfomed live at the Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg in January 2013.

Claws Costeau: Svenhön (live at the Golden Pudel Club Hamburg)

Harmönia Presents:

DKSTR - Miami Deli

Taken from the DKSTR - PLEASURES miniLP (HRMN-24)

Release date:



DKSTR: Miami Deli (teaser clip) HRMN-24

Harmönia, the leading Finnish skweee label, is globally known for its unique and heavy-hitting funky sound. Run by Scandinavian electro pioneers Mesak (Mr Velcro Fastener) and Randy Barracuda (Imatran Voima), the label has already released three critically acclaimed and highly succesful compilation albums and a pile of quickly sold out single releases. Despite the small pressings and strictly underground nature of the label,all Harmönia releases have been supported by high-profile DJs all over the globe such as Don Letts, Kode9 and Rob Da Bank. So far Harmönia's artists have taken the fresh basement funk of Scandinavia to more than ten countries. Weekend long label showcase in New York 2007 was a huge success. UK crowd finally got skweee'd at this years (2008) Bloc Weekend & Sónar Festival, 2009 Norberg Festival, 2010 Ilmiö Festival etc etc....
    
Info & sales:

harmoenia@gmail.com

To book Harmönia artists please contact:

harmoeniabookings@googlemail.com

http://harmoenia.fi/

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