Helsinki-based DJ and collector with a range of interests, originating from the Finnish electro scene of the late 90s/early 00s. Co-host and DJ at Kätkö events. Curated the compilation Bonus Beats - Rare & Unreleased Finnish Electro 1990 - 2002, released on Cold Blow in February 2025.

Contact: erkko.lehtinen at gmail dot com

Electro / Synthwave / 8-bit, 2022. Written in tracker software. By the creator of Next Life. Borgheim, Norway.

The day we got our first record out Lehman Brothers bankrupted, laying the catalyst for the Global financial crisis.

sound & visual artist, composer, improviser Co-founder  Musica Genera Festival and label
BOOMKAT REV
 'Heavily contrasting sides of improvised, fractal, avant industrial rhythms and complex tonal noise from the cream of the Polish experimental music NoetingerPiotrowiczZaradny. Vinyl master&cut by Rashad Becker. 
CRACKFINDER the album comprises of two distinct parts. The first is extremely intense and eventful, creating a strong tension, giving the sense of an immense effort or even wrestling between the musicians; a clash of ideas and values
The second part evokes a kind of a soothing stabilization. One may think that the interlocutors have reached a consensus
The artwork on the cover is a frame from the video art piece ENJOY THE SILENCE by Zaradny: symbolic flares and cracking of matter in complete silence. The intensity of the image, however, creates a strong suggestion of sound.   
Cracks – both material and metaphorical – do not have to be the negative effect of an abrupt event. They can be the beginning of change, an opening for the new, an impulse for action, the search for the 'portals of change’

'Experimental Polish composer practices bewitching electronic rituals in GO GO THEURGY; following two memorable feat with Fennesz & Stangl 
We were struck by Anna’s taste for dissonance and an intense, pulsating sort of feminine pressure, and find those elements in majestic effect.
Abstract in its stoic, precisely sculpted and beat-less arrangement, yet organically evolving in its layered harmonic chaos, GGT divines a free-floating space at once powerfully driven by rhythm, yet due to the absence of any tangible percussion defines a lush, keening, and pensile tension whose effect is only heightened when she abruptly veers off into passages of pizzicato pointillism. 
It could be considered dance music in a most extreme, physical form with proper amplification both sides have the potential to exert serious G-force torque, liberating the body from the mind, and vice versa - but the underlying structures which also lend themselves to comparison with classical music, especially in the staggering, Wagnerian turn of phrase that cleaves side two, before it calves into an almost asphyxiating, head-curdling final passage. Really impressive stuff.  

'The brilliant A Zaradny's follows up her engrossing debut with RE:EM new EP featuring a sumptuous Fennesz rework of her 'New feat Old', following hot on the heels of Robert Piotrwicz's crushing side, 'Stara Szkoła Ze Złota' to remind us the ascetic, uncompromising brilliance of Polish experimental music at its best.
On the front Zaradny utterly dominates the senses with a pulsating deconstruction of 'Stop The Chaos'; originally a sub-3 minute rager, now distilled and expanded to three times the length in a cyclical swarm of metallic drone timbre and ear-curdling howls emulating effect of a massive nitrous oxide asphyxiation in the middle of a grindcore show (well it does to us at least).
The B-side presents another facet of Anna's work with the eviscerated, bubbling tones of 'New feat Old' giving way to what sounds like Powell dragged backwards at 33rpm, before Fennesz concludes with a blissfully noisy reassembly of the latter rent in coruscating harmonics that work right on the biting point. 

'An absolute find. Most impressive is Zaradny's A-side, 'Octøpus'. Ostensibly static yet deftly, subtly rhythmic, it makes for a memorable first introduction; lulling us with hypnotic microtonal bass drones which grow stereo fluctuating pulses and (what might be) fragments of chiming vocals conducted with the precise, haptic electronic sensitivity of Holly Herndon and the patient development of an Eleh or Eliane Radigue recording...
By contrast Stangl's B-side 'Crédit' is organic, grounded, rendering shimmering guitar strokes into crushed glass textures and hovering harmonic overtones and grainy waves of bass over one extended piece. A real treat from this already promising label, highly recommended.

Producer//Composer//Cat Botherer

One auspicious day, a bored musician with a love of technology and a dream of bending rules and weaving tales suddenly found herself bitten by a radioactive cat.  She stared deep into its laser eyes, completely transfixed. The cat was telling her something, with a tiny twitch of the whisker (to adjust the frequency) the message came through loud and clear. Nano-seconds later, twinned with a strange desire to sit on her neighbours car bonnet, she shirked off the responsibilities of a mundane life, pawned her guitar, midi-ed her hairbrush and bought a sampler...


"Catnip and Claws pulls off track after track of dynamic, inventive and expertly constructed electronica, tempered by a surprising diversity in sound and instrumentation.  It’s hard to avoid gushing like a doe-eyed fool." 
- Netlabelism.com


"The fact that someone is universally popular with her peers and says that she is into cats, is no guarantee their music will be as nice as her. In Emma Catnip's case though, its true. Nice is understated for her music really, but there is a beautiful dreamlike quality to it (laced with harder beats) that makes you believe peoples inner beauty can escape into their music. Check out 'Beings' if you don't believe me."
-  BBC Introducing in Norfolk   

ALSO!  Find me on 'THE HOT TIN ROOF RADIO SHOW'  Monthly @ http://mixlr.com/the-hot-tin-roof-radio-show    playing a selection of electros and IDM from the dark underbelly of the interwebz.   
You can add/follow me on facebook for updates :) 
Hope to see you there sometime...

This was a pastime: somewhat fun, somewhat musical exploration, somewhat adventure... Thanks for listening, following and commenting!
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