Suomisaundi (sometimes called psy-fi, suomistyge, suomisoundi, forest trance or spugedelic trance) is a style of freeform psychedelic trance, originating from Finland. Suomisaundi literally means in Finnish slang "Finnish sound". The term "spugedelic" is humoristically derived from "psychedelic" and spuge, meaning "an alcoholic" or generally a bum in Helsinki slang. The term spugedelic was likely first used by suomisaundi artist Huopatossu Mononen, releasing a track called Kikapelaus (A Spugedelik Return To Monoverse). It seems "suomisaundi" might be the most commonly used term for Finnish psychedelic trance, since there's also a popular Soulseek chat room that has the same name. This does not cite its references or sources. ... Nu-jazz (sometimes electro-jazz) was coined in the late 1990s to refer to styles which combine jazz textures and sometimes jazz instrumentation with electronic music. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, phase distortion, or Scanned synthesis. ... In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. ... An AKAI MPC2000 sampler // [edit] Overview The emergence of the digital sampler made sampling far more practical, and as samplers added progressively more digital processing to their recorded sounds, they began to merge into the mainstream of modern digital synthesizers. ... The classic Hammond electronic organ, invented in the 1930s and popular for decades thereafter. ... A folk instrument is an instrument that developed among common people and usually doesnt have a known inventor. ... An audio filter is a type of filter used for processing sound signals. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... For experimental rock music, see experimental rock. ... Genres Folk - Pop - Opera - Rock (Suomirock) - Hip hop - Trance Finno-Ugric music Estonia - Finland - Hungary - Khantia-Mansia - Komi Republic - Mari El - Mordovia - Nenetsia - Udmurtia Much of the music of Finland is influenced by Karelian traditional tunes and lyrics, as comprised in the Kalevala. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ... Psychedelia is a term describing a category of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. ... Founded 1550 Country Finland Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Area[1] - Of which land - Rank 185. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Online chat. ...

Genre

The "suomi" style of trance music is also produced in Australia and New Zealand, where there's a steady fan base of both Finnish and Australian style psytrance music - however only Finns usually refer their style as "suomisaundi" whereas abroad the term to this type of music is usually something like "freeform" psytrance. The genre knows of no limits and isn't usually anywhere near as "strict" as most current (full on) psytrance songs are. Most recognizable element of this style is that it has no set definition of styles or rules apart from basic trance elements such as the four-on-the-floor kick drum. The songs are usually very melodic, including a lot of influences from early Goa and acid trance tracks, as well as funky guitar/organ loops and sounds from or reminiscent of 1980's video and computer games. Also The finnish nature has played a huge role in the direction of the finnish sound.Nowadays you can find artists from many countries in the world such as australia, israel, russia, brazil, japan and eastern european countries making suomi-sound style music.
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The songs might also include some sort weird sampling and effects, tricky drum fills and breaks, as well as speech samples in Finnish or in English. In many occasions there's also some sort of strange humor or self-irony in the music or in the track titles. Some even describe the Suomi-style of psy-trance as anarchistic and almost punk in the trance music scene, because the songs are usually very different and progressive compared to the "more mainstream" European/Israeli psy-trance tracks. Some criticise suomisaundi because it sometimes lacks production quality and tracks may not offer such high-fidelity sound as central European trance tracks. The fans and friends of the style defend suomisaundi by saying that the tracks are usually "more organic" than most popular psy-trance tracks. This view could be partly explained by the fact that there's a very steady forest party scene in southern Finland where suomisaundi is played almost exclusively throughout the night. Look up Humour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Anarchism is a political philosophy or group of doctrines and attitudes centered on rejection of any form of compulsory government (cf. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

Finnish acid, Goa and psychedelic trance has been produced in Finland throughout its existence, starting from the early 90's right when the Goa/acid trance culture itself started to form. There are many artists in Finland producing suomisaundi style of music, but few of the main characters that started the "suomisaundi-fuzz" are considered to be CAD, Squaremeat, Texas Faggott, Pelinpala, Haltya, Kiwa and EvsY. CAD released their album "Apollo 3D" back in 1996 on Exogenic Records. The album was published by warner chappel / Hanseatic gmbh and also was the very first release from Exogenic Records. This album can be considered to be the very first "suomisound" album ever released.Texas Faggott, released by Australian Psy-Harmonics label in 1999, is considered by many as one of the early relics of the weirder-edge suomisaundi. The popularity of Texas Faggott grew amongst the Finnish trance scene with their second release, Petoman's Peflett in 2001. Especially group member Tim Thick has been an active promoter of Finnish psy-trance, as he established and operated Thixx'n'Dixx in 2000, a site offering free MP3 downloads from almost all the existing Finnish psy-trance artists, including tracks from his own groups. After its initial opening, the Thixx'n'Dixx site grew, offering new mp3 albums from different suomi-style artists and eventually became so popular that it was even mentioned in a pop music program aired on Finnish national TV.
Pelinpala released his album "My cd has landed on the nextdoor neighbours dog" in october 1999 on legendary Demon Tea recordings (Australia). Pelinpala´s album was a mixture of extreme psychedelia and considered one of the classic psychedelic suomi-sound albums. Pelinpala later became active in another well established finnish old school psychedelic poject Haltya. So far Haltya has released 2 albums, Forest Flavor & Electric Help Elves in their unique style of funky forest sound. Haltya is considert to be one of the psy originals in the world, due to their caracteristic sound and one of finlands most wanted live acts abroad.
Squaremeat have done their power disco music for a very long time aswell, especial dj pepe the long time experienced producer from squaremeat and one of the founders of the midiliitto used to be involved in the project o-men and released some of their very early works on legendary blue room records back in 1998.
Other bands worth noticing are Kiwa, EvsY, Highpersonic Whomen and Mandalavandalz for their contribution to the Suomi-sound internationaly.
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2000s

Since 2000, the global interest towards Finnish trance has grown a lot and many Finnish groups have performed abroad. However, usually outside Finland, the Suomi-style is still considered a weird delicacy. Most notable suomisaundi audiences outside Finland are in Israel, Russia and Japan and australia. The Japanese 6-Dimension Soundz concentrates almost only in releasing suomi-style trance. Two of the most notable record labels in Finland releasing suomisaundi albums are Exogenic Records and Freakdance Records, but many of the popular Finnish trance-artists might not have recorded ever, making their music only available as MP3's on the Internet. After site-hosting problems and excessive bandwidth usage, the Thixx'n'Dixx site operates nowadays merely as a suomisaundi link catalogue, offering links to individual suomisaundi artist pages at mikseri.net, which is a Finnish MP3 community for unsigned/independent artists. Another popular MP3 download site for suomisaundi songs is the Antiscarp-website, hosted by members of the Finnish psy-trance group Salakavala. Finnish psy-trance forum www.elixiria.fi 6-Dimension Soundz is a record label operating in Japan. ... Exogenic Records is an electronic music record label based in Helsinki, Finland. ... Freakdance Records is a Espoo, Finland based record label. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format and algorithm, designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners. ... Mikseri. ... Salakavala is a Suomisoundi-style psychedelic trance group from Finland. ...

Musicians

Eraser vs Yöjalka (also known as EvsY) are Julius Lehmuskallio (Eraser) and Simo Ojala (Yöjalka), a Suomisaundi-style psytrance-project from Finland. ... Flying Scorpions are Tim Thick and Pepe Kosminen, a suomisaundi project from Finland. ... Haltya are Jürgen Sachau and Tommi Sirkiä, a psychedelic trance project from Finland, founded in the mid-nineties. ... Luomuhappo is Jere Häkkinen (1982-), a Suomisaundi producer from Finland. ... Mandalavandalz Mandalavandalz is the solo project of Tomo Tomatoeyes (Tim Thick), with and without Halluciano Powerotti (Pentti Slayer). ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Puoskari is Oskari Nuotio, a Suomisaundi artist from Helsinki, Finland. ... Salakavala is a Suomisoundi-style psychedelic trance group from Finland. ... Squaremeat Squaremeat are Pepe Kosminen and Francoise Faggott, a psychedelic trance duo from Helsinki, Finland. ... Texas Faggott are Pentti Slayer and Tim Thick, a psychedelic trance musical project from Finland, founded in 1996 with a third member, Francoise Faggott. ...

External links

• Exogenic
• Exogenic Forum
• Elixiria Forum
• Haltya
• Haltya myspace
• Highpersonic Whomen
• Highpersonic Whomen myspace
• Kiwa
• Kiwa myspace
• Thixx'n'Dixx
• Antiscarp
• Suomisaundi fan site in Russian, featuring MP3 downloads
• Freakdance Records MP3 download page
• Mandalavandalz MP3 page
• Aavepyörä MP3 & OGG page