Italo
My biggest passion is italo disco.
I prefer the less-known, even obscure and bizarre tracks but of course there are many commercial sounding releases that I also enjoy a lot. The genre is so diverse that it’s impossible to say that you like everything. I actually have a love/hate relationship with many of vinyls I have in my collection. I can remember many songs that I nearly hated on the first listen but fell in love with the second time. The most important aspect for me in italo is that it gives you a wide range of emotions – it never leaves you cold.
Years ago, being a eurodance and gabber listening 5th grader, Fossa probably didn't foresee that his interest in different and new kinds of music would develop into a strong enthusiasm towards listening to and creating futuristic tracks, using the sounds from the past.
Fossa has found his own genre slot somewhere among retrofuturistic electro, which on the other hand includes elements from glitchy video game legacy soundscapes, but also often embeds straightforward analogueish techno blastage.
Years ago, being a eurodance and gabber listening 5th grader, Fossa probably didn't foresee that his interest in different and new kinds of music would develop into a strong enthusiasm towards listening to and creating futuristic tracks, using the sounds from the past.
Fossa has found his own genre slot somewhere among retrofuturistic electro, which on the other hand includes elements from glitchy video game legacy soundscapes, but also often embeds straightforward analogueish techno blastage.
Coming from a family of musicians Maria Soini was immersed in music since early childhood. Throughout her school years she studied classical music playing the piano and the clarinet and sang in different compositions. Alongside classical Maria was also exposed to, and grew to love, various dance and popular music including italo disco, house and synth pop. These sounds ultimately gave a new direction for her musical aspirations.
In 1987 Ipe was just your typical long-haired Trash-metal listening skater and a local teenage hooligan in the west coast of Finland in Rauma. Somehow his musical interests changed totally about a year later. It was probably because of a certain DJ called Tapani Ripatti and his legendary Ocsid-radioshow which got him listening to acid house and disco.
In 1989 Ipe started deejaying and organising school parties. He quickly gained a reputation of being a kind of bold and unconventional DJ who is not afraid of mixing various genres in his sets.
