In 2013 Finland's lo-fi indie pop singer-songwriter-musician-producer (and former tram driver) Jaakko Eino Kalevi became the first ever Nordic act signed to Domino Records. Two years after his eponymous Domino/Weird World debut (2015) he put out "Orbit Variations" with his friend Long-Sam as the band MAN DUO. "Out Of Touch" was released in 2018 and a new EP, "Dissolution" followed in November 2019. After a somewhat quieter period, Jaakko Eino Kalevi returned in 2023 with a new electronic track "Nab" on FLEE's creative residency program, which he produced together with Nabihah Iqbal.

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Tomppabeats is a beatmaker, who makes wonky lo-fi instrumental hip hop in the vein of J Dilla, Madlib and Flying Lotus. So far he’s released two albums on Vinyl Digital and attracted a sizable audience inside the alternative hip hop scene.

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Eetu Rantakokko and Tino Lainisalo, together known as YES YES are an emerging electronic dance music duo from Finland. Their solid string of single releases started in 2021 and includes a lot of cover versions of international megahits like Montero (Call Me By Your Name), Abcdefu, and Wicked Game, but also original songs, such as All for One.

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Electronic producer and composer Otto Taimela does not like categorisations for his music, but we'll try anyway: to say the most obvious, his music combines elements of ambient, house, drum and bass, trance and downtempo. Taimela started putting his music out to the world around 2018, and according to Discogs now has seven albums out already, out of which four are cassette releases and two on vinyl. As well as several ep's on streaming services!

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A synthwave trio hailing from Jyväskylä, NightStop have been providing pure retro 80's electric sounds since 2013. During that timeline, they have amassed together a formidable catalogue of music, including four albums – the latest being 2020's "Pursuer" – and well over a dozen singles and ep's. The international synthwave community has also embraced NightStop with tens of millions of streams around the world.

Pihka is My Name is a band fronted by an animation character Pihka. Pihka is a small robot, an imaginary friend who is not needed anymore. She finds herself forgotten in a snow covered forest and sets off on an adventure on her own. Pihka is My Name is a project of PihkaSound, a Helsinki-based production duo Henna Helasvuo and Lasse Turunen

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Detalji is a Helsinki-based artist, producer and sound designer known for her self-written anthems dedicated to the club culture as well as cravings for substances and intimacy. Strongly influenced by 1990s techno music and IDM, Detalji builds her songs in a progressive manner combining pop hooks with raw synths. Detalji released her dancefloor-friendly debut ep "SEX" in March 2018.

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Electronic producer Recens (Topias Rajala) hails from Oulu, North Ostrobothnia. He started releasing his tracks independently in 2018 and after about 15 singles, caught the ear of Rotterdam-based Soave Records label in 2022. The sound of Recens is chill, ethereal, melodic, melancholic and house-based electronic music that ofter relies on guest vocalists.

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Winning Team is a group of DJ/producers from Helsinki. The members are Max Well, Veli Hiidenmaa, Patric Brex and Isku. Their music style is best described as Big Room and Electro House.

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Snapir is an artist, producer and a multi-instrumentalist based in Helsinki, Finland. In 2020, snapir joined Booa Music as a studio musician and a producer making productions and tracks for artists such as Louie Blue, Vince Vigo and local rapper jambo. Soon snapir released his solo debut, a melodic house track "Come Back". In 2021 snapir dove deeper into electronic music, with curiosity towards unheard sounds and unorthodox style of making music, which led snapir's debut EP "Lung", released in March 2022.

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Yotto has already made his debut on the BBC’s iconic Essential Mix, to add to his 5 ‘Essential New Tune’ nods from Pete Tong, and 2 ‘Hottest Record In the World’ selections on Annie Mac’s show. His multifarious remix list includes Gorillaz, Röyksopp and Coldplay. Yotto's debut album "Hyperfall" was released on Anjunabeats label in 2018 and in 2019 he founded his own label, Odd One Out.

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Finnish electronic music mainstay Jori Hulkkonen started his career in the early 1990's, releasing his debut album Selkäsaari Tracks on F Communications label in 1996. Hulkkonen has more than a dozen albums and roughly around fifty singles/ep's under his given name, worked in 15 groups and produced music under dozens of different aliases and played hundreds of dj slots. The latest album from the incredibly prolific Jori Hulkkonen is 2021's "Song Birds Refuse To Sing".

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Triple M (Mikko Matias Mäkinen) is a DJ producer from Finland who releases on Spinnin' Records. During his career, he has shared the stage with Don Diablo, KSHMR and his tracks have been played by Tiësto, R3HAB, W&W, Mike Williams and many more.

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Lenno is a producer, songwriter and DJ who rose to prominence for his remixes of artists like Tove Lo and Seinabo Sey, with a nu-disco-leaning sound. Besides his solo career, which started already in 2013, Lenno also does production work, already having platinum certified songs for artists and bands including Oliver Heldens, Vigiland Smallpools under his belt.

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Kasperg is the alias of producer, musician and DJ Kasper Granroth, currently based in Berlin. He describes his music as "dreamy but rhythmic" and "incorporating elements of hip-hop and blends of RnB". Kasperg is also known from wide-ranging DJ and live sets and his own label Lost Favourite Records.

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Handshaking is Fedja Kamari, who is known for giving surprising and eclectic DJ sets and energetic live performances. Handshaking's long-awaited debut "Garden Clogs" sold out its first vinyl release immediately.

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Muscular’s sound is electronic music with the grooves of funk, the harmony of soul, synthesizer sounds from the future, vocoded singing and arpeggios with organic instruments such as pianos, guitars, horns and percussion. The brains behind this Muscular project is Finnish keyboard player and pianist Ilmari Aitoaho. He has surrounded himself with super talented musicians (and good friends), who give their own brilliant add to this Muscular tissue.

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BXRTOO is a 15-year-old phonk producer who has already gained a prominent audience. The highly prolific young artist has released over 30 singles in the year 2022, available to listen on Soundcloud as well as on Spotify.

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Years before loop-based experimental techno became a stock-in-trade for scores of producers around the world, Finnish Kim Rapatti was recording minimal productions for more than a dozen labels worldwide.

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Klas-Henrik Lindblad, a Finnish DJ and producer now based in Berlin, is a man with various aliases – out of which Sasse may be the best known. Under his Freestyle Man guise, Lindblad mainly releases deep house tracks which are sometimes jazzy and sometimes more minimal. On Freestyle Man tracks during the past five or so years, Lindblad has frequently collaborated with Jimi Tenor.

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Electronic producer Axel Thesleff had his first major hit in 2016 with ”Bad Karma” which has over 20 million streams on Spotify – and over ten times more views on Youtube. Thesleff’s sound combines modern trap drum programming with eastern-tinged flute sounds and mellow downtempo vibes.

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Orkidea (Tapio Hakanen) has been one of Scandinavia’s leading trance DJs since the early 90s. He is best known for his unique blend of trance and progressive house: credible and firmly rooted in the underground origins of those genres. His music has been supported by a wide variety of DJs from taste makers such as Pete Tong and Sasha to stadium filling titans Armin van Buuren and Tiesto, with whom Orkidea enjoyed sharing the stage too.

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Composer and musician Jimi Tenor needs no introduction: after 30 years of career as an established artist, Tenor has redefined his style and sound over and over again and moved from 60s and 70s jazz, psychedelic soul and African funk to techno and experimental rock. Tenor continues to release music in different formats and through different labels at a formidable pace. 2019 Tenor released an ep with another Finnish electronic music mainstay, Freestyle Man (a.k.a. Klas Lindblad or Sasse) on the famed Swedish label Studio Barnhus.

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DeejaVu alias Leevi Lehtisyrjä is a young producer and DJ from Lappeenranta, Finland. Deejavu produces electronic dance music and has been active since 2018. He released his first single Bouncin’ Bitches in 2019.

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Aki Himanen and Aleksi Kinnunen are jazz musicians and electronic music producers. The band was formed in early 2019 out of a desire to combine the spontaneity of jazz music and the dark electronic sound world. In 2020, the duo released their debut album, "Scapes I", with the idea of bringing Ornette Coleman’s collective improvisation to the present day, utilizing the interaction between machines and people as well as the techniques of generative music. The machines give impulses to the musicians, but at the same time they also react to the playing of the drums and trumpet in their own unpredictable way.

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Tuune Pauler is an alternative electronic music producer from the west coast of Finland. His work is influenced by such artists as Burial and Lorn. His sound can be described as melancholic, atmospheric, organic and dark, with a little twist of hope. Many of his tracks have heavily processed vocals.

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Producer Rony Rex has years of experience as a club DJ, playing both local and international venues, as well as hosting his own radio shows. In 2017 Rony Rex started releasing his own energetic and dancefloor-ready tunes on the Youth Control label. His releases include Fucked It Up EP (2017) along with several singles.

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Roberto Rodriguez is a Helsinki-based DJ, producer, radio host and music director. Having started making music at the age of 12 in 1987 and starting to DJ a few years later, Roberto can be called a true veteran. He has released over 50 original releases and 60 remixes including 'Ride With Me’, ’Besomebody’ and ’Oxymoron’. His vast catalog includes releases on labels such as Compost, Freerange, Delusions Of Grandeur, Room With A View, FINA and Eskimo.

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The established musicians and composers Tuomo Puranen and Timo Kaukolampi known from acts such as KXP and Opel Bastards, focus especially on sync music and soundtracks. Their latest release “DJ Sex – Rakkaus tulee” is the first release from their upcoming soundtrack album for the tv series “Mister8” drawing inspiration from the late 70’s post-punk.

With no less than eight albums and EP's under his belt between 2017–2021, beatmaker Kupla (neé Lauri Achté) is born and raised in Helsinki, but based in London since 2013. Kupla has studied classical music and jazz, and recently also picked up the clarinet to spice up his chilled tracks, which have been streaming dozens of millions times on Spotify's popular playlists such as "Lo-Fi Beats" and "Chill Lofi Study Beats", et cetera.

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The Second Level aka Daniel Helenius is a Helsinki based DJ and producer playing dance without genre limits. After the won of a mixtape competition in 2013, he was discovered by promoters who gave him a chance to support Guetta at his outdoor concert in 2014. Since then, Second Level has raised his audience and released over a dozen singles involving co-operations with Norwegian DJ Tungewaag and artist Minus Manus.

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Misha is a rapper, beatmaker and a producer whose musical background is strongly in melodic soul-based hip-hop. Misha was born in Moscow, Russia, but moved to his current home town Helsinki as a child. He first found success rapping in Finnish under the artist name Haamu, releasing his rap debut in 2006, but soon started producing beats. Misha has released tracks on labels such as Chillhop, Sundae Sauce and Melting Pot.

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Aleksi Myllykoski with Tapani Rinne is a co-operation between two artists, the, Dj, producer and sound designer Aleksi Myllykoski and the composer, band leader, sound designer and producer Tapani Rinne. They have released two albums of dark and cinematic music, Dark Days (2020) and Signature Dark Remixes (2021). Their music can be described as ambient- and drone-based noir jazz featuring techno and jungle aesthetics.

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Electronic producer Aleksi Perälä (originally known by his monikers Ovuca and Astrobotnia) is a pioneer in the Nordic techno scene, whose music has been released by labels such Rephlex, Clone and трип since 1999. His music combines IDM with fluttering microtonal melodies. On his latest 17 albums or so Aleksi Perälä has used the novel musical tuning system called Colundi.

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