Experimental electronic music artist Ænie (Saku Liimatainen) is influenced by a fusion of electroacoustic experimentation, modular synths and noise. His works romanticize the industrial revolution in a dark way and look at the relationship between humans and machines in a distorted natural world. Ænie is interested in repetitive and rhythmic styles of danceable electronic music, like schranz techno, industrial, and IDM.

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In recent years, A. Blomqvist has become a prominent figure in solo piano music, boasting over 100 million streams worldwide. Following the success of two self-released albums, “Improv.” and “The Self,” each contributing to his growing reputation, he announced in March 2024 his collaboration with XXIM Records and Sony Music. The "post-genre" musician and composer has also started his own label, Nordic Euphony Records, for like-minded artists.

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Lawrence Walther a.k.a. Lauri Miettunen describes himself as "a cozy guitarist/composer from Finland," which suits his sound and style just perfectly. Walther made his entry in the lofi beats scene in 2020, and has quickly amassed a discography of about 100 singles and three albums. In 2023, he teamed up with Recalibration Machine and Less Gravity for the collaborative album "Dune Days." His songs are amiable and calming, with bright and vivid guitar melodies taking center stage.

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Lauri Porra is a multi-talented composer and musician in fourth generation (and grandson of Jean Sibelius, as well as bassist in power metal giants Stratovarius) whose compositions have been performed by symphony orchestras around the world. In addition to bass, he has studied cello, piano, double bass and trumpet, and pursued classical singing. In addition to composing music for orchestra, film and other media, Porra has released four critically acclaimed solo albums. His group Lauri Porra Flyover Ensemble combines genres from rock and jazz to classical to electronic.

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AURAL is the ambient piano project by Laura Sippola, a pianist and a singer-songwriter based in Helsinki. She works as a freelance musician and composer. In 2017, she completed a Doctor of Music degree at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.

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YSI is the solo project of Helsinki-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Tuomas Soppela. His debut ep "Windstopper" (2021), was followed up in 2023 by the debut album "Amp Head". Matthew M. Williams, designer and founder of the streetwear brand 1017 ALYX 9SM, guest co-produces the album's track "Memory Man". In YSI's dark and experimental music, you can hear echoes from new wave, post punk and dream pop as well as industrial rock, shoegaze and leftfield techno.

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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 nearly two 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 countless dj slots. The latest album from the incredibly prolific Jori Hulkkonen is 2024's "Hurt Humour".

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Secret North Ox is a drone/ambient endeavour of Juho Niemelä of Finnish experimental metal band Callisto and indie folk group Viitasen Piia.

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To call Aleksi Perälä prolific would be a grand understatement – even on a slow year the internationally recognised electronic producer, formerly known as Ovuca, releases at least half a dozen albums. On his more recent records, Perälä has used the novel musical tuning system called Colundi. His music, which combines IDM with fluttering microtonal melodies has been released by labels such Rephlex and Clone. His albums usually come in series, such as the GAIA gestalt (2023) which combines 15 albums, and track names being merely series of adjoining letters and numbers.

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Harri Kuusijärvi is one of the most distinctive figures in today's Finnish accordion music. Known for his open-minded projects that push the traditional boundaries of what the accordion can achieve as an instrument, Kuusijärvi approaches accordion music with an exceptionally broad perspective. His albums have been recognized across a wide spectrum of media, from classical to rock, and jazz to global. He has premiered contemporary works for the accordion and performed on international stages. He is also an active performer in various world music, jazz, and pop ensembles. In recent years, Kuusijärvi has focused on electroacoustic music and the development of a new, electronically augmented accordion.

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Antti Lähdesmäki is a versatile musician and composer in the Scandinavian jazz scene. His upcoming album “We tend to help each other out here” (Howling Jazz Records, 2025) was inspired by his travels around the Nordic countries: the songs on the album are inspired by places, languages ​​and people from all over the region, and each song was composed or improvised on the spot on the instrument on which it was recorded. Known for his energetic playing style, Lähdesmäki's solo piano debut is a surprisingly contemplative and slightly melancholic album.

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Vocalist Selma Savolainen combines Finnish folk sounds with jazz and alt singer-songwriter styles. Savolainen's jazz debut "Horror Vacui", released May 2023 via UK-based label Whirlwind, is a set of emotive songs composed and arranged specifically for this sextet. After the solo debut, Savolainen joined forces with Finnish-Australian bassist Helen Svoboda for the experimental "We Make Sounds This Way" album, released in 2024.

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Malmiwaara is the electro-acoustic solo project of long-time guitarist Mikko Malmivaara. His debut single Alkajainen combines folk instruments manipulated using C-cassettes with electronic music production methods. Malmiwaara's music is instrumental music that balances the border between acoustic and electronic, and the genre could perhaps be described as folktronica, downtempo, electronic folk music or, in Malmiwaara's own words, "Nordic electronica".

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The Finnish composer and audio creative Arttu Silvast released his first solo album "Polarity" in 2021. Inspired by the landscapes and isolation of the Arctic, his music combines organic and synthesized sounds creating spacious ambient soundscapes. Among the piano themes, a variety of instruments can be heard on the album all the way from the temple bells of Myanmar to more traditional Scandinavian instruments.

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Droemsk (stylized in all lowercase) is a music producer, sound artist, and sound design student at the University of the Arts, Helsinki. droemsk produces magical and bouncing chill beats, influenced by 90s boom-bap and jazzy vibes. In the fall of 2024 droemsk will release lofi pop album with US-based singer Myself. Besides the beats music by droemsk, you can find their music also in projects like Anna Brear's album They Shiver on a Spring Evening and the solo ambient project Uniluoto.

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Orvokki is a young singer/songwriter and producer, whose music mixes organic and digital sounds, taking the listeners on a fantastic journey, where elements of world music, unusual structures and rhythmic surprises are intertwined into an electric pulsating dream – "ambient colliding with old-fashioned longing and wild breakbeats", to quote the album's five-star review in Helsingin Sanomat. Behind the mononym lies Orvokki Oittila, who has studied music production in Germany and produced her debut album "Kasvotusen" album almost entirely by herself.

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With dozens of albums and EPs already under his belt, beatmaker Kupla (neé Lauri Achté) was born and raised in Helsinki, but has been 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 of times on Spotify's popular playlists such as "Lo-Fi Beats" and "Chill Lofi Study Beats", et cetera.

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Kepa Lehtinen is an electronica composer known from his work as a film and media composer. He uses the combination of theremin, piano, and contrabass to create the retro yet hi-fi sounds heard in his 2020 album "It is ok to be sad and dark". The album was followed by the ep "Face Plant" in 2021.

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Nikita Rafaelov is a keyboardist-pianist and composer known for his collaborations with artists such as Teppo Mäkynen (on the Atonal Drums project), Markus Perttula, Silva Kallionpää and countless more. Rafaelov released his debut solo ''Spirit of Gaia'' in 2018. In his own works, Rafaelov uses e.g. acoustic and prepared pianos, loopers, synthesizers, electric pianos and samples, creating minimalist, rhythmic and hypnotic compositions. The versatile keyboardist effortlessly cruises through the cool waters of jazz, electro-acoustic music and ambient with been hip-hop, new age and lo-fi aesthetics as added inspiration.

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Amnesia Scanner is a Berlin-based Finnish duo, who released their debut ep ”AS” on Young Turks label in 2016, with critical acclaim from Pitchfork, Allmusic, Resident Advisor and many others. The mysterious band followed with the self-released album ”AS Live”, the mixtape ”AS Truth” (2017), and albums "Another Life" (2018), "Lexachast" (with Bill Kouligan, 2019), "Tearless" (2020), "STROBE.RIP" (2023) and "HOAX" (2024).

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FMSR (for my secret reasons) is the latest musical laboratory of Helsinki-based composer-producer-musician Marja Ahlsved. The first EP “unEtudes” consists of five songs, all originally composed for piano alone. However, the songs also feature synthesizers and, in the song unEtude 0 (Tragedy 2Y), lyrics worded by the composer’s artist alter ego Mahls.

On Project Vainiolla's album "Waves of Inner Peace", reel-to-reel recorders released composer Kalle Vainio to create an hour-long audiovisual artwork. In the composition one can hear e.g. string orchestra, Buchla 200e and Serge modular synthesizer, prepared piano and five-string kantele. Every recorded sound has passed through an analog tape such as reel to reel, elcaset or cassette recorders. Instruments on the record are prepared piano, modular synthesizer, string orchestra and 5-string kantele.

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Venla llona Blom is a multi-award-winning vocalist, composer and beatboxer from Finland. She has toured around the world with her internationally acclaimed band Tuuletar and worked as a soloist in various projects with big bands, symphony orchestras and choirs. Blom is specialised in extended vocal techniques, vocal percussions and traditional singing styles deriving from Scandinavian and Slavic folk music and also trained as a classical singer. Venla Ilona Blom’s debut solo album “Nevrak” is slated for release in September 2024.

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Pauli Lyytinen is a Helsinki based musician and composer. Lyytinen´s approach to music is always improvisatory and experimental regardless of the genre. As saxophonist he´s been studying and exploring widely extended sounds and techniques and the use of effect pedals with acoustic sax.

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Ánnámáret is Anna Näkkäläjärvi-Länsman, Sámi musician who lives and whose work is based in Nuorgam, northernmost Finland. Her music is inspired by the life and the nature in Sápmi. Ánnámáret’s strength as an artist springs from having grown up between two cultures and, thus, in understanding these cultures and their collisions and similarities.

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Australian/Finnish, Finland-based musician Simon Svoboda is part of Aspen String Quartet and performs frequently with his cello duo Simon and Tommi, and has recently joined the newly-formed Quinteto Tango Berlin, led by Finnish accordion maestro Sami Pirttilahti. He has found inspiration to compose minimalistic music for his cello and voice on his EP titled "Kaamos", a 5-piece work inspired by different elements of winter in Finland.

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