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Skyward

The whole story began in the year 2000. It was just another alcohol-fueled Friday night, and after a while the boys (Ville and Sakke) decided that the world needs another melodic metal band. There can never be enough those around. And since they had been playing in bands practically all their lives, they felt that this should be a piece of cake. After all,how hard can it be to form a band? A rehearsal was scheduled.

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DJ Tab

Janne Mansnerus, aka DJ Tab, began his DJ-ing career in 1992 and has gradually evolved his style into what he now describes as "progressive and melodic trance". Tab holds residencies at two of Helsinki's biggest club nights: Illusions and Hallmark, where he is responsible for the club's music direction. He also hosts a monthly radio show called 'Radio Extreme'. Tab's success in the Finnish club scene has helped further his international exposure, and he has DJ'ed as far afield as Estonia, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Holland and the UK.

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Poisonblack

Poisonblack is the new band of ex Sentenced singer Ville Laihiala. It started out as a side project as Ville wanted to play guitar so he decided to create his own band and project. The debut album released in 2003 under the label "Century Media" was called "Escapexstacy" and the Cover & booklet art was released by Vesa Ranta (Sentenced's ex-drummer). This album followed more or less the themes and the musical direction of Sentenced.

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Indica

There are six artists named Indica: 1) A Finnish pop rock band.
2) The psytrance solo-project of Eliad Grundland, also in Space Buddha.
3) A rock/electronic/psychedelic band from Argentina.
4) A defunct mathcore group from England.
5) A three piece stoner rock/metal band based in Dundee, Scotland.
6) A post-thrash metal band from Santa Barbara, California. 1)
www.indica-music.com
Jonsu (vocals, violin), Heini (bass), Sirkku (keyboards), Jenny (guitar) and Laura (drums) founded Indica in 2001.

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Oddarrang

Oddarrang is a Finnish experimental jazz ensemble founded by drummer/composer Olavi Louhivuori. Through their music, Oddarrang delivers a musical experience that isn't bound to any specific genre or category. The band melts together influences from jazz, classical music, world music and post-modern rock. The group's music has been compared to the cool but moving expression of Icelanders such as Björk and Sigur Rós.

Read more about Oddarrang on Last.fm.

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Tes La Rok

Tes La Rok is one of Helsinki's underground music pioneers. He is responsible for organising numerous raves in the last eight years. Right now, he's focusing on organising monthly Step Ahead dubstep raves along Dead-O and Sire. The trio also maintains the Finnish dubstep forum Step Ahead. In addition, he also organises Slam It, a dubstep and jungle club event. You can also catch him spinning plates every month on Bassoradio.

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GraVil

Well it seems people make music nowadays for ALL the wrong reasons, be it money, fame, women or drugs. GraVil are dead set against all of this. Little is known Of Gravil. One very dark night a knock at our door brought a man with sunken eyes and a slightly ferrel look looming through the mist. He handed us a cd, and was gone as soon as he had arrived. Under those circumstances, we could do little but listen. And we savoured every moment. We guessed at the Scandanavian playing and influence, and worked out the very British vocals, and sussed that this was a collaboration, and then some.

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