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Suomisaundi
Suomisaundi
Stylistic origins	Psychedelic trance, Goa trance
Cultural origins	Mid-1990s, Finland
Typical instruments	drum machine; PC; sequencer; sampler; folk instruments
Subgenres
	Forest psytrance
Fusion genres
	Progressive suomisaundi

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Suomisaundi,also known as suomistyge or spugedelic trance, is a style of freestyle psychedelic trance originating in Finland. "Suomisaundi" literally means "Finnish sound" in Finnish. The term "spugedelic" is comically derived from "psychedelic" and "spuge", meaning "an alcoholic" 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).

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. Only Finns, however, usually refer to their style as "suomisaundi" whereas abroad the term for this type of music is usually something like "freestyle" psytrance. The genre is not nearly as formulaic as most current (full on) psytrance, with artists having more freedom to explore different sounds and styles. The most recognizable element of this style is that it has no set rules apart from basic trance elements such as the four-on-the-floor kick drum. The songs are usually very melodic, including heavy influences from early Goa, tribal beats and acid trance tracks, as well as funky guitar/organ loops and sounds from or reminiscent of 1980's video and computer games. Finnish nature has also played an important role in the direction of the Finnish sound, with suomisaundi parties frequently taking place in the forests of Finland. Nowadays artists from many countries such as Australia, Japan, Israel and Eastern Europe produce funky freestyle psytrance, heavily influenced by the suomisoundi style.

It is common for songs to also include distorted sampling, layers and combinations of effects, tricky drum fills and breaks, as well as speech samples in Finnish or in English. On many occasions there are also forms of strange humor and/or self-irony in the music or in the track titles. Some even describe the Suomi-style of psytrance as anarchistic and almost punk in the trance music scene, because the songs are usually very different and progressive compared to mainstream European psytrance tracks. Some have criticized suomisaundi because early examples of the genre had inconsistent production quality and, due to the limited distribution of recorded albums, many tracks were not available in high fidelity audio formats. These critisims, however, have become increasingly inaccurate as the average production quality has improved significantly and the majority of releases are now distributed with a minimum quality of 320kbps mp3.

Finnish acid, Goa and psychedelic trance has been produced in Finland throughout its existence, starting in the early 90's when the Goa/acid trance culture began to form. Suomisaundi was originally born from a vehement hate of Tuubi which was a term used for everything that was not considered Suomisoundi. There are many artists in Finland producing suomisaundi style of music, but a few of the main artists that started the "suomisaundi-fuzz" are considered to be GAD, Squaremeat, Texas Faggott, Pelinpala, Haltya, Kiwa and EvsY. GAD released their album "Apollo 3D" in 1996 on Exogenic Records, the first release from the label. This release is considered to be the first suomisaundi album.

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. Group memberTim Thick has been an active promoter of Finnish psy-trance, as he established and operated Thixx'n'Dixx (http://thixxndixx.stc.cx/) in 2000, a site offering free MP3 downloads from almost all of 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 suomisaundi artists and eventually became so popular that it was even mentioned in a pop music program aired on Finnish national TV ^[1].

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 project Haltya. So far Haltya has released 3 albums, Forest Flavor, Electric Help Elves & Book of Nature and a good number of other published works in their unique style of funky forest sound. Haltya is considered to be one of the psy originals in the world, due to their characteristic approach in music. They are one of Finland's most wanted live acts abroad. Main figure behind Pelinpala & Haltya is producer/composer Tommi Sirkia, who is responsible for a wide range of musical contributions in Finnish modern electronic dance music, and is one of Finlands most internationally acknowledged electronic music producers today.

Squaremeat have done their power disco music for a very long time as well, 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 internationally.

2000s

Since 2000, the global interest in Finnish trance has grown significantly, with many Finnish groups touring internationally and performing to a growing global fan base. However, usually outside Finland, the Suomi-style is still considered an eccentricity within the context of the psytrance genre. Most notable suomisaundi audiences outside Finland are in Russia, Ukraine, Japan and Australia. The Japanese label, 6-Dimension Soundz, concentrates almost only in releasing suomi-style trance. Two of the most notable suomisaundi labels in Finland areExogenic 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 music is the Antiscarp-website, hosted by members of the Finnish psytrance group Salakavala.

Music names in this genre

External links

PsyUniverse - Psytrance Social Network.
Finnish psy-trance forum Elixiria
http://www.antiscarp.com
http://www.freakdancerecords.net
http://www.6d-soundz.org/
http://community.livejournal.com/suomisaundi/

References

^ "(YouTube video) - Thixx'n'Dixx site in Finnish TV show Pop-komissio, early 2000's".

[1] "(YouTube video) - Thixx'n'Dixx site in Finnish TV show Pop-komissio, early 2000's".

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-'''Suomisaundi''' (also known as '''suomistyge''' or '''spugedelic trance''') is a style of freeform [[psychedelic trance]] originating in [[Finland]]. "Suomisaundi" literally means "Finnish sound" in [[Finnish language|Finnish]]. The term "spugedelic" is comically derived from "[[psychedelia|psychedelic]]" and "spuge", meaning "an alcoholic" 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)''.
+'''Suomisaundi,'''also known as '''suomistyge''' or '''spugedelic trance,''' is a style of freestyle [[psychedelic trance]] originating in [[Finland]]. "Suomisaundi" literally means "Finnish sound" in [[Finnish language|Finnish]]. The term "spugedelic" is comically derived from "[[psychedelia|psychedelic]]" and "spuge", meaning "an alcoholic" 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)''.
 == 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 to their style as "suomisaundi" whereas abroad the term to this type of music is usually something like "freeform" psytrance. The genre is not nearly as formulaic as most current ([[full on]]) psytrance, with artists having more freedom to explore different sounds and styles. The most recognizable element of this style is that it has no set rules apart from basic trance elements such as the [[four-on-the-floor (music)|four-on-the-floor]] kick drum. The songs are usually very melodic, including heavy influences from early [[Goa trance|Goa]], tribal beats and [[acid trance]] tracks, as well as [[funk]]y guitar/organ loops and sounds from or reminiscent of 1980's video and computer games. Finnish nature has also played a great role in the direction of the Finnish sound, with suomisaundi parties frequently taking place in the forests of Finland. Nowadays artists from many countries such as [[Australia]], [[Japan]], [[Israel]] and [[Eastern Europe]] making funky freestyle psytrance, heavily influenced by suomisoundi style music although not directly from Finland.
+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. Only Finns, however, usually refer to their style as "suomisaundi" whereas abroad the term for this type of music is usually something like "freestyle" psytrance. The genre is not nearly as formulaic as most current ([[full on]]) psytrance, with artists having more freedom to explore different sounds and styles. The most recognizable element of this style is that it has no set rules apart from basic trance elements such as the [[four-on-the-floor (music)|four-on-the-floor]] kick drum. The songs are usually very melodic, including heavy influences from early [[Goa trance|Goa]], tribal beats and [[acid trance]] tracks, as well as [[funk]]y guitar/organ loops and sounds from or reminiscent of 1980's video and computer games. Finnish nature has also played an important role in the direction of the Finnish sound, with suomisaundi parties frequently taking place in the forests of Finland. Nowadays artists from many countries such as [[Australia]], [[Japan]], [[Israel]] and [[Eastern Europe]] produce funky freestyle psytrance, heavily influenced by the suomisoundi style.
-It is common for songs to also include distorted sampling, effects, tricky drum fills and breaks, as well as speech samples in Finnish or in English. On many occasions there are also forms of strange [[humor]] and/or [[self-irony]] in the music or in the track titles. Some even describe the Suomi-style of psytrance as [[Anarchism|anarchistic]] and almost [[Punk rock|punk]] in the trance music scene, because the songs are usually very different and progressive compared to the mainstream European psytrance tracks. Some have criticized suomisaundi because early examples of the genre had inconsistent production quality and due to the limited distribution of recorded albums, many tracks were not available in high fidelity audio formats.  These critisims, however, have become increasingly inaccurate as the average production quality has improved significantly and the majority of releases are now distributed with a minimum quality of [[320kbps]] [[mp3]].
+It is common for songs to also include distorted sampling, layers and combinations of effects, tricky drum fills and breaks, as well as speech samples in Finnish or in English. On many occasions there are also forms of strange [[humor]] and/or [[self-irony]] in the music or in the track titles. Some even describe the Suomi-style of psytrance as [[Anarchism|anarchistic]] and almost [[Punk rock|punk]] in the trance music scene, because the songs are usually very different and progressive compared to mainstream European psytrance tracks. Some have criticized suomisaundi because early examples of the genre had inconsistent production quality and, due to the limited distribution of recorded albums, many tracks were not available in high fidelity audio formats.  These critisims, however, have become increasingly inaccurate as the average production quality has improved significantly and the majority of releases are now distributed with a minimum quality of [[320kbps]] [[mp3]].
 {{Finnishmusic}}
-Finnish acid, Goa and psychedelic trance has been produced in Finland throughout its existence, starting from the early 90's when the Goa/acid trance culture began to form. Suomisoundi was originally born from a vehement hate of [[Tuubi]] which was a term used for everything that was not considered Suomisoundi. There are many artists in Finland producing suomisaundi style of music, but a few of the main characters that started the "suomisaundi-fuzz" are considered to be [[GAD]], [[Squaremeat]], [[Texas Faggott]], [[Pelinpala]], [[Haltya]], [[Kiwa (band)|Kiwa]] and [[EvsY]]. GAD released their album "Apollo 3D" in 1996 on [[Exogenic Records]], the first release from the label. This album is considered to be the very first suomisaundi album ever released.
+Finnish acid, Goa and psychedelic trance has been produced in Finland throughout its existence, starting in the early 90's when the Goa/acid trance culture began to form. Suomisaundi was originally born from a vehement hate of [[Tuubi]] which was a term used for everything that was not considered Suomisoundi. There are many artists in Finland producing suomisaundi style of music, but a few of the main artists that started the "suomisaundi-fuzz" are considered to be [[GAD]], [[Squaremeat]], [[Texas Faggott]], [[Pelinpala]], [[Haltya]], [[Kiwa (band)|Kiwa]] and [[EvsY]]. GAD released their album "Apollo 3D" in 1996 on [[Exogenic Records]], the first release from the label. This release is considered to be the first suomisaundi album.
 ''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 music|trance]] scene with their second release, ''Petoman's Peflett'' in 2001. Group member[[Tim Thick]] has been an active promoter of Finnish psy-trance, as he established and operated ''Thixx'n'Dixx (http://thixxndixx.stc.cx/)'' in 2000, a site offering free MP3 downloads from almost all of 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 suomisaundi artists and eventually became so popular that it was even mentioned in a pop music program aired on Finnish national [[TV]] <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCunOjmuYhA|title=(YouTube video) - Thixx'n'Dixx site in Finnish TV show Pop-komissio, early 2000's.}}</ref>.
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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 an eccentricity. Most notable suomisaundi audiences outside Finland are in [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], [[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]].
+Since 2000, the global interest in Finnish trance has grown significantly, with many Finnish groups touring internationally and performing to a growing global fan base. However, usually outside Finland, the Suomi-style is still considered an eccentricity within the context of the psytrance genre. Most notable suomisaundi audiences outside Finland are in [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], [[Japan]] and [[Australia]]. The Japanese label, [[6-Dimension Soundz]], concentrates almost only in releasing suomi-style trance. Two of the most notable suomisaundi labels in Finland 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 music is the [[Antiscarp]]-website, hosted by members of the Finnish psytrance group [[Salakavala]].
 == Music names in this genre ==