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23:55 | Blastromen Live (Finland) |
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 Blastromen is a Finnish electronic music duo, founded in 2003 by Mika Rosenberg and Sami Koskivaara. Their music is a mix of old school electro, synthesizer music, modern techno and electronic music that salutes the past and greets the future. Blastromen's musical themes drift between futuristic landscapes and sci-fi where complex and accurate modern production methods, catchy melodies and vocoder singing makes their music catchy and unique. The history of Blastromen goes all the way back to the year 2003 when the duo decided to change their current musical style to more electro influenced direction. The futuristic name "Blastromen" was then formed. Soon, in year 2004 the first 12" EP vinyl Robot Aggression was released on a Finnish record label X0X Records. Since then Blastromen has released second EP called Blasteroids and two studio albums called Human Beyond (2010) and Reality Opens (2014) on Dominance Electricity, that were also played in Dave Clarke's White Noise radio show. From the first release Blastromen has been a popular name in electro genre worldwide and has played live in several events in Finland, Germany, Spain and Russia. Their live show has developed over the years into a unique show including light jackets that are programmed to follow the music. The year 2014 was Blastromen's 10-year anniversary when they returned back to the live stage after intensive studio session. So far they have played in several festivals in Finland e.g. Lawatanssit, Lumous and a very special concert in Assembly Computer Festival with unique live visualization with VJ artist Sakke Soini. They also released Music video for the track 'Sidtroen' and visited Finnish national television program called NEO. Blastromen's third studio album is in the making and also a new spectacular version of the light jackets. Blastromen will perform in Moscow for the first time with amazing light show and unbelievable laser art. More info
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 When Erk Aicrag (lyrics, vocals) and Racso Agroyam (programming) formed Hocico back in 1993, little did the two Mexicans know that they were to become one of the most successful hard Electro acts of all time. "We never had in mind how much our music might sell. We only had a strong desire to express our feelings and to do what we wanted. We wanted to break the rules of society. The restrictions which others superimpose on us have always been a great source of inspiration. This hasn't changed until the present day. Only the way that we express ourselves has undergone subtle changes," Erk explains. Sex, lies, death, abuse and religion have always dominated the group's lyrics. The duo explains: "Hocico is our way to express our feelings in an honest and straightforward fashion. We are aiming at conveying these emotions to our listener with full impact in order to make them become aware of and deal with their own dark side." The duo released their studio album "Tiempos de Furia," a relentless exercise in unbridled energy and aggression mingled with the musical prowess of 17 years of band history, in 2010. Hocico celebrated their best and most intense hard electro inferno to date with an extensive world tour which took them, among many places, to Russia where they played a series of shows to euphoric crowd reception. These have been documented on their CD & DVD "Blood On The Red Square" which was released at the end of 2011. The most Hocico's aggressive sonic onslaught to date is album 2012 "El Último Minuto" which is available as a regular 1-CD-version, deluxe double CD and deluxe fan box with an assortment of red hot goodies, limited to 666 copies. "El Último Minuto" is the music for our final minute. According to hard electro pioneers and sonic enunciators of the impending doom Hocico, everything will end with a bang of beats, anger and bass. The new Hocico's album is harder than anything Erk Aicrag and Racso Agroyam have unleashed out of the bowels of their internal hell unto the world so far. Those who are familiar with the lads will know that hidden away in the heart of the inferno there is always a core of club-compatible rhythms, far out sounds and utter addictiveness. Two years ago the band celebrated their 20th anniversary releasing a compilation Los Días Caminando En El Fuego and an amazing sold out show in one of the bigest club of Berlin. It's time for Russia to see an unbelievable live show of Hocico! The Russian dark-electro project Too Dead To Die will open Hocico's performance. More info
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