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On The Frequency - OUT NOW! |
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| Location: | Helsinki, |
| Country: |  Finland |
| Last Login: | Jun 13, 2008 (529 days back) |
About Me |
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KIWA Sometime around the mid 90's two school mates, Markku Louhio and Matti Elsinen, inspired by early techno, acid house and Prodigy, got their hands on the Fastracker program. Creating hardcore techno and experimental dance music changed radically for these guys when they discovered Goa trance. Soon their hobby of making music only with the computer evolved to a home studio set-up of MIDI instruments, mixers and drum machines. Even though their history as producers was rooted in the Goa trance scene, performing in underground forest parties and listening to bands like Koxbox and Eat Static, they were soon to widen their scope of music. After Kiwa's first live show on New Year's Eve 1996, Markku and Matti started challenging themselves by incorporating breakbeats, atmospheric soundscapes and their trademark funky bass lines, at a time when using influences of breaks, drum 'n' bass and house was still very exceptional within the genre. Louhio says that the past ten years has been a journey in learning to blend all the influences and styles to what Kiwa represents today, as well as finding a balance between energetic dance floor tracks and music interesting enough to be enjoyed also outside the party venues. The music of Kiwa escapes genre labels and has been said to have a unique sound of it's own. Their debut album Dreamtime Enhancer in 2002, according to many critics, was acclaimed to be a milestone in the scene due to it's style-blending approach on electronic music. Since 2002 Kiwa has toured on live and DJ gigs around the world from Brazil to Israel and from Russia to Western Europe. Kiwa's live setup consists of two synchronized laptops, keyboards and loads of samples and audio channels by which they build their energetic performances on. DJ/Producer Kris Kylven , with a strong history in bands like Killing Joke, Juno Reactor, UX, The 69 Eyes and many more has been flavouring their performances as a live drummer in the past. Kylven and Louhio also started to produce tracks together in 1999 as an industrial and ethno influenced trance project, the Faithealers. Elsinen and Louhio have worked with many different projects in genres ranging from hip hop to rock, including compositions and sound production for the Finnish television. Aside from Kiwa, Markku Louhio produces the breakbeat influenced band Headphonics and the progressive trance act Highpersonic Whomen with Tommi Sirkiä, known from Haltya. Louhio also performs as a DJ under the name of DJ Make Matic. Kiwa is currently working on their third album, which is scheduled to be released in January 2007 by Exogenic Records. RELATED PROJECTS: www.headphonics.net - Headphonics home... breaks, funk, hip-hop, drum'n'bass ... www.highpersonic.net - Highpersonic Whomen website. Progressive house & trance. Faithealers Subfocus |
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Music:Member Since: 5/10/2006Band Website: kiwa.fi Band Members: Markku Louhio Matti Elsinen Albums: On The Frequency CD /Exogenic Records 2007 Retroactive CD /Surreal Audio 2004 Dreamtime Enhancer CD /Surreal Audio 2002 EPs: Phat Cat / Disco Infection Promo CD /Exogenic Records 2006 Phat Cat / Disco Infection 12" /Exogenic Records 2006 EP 12" /Surreal Audio 2001 Compilations: Psy Trance Euphoria CD /Ministry Of Sound 2008 Ultrapop 2 CD /Fabula Records 2007 Ear Pleasure CD /Chill Tribe Records 2007 Funland Boogie Files CD /Space Boogie productions 2006 Ultrapop CD /Fabularecords 2004 13th Moon: Journey Into Future Consciousness CD /Interchill Records 2003 Angelic Science CD /Surreal Audio 2003 Trance Of Scandinavia 2xCD Trance Of Scandinavia /Digital Structures 2003 Complications CD /Exogenic Breaks 2002 Elucidations CD /Liquid Sound Design 2002 Loopus In Fabula CD /Demon Tea Recordings 2002 Psycholympics CD /Protune Records 2002 Custom File CD /Exogenic Records 2001 Open CD /Surreal Audio 2001 Beats And Beyond CD /Surreal Audio 2000 Remixes: Hidria Spacefolk - Nasha Universo /Exogenic Breaks 2004 Snake Thing - It's All Good 12" /Surreal Audio 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------ --- Markku Louhio - Discography of other releases Albums: Highpersonic Whomen - Push The Limit /Exogenic Records 2007 Headphonics - Mass /Exogenic Records 2007 12" & EPs Faithealers: Optical Dreams EP (12") /Aurinko Records 2000 Remixes: Spies - Wide Shot 12" (Faithealers remix) /Aurinko Records 2000 Compilations: Subfocus: "Fountains Across" /Angelic Science /Surreal Audio 2003 Faithealers: "Spiritualizer" /Magnox CD /Atomic Reactor 2002 Faithealers: New Breed /Catcher CD/ Aurinko Records 2001 Faithealers: "New Breed, Sacred Hearts"/Catcher - Japan Edition (2xCD) /Equinox 2001 Faithealers: Optical Dreams /Cyberl@b v2.0 (2xCD)/ Matrix Cube 2000 Faithealers: New Breed (original mix) /Catcher (2x12") /Aurinko Records 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------ --- Selected performances: Soulclipse 2006, Turkey Spugedelic Revolution 2006, Hungary 5 element 2005, Estonia Systo Festival 2005, Russia Porto das Aguas 2005, Brazil Retroactive album release party with Son Kite 2004, Finland Koneisto Festival 2002-2004, Finland Samothraki Gathering 2003, Greece Provinssirock 2001, Finland ------------------------------------------------------------ --- BOOKINGS IN BRAZIL: booker1@neurotika.com.br http://www.neurotika.com.br/ Record Label: Exogenic Records Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Trance / Progrsv House / Breakbeat) |
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My Blog |
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"On The Frequency" reviewed by DJ MAG - 4 stars out of 5! |
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| DJ Mag reviewed our latest album along with Highpersonic Whomen’s "Push The Limit". Click here to read the review.... Posted by Kiwa on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:41:00 PST |
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New Kiwa live photos from Brazil |
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| New photos from our latest gig in Buzios Brazil added to the album. Check it out! Posted by Kiwa on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:37:00 PST |
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"On The Frequency" official release date 21.2.07 |
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| EXOCD33Kiwa On the FrequencyKiwa´s third album On the Frequency is born to expand the concept of the electronic dance music beyond the genre labels and style tags. The members of Kiwa, Matti Elsinen... Posted by Kiwa on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:52:00 PST |
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"ON THE FREQUENCY" - NEW ALBUM COMING SOON! |
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| We are working on a new album."On the Frequency" is nearly finished and will be released in the next couple of months on Exogenic Records... stay tuned! =)... Posted by Kiwa on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:58:00 PST |
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Highpersonic Whomen, Haltya, Headphonics, Graziella, Pete Void, kris kylven ©, Eat Static, Snoop Dogg, loopus in fabula, A C C U, Hidria Spacefolk, SKILDA, SUSPIRA, Exogenic Records, Chill Tribe Records, Dreamsection, PLURGRIM / UNMATTER, Sauna, Lukenji San, AstroNivo, Creatrix, Insight Dynamiks, UX ©, edGeCut, Psymoon - Records, Daddy, TAL, Ciappy dj, Iga, Ritmo, XaneX, Frank Random, SynSUN, The Faithealers, THE FREAK SHOW-second album is coming in july, angel farringdon, Janna, Dj Hallmarc, eXuUs, Analog Drink, AKAHUM, Lisko Disco, Com.Pact Records, N.A.S.A., CRAZY DUCKS, Audisey, DJ PsySpace, KoRpiSoPuLi, enrico, ♣ Ivana ♣, Aluminol, Pascale Scarabin, Irina, G FOX, Neoserfer, Greg Siokos, Vilhelm, Hanna Marsh, DezignMusic, Reetta / Dj Cini, Invert Panda
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