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Northbound - NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!!

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"OUR NEW ALBUM, "NOWHERE NEAR", IS OUT. You can download it from our site
We have a donation system there, so you can decide whether you want to pay for the album or not!
FOR DJ-BOOKINGS CONTACT [email protected]
BIO
In the early 21st century, Northbound was formed with the intention to create beautiful, soulful instrumental music with a homegrown feel. After a few years in the university of trial and error their music began to find its shape, in a colourful style that some people refer to as combination of trip hop, downtempo, jazz and folkish acoustic pop. Their first and so far only release is an EP of six songs, titled "Landscapes of Late". The EP has received a very positive response, and their songs have since then been heard on few (mainly finnish) radio stations, compilations, some tv-shows and on the soundtrack of various snowboarding films.
After the EP-release, vocalist Venla has joined forces with the original duo. As a result, on the forthcoming album the instrumentals will be accompanied with some vocal tracks. The album has been in the works for some time now, and should be ready in a couple of months. The album picks up where the EP left off, providing a slightly wider variety of styles, and also a couple of very interesting quests. So stay tuned for that!
Attention: Northbound's "Landscapes of Late" is available on Monotonik! Go check out the release page here ..and download the whole damn thing for FREE! I would. Probably.
You can also get the EP from our site ..there you'll find some other goodies as well, like the Lazy Sunday Radio set, featuring the mighty DJ Mobster...
The CD-edition of the Landscapes EP has been sold out for ages, cheers for your support people.
Here are some kind words from some kind people:
"Absolutely freakin' gorgeous Finnish nu-chill grooves...one of the best Monotonik releases in a good while" -Simon Carless
"An Underground Classic" -www.funk.fi
"Loving the EP/mini album/CD/thing. Incredibly dope ish" -Rup
"Lovely sounds, liking them a lot" -Dr. Rubberfunk
"A brilliant album" -Sir Nenis
"Nice tunes" -TM Juke
FULL LIVE BAND IN THE WORKS!
FOR DJ-BOOKINGS CONTACT [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/09/2006
Band Website: www.northboundsound.com
Band Members: Mikko Roisko (songs, guitars, bass, keys, melodica, banjo, beats 'n such)
Olli Jäderholm (keys, beats, percussions 'n such)
Venla Saartamo (vocals 'n such)
Influences: All the top dogs...such as: A Tribe Called Quest, The Abyssinians, Aleksi Virta Meets Torsti at the Space Lounge, Amon Tobin, Animals on Wheels, Antibalas, Aphilas, Augustus Pablo, Autechre, Burt Bacharach, Shirley Bassey, Joe Bataan, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Blackalicious, Blackstar, Blamstrain, Blockhead, Boards of Canada, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bonobo, David Bowie, Braintax, Brothomstates, Built to Spill, Cinematic Orchestra, Coldcut, Nicola Conte, Curtis Mayfield, Cymande, Dalindeo, Dinosaur JR, Dirty Diggers, DJ Food, DJ Mobster, DJ Shadow, DJ Vadim, Donovan, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Echosystem, Danny Elfman, EZ Rollers, Fela Kuti, Flogging Molly, Fink, The Five Corners Quintet, Fog, Four Tet, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Jose Gonzales, Dexter Gordon, Gabro, Grant Green, Guardians of Dalliance, Tommy Guerrero, Herbie Hancock, The Herbaliser, Hint, Joe Hisaishi, Lars Horntveth, Human Gallery, Interpol, Jaga Jazzist, James Taylor Quartet, Jets to Brazil, Bob James, Jeh5t, J.J Johnson, Sharon Jones, Joy Division, Kaino, Jon Kennedy, Kid Dakota, Kid Koala, Kings of Convenience, Kingston Wall, Lackluster, Lagwagon, Led Zeppelin, Lightman, Ville Leinonen, Liberator, Metallica, Mo'horizons, Wes Montgomery, Ennio Morricone, Van Morrison, Mouse on Mars, Mr Scruff, Mozart, Mum, Muse, Joanna Newsom, Nightmares on Wax, Nostalgia 77, Johnny Osbourne, Paleface, Pharcyde, Plaid, Poets of the Rhythm, Propellerheads, Tito Puente, Quannum, Quantic, Radiohead, Redrama, REM, RJD2, Rodney P, The Roots, Roots Manuva, Rup, Alice Russell, Simon & Garfunkel, Sixtoo, Skatalites, Smashing Pumpkins, Souls of Mischief, Squarepusher, Sublime, Talib Kweli, Thievery Corporation, TM Juke, Tulenkantajat, Up Bustle & Out, Wagon Christ, War, John Williams, The White Stripes, Yosuke Yamashita, Thom Yorke, Neil Young...just to name a few.
Sounds Like: Harp in paradise
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Funking good time mixtape

He're is another mixtape for your listening pleasure. I was kind enought to add a link to every artist so you can go andget their stuff! http://www.northboundsound.com/sound/NB_FnknGoodTimes.mp31. Bre...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:57:00 GMT

Download Northbound january09mix

yo folks...my new mixtape is now downloadable! It includes unreleased northbound shit, good shit from ninjatune, tru thoughts/zebra traffic and such, some other good shit, and a song by Simply Red. ...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:16:00 GMT

the scrapbook project

Holla!The Scrapbook Project is a huge finnish snowboarding film/documentary that's coming out real soon...if you subscribe Snowboarder mag, Transworld Japan, Onboard (europe) or Slammer (finland), you...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:44:00 GMT

Mikkos littleMIXsunshine - free download

HiyaHere's a link to a little summermixtape I did:http://rapidshare.com/files/134783670/littleMIXsunshine. mp3.htmltracklist:01 Joe Bataan - Chick-a-boom 02 DJ Mobster - Still in Charge (feat. Paleface...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:29:00 GMT

Landscapes of Late - review

Just a little review of our EP at Merck Fragments.http://www.gabekoch.com/?p=38
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 01:47:00 GMT

Video Days

Over the last 1,5 years Northbound-songs have been soundtracking quite a few interesting flicks. As the release of the new album draws near, I thought it would be cool to make some sort of r...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:55:00 GMT

Track One by Fairlight (feat. Northbound)

I know this is a bit old, but I just realized that this piece of art can be found on Youtube these days. It's a demo by Fairlight called "Track One", with our song "Forward" as the soundtrack. It fini...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:59:00 GMT

Album update part 42

what it do? Thought I'd let you how the album making process is going. As expected, it's taking a bit longer than expected (that doesn't make any sense, I know), but we're getting there. The songs are...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:12:00 GMT

NB on Storbis07-soundtrack

Northbound's "Funny Stones" will be featured on the soundtrack of Storbis07. For those not in the know, Storbis is a series of finnish snowboarding films that started in 2000 and has gained lots of vi...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:10:00 GMT

Gig cancellation

Due to recent unfortunate events we had to cancel our gig at M-bar's Söndag Jazz (in Helsinki) on 1st of July. Our apologies to everyone who was looking forward to that...and of course to the organise...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:15:00 GMT