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Tapes

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About Me

Jukka Salminen is finnish singer/songwriter and Tapes is his alter ego. Tapes started when Jukka moved to England on Autumn 2002 to continue his studies on photography. There he started to play acoustic guitar and make songs. Tapes is about beautiful songs played with an acoustic (nylon) guitar. Songs are usually quite specific documents about certain moment or feeling. Most songs are quite short and fragile and have some kind of photographic content. Tapes is about shooting Polaroids with a guitar. Tapes has released a debut album on January 2006. It is simply named Tapes. Album contains 10 beautiful songs, 8 1/2 Tapes songs and 1 1/2 cover-songs. 1 1/2 covers because Jukka also plays in a band called Tigerbombs and he is covering their song "Highway". Other cover is a Metallica song "Fade to Black". It is a song that reveals Jukka's past as a heavy metal-fan. The song is arranged for an acoustic guitar and is performed as a Tapes song should be performed; quietly and beatifully. Tapes-album is out now and it is published by Aisti Records and distributed by Playground Music. Check it. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4Dance Alone

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Member Since: 3/6/2006
Band Website: musaa.org/tapes
Band Members: Jukka Salminen, Vox/guitar/keys
Influences: From jazz to death metal
Sounds Like: good music
Record Label: Aisti Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Coming Up

Coming Up is another new Tapes-song that you can listen on Myspace. Previous song ’If You’ was on BabyBoom sampler for SXSW-festival this year. Go America Go!! Hope you enjoy the song!
Posted by Tapes on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:22:00 PST

If You

Awright. If You is the first song from the upcoming Tapes album. I think it's pretty cool. It is produced with Samae Koskinen and mixed by Pepe Trouble. My brother Tommi plays the drums. Teemu Into he...
Posted by Tapes on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:22:00 PST

New stuff coming up

Hello!It's been a while since I've written something about Tapes-stuff. I've been working with Samae Koskinen Ja Hänen Taikabändinsä as a guitarist and it has been busy time. But still I have some nic...
Posted by Tapes on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:07:00 PST

Playlist from Hang The DJ

As someone might know I'm also a DJ in Tampere. Last Saturday was a great night at Klubi. My dear friend Antti H and I played some kick ass tunes.Dj's Antti H & Tiskijukka @ HANG THE DJ!, Klubi Tamper...
Posted by Tapes on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:44:00 PST

New Video

Whoa. It is amazing how these new mobile phones work. My dear friend Olle Borgar from London shot this new video for "Dance Alone" with a phone. I can hardly call someone with mine. Hope you'll like i...
Posted by Tapes on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:43:00 PST

Cover-song

Howdy! Just added a version of Kiss's I Stole Your Love to the site. I've been playing it live for a long time and did record it for the album, but I chose that other cover song. But hey, this is a gr...
Posted by Tapes on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:43:00 PST

Futer

Hey You! Thanks all the people who was at Artturi 10.8.06. It was a great show for me! Thanks! As a promoter of the event I'm also really pleased with the crowd and especially the amount of people who...
Posted by Tapes on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:38:00 PST

Summer is here

Hello. It seems that summer has finally come to Finland. Whoa. Now it's just great. Just came from our rehearsal place. We're doing demos for the Laurila-album now. It's going to be a blast. Some Rock...
Posted by Tapes on Sun, 07 May 2006 12:52:00 PST

just some good tunes

Well, nothing much to say, just to promote some great songs and bands I've been listening lately..Dungen: just getting better and better all the time.Junip: Ordered an EP from Sweden. Sounds really go...
Posted by Tapes on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:34:00 PST

Huuuuh

Just got back from the club; I started DJ:ing in a new bar today. I still play in Doris (Tampere, u know), but I'm doing some weekends at Ruma (bar's name). Huh, it was exhausting. You know when peopl...
Posted by Tapes on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:05:00 PST