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Kompleksi

We Call It Eclectro.

About Me

all the latest kompleksi news here! More Kompleksi soundfiles @ pHinnWeb
Kompleksi ("complex" in Finnish) are Mike Not and pHinn, two ex-suicide candidates from Tampere (often called "Finland's Manchester"), who ride in a red Lada through the gloomy streets of their rainy post-industrial town; the home of ice hockey fanatics, world's last working Lenin Museum and countless sex shops.
They started making music together in 2002. Kompleksi's first 7" single, '(I Ain't No) Lovechild'/'Moscow 1980' was released in May 2005 on Finnish Lal Lal Lal label. They have also appeared on compilations of Bunker (NL), White Label Music (UK), Mate Recordings (UK), 267 Lattajjaa (FIN) and pHinnMilk (FIN). Furthermore, Kompleksi has created yet-to-be-released remixes for Finnish cult artist M.A. Numminen , "the godfather of Finnish underground" and the indie/electropop act Boys of Scandinavia .
Mike Not (star sign: Scorpio - keyboards, production, programming, sound engineering) has produced music since the early 90s under such monikers as Noise Production . Furthermore, he has produced and engineered records for such artists as the hip hop posse Nuera and their Finnish chart-busting Petri Nygård project, also the gothrock band Suruaika.
pHinn (star sign: Leo - vocals, keyboards) has since 1996 maintained a Website called pHinnWeb on Finnish electronic, experimental and leftfield music. His previous act was called Club Telex Noise Ensemble .
Kompleksi has also such "hang-around members" as Citizen Omega , Polytron , Unidentified Sound Objects and Sonic Temple Assassins , who have created tracks in collaboration with Kompleksi.
Kompleksi are at the moment working on their second longplay, probably to be completed during 2008. Their debut, Sister Longlegs Dances In The Disco , is now available as digital download through Beatport (see above for the info on how to get it).
Kompleksi are also now looking for a CD publisher for the album (vinyl is on its way by early 2008 -- stay tuned for details!) , so if you think you're one, take contact...
Kompleksi's music is black with splashes of day-glo. File under: post-industrial soul, post-Soviet electro, afro-gothic, eclectro.
Check Kompleksi Website for some more sound samples. And pHinnWeb Blog for other rants.
Kompleksi interview @ Foxy Digitalis
Sister Longlegs... (unpublished Kompleksi album) review @ Electrosynth

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/8/2006
Band Website: phinnweb.org/kompleksi
Band Members: Mike Not & pHinn
Influences: Adult. , Afrika Bambaataa & other early 80s New York electro acts, Marc Almond & Soft Cell, Kenneth Anger , Michelangelo Antonioni , Aphex Twin, Apocalypse: Now, Augustus Pablo, Paul Auster, Aux 88, J.G. Ballard, Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys/Brian Wilson, The Beatles, Billy Idol, Big Star (especially "Third"), Blade Runner, William Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, David Bowie, Andre Breton and Surrealists, Tim Buckley, Luis Bunuel, William S. Burroughs, The Byrds, Joseph Campbell, Can, Wendy Carlos, Raymond Chandler, Chicago acid house of the 80s, Chicks on Speed , Kaj Chydenius, Jean Cocteau, Coil, Julio Cortazar, Count Five, Carl Craig , The Creation , The Chocolate Watch Band , Dada, DAF, Miles Davis, Den Haag sewer electro , Detroit techno of the 80s, Philip K. Dick , The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, The Doors, Dopplereffekt , Drexciya , Bob Dylan ca. 1964-66, early synthpop of 1978-84, Giorgio DeChirico, James Ellroy, Brian Eno, film noir, Die Form, John Foxx, Frankie Goes To Hollywood/Trevor Horn/ZTT Records, Frontline Assembly, Front 242, The Fugs, Funkadelic/Parliament, The Future Sound of London, Neil Gaiman, Serge Gainsbourg, GD Luxxe, Allen Ginsberg, Irwin Goodman, Nina Hagen, Herbie Hancock, Hawkwind , Jimi Hendrix, Hermann Hesse, Human League of 'Being Boiled' era, I-f , Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Tenor , Allen Jones , Brian Jones-era Rolling Stones, Joy Division/New Order, C.G. Jung, Franz Kafka, J. Saul Kane (a.k.a. Depth Charge a.k.a. Octagon Man), Kemialliset Ystavat , Jack Kerouac, King Tubby, The Kinks, Kraftwerk , Krautrock in general, Leena Krohn, Stanley Kubrick , Erkki Kurenniemi , Led Zeppelin, LFO, Lothar and the Hand People, Love/Arthur Lee , Mad Max II, Mad Mike & Underground Resistance , The Magus by John Fowles, Man Ray, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Curtis Mayfield, MC5, Meat Beat Manifesto, Jean-Pierre Melville, Joe Meek's productions, Miss Kittin , Model 500/Cybotron/Juan Atkins , The Monks, Monty Python, Moog synths, Alan Moore, Giorgio Moroder, Ennio Morricone, Grant Morrison, Motown of the 60s, The Music Machine , Helmut Newton , musique concrete, Os Mutantes, Nine Inch Nails, The Normal, Nuggets type of 60s garage punk psychedelia & freakbeat, Gary Numan, M.A. Numminen , Organ , Pan sonic , Peaches, Sam Peckinpah, Jim Pembroke/Blues Section/Wigwam, postpunk of 1978-84, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Edgar Allan Poe, Roman Polanski (up to Chinatown), Primal Scream, The Prisoner, Public Enemy, Public Image Limited/John Lydon, Prince of 1978-88, ? & The Mysterians, Renegade Soundwave, Nicolas Roeg , Roxy Music, Eino Ruutsalo , Arto Salminen , Scarface by Brian DePalma, Lalo Schifrin, The Seeds, Adrian Sherwood & On-U Sound, Sielun Veljet, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Silver Apples, Nina Simone, the 60s beat in general (too many great UK & US acts to mention), Skinny Puppy/Kevin Ogre, Sleepy Sleepers , Sly and the Family Stone, Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, Space: 1999 , Sparks , The Standells , Stax Records of the 60s, Jim Steranko, Stereolab, Mark Stewart, Suicide, Sun Ra, Suomen Talvisota 1939-1940 , Tackhead, Andrei Tarkovsky, Taxi Driver, The Temptations in their psychedelic period, Hunter S. Thompson, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Unidentified Sound Objects , The United States of America (the 60s band), The Velvet Underground/Nico/Lou Reed, Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, Visage, Scott Walker , Andy Warhol, Andy Weatherall, The Who (up to Quadrophenia), Robert Anton Wilson, The Yardbirds , Yello + tons of others (see Kompleksi's Friend Space for more clues).
Sounds Like: Our music is black -- with splashes of day-glo
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

13 Nov ’07: Video to Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2008

More film festival appearances for Kompleksi's 'Sara Pain' video, directed by Tina Ulevik/Spul Films (Australia)... Now the video has been chosen to the Supporting Programme of the 21th Stuttgarter F...
Posted by Kompleksi on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:14:00 PST

11 Oct 07: Kompleksis Video @ The Foundry (London, UK)

Kompleksi's 'Sara Pain' video, directed by Tina Ulevik/Spul Films (Australia) will be shown in London on Saturday 27 October 2007 at an event called Disco_r.dance (at The Foundry club), celebrating t...
Posted by Kompleksi on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:47:00 PST

23 Aug 07: Kompleksis album also @ Beatport

Kompleksi's debut album "Sister Longlegs Dances In The Disco" (10 tracks, 50 minutes / phnnmlk-5, August 2007) also available as digital download from Beatport: Click this text for the direct p...
Posted by Kompleksi on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:18:00 PST

20 Aug 07: Kompleksis video @ Oulu Music Video Festival

  Kompleksi's 'Sara Pain' video by Tina Ulevik/Spul Films Australia has made it to the Finnish showcase screening ("Kotimainen katselmus") no. 6 of Oulu Music Video Festival,...
Posted by Kompleksi on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:57:00 PST

3 Aug 07: Get our debut album @ iTunes!

Kompleksi's debut album Sister Longlegs Dances In The Disco can now be purchased from iTunes! With the cult favourite tracks 'Porno Tampere', '(I Ain't No) Lovechild', 'Moscow 1980', 'Sara Pain', 'Go...
Posted by Kompleksi on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:42:00 PST

28 June '07: Kompleksi @ Zoot mag (PT)

Zoot, a Portuguese fashion/music magazine in English has published in its issue #5 (Winter 2006) a featurette on Kompleksi, written by Ann Shenton a.k.a. Large Number (formerly also a m...
Posted by Kompleksi on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:53:00 PST

3 June '07: 'Sara Pain' Video on Sydney Shorts, Australia

For Aussie readers...The 'Sydney Shorts' show hosted by Tony Lawrence on community television station TVS (formerly called Channel 31) based in Sydney, Australia will show Kompleksi's '...
Posted by Kompleksi on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:13:00 PST

29.5. 2007: Kompleksi 7" review @ NonPop.De

There's a review of Kompleksi's 7" in German at the NonPop.de site. You can read it here....
Posted by Kompleksi on Tue, 29 May 2007 04:17:00 PST

18 May '07: '(e)motions', a brand new track online

There's a brand new Kompleksi track, called '(e)motions', now online. Listen/download it here: http://phinnweb.org/kompleksi/sounds/(e)motions.mp3. Lyrics ...
Posted by Kompleksi on Fri, 18 May 2007 05:52:00 PST

10 May '07: Wired blog on Javelin's 'Moscow 1980' remix

Eliot Van Buskirk writes at Wired blog on Javelin's remix of our (and Polytron's) 'Moscow: 1980', a version which seems to have gathered a bit of a following in the Net, judging by search results...
Posted by Kompleksi on Thu, 10 May 2007 05:19:00 PST