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Kiwa

On The Frequency - OUT NOW!

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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

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/10/2006
Band 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

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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

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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

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BOOKINGS IN BRAZIL: [email protected]
http://www.neurotika.com.br/

Record Label: Exogenic Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

"On The Frequency" reviewed by DJ MAG - 4 stars out of 5!

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

New Kiwa live photos from Brazil

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

"On The Frequency" official release date 21.2.07

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

"ON THE FREQUENCY" - NEW ALBUM COMING SOON!

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