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Before I will find time to update this Tumblr blog again, there’s always some newer stuff in the following places: pHinnWeb @ Bluesky pHinnWeb @ Mastodon Both these are for (almost) daily music news, record releases and event infos from Finland. Then there’s pHinnWeb 2 : some miscellaneous texts on music and films, etc., both retro and new-ish. Till we meet again.
2024 in a nutshell: My first professional film project, the war documentary Marokon kauhu (The Terror of Morocco a.k.a. Aarne Juutilainen) was finally ready and got into distribution. As a personal project, being able to finish Amuri Tekno , an interview documentary of a local electronic duo, after nearly three years since its filming, was also important for me. Of the other stuff, I was glad I…
[ Extended version of this text. ] There’s Bonus Beats , a new compilation from Cold Blow Records that brings up quite an onslaught of memories for me. Namely, of those times when we had our own Club Telex at Tampere’s Yo-Talo (Student Union House), and also hanging out at the electro parties in Helsinki (remember H elsinki Turbo ?) and Turku, with those lovely freaks of Rikos Records (the defunct…
The Terror of Morocco – The Road to Winter War 1939 (English subtitles) Koko dokumentti nähtävissä Kotikinossa: https://kotikino.fi/video/details/70283302/278975332 (For the time being, the full documentary can be watched in Finland only.) Pois leikattu jakso draamadokumentista Marokon Kauhu - Dokumenttielokuva suomalaisesta taistelijasta (julkaistu 16.3. 2024, levitys VL Media). Pääosassa: Pauli…
The news just came in today that J. Saul Kane , the pioneering British breakbeat/electro musician known for such projects as Depth Charge and the Octagon Man, has passed on. He was only 57 years old. I was briefly in touch with him years ago when I kept for my own Website a sort of fanpage of his music and also the record labels, DC Recordings and Electron Industries, that he maintained. (I can’t…
Some years ago I was planning as student work a documentary of Tampere’s old Jugendstil (related to Art Nouveau/Secessionism) buildings of the late 19th and early 20th century, many of them sadly demolished now. (As there was too much else to do those days, I had to put the planned documentary project on the back burner, hopefully to be retrieved in some form one day…) The corner of…
17.10. vietetään Asunnottomien yötä . Viisi vuotta sitten tehtiin tämä dokumentti. Kivisen Timo ( Pictura Films ) ohjasi, minä tein käsikirjoituksen “Katrin” draamaosuuteen, joka pohjautui tositarinaan. Tämä ihminen ei halunnut esiintyä omilla kasvoillaan, joten ensin haastattelin häntä ja tein sitten haastattelun pohjalta kässärin. “Katria” esitti Sonja Häkkinen , joka oli…
JR29: Vaiettu rykmentti (“JR29: A Regiment Forced into Silence”). Documentary film. 27 April 2025. Finnish Infantry Regiment 29 was assembled from the Finnish province of Central Ostrobothnia in 1941. The Regiment was led by Lieutenant Colonel Paavo Susitaival under Colonel Kaarlo Heiskanen. The Regiment advanced through the bloody battles in the Eastern Karelia to Petrozavodsk, where it arrived…
Amuri Tekno are Miika Salo and Miska Väänänen, hailing from Tampere, Finland. Their music is a homegrown blend of Detroit-inspired techno, tech-house, acid house, IDM, and ambient. They have released on such Finnish record labels as Kontact Records, Spin Records and Turun Levytehdas. They are both of the generation who was coming of age during the halcyon days of the early 1990s techno music and…
Amuri Tekno Trailer 2024 (English subtitles) Amuri Tekno are a techno duo from Tampere, Finland. On Friday 20 September 2024 you can find their full interview, 43 minutes, at pHinnWeb’s YouTube channel.
Amuri Tekno are two local guys, Miika Salo & Miska Väänänen. I am a big fan of their music, which could be called a homegrown blend of Detroit techno, acid, IDM and ambient techno. From the 2020s musical perspective, their sound could also be called somewhat “retro” (if you are a fan of what labels like Warp, R&S, Planet E, Applied Rhytmic Technology, Rephlex or Peace Frog released in…
Postilaatikkoon oli tullut tällainen kysymys. Koska asia voi kiinnostaa muitakin, kysyjälle on varmaankin OK, että julkaisen sen tässä. ”Moi, oletko päivittämässä Phinnwebia? Olisi hienoa jos siellä olisi kaikki suomalaiset julkaisut, onko sinulla muuten kaikki suomalaiset mixtapet, nekin voisi sinne lisätä. Entä miten olisi flyerigalleria, Klubituksessa on jonkinlainen galleria mutta en pidä…
Ohjaamani Marokon kauhu -draamadokumentti näytetään Rautjärven Kollaa ja Simo Häyhä -museolla lauantaina 18.5. 2024, klo 14 Komendantissa (ent. Kuntala). Paikalla on sotahistorian tutkija ja tietokirjailija Lauri Hietaniemi, jota kuullaan haastateltavana dokumentissa. Hietaniemi on sotilasasiantuntija myös nyt työn alla olevassa seuraavassa projektissani, On aika kertoa – Jalkaväkirykmentti 29…
Pullojen Kerääjä – The Bottle Collector (English Subtitles) The 2018 short upscaled to 4K. At pHinnWeb’s YouTube.
Ohjaamani Marokon Kauhu -draamadokumentin arvio Kokkolassa ilmestyvässä Keskipohjanmaa -lehdessä. Kokkolan ohella dokumenttia pakerrettiin hyvän matkaa myös Tampereella, ja itse dokkari sijoittuu paljolti Laatokan Karjalaan, toki piipahdetaan myös Marokossa ja Pariisissakin. (Kuva: Markku Riipi) A review of the Marokon Kauhu docufiction that I directed, Keskipohjanmaa paper, Kokkola, Finland.
English summary: Marokon Kauhu, the docufiction that I directed, on Finnish war hero Captain Aarne Juutilainen (1904 – 1976), is now streaming in Finland on Elisa Viihde. Marokon Kauhu -dokumentti on nyt katsottavissa Elisa Viihteessä. https://elisaviihde.fi/elokuvat/49837/marokon-kauhu (Sivulla oleviin krediitteihin pyysin levittäjä VL Mediaa tekemään ainakin sellaisen korjauksen, että…
Now that the Marokon Kauhu drama documentary is finally ready and waiting for its release, my next project is already in the works: a documentary film about the 1941 Continuation War military campaign of the 29th Infantry Regiment that originated from the area of Central Ostrobothnia. At the moment I’m doing it as remote work from Tampere to Kokkola. The narrator of the story is Arppa Airola, who…
The drama documentary that I directed and wrote of the legendary, celebrated and eventually troubled war hero Aarne Juutilainen should soon see the light of the day. This project that started as student work for Voionmaa Institute has been in the works since 2018 and went through several phases of transformation, conceptual reassessment and also extensive re-cuts before we could say we have the…