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Title:  Madam IÕm Adam Artist:  Pekka Airaksinen Label:  N&B Research Digest Format:  2 X CD Price:  € 18.00   Mp3 samples:   1   2

Title Description:
The music of Pekka Airaksinen has been far ahead of itÕs time for most of his 40-year long career. His finest recordings from the 60Õs are more reminiscent of Industrial Music and Noise (which would emerge ten years later) than of the music of his precurors and contemporaries. In the early 80Õs few people, if any, were mixing mechanic beats and free jazz like he did - favourable conditions for this kind of music didnÕt really exist until the turn of the century. His latest genre-hopping work will also probably take a long time to become fully appreciated. This compilation is a fairly subjective selection of his works from each of these periods. The selection of remixes commissioned for the second disc of the compilation aims to find a contemporary context for his work and to expand connections, some of which allready exist. For example Nurse With Wound namechecked Airaksinen on their famous list of influeneces that came with their debut LP Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella (1979), while FinlandÕs Es played together with Airaksinen in his first live performance since 1987 at Avanto Helsinki MEdia Art Festival 2001.

"The remix artists are: Nurse With Wound, Mira Calix, Simon Wickham-Smith,
Curd Duca, Philipp Quehenberger, Es, Tuomo Ilari Puranen & T.A. Kaukolampi,
Tyrone D.C. Washington, Notchnoi Prospekt, Anton NikkilŠ and Pekka
Airaksinen himself."

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