finnish conceptual rock group The Multimedia Consultants (they apparently sing about "todays working life, meaningless meetings and alienation of the so-called normal life") recently held a remix contest for the track "Gordon is encoding Flash" which was won by retro synthpop act Desert Planet with their "Sigue Sigue Sputnik meets Prodigy on their way to arcade gaming room" take on the song and Aleksi Nuuja who contributed an "80s disco" version. The two winning tracks will be released on the upcoming "First of May" single from The Multimedia Consultants which will also include the new track "(Joku vitun) mainostoimisto" [(A One Fucking) Advertising Agency] from the group's forthcoming album due out later this year.

Online mp3 music label Monotonik has a new release from finnish electronic music artist Tweeter called "Planet Boelex": https://www.mono211.com/content/releases/mtkmp128.html

Check out a clip of the song "Moralized" from finnish death-metal supergroup Chaosbreed: https://www.centurymedia.de/century/mainarea/audio.aspx?id=chaosbreed__moralized.rm
The song comes from the band's upcoming album "Brutal", due out in Europe on April 26 through Century Media.

finnish electronic artist Vladislav Delay will be releasing a new album called "Demo(n)tracks" as the first release on his own label Huume. The music is a collage of 13 tracks mixed together and is "trying to avoid the common pitfalls and looking for a challenge in music" as well as stepping "away from the old-trusted dub influences and eternal long soundscapes and [trying] to see for himself what the next step is, in a need to find a progression in personal music." More info here: https://mailman.xmission.com/pipermail/ear-subscribers/2004-February/000174.html

finnish hip-hop artist Redrama reports that he just back from Sweden where he was working on some tracks with producers ICON Ken and Spotrunnaz (Breakmecanix), the men behind such artists as Timbuktu and Looptroop. No word on when that stuff will surface, but Red does have his first official mixtape on the way. More info when I get it.

"Let's Rock 'n' Roll the Dice Tour" is the name of a four-day tour featuring six Swedish and finnish bands joining forces to play both countries. Here's the lineup of dates:

03/31 - Tantogården, Stockholm w/Firestone, KiNG, The Unisex & Lovestone
04/01 - Café PastL, Sala w/Firestone, KiNG, The Unisex & The Sheena Hyenas
04/02 - Sombrero, Örebro w/Firestone, KiNG, The Unisex & Agent Kooper
04/03 - Smedjan, Köping w/Firestone, KiNG, The Unisex & Agent Kooper (all ages afternoon gig)
04/03 - Smedjan, Köping w/Firestone, KiNG, The Unisex & The Sheena Hyenas

finnish doom metal act Shape of Despair has set "Illusion's Play" as the name of their forthcoming album, due out later this year through Spikefarm Records.

Dates for finnish electronic/world music group RinneRadio, including some Baltic dates:

03/12 - Turku (FIN)
03/13 - Tampere (FIN)
03/28 - Helsinki (FIN)
04/08 - Tornar (POR)
07/09 - Tallinn (EST)
08/07 - Leigo (EST)
08/21 - Lahti (FIN)

Online mp3 label Kahvi has a new release from finnish electronic artist Warm. Check it: https://www.kahvi.org/

finnish electronic group Aavikko has a new website: https://www.aavikko.net
Upcoming live dates:

03/13 - Lutakko, Jyväskylä (FIN)
04/09 - Pub Bastun, Mariehamn (FIN)
04/10 - Stockholm (SWE)
04/12 - Tanzhalle St. Pauli, Hamburg (GER)
04/13 - Unique Club, Duesseldorf (GER)
04/14 - K 14, Kassel (GER)
04/15 - Mousonturm (Studio), Frankfurt (GER)
04/16 - Candy Club @ Orangehouse, Muenchen (GER)
04/17 - Roeda , Steyr (AUS)
04/18 - Chelsea, Wien (AUS)
04/20 - Ziegel Oh Lac, Zuerich (CH)
04/21 - Schocken, Stuttgart (GER)
04/22 - AKW, Wuerzburg (GER)
04/23 - Ilses Erika, Leipzig (GER)
04/24 - Star Club, Dresden (GER)
04/25 - Pfefferbank, Berlin (GER)

Holland's Bunker Records has just released a new 2x12" comp called "Sound of Suomi" featuring the best of finnish electro. It's limited to 500 copies or so, so if it sounds like something you might be interested in, it would be wise to track it down. Tracklist:

A1. Konrad West - Escape From Stasi (Dub Mix)
A2. Huoratron - Male Bonding
A3. Mr. Velcro Fastener (DUPLICATE 2) - Aura
B1. Decepticons - Orbitrek (Live)
B2. Imatran Voima - We Love Science
B3. Polytron - 247
C1. New York City Survivors - Sirkkeli
C2. Alpha Males - Sweaty Congaz
C3. Kings Of Techno - Classic
D1. V.U.L.V.A. - M.J. (featuring Gameboy (2))
D2. Nu Science - Casino
D3. Tero - Hot Pants

More info: https://www.discogs.com/release/228495

The UK's Resonance FM will be broadcasting a special "pHinnWeb Audio Companion" hosted by DJ pHinn on March 1 at 23:30 GMT. The set will feature "finnish electronic, experimental and marginal music from the late 1960s to this day" and can be listened to live via the online stream. The tracklist:

Sähkökvartetti - Kaukana väijyy ystäviä
The Sperm - Korvapoliklinikka Hesperia
Erkki Kurenniemi - Antropoidien tanssi
Aavikon Kone ja Moottori - Karavaani
Pekka Airaksinen - Sukirti
Kohinatuotanto - Näkemys
Virtalähde - Normaaliajan hälytysmerkki
Club Telex Noise Ensemble vs Kompleksi - CTNE->Kompleksi
Casiomatik - Solarium
Organ - Kärpästen juhla
Club Telex Noise Ensemble - KVY (Legowelt mix)
Magyar Posse - Witchcraft
Nu Science - My Star
Kukka - Machine
Toiminto - Untitled Opera Superstar
Blamstrain - Turn Back
Shadowplay - Night Porter

Lots of new audio samples up at website of finnish avant label Fonal Records: https://www.fonal.com/sounds.html

Some of the winners of the finnish Emma awards (their equivilent to the Grammies):

Jazz: Juhani Aaltonen Trio
Hiphop/dance: Pikku G
Pop/rock newcomer: PMMP
Debut album: Pikku G - Räjähdysvaara
Hiphop/dance: Don Johnson Big Band - Breaking Daylight
Hard-rock/metal: Kotiteollisuus - Helvetistä itään
Pop/rock: Maija Vilkkumaa - Ei
Export prize: The Rasmus
MTV's Emma Award For Best Video - The Rasmus - In My Life
finnish artist: The Rasmus

Read more (including the winners of the Femma Awards): https://www3.soneraplaza.fi/musiikki/artikkeli/0,3634,6211_197709,00.html (in finnish)

The Screaming Timbermen have revealed their true identity as a side project of finnish retro electronic act Desert Planet and posted two new mp3s from imaginary Soviet-style TV series: https://www.sunpoint.net/~zelda82/timbermen/