world music

Halme Prospekt & Queen Djenny Djella

Halme Prospekt is the jazz group led by renowned saxophonist, flutist, and composer Heikki “Hepa” Halme, who is known for fusing elements from many different genres into his music. Combining blues, psychedelic rock, and other...

Mama Longhorn

Nicknamed as “the rhythm tank”, Mama Longhorn makes progressive and eclectic organic rhythm music breaking traditional boundaries. Fusing rock, afrobeat, funk and even trip hop among other influences and the vocals of Eeva Poijärvi makes...

Vodou Fusion

Vodou Fusion is the crown jewel of Beninese-born Gildas Houessou’s musical career to date and represents the most culturally diverse side of the Finnish rhythm music scene. Their music is based on West African voodoo...

Jätkäjätkät

Before releasing any albums, Jätkäjätkät did live gigs for nearly five years with the name Asa & Jätkäjätkät performing songs by rapper Asa and playing as his live band both in Finland as well as...

The Blassics

The Blassics have been in the heart of the Finnish funky scene as one of the true trailblazers, who haven’t enjoyed publicity they would deserve but who have been doing their music year after another...

Dashing Waves

Dashing Waves, founded in 1997, play their unique version of urban multiethnic world groove and were well ahead of their time during the millennium changeover period. Today the band, built around the Congolese-Finnish Cheka Kalupala...

Maria Gasolina

Founded in 2001, Maria Gasolina is an 8-piece Helsinki-based orchestra, which performed newly arranged Finnish cover versions of local rhythm and dance music classics and hits from all over the world for a period of...

Fat Beat Sound System