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“In downtempo I find endless possibilities for musical ideas: if compared to drum and bass, it has a bit more space for playfulness and limitlessness,” he admits.
“My biggest downtempo influence must’ve been the smokey ‘triphop’ I heard in the nineties. But basically, into downtempo I pour all my non-dnb influences – and repressions and frustrations, hah! In terms of ideas and soundscapes, I owe a great deal to Future Sound of London, Underworld, Dj Shadow, Dj Krust, Amon Tobin, and many more similar acts.”
“What’s as important to me as the breaks in this music is what I call emotional resonance (he admits he picked that one from DJ Shadow); there is often this certain level of depth in the tunes that I find myself liking the most. Proper deep soundscapes…they’re the shit! I know for sure that my surrounding environment – the dark, cold Finnish climate – had a huge impact on forming my musical creativity. I always found a lot of inspiration in the dark and cold. I wouldn’t sound how I sound today if I hadn’t lived there.”

Fanu’s unique style has definitely made an impact on today’s drum-and-atmosphere-hungry jungle audience. Always a busy man in the studio, he has released music on Subtitles, Commercial Suicide, Offshore, Ohm Resistance / Columbia, Breakin’, Warm Communications, Subtle Audio, Thermal, Forestry Service , LoCuts, Soothsayer,13 Music, Pauze, Darkestral, Cyberset, Pinecone Moonshine, and now he’s concentrating on his own label, Lightless Recordings.

You can check past and future audio on the discography section of the Fanu site at www.fanumusic.com.

What’d be a more logical step for someone loving to make music and release it on record labels than setting up a record label of his own. Lightless Recordings is Fanu’s own imprint for the style that he is pushing: deep atmospheres and dirty fat breaks: for more info, check the Lightless page.

To close the circle, Fanu DJs to represent the jungalism to the fullest: so far, he’s been called to do do some breakbeat reformation work in England (London, Bristol, Exeter, Liverpool), USA (Chicago, Washington DC, New York, Saint Louis, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, New Orleans, Fargo), Canada (Toronto), Hungary (Budapest, Pecs), Germany (Berlin, Leipzig), Holland (Amsterdam, Groningen, Utrecht, Hague), Poland (Warsaw, Rybnik, Katowice), Czech (Pardubice), Belgium (Antwerp), Lithuania (Klaipeda), Latvia (Riga), Estonia (Tallinn), Sweden (Stockholm), Austria (Wien, Graz), Russia (Moscow, Gornyi Altai [Wetluck 2007], Tyumen), Ukraine (Kiev), Bulgaria (Sofia), Italy (Codroipo), Slovakia (Bratislava), Ireland (Dublin) as well as his homeland, Finland (Helsinki, Tampere, Rovaniemi, Joensuu).

“My main preference in old and modern day jungle is the breaksy stuff, but with regard to everything else, I’ve never placed myself in any mould as a DJ and I never will, as that’s one of the biggest mistakes a DJ can make in the long run. I like to keep the set varied: I play different styles and switch between the moods. I think it’s important to keep the crowd interested. I’ve always found the unexpectable DJs the best, and that’s what I’m like myself when I’m behind the decks: lots and lots of mixing and blending going on…I like to keep pretty active when I’m out there. And you won’t get any boring beard-stroking sets from me or you’ll get your money back.”

The breakbeat aficionado’s productions have been released on various labels.

There’s been many 12″ releases and appearances, and the first Fanu album, “DAYLIGHTLESS“, a heavy package of breakbeat music was released in July 2007 on Lightless in the form of a 2CD and a 3*12″ LP.
Early 2008 saw the collaboration album, which is the result of the teamwork of Fanu, Bill Laswell, and a group of legendary jazz musicians: “LODGE“.
July 2009 witnessed the release of Fanu’s second artist album, “HOMEFREE”, a 3*12” package of nine tracks of the trademark Fanu style breakbeat music.
See the discography section for complete release history with soundclips.

What’s next?
Fanu’s currently working on a live set: in the lab, he is proudly using Ableton Live to create all kinds of crazy live action…look for that in the future!
Programming breaks, sampling things, coming up with original productions – that’s what’s happening.
Some people love it, some don’t, some don’t get it, and some say he’s doing what they all did over ten years ago.
One thing’s for sure, though: he’ll be doing his own thing.

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