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PRODUCERS:
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Markku Louhio (Producer/DJ/Songwriter)
Besides his work as a producer in Headphonics, Markku Louhio has been involved in many genres of electronic and non-electronic music as an experienced sound engineer and producer, also working for the television and movie industries in Finland.
From the mid 90..s up to this day, he has been producing music in a cross-genre project Kiwa, industrial project Faithealers, progressive trance act Highpersonic Whomen and dub/chill out project Subfocus.
Since 1999 he has been performing as a DJ, playing in electro, trance, breaks, funk and house parties with a great number of gigs in his CV.
Tommi Sirkiä (Producer/DJ/Songwriter)
Tommi Sirkiä is one of Finlands most internationally aknowlidged electronic music producers today, and has performed a great number of gigs around the globe during his carrer. His dj & live performances have been heard in countries such as Finland, Russian Federation, Brazil, Israel, Netherlands, Japan, Denmark, Turkey, Cuba, Ukraine, Romania & Australia..
As an active producer of electronic music for the past 17 years, he released a total 8 albums with the names Headphonics, Haltya, Highpersonic Whomen & PeLinPaLa and a good number of other published works. He has released tracks on such labels as : Exogenic, Thirteen Productions, Ministry of Sound, Twisted Records, Novatekk, Com.pact, Digital Structures, Millenium, etc...
Born to a musician family, Tommi grew up with music traveling the world with his father, who is a classical opera singer. His interest for music and various types of musical instruments inspired him to study music and music production in the Conservatoire of Pop & Jazz music of Helsinki, Finland.
As a multi-instrumentalist Tommi masters several instruments, such as: piano, drums, guitar, bass, vibraphone to name a few.
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HEADPHONICS LIVE BAND MEMBERS:
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Tuukka Mielonen
aka DJ Mel-3 (Turntablist/DJ/Co-producer)
A co-producer and a certified vinyl spinner. This old-skool Hip-Hop and Funk DJ adds his spices to the sound of the Headphonics with crunchy beats and innovative scrathing...
Since late 90..s he has been performing in major Hip-Hop events in Finland, playing in parties with leading Finnish DJ..s and artists. Also, around the same time he started to work with Kool Ski, the founder of a respected and internationally acclaimed Hip-Hop label, Kool Kat records, which has been one of the biggest organiser for Hip-hop events in Finland since 2000.
DJ Mel-3 has played in numerous parties warming up for legendary Hip-Hop artists such as Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Mobb Deep, Jeru the Damaja, Afu Ra, DJ Craze and Tim Dog.
Vesa Pasanen (Guitarist/Co songwriter)
Vesa is mainly a self-trained musician, altough hearing him play would suggest otherwise. A true artist and a musical genious. When it comes to throwing in a riff or two, Vesa usually does about 35. Wheter it..s funk, jazz, progressive rock or grincore he has it all. In the past he has been working on a solo project... according to his own words, he composed, recorded and mixed a record breaking number of 45 grindcore and metal tracks in a weekend!
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Featured artists on the upcoming 2 x CD album "Evolution Of Funk:
Baabelin Torvet (Horns), Hosni Boudali (MC), DJ Genki, Katja Sirkiä (Vocals) and DJ Voidhead.
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