| Member Since | 10/31/2006 | | Band Website | www.cymbidium.fi | | Band Members | PalmsOnHips equals composer/musician/sound designer Jukka Hannukainen collaborating with various vocalists and musicians. ...................
The music is a colourful mix of styles, having its basis on house, techno and experimental electronic music, but constantly adding other flavors as well, such as orchestral textures and electronic jazz. .....................The album ECLECTICISM which started life already back in '99 when Jukka was still the keyboard player and programmer for dubhouse act TRACEY,will FINALLY see light as a digital only-release on Cymbidium...............The album features both instrumentals and vocal tracks,with styles varying from leftfield electropop through to techno,orchestrated breakcore,jazzfunky Drum&Bass and house.There's even a track with electronics+double bass+vibraphone+vocals......Guest vocalists include Stina K. from HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, Gynai and Costi..NikoN from the late TRACEY does some drum set action.............THE RELEASE DATE AT THE MOMENT IS MARCH 25th 2009-it'll become available on iTunes etc. ..........................................................................................................
Jukka produces tracks under other aliases as well - including an IDM/ambient outfit THE ELECTRONICS ASSISTANT and ALInEN, which concentrates on the more experimental,harder techno-flavoured material.......................................
Jukka's background lies in live music - as a guitarist,vocalist,keyboardist and drummer for various groups throughout the nineties[TRACEY,HÖYRY-KONE,EMMENTHAL SOCAPEX(myspace.com/emmenthalsocapex),DENSITY SQUAD,AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DANCERS and VARIANCE(myspace.com/varianceyhtye) to name but a few].Towards the end of the century he started to concentrate more on studio work as POnH and deejaying under the name Flux,while occupying himself as a sound designer during daytime...
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| | Influences | Carl Craig,YMO,John Foxx,Miles Davis,Iannis Xenakis,Ronald Shannon Jackson,Discharge,New Order,Cabaret Voltaire,Bob Sinclar,Henryk Gorecki,Omit,Edgar Varése,BPitch Control,Björk,Antti Hytti,Olivier Messiaen,Slam,Karl-Heinz Stockhausen,Mutiny,Sex Pistols,Herbert,John Tejada,Sascha Funke,Kratfwerk,Underworld,Chic,Starsky&Hutch,Sonic Youth,Dead Kennedys,William Orbit,Last Exit,Bauhaus,Hammer Films,Kosmonautentraum,Gil Scott-Heron,Weather Report,Material,Eric Dolphy,Traum Schallplatten,Sasse,Aphex Twin,Albert Camus,Jhelisa Anderson,Jackson Pollock,Wassily Kandinsky,Factory Records,Sofia Coppola,Terveet Kädet,Jazzanova,4Hero,Moving Shadow,Terje Rypdal,Arvo Pärt,Nils-Petter Molvaer,Kojak,The Gits,Six Million Dollar Man,The X-Men,Dr.Mabuse,Francois Truffaut,Jacques Tati,Stanley Kubrick,Futureshock,Underground Resistance,Jimmy Scott,Ursula Rucker,Hedningarna,Sielun Veljet,Diamanda Galas,Craig Armstrong,The Orb,Squarepusher,Laibach,Tiefschwarz,Francois Kevorkian,Einstürzende Neubauten,John Scofield,Geri Allen,Edward Vesala,Iro Haarla,Bill Frisell,Buzzcocks,Visage,Neon Judgement,Ike Yard,King Crimson,Krakatau,Stone Roses,Päät,Jack Kerouac,Yellow Springs,The Cure,Modern Jazz Quartet,Astor Piazzolla,Mari Boine,KTMK,Devo,Talking Heads,Frank Foster,Pierre Henry,Funk INC,Bobbi Humphrey,Terry Callier,Love&Rockets(the comic books),Isaac Hayes,The Headhunters,Pop Group,Foetus,Cocteau Twins,Swans,Plastikman | | Type of Label | Indie |
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