Advanced Art

Bio:

Advanced Art from Tampere, Finland, are one of the pioneers of Finnish electronic music, originally active from 1985 to 1995. Advanced Art are Jana (voice, lyrics) and Vince (machines, melodies).

Advanced Art are currently planning a compilation release, possibly with some new remixes and updated versions.

Musically the band evolved from the early synth pop demos to a more EBM or industrial direction. This did not stop them opening their gigs with the claim "We play pop."

The band was formed in 1985 when old pals Jana and Pete met Vince through a mutual friend. They mentioned their synth band project to Vince who wanted in. Jana and Pete conveniently 'forgot' to mention they had nothing but the idea and the attitude, and actually lacked songs, equipment, and quite possibly talent too. Nevertheless, the band was formed.

First demos were made under the name Abstract and some live appearances as Authorized Version. The live line-up varied as Vince and the new member Auten took turns in wanting to concentrate on sound engineering. A few demos were made, and two split 7" singles with Two Witches were released as 'vinyl demos' on Darklands Records. In 1991 Poko Rekords signed the band (at the time Jana, Vince and Reeta). This resulted in 12" Scar (1991) and mcd Time (1992). A couple of videos got airplay on MTV Europe (thank you mr Paul King). For the cd Product (1993) Advanced Art were joined by Factor who co-wrote songs and played live percussion. The cd Force (1994) was a bit of a concept thing with its live and update sections, and live gigs featured an old friend P.W. on percussion. Early vinyl singles plus some demo tracks were re-released on cd by VUZ Records.

Advanced Art never really toured as such (apart from an occasional trip to Sweden) but played one-off gigs, sometimes in fairly unusual venues such as illegal warehouse parties. Advanced Art did not play cover songs (except once, 'Gummitwist' by Der Plan, featuring Kajasto of Rinneradio on synth bleeps) so it was only appropriate that the final gig ended with one; Advanced Art appeared on the Alivaltiosihteeri tribute cd and concerts and finished it off with 'Te olette huono yleisö' ('You are a lousy audience').

Jana and Vince got back together in late 90s to record two new tracks 'Blind' and 'Free world' for the debut compilation of Vince's new label, Control.

During the years the other members were Pete aka Sam B, Auten aka Otto A, Jarkko Tuohimaa aka Factor, Reeta, and P.W. In addition, sound engineer Meelis Niin played an important role in creating the AArt live sound. Former Advanced Art members have appeared in e.g. Neuroactive, [Active] Media Disease, Shade Factory and Recycle.

Right now Jana is setting up Camp Electronique.

(This page is run by Jana; if you have a message to Vince I'll be happy to forward it.)

.. This profile was edited with a wonderful toy for us computer tech have-nots i.e. Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

Member Since:

January 04, 2007

Members:

Jana (voice, lyrics), Vince (machines, music)

Influences:

when the founder members (Jana, Pete, Vince) met in 1985, there were very few artists they all liked: DMode, John Foxx, Psyche and Stray Cats (honestly) - whether or not these were influences is another thing

Sounds Like:

quite unlike Finnish bands before them

Record Label:

last seen on Poko Rekords ages ago :)