pHinn (a.k.a. Erkki Rautio) of

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Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...

is the founder and Webmaster of pHinnWeb, a WWW site dedicated to Finnish

electronic music Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...

, techno music, avantgarde,

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

, rave culture and

underground culture Underground culture, or simply underground, is a term to describe various alternative cultures which either consider themselves different from the mainstream of society and culture, or are considered so by others. The word "underground" is used ...

. pHinn also works as a DJ, occasionally as a freelance writer, is an outsider artist creating

surrealism Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

/ pop art-influenced collage art, and is alongside

Mike Not Mike Not (a.k.a. Mika Paju) is a creator of techno music from Tampere, Finland, though he has also produced industrial music (influenced by Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson et al.), hip-hop, breakbeat, acid h ...

the member of

electro music Electro (or electro-funk)Rap meets T ...

act Kompleksi where he sings, writes lyrics and music. pHinn's earlier musical project was Club Telex Noise Ensemble in 2001. pHinn has been one of the founder members and organisers of Tampere's Club Telex (with Mikko "mini" Niemelä of Polytron) and Eclectro Lounge (with

) nights for

electro music Electro (or electro-funk)Rap meets T ...

and other electronic sounds. He has also a run a small

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label called pHinnMilk Recordings (2001-). In 1999 German De:Bug techno magazine featured pHinn in its "E-Mail Legends" series. The ''

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'' magazine of Tampere chose pHinn in 2001 as "The Best Underground Man of Tampere" and in 2007 '' Aamulehti'' chose pHinn as "The Best DJ of Tampere". pHinn has also written and co-directed, with musician Janne Perttula (Heroin and Your Veins,

UltraNoir UltraNoir is a Finnish synthpop / gothic rock / post-punk trio founded in 2004. Starting as a pop group, UltraNoir is influenced by shoegaze and post-rock as well as early eighties post-punk acts such as Joy Division, The Cure along with th ...

), a

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-inspired short movie called ''Kirje'' ("The Letter", 2015).

pHinnWeb

pHinnWeb is a Finnish website that was started in April 1996 by pHinn. Its purpose is to spread information on

, techno music, avantgarde,

and

independent music Independent music (also commonly known as indie music or simply indie) is music that is produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording a ...

; of artists, record labels, clubs and so on. The peculiar spelling of pHinnWeb's name is a reference to

acid house Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthes ...

culture where "f" was often spelled as "ph" or "pH". pHinnWeb is also concerned with

and

arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

in Finland and around the world. Among some of the non-Finnish artists featured at pHinnWeb one might mention, for example, Chicks on Speed and

Jonathan Saul Kane J Saul Kane (born 1969) is an English DJ, musician who has released recorded material since 1987 as Depth Charge and The Octagon Man, amongst other noms de disc. He is also the owner of the record labels DC Recordings and Electron Industries. H ...

. As part of its activities, pHinnWeb runs an English-language

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Groups.

pHinnMilk Recordings

pHinnMilk Recordings, a small record label publishing CD-Rs, was founded in 2001 in Tampere, Finland as the publishing outlet of pHinnWeb.

Discography

* Club Telex Noise Ensemble: Just To Disturb You A Little Bit CD-R (phnnmlk-0, June 2001) * Virtalähde: Virka- ja väkivalta CD-R (phnnmlk-1, March 2002) * Kohinatuotanto (a.k.a.

Noise Production Mike Not (a.k.a. Mika Paju) is a creator of techno music from Tampere, Finland, though he has also produced industrial music (influenced by Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson et al.), hip-hop, breakbeat, acid hous ...

): Äänikemia CD-R (phnnmlk-2, May 2002) * Club Telex Noise Ensemble vs various artists: CTNERMX CD-R (phnnmlk-3, March 2003) *

Unidentified Sound Objects ''Unidentified'' is a 2006 science fiction Christian film produced by Rich Christiano and Alvin Mount. It was written and directed by Rich Christiano and stars Jonathan Aube, Josh Adamson, Michael Blain-Rozgay, Jenna Bailey, Lance Zitron, and t ...

: Richard D. Anderson Album CD-R (phnnmlk-4, January 2005) * Kompleksi: Sister Longlegs Dances In The Disco digital download (phnnmlk-5, August 2007)

Filmography

* ''Kirje''. A short film, co-directed with Janne Perttula (February 2015)

Official links

pHinnWeb

pHinnMilk Recordings
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