Special Interests
SPECIAL INTERESTS magazine / blog / forum
05/02/2024
Out now
04/12/2023
Live report, with photos and live videos.
https://special-interests.net/main/harsh-frequencies-over-limburg-ii/
24/09/2023
More live reports! NOISE EQUINOX in Helsinki, find photos, report and almost 40 minutes of video footage from the gig.
Debut gig of new finnish noise band, and bunch of other artists.
https://special-interests.net/main/23-09-2023-helsinki-noise-equinox/
19/09/2023
TOWER TRANSMISSIONS IX
includes, text, pics, videos!
Report from the weekends festival, with photos and 80 minutes of video footage including all the artists of festival.
https://special-interests.net/main/tower-transmissions-ix-2023/
02/09/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtNGMB-4l-I
Finnish noise scene going strong in 2023! This weekend marks one of the craziest moments. 1.9. was Epämusiikin Ilta with some greats of the current noise scene (see documentation video linked). Today, 2.9. there is not one, or two, but three noise shows happening simultaneously in southern Finland.
We may hear few complaints that one can't attend all these noise gigs. This may be one of the best problems of current world! Too much noise?!
Epämusiikin Ilta 1.9.23 EPÄMUSIIKIN ILTA live showHelsinki 1.9.20231. Atrophist 2. Amek-Maj 3. Augmented Atrocity 4. Rotat 5. Vigilantism
13/08/2023
Turku Finland 11.8.2023
20 minutes video documentation from Harsh Ways Fest.
Harsh Ways Fest 2023 Live footage documentationGruntYoung HustlersUncleanNovitshokAmek-MajMaskhead
22/05/2023
New piece of writing covers topics of creativity in noise, obscure nuggets of information deep from Finnish underground, using works of Bizarre Uproar and Terveet Kädet and related as focus point.
https://special-interests.net/main/world-of-rubber-blood/
09/04/2023
Another art-book and noise recordings combo essay. Revolving around idea of noise assemblage. Looking it through works of Juhani Harri, The New Blockaders, Torba and so on.
https://special-interests.net/main/noise-assemblage/
10/03/2023
For several years people have asked where they can hear this "lecture" that had disappeared. Monologue that also talks a bit about making of SI zine. Audio was finally found and slightly EQ'd for better quality. It is room recording by unknown person, and far from perfect, but clean enough to listen to.
Nothing new here, but little history of Finnish noise and FA recs/SI magazine, Grunt and related as it was decade ago.
Mikko A : monologue at Spiegas 4 Festival (2013) mikko a (Grunt, Special Interests, FA Recs) asked to talk about Finnish noise history and his own work. Room recording by unknown person, feb 2013. Full uned...
08/03/2023
07/03/2023
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01/07/2022
I have been meaning to write about this formerly as age keeps popping up frequently when discussing underground music.
Industrial / noise aging bad? Maybe not!
https://special-interests.net/main/noise-youth-culture/
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