- Advanced Art
Advanced Art was one of the pioneers of Finnish
electronic music . Started by Jana, Pete and Vince inTampere ,Finland , the band was active from 1985 to 1995. The band themselves opened their shows claiming "We play pop", others described their music assynth pop , EBM andelectro-industrial . The creative core of Advanced Art consisted of Jana (lyrics) and Vince (music).After the band's demo and indie vinyl stage
Poko Rekords signed Advanced Art in 1991. The collaboration resulted in two maxi singles and twoalbums . Advanced Art were also one of the very few Finnish bands at the time to appear onMTV Europe .The band never toured extensively but concentrated on one-off
performance s, sometimes in unusual locations. Visual elements were an integral part of Advanced Art live shows.Personnel
Jana - voice,
lyrics Vince - machines, music
and
Pete - machines, live
percussion Auten (aka Otto A) - machines, live
sound engineering Reeta - machines, voice
Factor - machines, live percussion
P.W. - live percussion
Pete later worked with
Shade Factory andActive Media Disease . Jarkko Tuohimaa aka Factor continued as the prime mover of Finnish electronic bandNeuroactive .Discography
1987 demo Abstract
1987 demo Act now Abstr later
1988 demo Advanced Art
1988 7" Black roses / No answers no solutions (Darklands)
1989 7" From nothing to nothing / Steel (Darklands)
1990 demo Clandestine
1991 demo Clandestine (mis)take two
1991 12" Scar (Poko)
1992 cdm Time (Poko)
1993 cd Product (Poko)
1994 cd Force (Poko)
1996 cd Into the Darklands - Early years 1987-89 (VUZ / Germany)
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