Vaaralliset Lelut

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Vaaralliset Lelut (“The Dangerous Toys”) is probably the most Disney-influenced act in the entire history of avantgarde music. They culled their name from the Carl Barks duck story The Hypno-Gun, which was published in Finland in 1953 with the title Vaarallinen Lelu i.e. “The Dangerous Toy”. Comics aficionados were no doubt also delighted by some of the band’s other song titles such as Karhunpentujen kesäleiri (“The Summer Camp Caper”) and Pilviä hipovat miehet (“The Giant Robot Robbers”). Another feature reminiscent of children’s culture was the band’s innocent, childlike eagerness to experiment. I don’t think there were any direct references to Gyro Gearloose the inventor, but the whole project can be said to have been one big Gearloose workshop, where they tested out one acoustic method after another, just as unsure of the outcome as Duckburg’s resident science wizard. They were, as the critic Markku Salo was to summarize in the magazine Uusi Laulu, “a community charting the means of communication”. The community was formed in 1980 by Jyrki Siukonen and Jukka Mikkola, both contributors of the leading punk zine Hilse. Their musical collaboration had started with Mikkola’s guest appearance on a record by Siukonen’s band Kollaa Kestää. Later they were inspired by both rock experimentalists like The Pop Group and avantgarde veterans like Terry Riley and John Cage. In the early eighties many other punk musicians sought new inspiration in the direction of avantgarde music or p

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Ystävämme hyönteiset

Lasisilmäpeli

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Lontoon skidit - 144 Johanna-singleä vuosilta 1979-1984

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Son Of Arctic Hysteria (Disc 2)

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Son Of Arctic Hysteria

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JHNS-138

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More Arctic Hysteria / Son Of Arctic Hysteria

Viidakko kotona / Pirun unet

More Arctic Hysteria / Son Of Arctic Hysteria: The Later Years Of Early Finnish Avant-Garde

Seppo ja Antero

Viidakko kotona

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The later years of early finnish avant-garde Disc 2

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