Artists

The “work of art” which appeals to contemporary judgment can never, save some rare accident, be of the timber of Yggdrasil. For one main factor of its immediate success must be its amalgam with the Zeitgeist, a mercurial element corrosive of true gold.
— from The City of God by Aleister Crowley

Ovro

Unconventional conjurer of surrealistic soundscapes, illustrator of dreams and nightmares with a distinct style. Surreal music, subterranean soundscapes. Dormant volcanoes coming to life. Scratches, crackles and human voice put through alchemy of sound. Bass abuse. Church bells conjured out of the sound of breathing. Odd evo/invocative lyrics. Hauntingly disturbing atmospheres, subconscious landscapes.

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Niko Skorpio

Niko Skorpio is a producer, composer and sound-artist working primarily in the fields of cinematic dark-ambient soundscapes and experimental electronica. Since 1990 he has explored various genres and styles with several different bands and solo projects, often reflecting his deep interest in post-industrial music and certain occult/esoteric undercurrents. The resulting sound is described as “Hermetic Fusion Musick”.

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Hæretici 7o74

Duo of Ovro and Niko Skorpio. Joining forces, they bring together the more meditative and ritualistic elements of their solo works, blending it to something completely new and allowing the artists to take on roles other than those of their everyday solo selves. They incorporate ritual and theatrical elements into their performances and music, use extensive sampling and live sound manipulation, and their own chanting & singing voices, creating a powerful stage presence. » More…

Ibrahim Terzic

Ibrahim Terzic released his debut mini-album Fabrike Jaja on Some Place Else in spring 2001. Avanto Festival, who later booked Terzic for a show in 2003, described it as “like a quarry studied at close range”. The second mini-album Dva was released in 2002, indicating major progress in Terzic’s compositions and sound-sculpting skills.

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Reptiljan

Reptiljan first bends your mind, then breaks it. Reptiljan shamelessly nicks rhythms from the fastest of genres and twists them around. Reptiljan samples everything that isn’t nailed down and puts it all through a grinder. Reptiljan is a manic burst of noise, hectic rhythms and splintered guitars, making the listener squirm, laugh uncontrollably and see lizards on the walls.

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Rajapïnta

Rajapïnta is the duo of Ibrahim Terzic and Niko Skorpio. Begun on January 1, 2002, Rajapïnta create modern abstract evocative music and noise in various forms and formlessnesses, live and in studio. They explore the outer limits of music by ways of digital and analog noise, cut-ups, location recordings etc. mangling everything together and apart, back and forth until something new and remarkable arrives.

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Kaaos in Eccentris

KiE is a loosely knit group, who get together and record in various combinations. Some of the participating artists have been Niko Skorpio, Ovro, Mockingwyrd, Ibrahim Terzic, Dr. von Phosphorus and VIII. They’ve employed computers, guitars and bass guitars with a floorload of effects, synths, vocals, location recordings and whatnot. All together this makes the group a mishmash of different sounds, from warmest analogue to coldest digital.

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Moljebka Pvlse

Mathias Josefson is a sound-artist from Stockholm, Sweden, and currently attending the royal university college of fine arts. His main project is Moljebka Pvlse, which is an experimental music group that works with both electronic and acoustic instruments, as well as with field recordings and found sounds. What comes out is hypnotic and meditative soundscapes.

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Mockingwyrd

Sceptics maintain Mockingwyrd is just another pen-name of a Some Place Else-related artist. Some others claim he’s an extra-terrestrial entity from Aldebaran and worship him as god of the new aeon. Some Place Else representatives dismiss both of these claims as nonsense, but what do you know? Who do you believe?

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Bardoseneticcube + Noises of Russia

New Orthodox Line, released on Some Place Else in 2007,  brings together the talents of Bardoseneticcube and Noises of Russia. This unique collaboration stirs the best of both artists to surface, and results in an extremely powerful and intense emotional experience. The opus travels from sacral soundscapes of orthodox choirs and church bells to a more punishing end of the sonic spectrum provided by pounding rhythms and howling feedback.

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Gelsomina + no Xivic

Furnace is an unlikely yet strangely natural union of no Xivic, renowned sculptor of dark electro-acoustic soundscapes, and Gelsomina, Finland’s most prolific harsh noise artist. The title track, also the main piece on the album, is a live collaboration recorded in late 2006, a grand opus of psychedelic noise with a peculiar ‘kraut’ flavour! In addition to this, both artists created exclusive tracks on their own to complete the album.

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Cosine Nomine

Cosine Nomine aka Sine Nomine (and possibly a number of variables) is a Finnish ambient/electronic music artist who came into acquaintance with Some Place Else in 2001. Next year, Some Place Else released the debut Sine Nomine album, entitled Amenia Amanitas.

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Janko, Krul’ Albanskaj

Janko, Krul’ Albanskaj was a project by one Henry Zalkin. His given name was Heikki Huhtanen. Zalkin was a musician, writer, interpreter and an enthusiastic person of many interests: industrial and electronic music, languages, politics, cult movies, literature and anything possible in popular culture.

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